Lex Fridman Podcast with Codec Avatars (VR) (youtu.be)
Linda Yaccarino defends Elon Musk, X, and herself at Code 2023 (www.youtube.com)
Google is shutting down its Jamboard whiteboarding app (www.theverge.com)
$5,000 Google Jamboard dies in 2024—cloud-based apps will stop working, too (arstechnica.com)
PSA: Reddit is Forcing Users to Accept Personalized Ads (www.macrumors.com)
TL;DR: Reddit is removing the option to opt out of ad personalization, targeting ads based on user activity. Some specific ad categories can still be limited, but there’s no more opt-out option.
Russian zero-day seller offers $20M for hacking Android and iPhones | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from !android...
Raspberry Pi 5: EVERYTHING you need to know (www.youtube.com)
"Our Wire Mothers" - It's important for us to be careful that our technology does not supplant the human need for socialization. (www.staygrounded.online)
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Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5 (www.raspberrypi.com)
Philips Hue will soon require an account to use its app — here’s what that means (www.theverge.com)
According to its current privacy policy, with an account, Hue gets access to the configuration of your system to provide the right software updates to the devices. It can only use your data for marketing or share it with third parties if you provide additional consent....
Generative AI image editing is coming to Instagram (www.engadget.com)
Meta is starting to make good on its promise to bring generative AI to all of its products....
Meta Debuts $500 Quest 3 as Apple Prepares to Launch $3,500 Vision Pro Headset Next Year (www.macrumors.com)
Apple will have to face an antitrust lawsuit alleging iOS Apple Pay dominance (www.theverge.com)
Google Antitrust Judge Told Android Contracts Blocked Startup Search App - Bloomberg (www.bloomberg.com)
cross-posted from !google...
NLP Libraries for Resume Optimization?
Hey everyone,...
YouTube is axing its ad-free Premium Lite subscription plan - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
I was happily using this for a year or so now. Feels fairer than using an ad blocker. But now they apparently want more money out of people. Feels like some sort of internet video apocalypse is happening, where the services become extremely fragmented and expensive, like YouTube, netflix, hbo, Hulu, Disney+ and whatnot. Each...
Nothing's budget-friendly brand CMF debuts a $69 smartwatch and $49 earbuds (www.engadget.com)
The products will initially be available in the UK and India....
X previews its 'shadowban' alerts (www.engadget.com)
Accounts that share "sensitive content" will be labeled and restricted from search, recommendations and other features....
GNU 40th anniversary (www.gnu.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5592397...
Apple exec defends the decision to make Google its default search engine on iPhones and Macs (apnews.com)
Can you guess the top 5 countries by IPv6 usage?
spoilerhttps://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/3557298b-25d2-4333-b678-cb0951139863.webp...
Taliban weighs using US mass surveillance plan, met with China's Huawei (www.reuters.com)
Apple may be quiet on AI, but it’s also the biggest buyer of AI companies (qz.com)
cross-posted from !apple...
Amazon hit with antitrust lawsuit by FTC, 17 states (thehill.com)
The FCC plans to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules (www.engadget.com)
FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel has announced the agency's plans to restore net neutrality protections. Previous rules, which prevented ISPs from blocking or throttling specific websites, were nixed in 2017 under the Trump administration.
