Microsoft Edge upgrades built-in Cloudflare VPN with 5GB of data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
To the surprise of no one, Google is being accused of abusing its power with ads (www.theregister.com)
TLDR of the article:...
TweetDeck suffers as Musk enforces read limits on Twitter (techcrunch.com)
Nvidia’s H100: Funny L2, and Tons of Bandwidth (chipsandcheese.com)
Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany (news.ycombinator.com)
Maybe this could be related to bot accounts on Lemmy instances?
COVID-19 digital contact tracing worked — heed the lessons for future pandemics (www.nature.com)
PSA r/Android is now on the Fediverse [official] (beehaw.org)
I changed the url of the post to be the beehaw link to community for easy sign up....
Interestingly enough, Ublock Origin Lite appears to be also coming to Firefox (github.com)
Ublock Origin Lite is the version of Ublock Origin tailored to work within Manifest V3, so it’s interesting to see it come to firefox where it’s not absolutely needed (as I understand it)....
Humane’s first gadget is named the ‘Humane Ai Pin,’ and it’s coming this year (www.theverge.com)
STH- Perfect 1L Homelab in 3 Upgrade Tiers Project TinyMiniMicro (www.youtube.com)
The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird (collindonnell.com)
Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content (futurism.com)
G/O Media, a major online media company that runs publications including Gizmodo, Kotaku, Quartz, Jezebel, and Deadspin, has announced that it will begin a “modest test” of AI content on its sites....
Pill Bugs And Chitons Get Jobs As Tiny Grippers (hackaday.com)
Batteries in electric vehicles have more mileage in city driving rather than highway driving (techxplore.com)
Twitter's new CEO told staffers they need to use 'hand-to-hand combat' to convince advertisers to come back, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
Linda Yaccarino said staff must deploy "hand-to-hand combat’ to win back advertisers, per the FT....
World's 1st 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan (mainichi.jp)
AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare (www.phoronix.com)
AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare (www.phoronix.com)
Your thoughts about PWA on smartphones?
Telegram Web, wefwef and Outlook (for work) are doing a fantastic job running on my iPhone SE. Do you think PWA on mobile are the future? Developers could get around the 30% cut for in-App-purchases and publish apps not even allowed in large appstores. Companies could sell phones with alternate operating systems and their users...
Steam hardware Survey For June 2023 (store.steampowered.com)
screenshots for archival purposes here...
Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
Louis Rossman gets Zoom to sponsor a video about Zoom's anti-consumer terms (www.youtube.com)
Absolute madlad!
After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com (gfycat.com)
After being purchased by Snapchat, it appears that gfycat has been abandoned....
Reddit And Twitter: The New Giants Of Anti-Social Media (www.forbes.com)
This pretty much sums up the last couple days. Thankfully we have Beehaw and Mastodon.
Need help verifying Signal Android APK
I’m downloading Signal from the website, even tho they don’t seem to want you to, because I’d like to be able to completely rid myself of the Google Play Store (as used with Aurora which has its own problems from time to time), and I believe that this version auto-updates or at least tells you when there is one. Following...