Inside the Operation to Bring Down Trump’s Truth Social (www.wired.com)
The North Atlantic Fella Organization is trying to shut down Trump’s flailing social media platform before the 2024 election—by shitposting.
Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 (arstechnica.com)
The “Manifest V3” rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.
Twitter Is Throttling Patreon Links, Creators Say It Undermines Their Livelihood (themarkup.org)
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records (www.wired.com)
A secret Google deal let Spotify completely bypass Android’s app store fees (www.theverge.com)
Google fought to keep the Spotify numbers private during its antitrust fight with Epic, saying they could damage negotiations with other app developers who might want more generous rates. Google’s User Choice Billing program, launched in 2022, is typically described as shaving about 4 percent off Google’s Play Store...
X sues watchdog group Media Matters after report on ads next to Nazi posts (www.theguardian.com)
YouTube limits Video Viewing for Ad blocker Users (samrome58.substack.com)
Company that created ChatGPT is thrown into turmoil after Microsoft hires its ousted CEO (apnews.com)
Adobe’s $20 billion bid for Figma in peril after EU warning (www.theverge.com)
Former infosec COO pleads guilty to attacking hospitals to drum up business (www.theregister.com)
After robotaxi dragged pedestrian 20 feet, Cruise founder and CEO resigns (arstechnica.com)
Hundreds of OpenAI staff tell board to resign or they'll quit (www.axios.com)
Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project (www.theverge.com)
Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way (www.spacebar.news)
Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman (www.theverge.com)
Well, this escalated quickly. So is this the end, or will the mods create an OpenAI megathread? ;)
The deal to bring Sam Altman back to OpenAI has fallen apart, Former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear will now take over as interim CEO (www.theverge.com)
In today’s OpenAI clown show news
Safety and Research were Sacrificed for Profit under Altman (www.theatlantic.com)
Article from The Atlantic, archive link: archive.ph/Vqjpr...
Sodium-ion battery breakthroughs may be key to our electric future (www.techspot.com)
Cybersecurity investor Ballistic Ventures seeks $300M for new fund | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Healthcare startups scramble to assess fallout after Postmeds data breach hits millions of patients | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Sam Altman ‘was working on new venture’ before sacking from OpenAI (www.theguardian.com)
Now we know why Open AI’s board fired him. Honestly can’t fault them. If Altman was going to leave with key staff anyway, why don’t just fire him? Its a lost cause.
OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO (www.theverge.com)
Are they drunk over there?