Across the Metaverse: My trip though VR social platforms (www.spacebar.news)
Android users who have a keen eye for design and detail, how is the whole stutter/lag situation? Esp. after a few years of use?
I haven’t used an Android device since my last one, the Galaxy S8. Beautiful hardware, beautiful design, but it was plagued with animation stutters and dropped frames. I switched to an iPhone and an iPad around 6 years ago. And the animations were buttersmooth. It was almost unthinkable to achieve such a fluid interface on any...
U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly (www.nytimes.com)
The department joined 16 states and the District of Columbia to file a significant challenge to the reach and influence of Apple, arguing in an 88-page lawsuit that the company had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones and less likely to switch to a competing device....
Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon! (www.ebu.ch)
Edit: DW changed the link after they published the piece. Sigh. Updated. Edit2: again. What the fuck.
Should I *GASP* create a reddit account so I can get support from Tuta(nota)?
Because they’re not answering my support queries, and I’ve been having connectivity issues since the last two versions or so. Most of the time they’ve been pretty good, but if their desktop client can’t sync to their servers it’s of no use to me. Is anyone else having this problem?...
Beeper couldn’t bring iMessage to Android — but it can still make a great chat app (www.theverge.com)
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)
How the coming flood of AI-generated content might actually free the soul of Internet (www.staygrounded.online)
Not paywalled, you can just click "No thanks" on the popup.
😠Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time😠 (www.theverge.com)
AI unicorn Inflection abandons its ChatGPT challenger as CEO Mustafa Suleyman joins Microsoft (www.forbes.com.au)
“While no one predicted this specific outcome, we shouldn’t be surprised,” added the investor Benaich. “If antitrust regulators make [mergers and acquisitions] prohibitively difficult, we should expect these bizarre semi-exits to become more common.”
Unreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not taken (arstechnica.com)
We're Hosting Our Own Fediverse Instance. Here's Why. (wedistribute.org)
Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub (wedistribute.org)
Lemmy's Image Problem (wedistribute.org)
Here’s the Elon Musk interview that got Don Lemon’s show canceled (www.theverge.com)
Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears (www.wired.com)
🤔Am I overdoing it with all the reddit-related posts? archive.is/SFcRn
Gumroad no longer allows most NSFW art, leaving its adult creators panicked (techcrunch.com)
Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet (arstechnica.com)
Ars provides this asterisk:...
Mozilla Drops Axe on its Privacy-Friendly Location Service (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation (www.wired.com)
The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions....
SIM swappers hijacking phone numbers in eSIM attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/9868784...
Can Reddit—the Internet’s Greatest Authenticity Machine—Survive Its Own IPO? (www.wired.com)
archive.is/urG1R
I see your Outlook (new) and I raise you Microsoft Teams classic (work or school) (beehaw.org)
From mono to mainstream: 20 years of Bluetooth audio (archive.is)
Loving these articles about how the technology has changed in 20 years.