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Citrix faces class-action suit after 36 million users’ data exposed in Xfinity breach (www.sun-sentinel.com)

Who’s Killing All These Stories About a Controversial Tech Mogul? (www.thedailybeast.com)

Since this billionaire doesn’t want us to learn about what bad things he did, I figured we should let as many people know as possible:...

(15th of Dec) Element Discontinuing Hosted Matrix for Consumers

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YouTube can't stop showing me AI deepfake ads (www.spacebar.news)

Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends (www.wsj.com)

Archive Options Failing, Text Follows:...

The Vergecast USB-C Holiday Spec-tacular (www.theverge.com)

This was deeply silly and sort of made my day. Much more entertaining and funny that I expected from two hours of usb talk. Game show! This is a downer time of year for a lot of us so i hereby offer this little low stakes bright spot.

Firefox with arkenfox.js: Are these extensions still useful?

After a long while, I checked back on the arkenfox.js github page, and they no longer mention two extensions I still use: (1) CanvasBlocker (because if Resist Fingerprinting is enabled in about:config, the per page zoom levels get changed and that drives me crazy), and (2) Smart Referer (because, well, it was recommended). I...

Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims (www.theguardian.com)

Twitter/X violated contract by failing to pay millions in bonuses, US judge rules (datafloq.com)

Stackoverflow Mod proposes prohibiting questions from being closed as duplicates to catch-all questions (meta.stackoverflow.com)

The original post uses "roll-up" instead of "catch-all" for some reason....

How are these wires not shorting? (lemmy.zip)

They dont look or feel isolated, like ones inside a headphone cable

Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content (www.theverge.com)

Polycentric is an Open-source distributed social network - Similar in some ways to Nostr (beehaw.org)

I’ve not done an in-depth look at this network but reading through their documentation shows it has a lot of similarity to the basics of the Nostr protocol and network. There is just not as much information available on the Polycentric site as there is already for Nostr. Nostr is also censorship resistant, with distributed...

truth of opensource and foss (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

The hyperloop is dead for real this time (www.theverge.com)

Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap | ITPro (www.itpro.com)

Analysts have warned Windows 10 end of life plans could spark a global torrent of e-waste, with millions of devices expected to be scrapped in the coming years....