Dutch slap new restrictions on chips exports to China (www.politico.eu)
Reddit protest plunges user engagement, site activity and ad portal visits (techcrunch.com)
Duracell PowerCheck History: An Energizer of a Battery Patent Battle (tedium.co)
Google is laying off employees at Waze (www.theverge.com)
Mastodon's Eugen Rochko in talks with Meta?!😱 (news.ycombinator.com)
The music industry is waging war upon an AI server on Discord (qz.com)
This is just one action in a coming conflict. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out. Does the record industry win and digital likenesses become outlawed, even taboo? Or does voice, appearance etc just become another sets of rights that musicians will have to negotiate during a record deal?
Lawyers have real bad day in court after citing fake cases made up by ChatGPT (arstechnica.com)
The Great Reddit Migration is Hammering Lemmy and Kbin Instances (wedistribute.org)
Figma is now free for all US K-12 school students (www.engadget.com)
Windows 98 Icons are Great (alexmeub.com)
DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused browser is available for Windows now (www.theverge.com)
Zuckerberg/Musk Cage Match Incoming? (www.theverge.com)
My moneys on Zuck
Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes' (www.pcgamer.com)
Machine Learning Unlocks the Secret to Hit Songs (nexlumina.com)
Why it matters: A recent study at Claremont Graduate University has applied machine learning to neurophysiological data, identifying hit songs with an astonishing 97% accuracy....
EU: Smartphones Must Have User-Replaceable Batteries by 2027 (www.pcmag.com)
Aubrey Plaza Refuses to Use Streamers Because They Make Her ‘Really Angry,’ Buys Films and TV Series on iTunes Instead (variety.com)
Warner Bros. Discovery is on the eve of launching Max, its new streaming service that combines the already-existing platforms of HBO Max and Discovery+. But don’t expect Aubrey Plaza to be am…
EU votes for smartphones having user-replaceable batteries by 2027 (www.pcmag.com)
Meta's decentralized social plans confirmed. Is Embrace-Extend-Extinguish of the Fediverse next? (reb00ted.org)
"Man-Made Cloud" experiment generates electricity from humidity in air (www.inverse.com)
tl;dr (copied from the abstract): “Here, a generic effect for continuous energy harvesting from air humidity is reported, […]. The common feature of these materials is that they are engineered with appropriate nanopores to allow air water to pass through and undergo dynamic adsorption–desorption exchange at the porous...
The store is for people, but the storefront is for robots (www.theverge.com)
Strap in for the spam-pocolypse. The age of AI garbage fighting AI garbage is at hand and search engines will be one of the most obvious casualties.
Federation is pretty cool, but kinda confusing, and maybe a little scary (shkspr.mobi)
I’ve been on the Fediverse since 2016, and I still get a little mixed up by how things work.
‘Scanners are complicated’: why Gen Z faces workplace ‘tech shame’ (www.theguardian.com)
Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr have something in common and it's not good (www.techradar.com)
Logseq: A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management. (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.one/post/197223...
Majority of Americans Would Like to Return to Time Before Cell Phones, Internet, According to New Poll (www.thewrap.com)
Seventy-seven percent of middle-age Americans (35-54 years old) say they want to return to a time before society was “plugged in,” meaning a time before there was widespread internet and cell phone usage. As told by a new Harris Poll (via Fast Company), 63% of younger folks (18-34 years old) were also keen on returning to a...
