RIF will also shut down on June 30th (old.reddit.com)
After Apollo, RIF is also going to shut down.
Apollo for Reddit is shutting down (www.theverge.com)
whelp, there it is
"Trust' and 'distrust' buttons -rather than 'like' and 'dislike' buttons- could reduce spread of misinformation on social media, experimental study suggests (web.archive.org)
Here’s a brief summary, although you miss something if you don’t read the study (trigger warning: stats):...
Reddit to lay off about 5% of workforce (www.livemint.com)
US authorities charge Amazon with violating children’s privacy law by undermining parents’ deletion requests (web.archive.org)
The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice will require Amazon to overhaul its deletion practices and implement stringent privacy safeguards to settle charges the company violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA Rule).
Two-thirds of all online shopping scams in the UK start on Facebook and Instagram, Lloyds Banking Group says (web.archive.org)
DivestOS - March 22nd 2023 Update, Tad (SkewedZeppelin) was granted the 2022 'Outstanding New Free Software Contributor' award by the Free Software Foundation, and many more (divestos.org)
Death to passwords: Beta passkey support comes to Chrome and Android - But there are still unanswered questions about lock-ins (arstechnica.com)
Big Tech wants to kill the password, with “Passkeys” being the hot, new password replacement standard on the block. Passkeys are backed by Google, Apple, Microsoft, and the FIDO Alliance, so expect to see them everywhere soon. iOS picked up the standard in version 16, and now Google is launching passkey betas on Chrome and...
GlucoCheck - Sensor breakthrough brings us closer to blood glucose monitoring on wearables (www.digitaltrends.com)
Blood glucose monitoring is touted to be the next big breakthrough for wearable devices like the Apple Watch. However, the hardware is yet to be seen on a commercially available, mass-market device. That might change soon....
Is Firefox OK? Mozilla’s privacy-heavy browser is flatlining but still crucial to future of the web. (arstechnica.com)
Swedish digital forensic group Qurium shows how Russia is using European companies for propaganda (www.qurium.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/836852...
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (www.newyorker.com)
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‘If you want to have a good party, ask your friends not to take photos’: Carissa Véliz, expert in ethics applied to technology, advocates for a system of digital anonymity (english.elpais.com)
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Shooting conspiracies trend on X as Musk endorses Trump (www.theverge.com)
'Gay furry hackers' disband after Project 2025 data theft (www.theregister.com)
China: Tech giant Baidu’s mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate after a vehicle ran into a pedestrian in Wuhan last Sunday (www.sixthtone.com)
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First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards (arstechnica.com)
EU says X’s paid-for blue check deceives users, breaks law • The Register (go.theregister.com)
Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable (www.404media.co)
Quieting Discord: A new frontier in military leaks and extremism (www.navytimes.com)
China’s relentless e-commerce price war leaves sellers struggling to make ends meet as shopping platforms compete with ever-more aggressive policies and a domestic economy slowing down (theadvisermagazine.com)
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4chan Is Using TikTok Owner ByteDance's Hidden AI App to Generate Porn (www.404media.co)
Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All But Dead, Market Analysts Say (gizmodo.com)
Palestinians living abroad have accused Microsoft of closing their email accounts without warning - cutting them off from crucial online services (www.bbc.com)
They say it has left them unable to access bank accounts and job offers - and stopped them using Skype, which Microsoft owns, to contact relatives in war-torn Gaza....
Apple removed 25 VPN apps from the Russian App Store at the Kremlin's request (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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