Kobo's new color E Ink eReaders start at only $150 (www.pocket-lint.com)
Beeper is now available, no waitlist! (blog.beeper.com)
Beeper Messaging App That Irked Apple Is Acquired by WordPress.com Owner (www.bloomberg.com)
Automattic purchases Beeper in $125 million deal; CEO to join...
Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)
A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals"....
The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island (www.wired.com)
This Asus PC case monitors your dust filter so you don't have to (www.xda-developers.com)
Traditionally, one would have to periodically check the status of the dust filtering on a PC case, but that’s not the case (pun intended!) with the Asus ProArt PA602. This chassis has a fancy infrared (IR) sensor behind the front-facing dust filter. Should this detect a set layer of dust covering the filter material, a small...
Magnets are switching up the keyboard game with an additional keystroke setting (techcrunch.com)
These keyboards rely on magnets and springs and activate by sensing changes in the magnetic field. Popularized by Dutch keyboard startup Wooting, these switches rely on the Hall Effect and have actually been around since the 1960s....
Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF (littlegreenfootballs.com)
T-Mobile's New AI "Profiling" Privacy Toggle Is On By Default (tmo.report)
Surveilling Alone: In the U.S., home security cameras are booming in an era of rising crime and declining trust. But they’re driving neighbors further apart. (www.thenewatlantis.com)
Today, a different form of efficient design is eliminating “eyes on the street” — by replacing them with technological ones. The proliferation of neighborhood surveillance technologies such as Ring cameras and digital neighborhood-watch platforms and apps such as Nextdoor and Citizen have freed us from the constraints of...
Slovenia: Privatised municipal surveillance ineffective to increase security, but good for "spying on innocent citizens walking through the park", group says (edri.org)
A CCTV company owned by the municipality of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, had sued the Slovenian Data Protection Authority (DPA) in order to block the release of municipal CCTV system data. But the ruling of an administrative court made it clear that making the CCTV system data available is in the public’s interest, not...
We need a permanent solution for universal broadband access (www.theverge.com)
"Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives (blog.documentfoundation.org)
Schleswig-Holstein, the northern German federal state, will be a digital pioneer region and the first German state to introduce a digitally sovereign IT workplace in its state administration. With a cabinet decision to introduce the open-source software LibreOffice as the standard office solution across the board, the government...
Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)
"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." (pluralistic.net)
U.S. government blasts Microsoft for lax security measures in report on Chinese hacks (www.dhs.gov)
In its report published this week, the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) says that the June 2023 online breach by Chinese threat actors who accessed U.S. government emails right before Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was to visit China, was “preventable”....
Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news (www.gsmarena.com)
As apparently, this move is made to target audiobook listeners and podcast listeners, can I recommend audiobookshelf.org...
Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling (arstechnica.com)
The truly shocking thing to me is that any voters believe the ISP’s arguments and are … I guess fine with a portion of their monthly bills being earmarked for litigation to make their consumer experience ever worse....
Citizen Lab: "Not only the Chinese government, but also US-based firms, are complicit in the political and religious censoring of content on China-accessible platforms" (citizenlab.ca)
In its submission to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab gives recomnendations to hold Chinese and U.S. firms accountable for their involvement in online censorship and assisting victims of digital abuse and intimidation.
You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
Um, yay?
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)
'xz utils' Software Backdoor Uncovered in Years-Long Hacking Plot (unicornriot.ninja)
Stop Killing Games — An initiative to stop publishers & developers killing games (www.stopkillinggames.com)
also see the creator’s youtube video about it: https://youtu.be/w70Xc9CStoE
Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers (www.theverge.com)
Verge editor laments the perverse incentives of SEO rankings.