Each Bitcoin transaction uses 4,200 gallons of water — enough to fill a swimming pool — and could potentially cause freshwater shortages (www.tomshardware.com)
"Bing's Bizarre Blunder: Search Engine Claims Australia Doesn't Exist" (samrome58.substack.com)
Tech news doesn't understand ad blockers or Chrome extensions (www.spacebar.news)
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org)
We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.
My brushstrokes against AI-art (www.davidrevoy.com)
Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates (arstechnica.com)
Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodon (wedistribute.org)
PlayStation is removing hundreds of Discovery shows that users already purchased (www.businessinsider.com)
Electric Vehicles Have 79% More Reliability Challenges Than Gas Powered Cars (samrome58.substack.com)
Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski (www.theguardian.com)
Generative AI a stumbling block in EU legislation talks (www.reuters.com)
The biggest challenge to getting an agreement over the European Union’s proposed AI Act has come from France, Germany and Italy, who favour letting makers of generativeAI models self-regulate instead of having hard rules....
The Tyranny of Data and Its Digital War on Human Agency (theluddite.org)
Amazon's Fire TV is Adding Full-Screen Video Ads That Play When You Start Your Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com)
Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers (www.engadget.com)
From the article: “In some ways, the current situation has spurred an arms race. YouTube has inadvertently improved ad blockers, as the new knowledge and techniques gained from innovating within the YouTube platform are also applicable to other ad and tracking systems.”
Really liked this article about the monopolies in the mail industry (cfenollosa.com)
I’m sure the email I sent to an academics using proton has gone in the spam. :( too bad
Facebook parent Meta sues the FTC claiming 'unconstitutional authority' in child privacy case (apnews.com)
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — The parent company of Instagram and Facebook has sued the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to stop the agency from reopening a 2020 privacy settlement with the company that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18....
Happy 40th birthday, Turbo Pascal! (blog.marcocantu.com)
November 28, 2023 - Turbo Pascal turns 40...
The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What? (yewtu.be)
Threads Is Coming to the EU in December (www.macrumors.com)
ChatGPT one year on: From viral AI bot to OpenAI's boardroom battle (www.reuters.com)
It’s ChatGPT’s first “birthday”. And it was a very eventful first year for the field of AI.
Sam Altman explains being fired and rehired by OpenAI - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Evernote is about to seriously limit its plan for free users (www.theverge.com)
Study finds no “smoking gun” for mental health issues due to Internet usage (arstechnica.com)
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, who said their study was the largest of its kind, said they found no evidence to support “popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk” from the technology....
Google search ads spotted in compromising placements (techcrunch.com)
Unity Layoff 3.8% Of Workforce - Weta Digital Closed – GameFromScratch.com (gamefromscratch.com)
