Adobe calls off $20 billion acquisition of Figma (apnews.com)
Good
EU takes action against Elon Musk's X over disinformation (www.bbc.co.uk)
Google’s loss to Epic Games leads to $700M settlement with users, states (arstechnica.com)
Providing HTML Content Using Htmx (postgrest.org)
Flipboard is pivoting to ActivityPub and the fediverse (www.theverge.com)
Human brain-like supercomputer with 228 trillion links coming in 2024 (interestingengineering.com)
Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real (www.404media.co)
Adobe gives up on $20 billion acquisition of Figma (arstechnica.com)
Japanese Unicorn SmartNews failing in the US because the CEO went down the QAnon Rabbit Hole (restofworld.org)
The investors might want a refund after seeing what the money were used for....
This Firefox for Android feature you've been begging for is finally here (www.androidpolice.com)
YouTube screwing itself with adblockers again
I use Firefox and uBlock Origin. Not sure what kind of experience anyone else is having with YouTube, but recently my home page has been empty because I “don’t have watch history turned on”. Okay, fine. I won’t be able to browse suggested videos, and I’ll spend less time on their platform....
Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final (mastodon.online)
TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms (arstechnica.com)
downloading gmails
my gmail account is full, most of the space is emails. I tried to download them through “takeout” and it has an option that says hey let’s split this up into 2GB chunks. And you select that and it sends you one 12GB .mbox file regardless. The 12GB download keeps failing and now it says you’ve already downloaded these...
Most readers want publishers to label AI-generated articles — but trust outlets less when they do (www.niemanlab.org)
The man leading Kenyan content moderators’ battle against Meta (restofworld.org)
If AI is making the Turing test obsolete, what might be better? (arstechnica.com)
Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers (arstechnica.com)
Threads Has Begun Federating Via ActivityPub (daringfireball.net)
Adam Mosseri:...
Tech Billionaires Launch Fund to Create New Libertarian Societies (www.vice.com)
More efforts from tech bros to build Rapture....
FTC investigating Adobe over making it too hard to cancel (9to5mac.com)
Apple partly halts Beeper’s iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead (arstechnica.com)
Proton Mail finally gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar (www.theverge.com)
GM Says It's Dropping Apple CarPlay And Android Auto Because They're Unsafe (jalopnik.com)
Threads Launches in the European Union (www.macrumors.com)
