"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet (www.defectivebydesign.org)
After Axing Headlines, Elon Musk To Hide Retweet, Like Buttons On Twitter (www.pcmag.com)
Pebble, the Twitter alternative previously known as T2, is shutting down | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
The first I’ve heard of this platform is when it’s shutting down… might be why it did.
John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing battle (venturebeat.com)
The news isn’t a surprise as Unity angered a lot of its loyal game developers a few weeks ago after pushing through a price increase based on numbers of downloads — and then retracted it after an uproar.
Wikipedia Fighting Overseas SLAPP Suit Because Someone Didn’t Like The Factual Info Posted About Them (www.techdirt.com)
The case started in August 2021 with a complaint that de Paço was upset about the Portuguese and English language versions of the articles about him. The first judicial pass went well. But that’s where the good news ends. The next level of Portugal’s court system decided the lower court was wrong about everything, which...
I try synthetic salmon and enter the “uncanny valley” of taste (arstechnica.com)
How Social Media Apps Could Be Fueling Homicides Among Young Americans (www.propublica.org)
AI crap - Why ML will make the world worse, not better (drewdevault.com)
There is a machine learning bubble, but the technology is here to stay. Once the bubble pops, the world will be changed by machine learning. But it will probably be crappier, not better....
[Rumor] Youtube is A/B testing disabling "Do not recommend this channel" on me (feddit.de)
Hi lemmy,...
Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank (www.theverge.com)
AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay (www.theregister.com)
Cloud giant AWS will start charging customers for public IPv4 addresses from next year, claiming it is forced to do this because of the increasing scarcity of these and to encourage the use of IPv6 instead....
X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet (fortune.com)
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Today's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machines (quandyfactory.com)
AI Isn’t Banning Books in Iowa Schools. Republicans Are. (theintercept.com)
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Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half (www.bbc.com)
Amazon hit with antitrust lawsuit by FTC, 17 states (thehill.com)
I Used a Game Boy Camera for FaceTime Video Calls in iPadOS 17 and It Was Glorious (www.macstories.net)
This is magnificent.
Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)
WD refused to answer our questions about its self- wiping SanDisk SSDs (www.theverge.com)
Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/7456748...
China hacked Japan’s sensitive defense networks, officials say (www.washingtonpost.com)
According to former US and Japanese officials, the NSA discovered in the fall of 2020 that the PRC had persistent access to Japanese Defense Networks....
A mystery company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has purchased tens of thousands of acres of land for more than $800 million to build a new city near San Francisco (www.businessinsider.com)
Elon Musk’s X Has Started Selling Off Old Twitter Handles For Upwards Of $50,000 (www.msn.com)
AI Is Writing Books About Foraging. What Could Go Wrong? (civileats.com)
mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev (dotart.blog)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/6853479...
