EU Tries To Slip In New Powers To Intercept Encrypted Web Traffic Without Anyone Noticing (www.techdirt.com)
AI-generated child sexual abuse images could flood the internet. A watchdog is calling for action (apnews.com)
Philips Hue will soon require an account to use its app — here’s what that means (www.theverge.com)
According to its current privacy policy, with an account, Hue gets access to the configuration of your system to provide the right software updates to the devices. It can only use your data for marketing or share it with third parties if you provide additional consent....
Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise (wapo.st)
Public health experts denounced the platform’s moderation policies, which they say restrict access to critical health information...
John Warnock, Inventor of the PDF, Dies at 82 (archive.is)
Android to iPhone, whats it like? (Update)
I’m here to give an update to my journey from an Android to an iPhone after much debate in a previous post (from a different account). TLDR at the bottom....
Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market (arstechnica.com)
Ring Is Cashing In on the UFO Craze to Promote Its Surveillance Dystopia (www.vice.com)
Threads' New Terms & Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse (US focused) (buttondown.email)
Charlie Jane Anders discusses KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act)....
US scientists achieve net energy gain for second time in a fusion reaction (www.theguardian.com)
You may need to provide a reason now when quitting OneDrive (ghacks.net)
Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal (arstechnica.com)
How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk (US-specific) (www.platformer.news)
Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang in the balance...
Putin Outlaws Anonymity: Identity Verification For Online Services, VPN Bypass Advice a Crime * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
So, turns out that nuclear-powered pacemakers were a thing (www.ans.org)
In today’s episode of “weird shit I stumbled onto on the internet”, I bring you: nuclear-powered pacemakers....
Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, could charge all users subscription fees (www.theguardian.com)
School district in the U.S. uses ChatGPT to help ban library books (web.archive.org)
Faced with new legislation, Iowa’s Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books ‘contain a description or depiction of a sex act.’
Let the community work it out: A throwback to early internet days could fix social media’s crisis of legitimacy (www.niemanlab.org)
[…]why should a few companies — or a few billionaire owners — have the power to decide everything about online spaces that billions of people use? This unaccountable model of governance has led stakeholders of all stripes to criticize platforms’ decisions as arbitrary, corrupt or irresponsible. In the early, pre-web days...
Terraform, Vault, Nomad etc by HashiCorp moving away from Open Source (thenewstack.io)
HashiCorp is moving its products previously licensed as Open Source away from it to Business Source License (BSL) moving forward...
X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/7435108...
$5,000 Google Jamboard dies in 2024—cloud-based apps will stop working, too (arstechnica.com)
Scientists found more than 1,000 AI spam bots trying to scam people and steal their social media profiles — and regulators can't keep up (www.businessinsider.com)
Upcoming .COM and .XYZ domain price increases (www.namecheap.com)
On September 1, 2023, the domains registry for .COM and .XYZ will implement universal price increases of up to 9% for .COM renewals, and up to 9% for .XYZ renewals, registrations, and transfers.
