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ChatGPT iPhone App's Voice Chat Feature Now Free to All Users (www.macrumors.com)

Facebook Watches Teens Online As They Prep for College (themarkup.org)

An investigation by the media organization The Markup found the pixel by Facebook and Instagram-parent Meta on dozens of popular websites targeting kids from kindergarten to college, including sites that students are all but required to use if they want to participate in school activities or apply to college....

Why does this kind of screen chenge color at different angles? (lemmy.zip)

This 3D-printed soft robotic hand has 'bones,' 'ligaments,' and 'tendons' (www.popsci.com)

USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide (arstechnica.com)

European Parliament Just Approved Fair Parts Pricing and a Ban on Parts Pairing (ifixit.com)

Swedish company Northvolt develops new state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery produced with locally sourced materials, entirely independent of traditional battery value chains (feddit.de)

Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5922898...

Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI (www.theverge.com)

US telecom regulator wants to bar cable TV early-termination fees (www.reuters.com)

Inside the Operation to Bring Down Trump’s Truth Social (www.wired.com)

The North Atlantic Fella Organization is trying to shut down Trump’s flailing social media platform before the 2024 election—by shitposting.

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 (arstechnica.com)

The “Manifest V3” rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

Best way to glue a magnetic strip?

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Twitter Is Throttling Patreon Links, Creators Say It Undermines Their Livelihood (themarkup.org)

Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records (www.wired.com)

A secret Google deal let Spotify completely bypass Android’s app store fees (www.theverge.com)

Google fought to keep the Spotify numbers private during its antitrust fight with Epic, saying they could damage negotiations with other app developers who might want more generous rates. Google’s User Choice Billing program, launched in 2022, is typically described as shaving about 4 percent off Google’s Play Store...

X sues watchdog group Media Matters after report on ads next to Nazi posts (www.theguardian.com)

YouTube limits Video Viewing for Ad blocker Users (samrome58.substack.com)

OpenAI: Gathered Articles from the last few hours (or a Mini-Mega-Thread)

We had a thread about OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns, but I thought I might as well add it again. Especially because of this part:...

Company that created ChatGPT is thrown into turmoil after Microsoft hires its ousted CEO (apnews.com)

Adobe’s $20 billion bid for Figma in peril after EU warning (www.theverge.com)

Former infosec COO pleads guilty to attacking hospitals to drum up business (www.theregister.com)

After robotaxi dragged pedestrian 20 feet, Cruise founder and CEO resigns (arstechnica.com)

Google Books downloader?

I used to be able to download the available pages from books on Google Books with pysheng(3) and/or getxbook, but neither of them seem to work any more. On Firefox I can go into “More Information>Media Info” and download page images one by one, but this is slow and cumbersome. Any recommendations for a replacement?

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