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Elizabeth Warren slammed for wanting to ‘break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly’ (www.bostonherald.com)

Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)

Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday....

Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down (www.theverge.com)

Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down. Noam Bardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of Waze, writes that Post News “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.”...

Enceladus: Decoding Life's Potential in Saturn's Icy Moon (www.arktrek.shop)

Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users (www.androidpolice.com)

Arif Dikici, who is a part of the Android Video and Image Codecs team at Google, recently announced on LinkedIn that Android will now use an AV1 decoder known as “libdav1d,” which was created by the team behind VLC.

How to Escape From the Iron Age? (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

We cannot lower carbon emissions if we keep producing steel with fossil fuels.

Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry (www.hamiltonnolan.com)

What is screen time doing to children? Demands grow to restrict young people’s access to phones and social media. (www.economist.com)

TSAC: Very Low Bitrate Audio Compression (bellard.org)

from fabrice bellard.

Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama 3 is really good but no chatbot is sophisticated enough to be an 'existential' threat — yet (www.businessinsider.com)

Your Brain Waves Are Up for Sale. A New Law Wants to Change That. (www.nytimes.com)

Premier League Wants GoDaddy to Identify Live Streaming Pirates. (torrentfreak.com)

How come TurboVPN can have double the amount of downloads compared to NordVPN and ExpresVPN? ++ (slrpnk.net)

Disclaimer: I know TurboVPN and the others mentioned are not good services to use, I’m strictly doing research. I’m not looking for VPN recommendations....

Past "that seemed lost forever" revealed as 200-year-old photos revived (www.newsweek.com)

Nas’ 'Illmatic' Was the Beginning of the End of the Album (www.wired.com)

I know it doesn’t sound like a tech article but it is!

Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platform (www.nbcnews.com)

Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track (arstechnica.com)

Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokes (arstechnica.com)

'Women Who Code' Shuts Down Unexpectedly (tech.slashdot.org)

Women Who Code (WWC), a U.S.-based organization of 360,000 people supporting women who work in the tech sector, is shutting down due to a lack of funding.

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