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US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

Somewhat overdue IMHO.

What do you think of framework and their methods? (frame.work)

We are not sustainableAnd neither is any other device maker. This industry is full of “feel good” messaging, but generates 50 million metric tons of e-waste each year. We believe the best way to reduce environmental impact is to create products that last longer, meaning fewer new ones need to be made. Instead of operating on...

What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane (prospect.org)

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers (www.theregister.com)

The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse (www.vox.com)

Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.

Inside the $1 billion love affair between Stability AI’s ‘complicated’ founder and tech investors Coatue and Lightspeed—and how it turned bitter within months (fortune.com)

Without paywall: archive.ph/8QkSl

Windows AI PC manufacturers must add a Copilot key, says Microsoft (www.xda-developers.com)

Oregon's Breakthrough Right-to-Repair Bill Is Now Law (www.wired.com)

NYC’s AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law (themarkup.org)

Who’s Behind All the ‘Pussy in Bio’ on X? (nymag.com)

Spam is hard. No real platform has solved it completely, and none ever will. Spammers evolve, platforms catch up, spammers evolve again, and so on until the last post is posted and the last user signs out. Individual spam tactics, however, do tend to have short lives, and while PIB won’t be with us forever, it’s notable that...

Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit (arstechnica.com)

How do I turn off Windows 10 & 11 automatic updates? (www.hystou.com)

Overview: Windows 11 and 10 offers less UI control over the updating behavior of the operating system than previous versions of Windows. There is no option to turn off Windows Updates using the Control Panel or Settings app in Windows 11 & 10, it checks for updates automatically and install any updates they find, whether you...

vCard + RSS as an alternative to social media (nfraprado.net)

I would love to see a resurgence in RSS instead of all the bloat thats so prevalent nowadays.

NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law (www.thecity.nyc)

What if the Realtek RTL8821CE WIFI module is not recognized under the Ubuntu system? (www.hystou.com)

Overview：Most linux operating systems (such as Ubuntu) do not integrate Realtek RTL8821CE driver in the system library, so you can’t use WIFI in the operating system, and if you want to use WIFI networking, you need to install the driver manually. Here is how to install the driver:...

Qualcomm quietly demos Baldur’s Gate 3 and Control on Snapdragon X Elite laptops (www.theverge.com)

cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/10871867...

Why Bluesky Remains The Most Interesting Experiment In Social Media, By Far (www.techdirt.com)

In-app browsers still a privacy, security, and choice issue (www.theregister.com)

In-app browsers are like standalone web browsers without the interface – they rely on the native app for the interface. They can be embedded in native platform apps to load and render web content within the app, instead of outside the app in the designated default browser....

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