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What web services do you subscribe to?

Really just curious what folks out there deem valuable enough to give money for monthly or annually. As a software engineer I have quite a few that keep me productive and I’ll list a few:...

America Is Sick of Swiping (www.theatlantic.com)

Google One is shutting down its VPN feature later this year (www.engadget.com)

The company rolled out Google One’s VPN feature back in 2020, but you could only access it if you’re paying for a plan with at least 2TB of storage, which costs at least $10 a month....

5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 (arstechnica.com)

Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS firewall zero-day used in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Sev 10!

The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

X’s Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks (www.theverge.com)

Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors (www.theverge.com)

This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born (www.wired.com)

What Would God Say About File-Sharing? * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

Humane AI Pin review: not even close (www.theverge.com)

An Only Slightly Modest Proposal: If AI Companies Want More Content, They Should Fund Reporters, And Lots Of Them (www.techdirt.com)

Do You Trust Your Cheap Fuses? (hackaday.com)

Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces (proton.me)

Who Wrote That? Evaluating Tools to Detect AI-Generated Text (foundation.mozilla.org)

Mozilla research found that detection tools aren’t always as reliable as they say. Further, researchers found that large language models like ChatGPT can be successfully prompted to create more ‘human-sounding’ text...

Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI (www.wired.com)

Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility (www.theatlantic.com)

Google will start showing AI-powered search results to users who didn't opt in (www.engadget.com)

If you’re in the US, you might see a new shaded section at the top of your Google Search results with a summary answering your inquiry, along with links for more information. That section, generated by Google’s generative AI technology, used to appear only if you’ve opted into the Search Generative Experience(SGE) in the...

Researchers Develop Horrifying Face-Mimicking Robot (gizmodo.com)

Cory Doctorow on Search Engine Enshittification (pluralistic.net)

[Abstract Engineering] Masquerading Digitalization (open.substack.com)

Beeper is now available, no waitlist! (blog.beeper.com)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/29046027...

Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?” (www.theverge.com)

Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?”::During a recent TGIF all-hands meeting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed what sources describe as a growing morale crisis inside the company.

Please help preserve your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late! (lemm.ee)

(MAJOR UPDATE: ONLY 10 HRS REMAIN BEFORE SHUT DOWN AT TIME OF WRITING THIS UPDATE)...