A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore. (www.theverge.com)
The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars (theconversation.com)
Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works (gizmodo.com)
A judge in Washington state has blocked video evidence that’s been “AI-enhanced” from being submitted in a triple murder trial. And that’s a good thing, given the fact that too many people seem to think applying an AI filter can give them access to secret visual data.
A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. (slate.com)
Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections. (lemmy.world)
Unity deleted these terms, don't let them get out (lemmy.today)
From The Internet Archive: web.archive.org/…/Unity Software Additional Terms…
Signal and Threema want nothing to do with WhatsApp (www.androidpolice.com)
30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok (www.honest-broker.com)
Video Shows First Neuralink Patient Playing Mario Kart With His Mind (futurism.com)
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)
Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. (open.substack.com)
Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough (www.theregister.com)
Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts (www.zdnet.com)
Calling them “free-form ads,” Reddit said the new advertisements are its most native format ever, designed to look and feel like community content shared by real people....
'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al... (www.pcgamer.com)
‘Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription’ says HP CEO gunning for 2024’s Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al…::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its...
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported (spectrum.ieee.org)
These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.
Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet (www.canarymedia.com)
More Than 80 Percent Of Americans Can’t Afford New Cars (jalopnik.com)
‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity (time.com)
‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity::It’s part of a worrying trend of non-consensual “deepfake” pornography being developed and distributed because of advances in artificial intelligence.
Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative (ladybird.org)
‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood (www.theguardian.com)
Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app (www.theverge.com)
Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. (www.engadget.com)
Inside the ‘arms race’ between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube’s dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there’s an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.
Steam Deck OLED announced (www.steamdeck.com)
New OLED screen. New APU. And lots of small hardware improvements.
Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike (www.vice.com)
DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again (arstechnica.com)
It’s sensible for businesses to shift from physical media sales. Per CNBC’s calculations, DVD sales fell over 86 percent between 2008 and 2019. Research from the Motion Picture Association in 2021 found that physical media represented 8 percent of the home/mobile entertainment market in the US, falling behind digital (80...
