EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them (www.theatlantic.com)
UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse (www.pcgamer.com)
Mozilla review of 25 car brands finds they're "a privacy nightmare" (foundation.mozilla.org)
Apple plans to charge fees for sideloading (9to5mac.com)
Who would’ve thought? This isn’t going to fly with the EU....
Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family (www.404media.co)
“I can see that one of my friends is apparently watching a ton of cheesy, soft porn stuff,” a user said of Plex’s Week in Review email and Discover Together feature....
Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles (arstechnica.com)
Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works (www.cnn.com)
Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.
Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users (www.theregister.com)
Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue (www.404media.co)
Archive link: archive.ph/GtA4Q...
Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter (www.androidauthority.com)
Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter::Today, Samsung posted its Q2 2023 financial results. The report says Samsung’s profits have dropped considerably compared to last year.
Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears (www.theverge.com)
Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? (www.androidpolice.com)
Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while (newatlas.com)
Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation (tuta.com)
Vanguard, the controversial anti-cheat software initially attached to Valorant, is now also coming to League of Legends....
College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT (www.businessinsider.com)
College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.
Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two (www.hindustantimes.com)
Reddit embracing all out enshittification (arstechnica.com)
Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed...
Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM (9to5mac.com)
VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough (www.thedrive.com)
YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it (mashable.com)
YouTube isn’t happy you’re using ad blockers — and it’s doing something about it::undefined
Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself (www.theverge.com)
This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.
Top Extensions to Make YouTube Bearable (lemmy.world)
Hello fellow, lemmings, lemmur !...
Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them (www.xda-developers.com)
Microsoft removes guide on converting Microsoft accounts to Local, pushing for Microsoft sign-ins....
Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful. (mastodon.world)
