Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web (www.theverge.com)
Mozilla has launched a paid subscription service called Mozilla Monitor Plus, which monitors and removes personal information from over 190 sites where brokers sell data....
The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case (www.theguardian.com)
AirTag 2 not expected until 2025 as Apple sits on backlog of first-gen inventory (9to5mac.com)
AirTag 2 not expected until 2025 as Apple sits on backlog of first-gen inventory::If you’ve been hoping for a second-generation AirTag, you’ll have to keep waiting. According to a new report from Bloomberg,…
Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say (arstechnica.com)
Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say::Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say.
Each Bitcoin transaction uses 4,200 gallons of water — enough to fill a swimming pool — and could potentially cause freshwater shortages (www.tomshardware.com)
Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout (arstechnica.com)
Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company (www.businessinsider.com)
X sues Media Matters to silence moderation criticism (www.theverge.com)
Maybe (HBO) Max Just Isn’t Worth It (www.wired.com)
Maybe (HBO) Max Just Isn’t Worth It::Warner Bros. Discovery’s latest earnings call reveals Max shed 700,000 subscribers in the past three months, even as it made money. That might work for Wall Street, but what about viewers?
Wikipedia Admin Unmasks As Alt Account Of Admin Who Was Extremely Banned In 2015 To The Great Bewilderment Of Everyone (en.wikipedia.org)
What?????? What the hell??? — arbitrator Moneytrees, arbitration request for Lourdes...
Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI? And is there a dark secret at the core of the entire driverless car industry? (garymarcus.substack.com)
Amazon made $1 billion through secret price raising algorithm -US FTC (www.reuters.com)
Millions of smart meters will fail when 2G and 3G turns off (www.theregister.com)
X accused of illegally firing employee who criticized Elon’s return-to-work plan (www.theverge.com)
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France VPNs might be banned amid SREN Bill's new "unreasonable amendments" (www.techradar.com)
List of countries prohibiting the use of a VPN:...
X Social Media is suing X, a social media company (www.theverge.com)
X Social Media is suing X, a social media company::Elon Musk’s X is being sued by a Florida company called X Social Media for alleged unfair competition and trademark violations that it says have resulted in lost revenue.
Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths (www.theverge.com)
Future Motion, the maker of the Onewheel electric skateboard, is recalling every one of them, including 300,000 Onewheel self-balancing vehicles in the US. Alongside the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the company now seeks to remedy the products after four known death cases — three without a helmet — between...
FCC details plan to restore the net neutrality rules repealed by Ajit Pai (arstechnica.com)
FCC details plan to restore the net neutrality rules repealed by Ajit Pai::Democrats finally have 3-2 majority needed to regulate ISPs as common carriers.
‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech (www.theguardian.com)
‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech::In his new book, the maverick Greek economist says we are witnessing an epochal shift. At his island home, he argues it’s now the ‘fiefdoms’ of tech firms that shape us
Why do you hate Microsoft?
I’m helping a friend of mine writing a long essay exposing the abusive, monopolistic and anti-consumer practices of Microsoft. First, we’ve created some sort of table of contents with the different topics we want to cover and now we’re gathering sources for each of these topics....
X is no longer labeling ads for some users (mashable.com)
Not disclosing advertisements runs afoul of the FTC's rules.
Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest (www.theverge.com)
2-clicks to install Windows 11/10 without the third-party bloatware (www.ctrl.blog)
Fed’s new instant payment system could be trouble for PayPal, Venmo (arstechnica.com)
Fed’s new instant payment system could be trouble for PayPal, Venmo::The Fed’s goal is to connect 9,000 financial institutions nationwide.