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Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find (tech.slashdot.org)

Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale (www.404media.co)

Each of these reads like an extremely horny and angry man yelling their basest desires at Pornhub’s search function.

Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law (www.vice.com)

Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. (www.bbc.com)

Move over, Ford and Chevy: Kei trucks are pulling up as customers opt for smaller, cheaper vehicles (www.nbcnews.com)

A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. (www.businessinsider.com)

Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series and Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee (deadline.com)

China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report (infosec.exchange)

GitCode, a git-hosting website operated Chongqing Open-Source Co-Creation Technology Co Ltd and with technical support from CSDN and Huawei Cloud....

The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money (www.vice.com)

The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money::Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money.

So long, small phones (www.theverge.com)

Advertising revenue in Twitter crashes by 50% (lemmy.world)

nuff said

Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza (www.windowscentral.com)

A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza....

Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die | Your Steam games will go to the grave with you (www.techspot.com)

DuckDuckGo is down. Is there any info about it?? [EDIT: IS BACK] (lemmy.world)

Update: bleepingcomputer.com/…/microsoft-outage-affects-b…...

Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says (arstechnica.com)

Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year (www.wired.com)

Signal’s president reveals the cost of running the privacy-preserving platform—not just to drum up donations, but to call out the for-profit surveillance business models it competes against....

Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade (arstechnica.com)

Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade::North American sales are bad for everyone, except, miraculously, Google.

Windows 11 is getting a new start menu. EDIT: this replaces the "all apps" page by default, not the home screem

More info about it here: ghacks.net/…/windows-11-start-menu-is-getting-a-n…...

Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad (www.neowin.net)

The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center (www.techdirt.com)

Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 (www.neowin.net)

Let’s put it this way; when Microsoft announced its plans to start adding features to Windows 10 once again, despite the operating system’s inevitable demise in October 2025, everyone expected slightly different things to see ported over from Windows 11. Sadly, the latest addition to Windows 10 is one of the most annoying...

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