Cory Doctorow on Search Engine Enshittification (pluralistic.net)
Google’s expanded Find My Device network might arrive in a few days (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft's Collapse in the Web Server Space Continued This Month (techrights.org)
Tesla (TSLA) releases Q1 2024 deliveries: disastrous results (electrek.co)
E-waste from trashed electric devices is piling up and recycling isn't keeping pace, UN says (apnews.com)
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Midjourney Accuses Stability AI of Image Theft, Bans Its Employees (80.lv)
According to a recent tweet shared by AI enthusiast Nick St. Pierre, the alleged theft occurred last Saturday. It is claimed that employees from Stability AI infiltrated Midjourney’s database and stole all prompt and image pairs, an action that also caused a 24-hour outage. In response, MJ reportedly banned all Stable...
AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead (developers.slashdot.org)
Apple hit with $2 billion EU antitrust fine in Spotify case (www.theguardian.com)
Apple has been fined €1.8bn ($2bn) by the EU after an investigation found it had limited competition from music streaming services such as Spotify....
Elon Musk's Battle with Swedish Unions Is Now Impacting Tesla's Charging Stations | The months-long battle between Nordic labor and the petulant billionaire has led to perpetual humiliations for th... (gizmodo.com)
Elon Musk’s Battle with Swedish Unions Is Now Impacting Tesla’s Charging Stations | The months-long battle between Nordic labor and the petulant billionaire has led to perpetual humiliations for th…::The months-long battle between Nordic labor and the petulant billionaire has led to perpetual humiliations for the electric...
Mark Zuckerberg: Tech layoffs in 2024 have been a natural response to pandemic-era over hiring (www.itpro.com)
Mark Zuckerberg: Tech layoffs in 2024 have been a natural response to pandemic-era over hiring::Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes companies are still readjusting to pandemic-era hiring tactics amid a flurry of layoffs across the industry.
Minnesota burglars are using Wi-Fi jammers to disable home security systems (www.techspot.com)
Minnesota burglars are using Wi-Fi jammers to disable home security systems::undefined
YouTube’s climate deniers turn into climate doomers — A new report documents a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won’t work (grist.org)
YouTube’s climate deniers turn into climate doomers — A new report documents a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won’t work::A new report documents a shift away from climate denial and a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won’t work.
23andMe admits hackers stole raw genotype data - and that cyberattack went undetected for months | Firm says it didn't realize customers were being hacked (www.techradar.com)
23andMe admits hackers stole raw genotype data - and that cyberattack went undetected for months | Firm says it didn’t realize customers were being hacked::Firm says it didn’t realize customers were being hacked
Don't expect iPhone apps to get cheaper now that you can pay for them outside of the App Store (bgr.com)
Taylor Swift fans scammed by fake AI-generated endorsement for Le Creuset cookware (www.independent.co.uk)
Taylor Swift fans scammed by fake AI-generated endorsement for Le Creuset cookware::Deepfake ad showed an AI-generated Swift saying she was ‘thrilled’ to be handing out free cookware sets
Authy is shutting down its desktop app - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be (www.zdnet.com)
Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy (techcrunch.com)
Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective (www.reuters.com)
Wheels falling off cars at speed. Suspensions collapsing on brand-new vehicles. Axles breaking under acceleration. Tens of thousands of customers told Tesla about a host of part failures on low-mileage cars. The automaker sought to blame drivers for vehicle ‘abuse,’ but Tesla documents show it had tracked the chronic...
Solar rooftops gain traction as electric vehicles owners look to skip paying for electricity or gasoline: ‘Solar just makes sense’ (fortune.com)
Solar rooftops gain traction as electric vehicles owners look to skip paying for electricity or gasoline: ‘Solar just makes sense’::Residential solar is gaining traction in the U.S., with about 4.5 million homes now with solar rooftops.
World’s first off-road solar car ‘Stella Terra’ succeeds in cruising from Morocco to the Sahara (www.designboom.com)
OpenAI suspends ByteDance’s account after it used GPT to train its own AI model. (www.theverge.com)
McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup (www.wired.com)
Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald’s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old email it says proves claims of an alleged plot to undermine their business....
Adobe warns it may face massive fines for subscription rules (www.theregister.com)
Adobe warns it may face massive fines for subscription rules::Otherwise in rude health after posting best-ever results