X’s Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks (www.theverge.com)
Elon Musk just gave another Mars speech—this time the vision seems tangible (arstechnica.com)
T-Mobile's New AI "Profiling" Privacy Toggle Is On By Default (tmo.report)
Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon! (www.ebu.ch)
YouTube now requires creators to disclose when AI-generated content is used in videos (alternativeto.net)
The FTC is probing Reddit’s AI licensing deals (www.engadget.com)
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Your Kid May Already Be Watching AI-Generated Videos on YouTube (www.wired.com)
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Microsoft complies with EU's DMA, allowing uninstalling of OneDrive, Edge, Bing, and more (alternativeto.net)
Google Fi increasing the price of Simply Unlimited plans with 3+ lines (9to5google.com)
Spotify, Epic Games, and others pen letter to EC, claiming Apple has made a 'mockery' of the DMA | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
EA to Lay Off Around 670 Workers, Sunsetting Games, 'Moving Away From Licensed IPs' (www.ign.com)
EA to Lay Off Around 670 Workers, Sunsetting Games, ‘Moving Away From Licensed IPs’::Electronic Arts has announced that it, too, is undergoing mass layoffs, with plans to let go 5% of its total global staff, or roughly 670 individuals.
The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco (newrepublic.com)
The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco::A rogue’s gallery of big tech edgelords and their reactionary hangers-on have a plan to remake the city by the bay in their own weirdo image.
Toyota cars collecting and potentially sharing location data and personal information, Choice says, and it's not the only car brand facing privacy concerns (www.abc.net.au)
Rafi Alam from CHOICE told The World Today: “When we looked at Toyota’s privacy policy, we found that these Connected Services features will collect data such as fuel levels, odometer readings, vehicle location and driving data, as well as personal information like phone numbers and email addresses.”...
Instagram and Facebook delete the accounts of Iran’s supreme leader (www.theguardian.com)
Instagram and Facebook delete the accounts of Iran’s supreme leader::Ayatollah Ali Khamenei supported Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel, which Meta said violated its policies
200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | "There's wires everywhere, and it's gone." (arstechnica.com)
200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | “There’s wires everywhere, and it’s gone.”::“There’s wires everywhere, and it’s gone.”
You can now join Bluesky without an invitation (www.washingtonpost.com)
Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spending (www.theguardian.com)
Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spending::Sean Kirkpatrick, the first director of the all-domain anomaly resolution office, blames ‘core group’ of government workers
"How Google perfected the web" or how google made everything worst (www.theverge.com)
Snippets: For reputable news outlets, the challenge of producing work that Google likes and that meets high-quality standards is magnified; you can’t fill articles with SEO-bait keywords without readers noticing....
Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode (arstechnica.com)
Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode::Warning added to Chrome Canary as Google settles Incognito class-action suit.
Most Sophisticated iPhone Hack Ever Exploited Apple's Hidden Hardware Feature (thehackernews.com)
Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say (arstechnica.com)
Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say::Reddit says First Amendment rights protect it from having to disclose users’ info.
web4 – The Second End of History? (fungiverse.wordpress.com)
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Half Of All Skills Will Be Outdated Within Two Years, Study Suggests (www.forbes.com)
Half Of All Skills Will Be Outdated Within Two Years, Study Suggests::AI will redirect jobs and career prospects, but its impact on jobs and tasks is murky.
Supreme Court chief justice warns of dangers of AI in judicial work, suggests it is “always a bad idea” to cite non-existent court cases (www.independent.co.uk)
Supreme Court chief justice warns of dangers of AI in judicial work, suggests it is “always a bad idea” to cite non-existent court cases::Mr Roberts suggested there may come a time when conducting legal research without the help of AI is ‘unthinkable’