Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers (www.theverge.com)
Mozilla ends partnership with Onerep due to CEO’s ties to data broker...
Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit (mashable.com)
From the article: “Unsurprisingly, this skyrocketed searches for the best VPNs. According to a SlashGear report sent to Mashable, searches for “Texas VPN” jumped by 1,750 percent in the past day. It also spotted a 1,600 percent increase for the phrase “How to access Pornhub.””
You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes (gizmodo.com)
How Quora Died (slate.com)
“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most...
Training Generative AI Models on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use - Change My Mind (mastodon.lawprofs.org)
I fucked with the title a bit. What i linked to was actually a mastodon post linking to an actual thing. but in my defense, i found it because cory doctorow boosted it, so, in a way, i am providing the original source here....
1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles (cleantechnica.com)
1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles::Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! We love covering electric … [continued]
Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same (fortune.com)
Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way (www.spacebar.news)
Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet (www.tomshardware.com)
Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet::A decade ago, a pigeon with a 4 GB memory stick outran an ISP’s ADSL service. A 2023 rematch features a bird with 3 TB of flash drives vs gigabit internet.
After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts (www.dailydot.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/kamala-twitter-account-follow-l…
OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions (windowsreport.com)
According to the latest reports, Windows 11 has made an independent choice by automatically turning on OneDrive folder backup for Desktop, Pictures, Documents, Music, and Video folders without your permission. This signifies that, whether you approve or not, everything is becoming coordinated with the cloud....
Boeing sales tumble as the company gets no orders for the 737 Max for the second straight month (apnews.com)
What is Cara, the Instagram alternative that gained 600k users in a week? (www.creativebloq.com)
Key points:...
Delivery Goes Wrong: New Cybertruck Slices Owner's Wrist During Inspection (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
A Tesla owner’s dream of taking his new Cybetruck for a spin turned into a nightmare. He landed in the emergency room with blood spurting from a wrist wound before even getting behind the wheel.
X is the worst social media app for LGBTQ+ people, says new report (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (www.theverge.com)
More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs (www.androidauthority.com)
ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees (www.theverge.com)
It's official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
It’s official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch::Days after Evernote started testing a free plan with access to only one notebook and 50 notes, it has now made this change for all free users
Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language (www.vice.com)
Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language::Researchers have identified new elements of whale vocalizations that they propose are analogous to human speech, including vowels and pitch.
Microsoft hires ex-OpenAI leaders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to lead new AI team | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Firefox lost users during “failed” Yahoo search deal, says Mozilla CEO (arstechnica.com)
Baker’s testimony shows that Mozilla depends so much on its deal with Google for revenue that “the biggest loser of a DOJ win in the Google case would be Mozilla.”
It is 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause a financial crash within a decade, SEC head says (www.businessinsider.com)
It is ‘nearly unavoidable’ that AI will cause a financial crash within a decade, SEC head says::undefined
The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died (12ft.io)
Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their deaths as US authorities have been asked to investigate Musk’s claims.