Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return (www.pcgamer.com)
‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram (finance.yahoo.com)
YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking (alternativeto.net)
The company’s team clarified that their terms prohibit third-party apps from disabling ads, as it denies creators their due reward for viewership. Although the announcement did not specify any app by name, it’s plausible to presume that third-party YouTube apps such as NewPipe, YouTube ReVanced, Piped, and others might be...
Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says (arstechnica.com)
Why the ‘mother of all breaches’ is a wake up call for everyone (www.itpro.com)
Five People Founded Tesla, But Only Elon Musk Became Extremely Rich (open.substack.com)
The UK tries, once again, to age-gate pornography (www.theverge.com)
Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business (www.theverge.com)
Here comes another Netflix price hike (www.theverge.com)
Get ready to pay more for Netflix’s priciest plan....
Europe is looking to fight the flood of Chinese electric vehicles. But Europeans love them (apnews.com)
Amazon Prime Video will soon come with ads, or a $2.99 monthly charge to dodge them (apnews.com)
Amazon Prime Video will soon come with ads, or a $2.99 monthly charge to dodge them::Amazon’s Prime Video will begin showing ads during shows and movies early next year.
The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework. (www.businessinsider.com)
The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework.::ChatGPT traffic dropped when summer began and schools closed. Now students are back, and they’re using the AI tool again more.
Google’s Bard AI can now access Gmail, Drive, Docs, and more (www.pcworld.com)
“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator (arstechnica.com)
EU launches antitrust investigation of Microsoft over bundling Teams with Office (ec.europa.eu)
Microsoft Says Bye-Bye DEI, Joins Growing List Of Corporations Dismantling Diversity Teams (atlantadailyworld.com)
cross-posted from: yall.theatl.social/post/3229309...
Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months (www.theverge.com)
Late Actor Matthew Perry's Twitter Hacked: Fake Charity Plea Targets Fans with Cryptocurrency Scam (www.bitdefender.com)
Scammers hacked the late actor Matthew Perry’s Twitter account and posted a fake plea for cryptocurrency donations in the name of his foundation. The foundation confirmed the post was a scam and urged people not to donate....
No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on (www.cnn.com)
No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on::Tesla has been slashing prices. Ford just cut the price of its Mustang Mach-E, too, plus it cut back production of its electric pickup. And General Motors is thinking about bringing back plug-in hybrids, arguably a step back from EVs.
Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built (www.usatoday.com)
Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they’re being built::The clock is ticking toward a deadline to meet renewable-energy standards. But USA TODAY’s analysis finds local governments banning wind turbines, solar plants.
Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters (www.tomshardware.com)
Firefox for Android now supports over 450 add-ons (www.ghacks.net)
Microsoft announces Python formulas in Excel... which have to get sent to the cloud (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
Since its inception, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the flying billionaires heads up in the clouds who don't give a fuck for life offtheline
The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices (arstechnica.com)
For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn’t want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in....
Nintendo Reportedly Plans to Release Next-Gen Console During Second Half of 2024 (www.ign.com)
Nintendo Reportedly Plans to Release Next-Gen Console During Second Half of 2024::Nintendo will release its next-gen console during the second half of 2024, according to a new report.
