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You Can Try These Three New Instagram Features Right Now (lifehacker.com)

A Game Of Snake On A LEGO Mechanical Computer (hackaday.com)

Apple splits App Store team in two, introduces new leadership (arstechnica.com)

Treating developers well still won’t be a priority.

Email checker: Check Gmail availability, verify, disable (ychecker.com)

Hello everyone, after a period of trial and experience with this check for available gmail addresses tool, I feel this tool is worth using so I shared it with everyone, if anyone knows any more tools, please leave a comment below, thanks!

US Feds Are Tapping a Half-Billion Encrypted Messaging Goldmine (www.404media.co)

Hows .jxl support these days? (kbin.earth)

I heard about this recently and decided to look into it. Seems neat. When I convert my existing .jpeg images to .jxl, they look identical, but take up only ~60% the space. Windows file explorer and paint dont support it however, but ImageGlass does. Considering converting all my images to .jxl to save on storage space (esp....

X begins rolling out support for passkeys on Android (techcrunch.com)

Efficiently Manage Memory Usage in Pandas with Large Datasets (geekpython.in)

Best Accessories (or Mods) for Meshtastic Nodes (adrelien.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.radio/post/4055453...

Designing Friction (philosophical essay about technology) (designingfriction.com)

Interesting essay looking at the role of friction in human development, and how a particular vision of technology’s function in society - one that seeks to eliminate friction - paradoxically reduces our autonomy, rather than enhancing it....

ATM Software Flaws Left Piles of Cash for Anyone Who Knew to Look (www.wired.com)

Scientists illuminate a path to quantum AGI with new light-based chips (cointelegraph.com)

US elections have never been more secure, says CISA chief (www.theregister.com)

Meta and Google secretly targeted minors on YouTube with Instagram ads (www.theverge.com)

Meta and Google teamed up to run a secret campaign that deliberately targeted 13 to 17-year-olds with Instagram ads on YouTube according to the Financial Times, breaking the search giant’s own rules against advertising to children....

Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits (www.engadget.com)

Microsoft Encourages Employee Donations to Illegal West Bank Settlements, While Barring UNRWA (www.dropsitenews.com)

Microsoft includes a number organizations based in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including at least one that fundraises to support the Israeli military, in its employee charitable giving platform. Yet the company has delisted the UN agency providing relief in Gaza, according to Microsoft employees petitioning the...

Worldcoin may not be legal in Colombia, but that’s not stopping it. (restofworld.org)

Apple now sending up to $395 payments to butterfly keyboard MacBook owners - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)

AT&T customers report outage, being stuck in SOS mode on iPhones (thehill.com)

[Hardware Unboxed] AMD Ryzen 7 9700X vs. 7700X: 40+ Game Benchmark [23H2 vs. 24H2] (www.youtube.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15873568...

Stanford scientists design dichalcogenide solar cells based on tungsten diselenide (www.pv-magazine.com)

The group designed a sputtered multilayer WSe2 film with a thickness of 15−30 nm for applications on on a 150 mm wafer via a selenization process based on either a solid-source selenium (SS-Se) at 900 C or low-thermal-budget hydrogen selenied (H2Se) precursors at 650 C. The resulting WSe2 film had an energy bandgap of 1.2 eV...

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