X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun (www.theverge.com)
“Subscribers to X Premium, which grants access to Grok, have been posting everything from Barack Obama doing cocaine to Donald Trump with a pregnant woman who (vaguely) resembles Kamala Harris to Trump and Harris pointing guns. With US elections approaching and X already under scrutiny from regulators in Europe, it’s a...
Worst PC hardware trends that disappeared (www.xda-developers.com)
Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly (www.theverge.com)
3D printer maker Bambu Lab faces patent infringement lawsuits that could threaten hobbyist 3D printing in general (www.tomshardware.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18550496
Now you'll be able to purchase sunlight at night! (mashable.com)
Elon Musk loses fight with ex-Twitter staffer, must pay $600K (arstechnica.com)
‘Killer robots’ are becoming a real threat in Africa. (theconversation.com)
Ryzen CPU owners can now download better gaming performance thanks to a Windows 11 update (www.theverge.com)
iPhones in the EU get ability to set more default apps, delete more built-in ones (m.gsmarena.com)
I don’t expect most iPhone users to ever change their default settings, but it’s nice that it will be possible in a year....
Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades (www.engadget.com)
Intel breathes a sigh of relief as the spotlight moves off of them for a beat.
Framework looking for unpaid workers to be 'Linux Community Ambassadors' (community.frame.work)
Twilio kills off Authy for desktop, forcibly logs out all users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Logitech’s Subscription Mouse Idea Pulled Back After Backlash (www.techdirt.com)
LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English (arstechnica.com)
Nvidia is ditching dedicated G-Sync modules to push back against FreeSync’s ubiquity (arstechnica.com)
Back in 2013, Nvidia introduced a new technology called G-Sync to eliminate screen tearing and stuttering effects and reduce input lag when playing PC games. The company accomplished this by tying your display’s refresh rate to the actual frame rate of the game you were playing, and similar variable refresh-rate (VRR)...
Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades (www.engadget.com)
Disney Seeking Dismissal of Raglan Road Death Lawsuit Because Victim Was Disney+ Subscriber (wdwnt.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/16155215...
Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement (boingboing.net)
Google’s head of Pixel 9 design won’t apologize for its big, beautiful camera bump (www.theverge.com)
Researcher finds a way to invisibly reverse Windows updates (web.archive.org)
Alternate archive: archive.is/3olbW...
What is Meshtastic? - Full Guide on How To Get Started (adrelien.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.radio/post/3983333...
“Should art be regulated by the SEC?” NFT artists file lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
Indigenous creators are clashing with YouTube’s and Instagram’s sensitive content bans. (restofworld.org)
Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models (arstechnica.com)
