Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google (readwrite.com)
Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. (www.vox.com)
Travelers can opt out of facial recognition at US airports by requesting manual ID verification, though resistance or intimidation may occur....
Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. (mainichi.jp)
Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI (jacobin.com)
Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
When is an ad an advertisement and not a recommendation? Microsoft clearly likes to use the term recommendation for what others may see as an advertisement....
Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot (www.techspot.com)
How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet (www.bbc.com)
Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more (www.theverge.com)
The downfall of Chevron deference could completely change the ways courts review net neutrality, according to Bloomberg Intelligence’s Matt Schettenhelm. “The FCC’s 2024 effort to reinstitute federal broadband regulation is the latest chapter in a long-running regulatory saga, yet we think the demise of deference will...
Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web (www.theverge.com)
An angry admin shares the CrowdStrike outage experience (www.theregister.com)
IT administrators are struggling to deal with the ongoing fallout from the faulty CrowdStrike update. One spoke to The Register to share what it is like at the coalface....
Dark mode’s bright future: How dark mode will transform Wikipedia’s accessibility (diff.wikimedia.org)
Tesla loses EV market dominance, falls below 50% in US [unit sales in 2024Q2] (www.theregister.com)
FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days (www.theregister.com)
Long-term carrier lock-in could soon be a thing of the past in America after the FCC proposed requiring telcos to unlock cellphones from their networks 60 days after activation....
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…
Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS (www.tomshardware.com)
Southwest Airlines, the fourth largest airline in the US, is seemingly unaffected by the problematic CrowdStrike update that caused millions of computers to BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) because it used Windows 3.1. The CrowdStrike issue disrupted operations globally after a faulty update caused newer computers to freeze and stop...
"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again (blog.privacyguides.org)
I hate Clouds - a personal perspective on why I think Clouds suck (loudwhisper.me)
I hope this won’t be counted as some form of self-promotion, even though I am sharing a post from my own blog....
Netflix Starts Booting Subscribers Off Cheapest Basic Ads-Free Plan (www.macrumors.com)
“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers (arstechnica.com)
It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.
Unofficial Reddit API (github.com)
I am making a Unofficial Reddit API, which mimics the official one....
Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” (www.themoscowtimes.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/536301...
Qualcomm spends millions on marketing as it is found better battery life, not AI features, is driving Copilot+ PC sales (www.tomshardware.com)
OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole (www.theverge.com)
Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech (www.notebookcheck.net)
Microsoft Says Bye-Bye DEI, Joins Growing List Of Corporations Dismantling Diversity Teams (atlantadailyworld.com)
cross-posted from: yall.theatl.social/post/3229309...