YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete (www.yahoo.com)
YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.
Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal (www.404media.co)
DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.
77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds (www.forbes.com)
The new global study, in partnership with The Upwork Research Institute, interviewed 2,500 global C-suite executives, full-time employees and freelancers. Results show that the optimistic expectations about AI’s impact are not aligning with the reality faced by many employees. The study identifies a disconnect between the high...
There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent (www.theverge.com)
People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account (newrepublic.com)
Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them (www.theregister.com)
Research Findings:...
Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google (readwrite.com)
How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet (www.bbc.com)
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...
Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech (www.notebookcheck.net)
Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows (www.neowin.net)
Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions (www.wsj.com)
CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed (www.neowin.net)
Linux Mint 22 released: An attractive option for migrating away from Windows | Windows 11 system requirements block millions of PCs from upgrading, while Linux Mint continues to work on older hardware (www.ghacks.net)
The Linux Mint team has just released Linux Mint 22, a new major version of the free Linux distribution. With Windows 10’s end of support coming up quickly next year, at least some users may consider making the switch to Linux....
CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | Some of the people said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled (techcrunch.com)
CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology, according to several people who say they received the gift card, as well as a source who also received one....
The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (jordaneldredge.com)
Very interesting article!
Proton launches LLM and crypto wallet (proton.me)
proton.me/blog/proton-scribe-writing-assistant
Apple Foldable iPhone Launch Faces Delay Until 2026, Faces Design Roadblocks (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Apple’s rumoured foldable iPhone (possibly iPhone Flip) might launch in 2026, but display crease, and design are roadblocks.
Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers (arstechnica.com)
Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy" (yieldcode.blog)
Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes (arstechnica.com)
Proton releases a self-custody bitcoin wallet | Proton Wallet is open source and has been audited by a third-party firm, the company said (techcrunch.com)
Proton isn’t reinventing the wheel with this crypto wallet. But it’s another solid option for people looking to create a crypto wallet for the first time. However, cryptocurrencies tend to be a polarizing topic, so let’s see if Proton Wallet doesn’t hurt Proton’s brand image in the future....
AI trained on AI garbage spits out AI garbage. (www.technologyreview.com)
Unreal Engine supervisor at ModelFarm blasts 50% failure rate with Intel chips — company switching to AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X, praises single-threaded performance (www.tomshardware.com)
