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Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter? (variety.com)

Elon Musk said he will charge all X/Twitter users a fee to be on the platform. He suggested that such a change would be necessary to deal with the problem of bots on the platform....

Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

I’m sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I’m sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I’m sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it’s been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one...

House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure, attaching it to foreign aid bill (www.npr.org)

A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco (www.theverge.com)

A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco::A Waymo car was destroyed in San Francisco as a crowd began vandalizing it and ultimately set the car on fire. Nobody was in the vehicle at the time.

Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free (www.theverge.com)

Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update (www.dexerto.com)

Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update::undefined

The Verge shows how Google search is useless (www.theverge.com)

The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google....

ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US (www.androidauthority.com)

Reddit’s IPO Filing Shows Lots Of Losses After Nearly 20 Years (www.forbes.com)

Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly' (www.cnbc.com)

Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen ‘significantly’::A top Apple analyst said Wednesday that shipments for MacBook computers will decline around 30% year over year.

My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore (www.howtogeek.com)

Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)

Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

Unsmart a smart TV (lemmy.sdf.org)

How standardized a lcd panels? Could I replace the controller in a smart TV with one of these HDMI to LCD controllers?...

Streaming giants have banded together for lobbying power (www.theverge.com)

Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec (www.businessinsider.com)

Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec::In an interview with Bloomberg, Dave Limp said that he “absolutely” believes that Amazon will soon start charging a subscription fee for Alexa

OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game (www.theatlantic.com)

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections (arstechnica.com)

The malicious changes were submitted by JiaT75, one of the two main xz Utils developers with years of contributions to the project....

Study reveals some teens receive 5,000 notifications daily, most spend almost two hours on TikTok | Kids officially don't like Facebook (www.techspot.com)

Study reveals some teens receive 5,000 notifications daily, most spend almost two hours on TikTok | Kids officially don’t like Facebook::undefined

Unity apologises. (www.pcgamer.com)

Outsourcing emotion: The horror of Google’s “Dear Sydney” AI ad | The company suggests using AI to write a child’s fan letter and the ad is so bad that Google turned off comments for it on YouTube (arstechnica.com)

If you’ve watched any Olympics coverage this week, you’ve likely been confronted with an ad for Google’s Gemini AI called “Dear Sydney.” In it, a proud father seeks help writing a letter on behalf of his daughter, who is an aspiring runner and superfan of world-record-holding hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone....

Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor (proton.me)

‘IRL Fakes:’ Where People Pay for AI-Generated Porn of Normal People (www.404media.co)

A Telegram user who advertises their services on Twitter will create an AI-generated pornographic image of anyone in the world for as little as $10 if users send them pictures of that person. Like many other Telegram communities and users producing nonconsensual AI-generated sexual images, this user creates fake nude images of...

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