Commented - technology

Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (www.tomshardware.com)

Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act (www.windowscentral.com)

First RCS now this, today has been wild

It’s time for Americans to embrace small cars (arstechnica.com)

Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia (www.rollingstone.com)

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...

Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer (www.pcgamer.com)

It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)

Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content (www.theverge.com)

More than 200 Substack authors asked the platform to explain why it’s “platforming and monetizing Nazis,” and now they have an answer straight from co-founder Hamish McKenzie:...

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors (futurism.com)

Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap (www.businessinsider.com)

Tech’s broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap::Some tech is getting pricier and looking a lot like the older services it was supposed to beat. From video streaming to ride-hailing and cloud computing.

TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion (www.vice.com)

TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion::In a blog post, the company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion.

'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology (www.bbc.com)

It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription (slate.com)

The author canceled their Amazon Prime subscription on a whim and realized they didn’t really need it....

Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself” (arstechnica.com)

All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU (mashable.com)

All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU::undefined

YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads (www.androidpolice.com)

We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image. (www.nytimes.com)

We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.::Artists and researchers are exposing copyrighted material hidden within A.I. tools, raising fresh legal questions.

YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users (www.404media.co)

Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."

Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence (www.ifixit.com)

While they were happy with what the fairphone 4 brought to the table, they seem to like what was changed for the fairphone 5....

Twitter/X removing the block feature (lemm.ee)

Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining (www.neowin.net)

Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.

Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 (www.theregister.com)

X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post (www.nytimes.com)

IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages....