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Google to push ahead with Chrome's ad-blocker extension overhaul in earnest (www.theregister.com)

‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated] (www.patrick-breyer.de)

Not Dead Yet: WD Releases New 6TB 2.5-Inch External Hard Drives - First Upgrade in Seven Years (www.extremetech.com)

NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code (mastodon.sdf.org)

New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD’s licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD....

Firefox 126: New Search Data Telemetry, Improved Copy Without Site Tracking, Security Fixes, and More (www.mozilla.org)

Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” “business,” and “travel”. This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove...

OLED monitor momentum expected to continue — analysts expect 1.34 million units shipped by year end (www.tomshardware.com)

cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/12631640...

Humans share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of ‘dead internet’ (www.independent.co.uk)

CEO Alarmed to Discover That Laying Off 1,500 Workers Had Consequences (futurism.com)

Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System (computerhistory.org)

Washington's Lottery AI site turned user photo into porn (mynorthwest.com)

Google might make users pay for AI features in search results (arstechnica.com)

Google might start charging for access to search results that use generative artificial intelligence tools. That’s according to a new Financial Times report citing “three people with knowledge of [Google’s] plans.”...

Opera is testing letting you download LLMs for local use, a first for a major browser (www.zdnet.com)

Software Vendors Dump Open Source, Go For the Cash Grab (tech.slashdot.org)

A Linux user's nightmare: the machine was wiped clean with one click (www.mikrobitti.fi)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13400226...

VR Headsets Are Approaching the Eye’s Resolution Limits (spectrum.ieee.org)

Core i9-14900KS overclocked to 9.1 GHz, breaking numerous world records (www.tomshardware.com)

Russia’s Starlink use sparks probe into SpaceX compliance with US sanctions (arstechnica.com)

Democratic lawmakers are probing SpaceX over Russia’s reported use of Starlink in Ukraine, saying that recent developments raise questions about SpaceX’s “compliance with US sanctions and export controls.”...

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