Congress lets broadband funding run out, ending $30 low-income discounts (arstechnica.com)
The Apple Vision Pro’s eBay prices are making me sad (www.theverge.com)
WhatsApp Must Act to Protect Elections | foundation.mozilla.org (foundation.mozilla.org)
The link above is for the petition...
IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes (www.nextplatform.com)
Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokes (arstechnica.com)
TikTok fears point to larger problem: Poor media literacy in the social media age (theconversation.com)
Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service (arstechnica.com)
The internet is dying - here's why. (yt.drgnz.club)
Why big tech companies suck right now. Looking at you Amazon, Netflix, Uber, Spotify, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube… (sponsor was here)...
‘Mamma Mia!’ Stage Star Sara Poyzer Replaced By AI On BBC Show To Recreate Voice Of Dying Person — Update (deadline.com)
The BBC has issued a statement that offers important context to Sara Poyzer’s viral social media posts. The British broadcaster said it is using AI technology in a “highly sensitive documentary” to represent the voice of a person who is nearing the end of their life....
vCard + RSS as an alternative to social media (nfraprado.net)
I would love to see a resurgence in RSS instead of all the bloat thats so prevalent nowadays.
How the coming flood of AI-generated content might actually free the soul of Internet (www.staygrounded.online)
Microsoft Surface Event 2024 rumors: Surface Laptop 6, Surface Pro 10, and more expected (www.laptopmag.com)
EU regulators question Apple after it blocks Epic Games app store (apnews.com)
European Union regulators said they want to question Apple over accusations that it blocked video game company Epic Games from setting up its own app store, in a possible violation of digital rules that took effect in the 27-nation bloc Thursday....
Nikon is acquiring US camera manufacturer RED (www.theverge.com)
Germany says its officer’s ‘operational mistake’ during Singapore Airshow visit led to army leak | The Straits Times (www.straitstimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12771944
Pager Lives Again Thanks To Python And Mastodon (hackaday.com)
Bumble cuts ~350 employees as dating apps face a reckoning (techcrunch.com)
Bumble cuts ~350 employees as dating apps face a reckoning::Bumble is the latest dating app to report disappointing quarterly growth in an increasingly tough market.
Reddit admits more moderator protests could hurt its business | Losing third-party tools "could harm our moderators’ ability to review content..." (arstechnica.com)
Reddit admits more moderator protests could hurt its business | Losing third-party tools “could harm our moderators’ ability to review content…”::Losing third-party tools “could harm our moderators’ ability to review content…”
Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service (www.koreatimes.co.kr)
Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service::The Korean telecommunications watchdog said Friday it has slapped a fine of 435 million won ($327,067) on the U.S. live video streaming platform Twitch, which suspended its video-on-demand (VOD) service in the country last year.
Americans wake to widespread cellular outages, cause unclear (www.theregister.com)
Americans wake to widespread cellular outages, cause unclear::undefined
GPU's rival? What is Language Processing Unit (LPU) (www.turingpost.com)
Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution (www.theguardian.com)
Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution::The environmentally friendly LignoSat probe – set to orbit this summer – has been created to combat harmful aluminium particles
BT ‘has failed to invest enough in UK's full-fibre broadband’ (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire (www.tomshardware.com)
Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries – smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire::A serial burglar in Edina, Minnesota is suspected of using a Wi-Fi jammer to knock out connected security cameras before stealing and making off with lots of loot. Such...