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Meta will delete all non-migrated Oculus accounts in March - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

A viral photo of a guy smoking in McDonald's is completely fake — and of course made by AI (qz.com)

A viral photo of a guy smoking in McDonald’s is completely fake — and of course made by AI::Look at the fingers. You always have to look at the fingers

'Better than a real man': young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends (techxplore.com)

‘Better than a real man’: young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends::Twenty-five-year-old Chinese office worker Tufei says her boyfriend has everything she could ask for in a romantic partner: he’s kind, empathetic, and sometimes they talk for hours.

Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair (gizmodo.com)

The Android phone maker says go ahead, fix your own phone....

2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip (www.pcgamer.com)

2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm’s new chip::We’ve already reported on Qualcomm’s new 12-core Arm uberchip, the Snapdragon X Elite, and its claims of x86-beating performance and efficiency. But it takes two to tango when it comes a maj

YouTube will have fewer ad breaks on TV — but the ads are getting longer (www.theverge.com)

AI Doomerism: Intelligence Is Not Enough -- “The lack of arms and legs becomes really load-bearing when you want to kill all humans.” (thenewstack.io)

Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’ (www.theverge.com)

Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’::Beeper, like Sunbird and Texts, sought to find a way to bring iMessage to Android users. Its app, Beeper Mini, worked well. But a few days after it launched, Apple took steps to shut it down.

Bill Gates feels Generative AI has plateaued, says GPT-5 will not be any better (indianexpress.com)

Bill Gates feels Generative AI has plateaued, says GPT-5 will not be any better::The billionaire philanthropist in an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt, shared his thoughts on Artificial general intelligence, climate change, and the scope of AI in the future.

Google caught placing big-brand ads on hardcore porn sites, report says (arstechnica.com)

A Googler who just resigned after 18 years reflects on the decline of the company he loved (ln.hixie.ch)

Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices (arstechnica.com)

Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft and Alphabet results show Wall Street only cares about AI (www.marketwatch.com)

Microsoft to kill off VBScript in Windows to block malware delivery (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue (www.marketwatch.com)

X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue::Elon Musk’s X revamped its look to eliminate headlines on article links Wednesday, the same day that Reuters reported the platform has seen massive monthly…

Ford lays off 600 workers at plant targeted by UAW strike (www.barrons.com)

Ford lays off 600 workers at plant targeted by UAW strike::Ford is laying off workers while the UAW is striking against Ford, GM, and Stellantis. This is getting complicated.

My reddit web viewer still works! Story: When reddit killed 3rd party apps, I uploaded a web viewer I have been using for myself to Github pages for everyone to use... (rdx.overdevs.com)

I posted about that here and forgot < lemmy.world/post/896361> but today when I checked cloudflare analytics it showed about 1000 pageviews in last 24 hours. Looks like some people are using it so just wanted to let you guys know that it works, no ads. no popups nothing.

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