Reddit has never turned a profit in nearly 20 years, but filed to go public anyway (www.cnn.com)
Reddit has never turned a profit in nearly 20 years, but filed to go public anyway::Reddit, the message board site known for its chronically online userbase and for originating much internet discourse, filed for its long-anticipated initial public offering on Thursday.
Apple’s iMessage is not a “core platform” in EU, so it can stay walled off (arstechnica.com)
AI girlfriend bots are already flooding OpenAI’s GPT store (qz.com)
AI girlfriend bots are already flooding OpenAI’s GPT store::OpenAI’s store rules are already being broken, illustrating that regulating GPTs could be hard to control
Researchers warn that Windows 11 restrictions could send 240 million computers to landfills (www.techspot.com)
OpenAI employees really, really did not want to go work for Microsoft (www.businessinsider.com)
Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users (www.macrumors.com)
OpenAI investors' race to reinstate Sam Altman makes tech expert Gary Marcus feel 'sick to his stomach' (fortune.com)
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iOS 17.2 hints at Apple moving towards letting users sideload apps from outside the App Store (9to5mac.com)
iOS 17.2 hints at Apple moving towards letting users sideload apps from outside the App Store::undefined
AI one-percenters seizing power forever is the real doomsday scenario, warns AI godfather (www.businessinsider.com)
AI one-percenters seizing power forever is the real doomsday scenario, warns AI godfather::The real risk of AI isn’t that it’ll kill you. It’s that a small group of billionaires will control the tech forever.
Cruise Self-Driving License Revoked After It Withheld Pedestrian Injury Footage, DMV Says (www.vice.com)
Microsoft ends free upgrade from Windows 7 to 11 (mashable.com)
Microsoft ends free upgrade from Windows 7 to 11::undefined
People considering 'cancelling' new iPhone order after seeing comparison between older generation (www.ladbible.com)
People considering ‘cancelling’ new iPhone order after seeing comparison between older generation::Some have noticed the new iPhone 15 is not as strong or as durable as the older generations of iPhones.
On this day in 1991, Linus Torvalds announced he was working on what would become Linux (www.xda-developers.com)
New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy::A team of researchers from British universities has trained a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using a microphone with an accuracy of 95%.
Majority of Japanese support government-run dating apps (www.asahi.com)
Leaked Documents Reveal How Google Search Gatekeeps the Internet (gizmodo.com)
Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip (arstechnica.com)
The first invasive brain chip that Neuralink embedded into a human brain has malfunctioned, with neuron-surveilling threads appearing to have become dislodged from the participant’s brain, the company revealed in a blog post Wednesday....
@pixelfed: Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated Using #ActivityPub (mastodon.social)
Finland detects more GPS jammers as drivers increasingly try to hide their tracks | Yle News | Yle (yle.fi)
70,000 ATT customers are without service across the US (arstechnica.com)
ChatGPT's Growth Is Flatlining: Where Does It Go From Here? (www.thewrap.com)
Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see (www.businessinsider.com)
Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see::Google will use satellite data, AI, and its computing power to map methane emissions around the globe. The transparency marks a new era in climate accountability.
Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair (www.404media.co)
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Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?” (www.theverge.com)
Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?”::During a recent TGIF all-hands meeting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed what sources describe as a growing morale crisis inside the company.
