The lock-in problem at the heart of the Apple monopoly lawsuit (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/10657352...
Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4 (www.theregister.com)
The platform era is ending. Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody. (www.theverge.com)
Windows 11 now supports USB4 at 80Gbps, also known as USB 4 2.0 | Faster USB4 devices could start appearing in 2024 (www.techspot.com)
Windows 11 now supports USB4 at 80Gbps, also known as USB 4 2.0 | Faster USB4 devices could start appearing in 2024::undefined
A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology (www.businessinsider.com)
A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology::A photo shared on Reddit showed one of the vending machines with an error code suggesting it used facial recognition tech.
Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch::Google is testing a feature that places a call to a business , waits on hold and then give you a call once a representative is available.
Meet generation stay-at-home: ‘You don’t need to pay to go clubbing: you can sit at home and watch it on your phone’ (www.theguardian.com)
Meet generation stay-at-home: ‘You don’t need to pay to go clubbing: you can sit at home and watch it on your phone’::Why have so many teens and twentysomethings stopped going out?
Zuckerberg Brags About How Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI (gizmodo.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11642180...
Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands (arstechnica.com)
eBay will lay off 1,000 employees — 9 percent of the company (www.theverge.com)
Mark Zuckerberg indicates Meta is spending billions of dollars on Nvidia AI chips (www.cnbc.com)
Summary: Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is investing billions in Nvidia’s H100 graphics cards to build a massive compute infrastructure for AI research and projects. By end of 2024, Meta aims to have 350,000 of these GPUs, with total expenditures potentially reaching $9 billion. This move is part of Meta’s focus on...
More Police Are Using Your Cameras for Video Evidence (www.themarshallproject.org)
Private security footage is nothing new to criminal investigations, but two factors are rapidly changing the landscape: huge growth in the number of devices with cameras, and the fact that footage usually lands in a cloud server, rather than on a tape....
YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again (www.tomsguide.com)
YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again::YouTube users have noticed annoying delays and some features disabled when using ad blockers.
Apple tells EU it has five different App Stores, not just one (9to5mac.com)
Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform (www.platformer.news)
...So I Finally Quit Spotify (oliviarafferty.substack.com)
1-bit CPU for ‘super low-performance computer’ launched – sells out promptly (www.tomshardware.com)
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Google calls Drive data loss “fixed,” locks forum threads saying otherwise (arstechnica.com)
Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos (arstechnica.com)
Hyundai to Be First Automaker to Sell New Cars on Amazon (www.wsj.com)
Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal (arstechnica.com)
Former Apple designers launch $700 Humane AI Pin as smartphone replacement (www.cnbc.com)
First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled (arstechnica.com)
Artists lose first copyright battle in the fight against AI-generated images (www.computerworld.com)
Artists lose first copyright battle in the fight against AI-generated images::But the fight may not be lost as the court allowed the artists to claim copyright infringement against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DevianArt, on workpieces that the artists had filed a copyright for.
Amazon tells managers they can now fire employees who won't come into the office 3 times a week (www.businessinsider.com)
Amazon tells managers they can now fire employees who won’t come into the office 3 times a week::Amazon shared new guidelines that give managers a template for terminating employees over RTO.
