Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. (mfkl.github.io)
Everyone can agree on VLC being the best video player, right? Game developers can agree on it too, since it is a great utility for playing multimedia in games, and/or have a video player included. However, disaster struck; Unity has now banned VLC from the Unity Store, seemingly due to it being under the LGPL license which is a...
'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture (www.businessinsider.com)
‘Morale is at an all-time low’: Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and ‘eroded’ culture::An ex-Googler wrote a 1,500-word letter criticizing the firm and CEO Sundar Pichai’s lack of “visionary leadership.”
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“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes (arstechnica.com)
“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team… was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes::“‘Election Integrity’ Team… was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes.
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Microsoft’s big Windows 11 update drops on September 26 with Copilot AI baked in (www.engadget.com)
Microsoft is releasing a big Windows 11 update on September 26. Update 23H2 includes the new AI-powered Windows Copilot feature, a native RAR app, a new volume mixer and a lot more.
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Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them (www.theregister.com)
Research Findings:...
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Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats (stackdiary.com)
Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.
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Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search (www.theverge.com)
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Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy (fortune.com)
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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media (www.businessinsider.com)
Millennials: It’s ok to mourn the death of social media::Wired writes how “first-gen social media users have nowhere to go.” Ouch.
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Hey tech billionaires, if you want to talk about radical change, let’s abolish venture capitalism (www.theguardian.com)
Do you support sustainability, social responsibility, tech ethics, or trust and safety? Congratulations, you’re an enemy of progress. That’s according to the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.
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Twitter is losing daily active users. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed it. (mashable.com)
By now, you may have heard about Elon Musk’s handpicked CEO for X, Linda Yaccarino, and her disastrous interview with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin at Vox Media’s Code 2023 event. However, somewhat overlooked amid some of the more viral moments of the discussion, Yaccarino dropped some previously unknown stats that don’t exactly...
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Apple removes app created by Andrew Tate (www.theguardian.com)
Apple removes app created by Andrew Tate::Legal firm had said Real World Portal encouraged misogyny and there was evidence to suggest it is an illegal pyramid scheme
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Apple's new iPhone 15 is an underwhelming 'slap in the face,' say disappointed fans (www.businessinsider.com)
Apple’s new iPhone 15 is an underwhelming ‘slap in the face,’ say disappointed fans::Apple unveiled its new iPhone 15 models this week, and some fans say they lack innovation.
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Why Americans aren’t buying more EVs (arstechnica.com)
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McDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for now (www.theverge.com)
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TikTok sues the US government over ban (www.theverge.com)
TikTok is taking the US government to court.
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FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote (arstechnica.com)
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president....
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'You're an amazing father, Elon': Musk accused of running burner on X again—and nuking account who outed him (www.dailydot.com)
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Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin::US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.
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Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library (www.techspot.com)
Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library::undefined
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‘It’s quite soul-destroying’: how we fell out of love with dating apps (www.theguardian.com)
‘It’s quite soul-destroying’: how we fell out of love with dating apps::For a decade, apps have dominated dating. But now singles are growing tired of swiping and are looking for new ways to meet people – or reverting to old ones
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Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel (www.aljazeera.com)
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The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverse (mastodon.social)
It will be open source, end to end encrypted using Signal’s double ratchet encryption protocol, and he plans to make it easy for fediverse platforms to integrate it. The beta will release later this month....
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Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality (www.reuters.com)
Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality::Tesla Inc is set to defend itself for the first time at trial against allegations that failure of its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to death, in what will likely be a major test of Chief Executive Elon Musk’s assertions about the technology.
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