There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent (www.theverge.com)
All three game console makers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, have now abandoned X (formerly Twitter) integration (www.theverge.com)
Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h (robindev.substack.com)
Also, interesting comment I found on HackerNews (HN):...
Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites (arstechnica.com)
Big Tech passkey implementations are a trap | Proton (proton.me)
Big Tech has implemented passkeys in a way that locks users into their platforms rather than providing universal security...
Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents (cleantechnica.com)
Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents::Several state governors are fighting fear mongering as they attempt to reduce transportation emissions in their states.
Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Google has plunged the internet into a “spiral of decline”, the co-founder of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab has claimed....
Researchers jailbreak a Tesla to get free in-car feature upgrades (techcrunch.com)
Researchers jailbreak a Tesla to get free in-car feature upgrades::A group of researchers found a way to hack a Tesla’s hardware with the goal of getting free in-car upgrades, such as heated rear seats.
Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025 (sh.itjust.works)
Source...
AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt (www.theverge.com)
Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers. (lemmy.world)
So this started coming up today. On every video. I can (so far) click the “x” and remove it to watch (still see 2 ads before the video, and one after 4 minutes - ruins music on YT), but did click the “Report issue” only for the dialogue box not to work....
Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level (vpncentral.com)
Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service (www.techspot.com)
DJI drone ban passes in U.S. House — 'Countering CCP Drones Act' would ban all DJI sales in U.S. if passed in Senate (www.tomshardware.com)
The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions (www.motor1.com)
So far there’s subscriptions for cruise control, adaptive beams, various navigation options, apple/google integration and my favorite, dual-zone climate.
ProtonMail and SimpleLogin emails will be blocked from registering on websites (github.com)
This makes me 😭...
Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor (www.wired.com)
Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform (www.engadget.com)
The long fight to make Apple’s iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Union’s Digital Market Act (DMA), according to the Financial Times. The law, which goes into effect in 2024, requires...
It shouldn't matter if people work multiple jobs. The former VP of HR at Microsoft shares how to react to double dippers — 'get over it.' (money.yahoo.com)
Brands that don't buy enough Twitter ads will lose verification (www.theverge.com)
Starting August 7th, advertisers that haven’t reached certain spending thresholds will lose their official brand account verification. According to emails obtained by the WSJ, brands need to have spent at least $1,000 on ads within the prior 30 days or $6,000 in the previous 180 days to retain the gold checkmark identifying...
Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage (fedi.simonwillison.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23752739...
Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete (adguard.com)
Netflix, once a pioneer of ad-free viewing that offered a break from traditional TV norms, is now contemplating launching free ad-supported versions of its service in markets like Europe and Asia, Bloomberg reported....
Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming. (www.vice.com)
Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.::Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.
Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing (arstechnica.com)
Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing::Foldables are barely 1% of the market, but that’s not stopping anyone but Apple.
Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency (arstechnica.com)
Automated background removal was also added recently.
