China’s military shows off rifle-toting robot dogs (www.cnn.com)
Researchers explore mining seawater for critical metals (grist.org)
Billionaire Real Estate Mogul Hopes to Turn TikTok Into His Utopian Internet Dream (gizmodo.com)
Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android (www.apple.com)
Apple and Google have teamed up to deliver support for unwanted Bluetooth tracking alerts in iOS and Android.
Air Force is “growing concerned” about the pace of Vulcan rocket launches (arstechnica.com)
Google is (still) losing the spam wars to zombie news-brands (pluralistic.net)
Extremist Militias Are Coordinating in More Than 100 Facebook Groups (www.wired.com)
Congress lets broadband funding run out, ending $30 low-income discounts (arstechnica.com)
The Apple Vision Pro’s eBay prices are making me sad (www.theverge.com)
WhatsApp Must Act to Protect Elections | foundation.mozilla.org (foundation.mozilla.org)
The link above is for the petition...
IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes (www.nextplatform.com)
Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokes (arstechnica.com)
TikTok fears point to larger problem: Poor media literacy in the social media age (theconversation.com)
Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service (arstechnica.com)
The internet is dying - here's why. (yt.drgnz.club)
Why big tech companies suck right now. Looking at you Amazon, Netflix, Uber, Spotify, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube… (sponsor was here)...
Eric S. Raymond / autodafe · Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools.
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‘Mamma Mia!’ Stage Star Sara Poyzer Replaced By AI On BBC Show To Recreate Voice Of Dying Person — Update (deadline.com)
The BBC has issued a statement that offers important context to Sara Poyzer’s viral social media posts. The British broadcaster said it is using AI technology in a “highly sensitive documentary” to represent the voice of a person who is nearing the end of their life....
vCard + RSS as an alternative to social media (nfraprado.net)
I would love to see a resurgence in RSS instead of all the bloat thats so prevalent nowadays.
How the coming flood of AI-generated content might actually free the soul of Internet (www.staygrounded.online)
Microsoft Surface Event 2024 rumors: Surface Laptop 6, Surface Pro 10, and more expected (www.laptopmag.com)
EU regulators question Apple after it blocks Epic Games app store (apnews.com)
European Union regulators said they want to question Apple over accusations that it blocked video game company Epic Games from setting up its own app store, in a possible violation of digital rules that took effect in the 27-nation bloc Thursday....
Nikon is acquiring US camera manufacturer RED (www.theverge.com)
Germany says its officer’s ‘operational mistake’ during Singapore Airshow visit led to army leak | The Straits Times (www.straitstimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12771944
Pager Lives Again Thanks To Python And Mastodon (hackaday.com)
Bumble cuts ~350 employees as dating apps face a reckoning (techcrunch.com)
Bumble cuts ~350 employees as dating apps face a reckoning::Bumble is the latest dating app to report disappointing quarterly growth in an increasingly tough market.
