Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders (www.theverge.com)
Fighting cookie theft using device bound sessions (blog.chromium.org)
Google now blocks spoofed emails for better phishing protection (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Google has started automatically blocking emails sent by bulk senders who don’t meet stricter spam thresholds and authenticate their messages as required by new guidelines to strengthen defenses against spam and phishing attacks....
The largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games (www.youtube.com)
I assume games fall within the scope of technology, especially since this concerns software ownership rights.
Why Threads is suddenly popular in Taiwan (www.technologyreview.com)
Apparently, Twitter was quite niche and the launch of Threads coincided with a surge of interest in presidential elections, for which one party's supporters rallied on Threads which also pulled in their friends....
NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law (www.thecity.nyc)
In October, New York City announced a plan to harness the power of artificial intelligence to improve the business of government. The announcement included a surprising centerpiece: an AI-powered chatbot that would provide New Yorkers with information on starting and operating a business in the city....
The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled (www.wired.com)
Discord to start showing ads in-app this week - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
In early March 2024, Discord revealed that “sponsored quests”, or ads would be added to the platform to help “support game developers” through the popular chat app....
Nvidia is on a different planet | Youtube | Gamers nexus (y2u.be)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13805928...
Unsmart a smart TV (lemmy.sdf.org)
How standardized a lcd panels? Could I replace the controller in a smart TV with one of these HDMI to LCD controllers?...
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them (www.theregister.com)
Several big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package previously hallucinated by generative AI....
Google to delete records from Incognito tracking (www.bbc.com)
The search giant will block third party tracking by default for people searching the web in private mode.
Been getting a lot of these emails lately (imgflip.com)
The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse (www.vox.com)
Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft (MSFT.O) will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine.
For Data-Guzzling AI Companies, the Internet Is Too Small (tech.slashdot.org)
How a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet From Hell Slowed Williams' F1 Cars For Years (www.thedrive.com)
Recommendations for GSM booster links?
Hi there,...
YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious (chipp.in)
Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment (www.androidpolice.com)
New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now (discord.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17618684...
Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)
They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won’t last. They’re going full Microsoft Skype mode and it’s only a matter of time.