technology

FCC moves ahead with Title II net neutrality rules in 3-2 party-line vote::FCC issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking over Republican objections.

youtube getting more aggressive… i’ve got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

‘It scars you for life’: Workers sue Meta claiming viewing brutal videos caused psychological trauma::More than 20% of the staff Meta hired to check the violent content of Facebook and Instagram are on sick leave due to psychological trauma.

NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it will adopt Tesla Inc.'s charging standards for its electric vehicles to be sold in North Ameri

Scottish couple facing $33k repair bill after driving Tesla in heavy rain::undefined

Of the more than 6,000 Indigenous languages recognized globally, nearly half of them are at risk of disappearing.

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/6745228...

FBI says North Korea deployed thousands of IT workers to get remote jobs in US with fake IDs::North Koreans are using fake IDs and learning IT skills to sneak their way into remote American jobs, according to the FBI and Justice departments.

With a Switch 2 looming, Nintendo is sending out the original with a bang::With the launch of Super Mario Bros. Wonder on the Switch, Nintendo is capping off an excellent 2023 for the console, just ahead of the rumored launch of the Switch 2.

A consumer-rights group in the Netherlands sued Amazon on Wednesday over its alleged practice of tracking website visitors’ online activity, using recently expanded legal provisions allowing class actions....

The "see translation" feature for user bios was auto-translating phrases that included "Palestinian" and “alhamdulillah” into "Praise be to god, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom."

A Researcher Hijacked the CIA’s Secure Contact Link for Informants Due to a Flaw in X | Kevin McSheehan discovered that the CIA’s link for informants was bugged on X, leaving the door open for a ma…::Kevin McSheehan discovered that the CIA’s link for informants was bugged on X, leaving the door open for a malicious actor...

This one worked great. Super disappointing news.

UPDATE: Crisis Averted....

Peter Thiel was reportedly an FBI informant::Far-right blogger Charles Johnson and others allegedly outed venture capitalist and Republican megadonor Peter Thiel as an FBI informant.

Soo, I just set up my own Piped instance and noticed that you could disable “LBRY-integration”. I did a very quick search and learned that this is some sort of decentralised content sharing thingy. I thought nothing much of it at the time, assumed it was some way to speed up streams or whatever and just went on with my day....

A union said Amazon had “been treating their workers like robots for years”....

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