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Trump FCC Pick Nathan Simington Wants You To Think Net Neutrality Is A Secret Cabal By Big Tech To ‘Censor Conservatives’ (www.techdirt.com)

Apple declares its $17,000 solid-gold watch officially obsolete, ending repairs and servicing (www.techspot.com)

Apple declares its $17,000 solid-gold watch officially obsolete, ending repairs and servicing::undefined

Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users (www.ghacks.net)

Facebook’s new AI-generated stickers are lewd, rude, and occasionally nude (www.theverge.com)

Spotify is giving paid subscribers 15 hours of audiobook listening per month - The Verge (newsroom.spotify.com)

cross-posted from !android

Meta admits that it trains its AI on your Instagram and Facebook posts (www.axios.com)

Meta admits that it trains its AI on your Instagram and Facebook posts::undefined

How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet (www.wired.com)

Generative AI Is the Newest Tool in the Dictator's Handbook (gizmodo.com)

Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook (www.wsj.com)

Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook::European users would have option to pay fee or agree to personalized ads, according to company’s pitch to regulators

Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices — A new report details Amazon’s Project Nessie pricing algorithm (www.theverge.com)

Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices — A new report details Amazon’s Project Nessie pricing algorithm::Amazon deployed a secret algorithm to gauge how high it could raise prices before its competitors stopped increasing their prices as well.

Japan startup unveils 15-foot robot suit for space exploration (www.independent.co.uk)

Japan startup unveils 15-foot robot suit for space exploration::undefined

Indian iPhone plant found 'highly hazardous' to worker health (9to5mac.com)

Indian iPhone plant found ‘highly hazardous’ to worker health::An Indian iPhone plant run by Foxconn was temporarily closed down back in 2021 due to major health infractions in…

Exclusive: Meta to lay off employees in metaverse silicon unit on Wednesday (www.reuters.com)

Netflix is planning to raise prices... again (www.theverge.com)

Netflix is planning to raise prices… again::Netflix is planning to raise the cost of its subscription, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The report comes just one week after the end of the writers strike.

OpenCore Legacy Patcher project brings macOS Sonoma support to 16-year-old Macs (arstechnica.com)

Gripping, climbing and amphibious travel in insect-like robots (www.sflorg.com)

Google's Android Earthquake Alert failed' to detect north India tremors today. Why? (www.hindustantimes.com)

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3D-printed carrot does not rely on large areas of land or maintenance costs, can be cheaper (www.aljazeera.com)

TikTok ran a deepfake ad of an AI MrBeast hawking iPhones for $2 — and it's the 'tip of the iceberg' (www.businessinsider.com)

TikTok ran a deepfake ad of an AI MrBeast hawking iPhones for $2 — and it’s the ‘tip of the iceberg’::As AI spreads, it brings new challenges for influencers like MrBeast and platforms like TikTok aiming to police unauthorized advertising.

Google's enshittification memos (pluralistic.net)

When I think about how the old, good internet turned into the enshitternet, I imagine a series of small compromises, each seemingly reasonable at the time, each contributing to a cultural norm of making good things worse, and worse, and worse.

What was Elon Musk’s strategy for Twitter? A fired Trump White House staffer offers a tantalizing clue (www.nbcnews.com)

The text messages described a series of actions Musk should take after he gained full control of the social media platform: “Step 1: Blame the platform for its users; Step 2: Coordinated pressure campaign; Step 3: Exodus of the Bluechecks; Step 4: Deplatforming.”

New EU climate chief: 'The sooner fossil fuels become history, the better' (www.rechargenews.com)

New EU climate chief: ‘The sooner fossil fuels become history, the better’::Former Shell man Wopke Hoekstra stressed the importance of phasing out fossil fuels and its subsidies