Ex-Meta engineer sues company, accusing the company of being biased against employees supporting Palestine. (www.engadget.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/17800034...
Google was apprised of thousands of minor incidents between 2013 and 2019 that affected user privacy. (www.spiceworks.com)
404 Media noted that Google accidentally collected childrens’ voice data through the Gboard microphone, leaked carpool users’ trips and home addresses (Waze), collected license plate info from Street View, and made YouTube recommendations derived from deleted watch history....
ISPs seek halt of net neutrality rules before they take effect next month (arstechnica.com)
Know-What vs Know-How (open.substack.com)
EU approval for chat control (www.patrick-breyer.de)
We need to do something against this. The EU plans to apply a law for a chat control in the territory. The approval say that all the chats and the emails would be send to the government to do AI scanning to in fact “find the children abuses”, even when using apps with end-to-end encryption (the EU will ask the services to...
Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero' (www.techradar.com)
'Team Fortress 2' Botters Use AI Voice to Defame Critic (www.404media.co)
Exclusive: Former Meta engineer sues company saying he was fired over handling of Gaza content (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft has blocked the bypass that allowed you to create a local account during Windows 11 setup by typing in a blocked email address (www.tomshardware.com)
Global navigation jamming will only get worse. The U.S. needs to move fast - SpaceNews (spacenews.com)
Interesting implications, perhaps the global positioning system is not as infallible as we thought
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Instagram's unskippable ads test causes outrage among users (www.techspot.com)
Instagram has long been accused of stealing features from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter/X. It appears that the company has looked to YouTube for its latest idea: unskippable ads that you have to watch for a period of time before being able to scroll further....
Google changes repair policy after criticism of third-party parts ban (arstechnica.com)
Google previously said it would not return mailed-in devices using "unauthorized" parts.
New World Record: 33.24% Solar Cell Efficiency From JinkoSolar! - CleanTechnica (cleantechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16488298...
I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold (www.techradar.com)
Windows feature that screenshots everything labeled a security “disaster” (www.theverge.com)
361 million stolen accounts leaked on Telegram added to HIBP (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
With a dataset this large, no site that allows logins is unaffected by these leaked credentials
How Donald Trump Could Weaponize US Surveillance in a Second Term (www.wired.com)
Chrome: 72 hours to update or delete your browser. (www.forbes.com)
As read from my Mozilla Firefox…
Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X (arstechnica.com)
The problem with GIMP (www.spacebar.news)
Tesla Cybertruck Dominated by F-150 Lightning In Sand Drag Race (jalopnik.com)
Instagram is testing unskippable "Ad Breaks" lasting 3-5 seconds, disrupting user browsing experience (bgr.com)
Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again (www.engadget.com)
Spotify is officially raising its Premium subscription rates in the US come July, following reports of the move in April. The platform is increasing its Individual plan from $11 to $12 monthly and its Duo plan from $15 to $17 monthly — the same jump as last year’s $1 and $2 price hikes, respectively. However, its Family plan...
This 'AI' Interpreter Is A Game Changer Among Translation Gadgets (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
In a world that’s now more connected than ever, we must be able to communicate our ideas and words to various audiences and the people we interact with. But for the most part, the one thing that hinders us from communicating well with our global peers is the language barrier. While this puts perspective on international...
