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PC speed gains erased by modern software (hackaday.com)

Interesting take on comparability vs performance. I gotta imaging capturing user data and sending to a cloud collector is also a big culprit.

Windows 11’s AI-powered Copilot (and its Bing-powered ads) enters public preview (arstechnica.com)

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would continue its put-ChatGPT-in-everything adventure with a new Windows 11 feature called Copilot. The company added generative AI to Edge and to the Bing-powered taskbar Search field months ago, but Copilot promises to be the most visible and hard-to-ignore version of Microsoft’s big...

Some Redditors say they're walking away after Apollo app shuts down (www.businessinsider.com)

Apollo founder Christian Selig said he’s “heartbroken” about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit’s API pricing changes.

Gfycat is shutting down September 1st (gfycat.com)

The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting https://www.gfycat.com and logging in to your account. After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com

‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power (www.theguardian.com)

Adventures in AI Programming: Daily Experiments with GPT-4 (reticulated.net)

Tesla thinks a grabbing stick is a good replacement for right-hand drive in the UK. (www.arenaev.com)

Order a Model S or Model X in the UK and you’ll receive a left-hand drive car and a bonus grabbing stick.

Zuck is the last person I would trust for managing an alternative to Twitter (toot.reseed.it)

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The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so, The mods of r/IAmA are stepping back (www.theverge.com)

Elon Musk blames data scraping by AI startups for his new paywalls on reading tweets (www.theverge.com)

Elon Musk blamed AI companies for new “temporary” limitations on Twitter access. Verified accounts can read up to 6,000 posts per day, while unverified users are limited to seeing 600 posts per day.

California man creates AI chatbot to waste the time of telemarketers (wpde.com)

One man designs AI-powered chatbot to mess with telemarketers and phone scammers.

The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so (www.theverge.com)

The moderators of Reddit’s IAmA community are significantly reducing the amount of work they do to help solicit and coordinate AMAs with celebrities and high-profile individuals.

FTC prepares “the big one,” a major lawsuit targeting Amazon’s core business (arstechnica.com)

Thousands of Twitter users report problems accessing site as Elon Musk says new limits have been installed (www.nbcnews.com)

As thousands of Twitter users reported problems attempting to access the social media site Saturday, Elon Musk tweeted he is limiting the daily number of tweets users can read.

Twitter is refusing to pay Google for cloud services. Here’s why it matters, and what the fallout could be for users (theconversation.com)

With the Twitter limits today, I think we are already seeing the fallout begin....

If you want to lurk on Reddit, you can use this web reader I built for myself when I got inspired by the Apollo app years ago (rdx.overdevs.com)

You can’t login or anything but it’s good for viewing posts and media and you can switch subreddits easily by clicking on the page title in the center like Apollo. Also it’s on Github.

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