Firefox 126: New Search Data Telemetry, Improved Copy Without Site Tracking, Security Fixes, and More (www.mozilla.org)
Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” “business,” and “travel”. This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove...
Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news (english.elpais.com)
Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away (arstechnica.com)
The study (PDF), published this month by University of Chicago and University of Michigan researchers and reported by The Washington Post on Sunday, says:...
OLED monitor momentum expected to continue — analysts expect 1.34 million units shipped by year end (www.tomshardware.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/12631640...
Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Cable is dead. Long live the cable bundle. Curious to see the pricing and if the bundle only includes ad tiered options.
Read the memo: Meta is shutting down Workplace, cutting back enterprise ambitions (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk’s Boring Company has been cited for multiple safety violations with workers exposed to chemical sludge (medium.com)
Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check - Bert Hubert's writings (berthub.eu)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15662912...
Disabled members of Congress are using apps to do their jobs while paving a path for others (www.sfchronicle.com)
Everything happening at Google’s I/O developer conference 2024 (www.theverge.com)
Waymo Under Investigation for Driverless Car Crashes and Traffic Violations (www.thedrive.com)
The NHTSA is probing Google-supported Waymo regarding crashes caused by its driverless taxi program and underperforming self-driving tech.
‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)
Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android (www.apple.com)
Apple and Google have teamed up to deliver support for unwanted Bluetooth tracking alerts in iOS and Android.
US races to develop AI-powered, GPS-free fighter jets, outpacing China (interestingengineering.com)
Air Force is “growing concerned” about the pace of Vulcan rocket launches (arstechnica.com)
BBC World Service - lite (mastodon.social)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15637085...
Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage (www.ghacks.net)
Microsoft’s announcement: “We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11...
Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them (arstechnica.com)
I can’t imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot (arstechnica.com)
Proton Mail provided user data that led to an arrest in Spain (www.techspot.com)
Proton Mail assisted Spanish authorities in identifying and arresting a member of the Catalan independence organization Democratic Tsunami....
Hello GPT-4o (openai.com)
GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds,...
Sharp to cease LCD plant operation, end Japan's large panel production (asia.nikkei.com)
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/Japan/t/1027777...