How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT (danluu.com)
I find it pretty interesting that kagi is rated as Terrible search engine, even ChatGPT preforms better.
Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired (www.theverge.com)
Another useful feature for power users that Google is killing....
Police Departments Are Turning to AI to Sift Through Millions of Hours of Unreviewed Body-Cam Footage (www.propublica.org)
Tesla recalling another 2.2 million vehicles for warning lights that are too small. (lite.cnn.com)
The Retro Web (theretroweb.com)
This is a project aimed at documenting as many pieces of hardware as possible, built entirely by volunteers, who code for the site/add new entries in their free time. We also have a GitLab repository, where you can see the code behind TRW.
Tesla recalls 2.2 million cars — nearly all of its vehicles sold in the U.S. — over warning light issue (www.cbsnews.com)
Tesla recalls 2.2 million cars — nearly all of its vehicles sold in the U.S. — over warning light issue::Warning lights on the Tesla vehicles are hard to read, raising the risk of a crash, according to traffic safety regulators.
Unprofitable SF tech giant Okta lays off 400 workers, dozens in California (www.sfgate.com)
Unprofitable SF tech giant Okta lays off 400 workers, dozens in California::Okta, the San Francisco-based maker of identity and access tech, is laying off 400 workers, including 83 in California. CEO Todd McKinnon announced the news.
FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines (www.cbsnews.com)
FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines::Update from the Food and Drug Agency comes days after Philips said it would stop selling the devices in the U.S.
Ex-CIA programmer gets 40 years for passing spy secrets to WikiLeaks (fortune.com)
Ex-CIA programmer gets 40 years for passing spy secrets to WikiLeaks::In ‘most damaging disclosures of classified information in American history’.
Musk says Tesla will hold shareholder vote ‘immediately’ to move company’s incorporation to Texas (www.forbes.com.au)
Musk says Tesla will hold shareholder vote ‘immediately’ to move company’s incorporation to Texas::Billionaire Elon Musk justified the decision on the results of an unscientific poll run on his X account a day earlier.
Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint (www.the-express.com)
Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint::A Los Angeles couple filed a lawsuit against Google Maps for allegedly navigating them to a notorious South African crime neighborhood where tourists are left ‘injured, maimed or dead.’
Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature (www.engadget.com)
One of Google Search’s oldest and best-known features, cache links, are being retired. Best known by the “Cached” button, those are a snapshot of a web page the last time Google indexed it. However, according to Google, they’re no longer required....
Music Piracy Is Back, Baby (gizmodo.com)
“Muso, a research firm that studies piracy, concluded that the high prices of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are pushing people back towards illegal downloads. Spotify raised its prices by one dollar last year to $10.99 a month, the same price as Apple Music. Instead of coughing up $132 a year, more consumers...
Amazon is more profitable than ever after a year of mass layoffs (finance.yahoo.com)
Amazon is more profitable than ever after a year of mass layoffs::The tech giant posted the largest quarterly operating income in its history on the back of cost-cutting and faster revenue growth in key divisions.
Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users towards Edge in a new Research Report (www.theregister.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11483626...
Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 (lifehacker.com)
Whatever the linguistic details, one of the main roles of RSS is to supply directly to you a steady stream of updates from a website. Every new article published on that site is served up in a list that can be interpreted by an RSS reader....
Zoom is cutting about 150 jobs, or close to 2% of its workforce (www.cnbc.com)
Zoom is cutting about 150 jobs, or close to 2% of its workforce::Zoom on Thursday confirmed that it’s cutting about 2% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to announce layoffs.
Sega AI Computer (セガAIコンピューター) (www.smspower.org)
Around late 1986, Sega released the “Sega AI Computer”. This is one of Sega’s least well known and rarest systems. Not much is known about this system apart from a small amount of information in Japanese and American flyers and press articles. The information we have is still piecemeal and may be partly inaccurate....
Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows (www.ghacks.net)
The EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances (www.npr.org)
The EPA is proposing that ‘forever chemicals’ be considered hazardous substances::undefined
Google seemingly embraces AI dogfooding with gutso — cancels huge contract which could see thousands of quality rater jobs terminated and change SEO forever (www.techradar.com)
Mark Zuckerberg explained how Meta will crush Google and Microsoft at AI—and Meta warned it could cost more than $30 billion a year (finance.yahoo.com)
Mark Zuckerberg explained how Meta will crush Google and Microsoft at AI—and Meta warned it could cost more than $30 billion a year::The Facebook cofounder said the vast trove of photos and videos shared by users on Meta’s various services is larger than the web content crawled by search engines like those of Google and...
Indie labels cry foul over Apple Music’s enhanced spatial audio royalties (www.theverge.com)
Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse (arstechnica.com)
Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse::Apollo dev: “I don’t believe Reddit’s leadership… cares about developers anymore.”