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
Experimental Use Permit Amended for 93167-EUP-2 to Allow Releases of OX5034 Aedes aegypti in Florida and California (downloads.regulations.gov)
www.regulations.gov/…/EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0274-0470...
Firefox rolls out ECH enabled by default in 118 (blog.mozilla.org)
ECH (encrypted client hello) is going or get enabled by default (already existed in a hidden setting) with version 118....
Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. (lemmy.world)
We are contacting you regarding a past Prime Video purchase(s). The below content is no longer playable on Prime Video....
WATCH "Mission Raniganj" (FullMovie) Free Online on 123Movies HD (missionraniganjwatch.online)
Mission Raniganj: The Great Bharat Rescue is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language survival thriller film directed by Tinu Suresh Desai and produced by Pooja Entertainment. Written by Vipul K Rawal, it is based on the Raniganj Coalfields collapse of 1989 in West Bengal. The film stars Akshay Kumar and Parineeti Chopra....
Microsoft now lets you play a game during Windows 11 installs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station (www.fox2detroit.com)
Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station::undefined