Toyota says solid-state battery breakthrough can halve cost and size (archive.is)
Sol Reader E-Ink Glasses puts bookworms right inside their ebooks (newatlas.com)
Breaking: NHTSA Petition Claims Tesla Sudden Unintended Acceleration Is Real (but Fixable) (www.autoevolution.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1030687...
AMAs are the latest casualty in Reddit’s API war (arstechnica.com)
No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched here (www.independent.ie)
Meta will not launch its new Twitter rival, Threads, in Ireland or the EU for the foreseeable future. It is being released in the US and the UK on Thursday of this week as an alternative to Twitter.
Meta is set to take on Twitter with a rival app called Threads (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Reddit's API protest just got even more NSFW (mashable.com)
So where are we all supposed to go now? (www.theverge.com)
Add it all up, and the social web is changing in three crucial ways: It’s going from public to private; it’s shifting from growth and engagement, which broadly involves building good products that people like, to increasing revenue no matter the tradeoff; and it’s turning into an entertainment business. It turns out...
'Don't use AI detectors for anything important,' says the author of the definitive 'AI Weirdness' blog. Her own book failed the test (fortune.com)
Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi and Virginia over age verification laws (www.theverge.com)
Pornhub has shut off access in Mississippi and Virginia to protest age verification laws that can involve checking government IDs. It previously blocked access in Utah.
Smartwatches can detect Parkinson’s years before diagnosis (english.elpais.com)
Accelerometers record subtle changes in movement and sleep patterns, and this information could anticipate the disease long before it becomes evident.
So where are we all supposed to go now? (www.theverge.com)
Supercomputer makes calculations in blink of an eye that take rivals 47 years (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Far Cry source code has leaked online (www.eurogamer.net)
Source code for the original Far Cry, released back in 2004, has popped up online.Entitled “Far Cry 1.34 Complete”, the…
Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI (gizmodo.com)
An update to Google’s privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it’s AI projects.
Twitter's API keeps breaking, even for developers paying $42,000 (mashable.com)
Twitter's API issues have frustrated developers in each of Twitter's new API access tiers. Those with Basic or Pro plans — paying $100 and $5000 a month for API access, respectively — have experienced unannounced changes to their plans, numerous bugs, and often receive zero customer support. And developers shelling out for...
Twitter seeing 52% of its links removed on google after user requirement change (boingboing.net)
Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets (www.rawstory.com)
Google has reportedly removed much of Twitter’s links from its search results after the social network’s owner Elon Musk announced reading tweets would be limited....
Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time (www.theatlantic.com)
So, where do we go now? (www.theverge.com)
Not sure I agree with all of his points, but it’s a start that we’re at least publicly acknowledging this as the end of an era (for good IMO)
Tesla owners are typically white men earning six figures (www.businessinsider.com)
Tesla owners are overwhelmingly men, and the most common occupations are engineer, software engineer, and manager of operations, one study found.
This AI model took only five hours to design a functional computer (qz.com)
Researchers claim that was 1,000 times faster than what it takes humans to design a CPU
Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans (www.ft.com)
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...
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.
