For Data-Guzzling AI Companies, the Internet Is Too Small (tech.slashdot.org)
The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse (www.vox.com)
Been getting a lot of these emails lately (imgflip.com)
Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft (MSFT.O) will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine.
5G slices are a net neutrality loophole, critics argue (www.lightreading.com)
How a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet From Hell Slowed Williams' F1 Cars For Years (www.thedrive.com)
YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious (chipp.in)
Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment (www.androidpolice.com)
New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now (discord.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17618684...
Dislike Copilot's responses? Make better prompts, says Microsoft (www.xda-developers.com)
Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)
They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won’t last. They’re going full Microsoft Skype mode and it’s only a matter of time.
Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment (www.androidpolice.com)
Nvidia Is Simulating a Copy of the Earth (futurism.com)
Video games: A promising tool for anxiety and depression (english.elpais.com)
Practical Quantum Devices Now Closer to Reality – Scientists Unveil Room Temperature Photonic Chips (feddit.cl)
A new study by Hebrew University has made a significant breakthrough by successfully incorporating single-photon sources into small chips that operate at room temperature. This development marks a crucial progress in the field of quantum photonics, opening up possibilities for its use in quantum computing and cryptography. full...
The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety. (www.nature.com)
Pavel Durov: The visionary whose alternative to Facebook was snatched away by the Kremlin and counterattacked with an even bigger hit, Telegram (english.elpais.com)
Inside the $1 billion love affair between Stability AI’s ‘complicated’ founder and tech investors Coatue and Lightspeed—and how it turned bitter within months (fortune.com)
Without paywall: archive.ph/8QkSl
4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm (imgur.com)
Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.
Inside the Creation of the World’s Most Powerful Open Source AI Model (www.wired.com)
20 years of Gmail (www.theverge.com)
AT&T Says Personal Information From 73 Million Customers Leaked On The Dark Web—Including Social Security Numbers (www.forbes.com)
Google Just Revealed When Apple Will Officially Adopt RCS: Northern Hemisphere Fall 2024 (lifehacker.com)
The Android developer just published an updated landing page for Google Messages, showing off key features ranging from customization, privacy and security, and, of course, AI....
Proton Pass now supports passkeys on all devices and plans: Beating Bitwarden to mobile devices (proton.me)
Passkeys are an easy and secure alternative to traditional passwords that can help prevent phishing attacks and make your online experience smoother and safer....
Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals (arstechnica.com)
