Reddit’s 2023 r/Place turned into a battleground for dunking on the CEO (www.polygon.com)
Elon Musk, Twitter and X MegaThread
Hey everybody,...
I can't untrain my brain (lemmy.world)
Mensagem da Ella | Sem Consentimento | Without Consent (www.youtube.com)
Ambient temp/pressure super conductor breakthrough (www.independent.co.uk)
Rising online hate comments, fake news causing real-life harm (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)
Rising online hate comments, fake news causing real-life harm::There are increasing calls to restrict malicious comments and the spread of fake news as the punishment for such acts remains diminutive compared to its harms.
Twitter took @x handle from longtime user and only offered him “some merch” (arstechnica.com)
Hwang confirmed to Ars today that “there was no financial compensation” offered to him. The company offered “to switch the @x account and its history/followers etc to a new handle once I select one that is available,” Hwang told us. “They also offered some merch and to meet with the management team as well.”
can we please keep this community about technology and not Twitter/X and elon news?
Seven major automakers to build EV charging network with 30,000 chargers (arstechnica.com)
‘Pass It, Pass It, Pass It, Pass It, Pass It,’ The President Says About A Bill The GOP Says Will Be Useful To Silence LGBTQ Voices (www.techdirt.com)
Elon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it. (mashable.com)
Brands that don't buy enough Twitter ads will lose verification (www.theverge.com)
Starting August 7th, advertisers that haven’t reached certain spending thresholds will lose their official brand account verification. According to emails obtained by the WSJ, brands need to have spent at least $1,000 on ads within the prior 30 days or $6,000 in the previous 180 days to retain the gold checkmark identifying...
How a start-up built the search engine of the future — and then died (www.theverge.com)
Netflix lists $900,000 AI job as actors and writers continue to strike (www.engadget.com)
Netflix lists $900,000 AI job as actors and writers continue to strike::Will this pair of Hollywood strikes ever end? It looks like the big corporations are digging in for a long battle, illustrated by Netflix’s recent job posting for a machine learning platform product manager.
Using Reflections to Compress LLM Context Data (danielmiessler.com)
Apple already shipped attestation on the web(DRM), and we barely noticed (httptoolkit.com)
Autoenshittification - How the computer killed capitalism. (doctorow.medium.com)
Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket....
PRQL — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement (prql-lang.org)
FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (www.eff.org)
Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort? – Krebs on Security (krebsonsecurity.com)
Mold 2.0 High Speed Linker Released: Moves From AGPL To MIT License (www.phoronix.com)
Major AI companies form group to research, keep control of AI and avoid regulation (opidea.xyz)
PCI Express To Hell (www.youtube.com)
Deepfake video: Parody ad for Meta-Metaverse (www.youtube.com)
Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)
