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What is Ryan Reynolds doing on LinkedIn? — Celebrities are taking their place alongside the site’s humblebraggers and ‘thought leaders’ (www.ft.com)

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Meta's Twitter rival Threads explodes to 70 million signups one day after launch (www.cnbc.com)

Miffed ‘Rainbow Six Seige’ player sentenced for swatting Ubisoft Montreal’s offices (www.engadget.com)

A disgruntled Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Seige gamer who called in a fake emergency to Ubisoft’s Montreal office was sentenced this week to three years of community service, according to The Montreal Gazette.

Hackers already infiltrate EV chargers (grist.org)

one featured a picture of President Biden pointing his finger, with an “I did that!” caption. the hosts of The Kilowatts tweeted a video showing it was possible to take control of an Electrify America station’s operating system. cracks could conceivably permit hackers to access vehicle data or consumers’ credit card...

Ford unleashes the UK’s first legal hands-free drive car – but who will buy it (www.theguardian.com)

Ford’s Mustang Mach-E lets motorists drive hands-free in UK; T&Cs apply: motorways only, don’t look away for too long.

Bluesky Unveils $8M Seed Funding and Innovative Paid Service, Custom Domains (stonking.com)

End-to-end encryption; the will of the British people (element.io)

Perhaps, in actual fact, posturing on end-to-end encryption is the fig leaf for a lack of investment in education, policing and social care. After all, talk is cheap.

Bluesky Unveils $8M Seed Funding and Innovative Paid Service, Custom Domains (stonking.com)

F1 British Grand Prix to use facial recognition to prevent 'criminal activity' (www.sportsbusinessjournal.com)

"There is a risk of terrorism, of serious crime and of course unlawful protest, which in itself is illegal”

Password Managers. (lock.cmpxchg8b.com)

You don’t know Tavis Ormandy? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavis_Ormandy...

I just made my first Lemmy PR (github.com)

Let’s gooooooooo

Hacker News: Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4 (readhacker.news)

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OpenAI makes GPT-4 generally available (news.yahoo.com)

Starting this afternoon, all existing OpenAI API developers “with a history of successful payments” can access GPT-4. GPT-4 can generate text (including code) and accept image and text inputs – an improvement over GPT-3.5, its predecessor, which only accepted text – and performs at “human level” on various...

You will later be able to delete your Threads account w/o losing Instagram (9to5mac.com)

One of the more… interesting discoveries yesterday is that there’s no way to delete your Threads account without also deleting…

Remember stumble upon? check out Channel4 (poc2.channel4.wtf)

Bangladesh government website leaks citizens’ personal data (techcrunch.com)

A Bangladeshi government website leaked the personal information of citizens, including full names, phone numbers, email addresses and national ID numbers.

Android owners - Get TrackerControl (f-droid.org)

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Don't Join Threads - Make Threads Join You (www.wired.com)

Intel Meteor Lake CPU Family Details Allegedly Leak (www.tomshardware.com)

Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking (arstechnica.com)

Buying Apple’s Vision Pro headset could require an appointment and a face scan (www.theverge.com)

Can Twitter Alternatives Escape the Enshittification Trap? (www.wired.com)

People have flocked to Bluesky and Threads. But the new platforms risk repeating a pattern that has caused social media giants to turn against their own users.