Where is the best video viewing application today in 2024?
In 2024, the best video viewing app may vary based on personal preference, but some of the most popular options may include:...
Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed (arstechnica.com)
Net neutrality is about to make a comeback (www.theverge.com)
What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet (www.nytimes.com)
Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees (fortune.com)
Ek said Spotify employees were doing too much “work around the work” as he laid off 17% of the group’s workforce in December.
Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail (www.androidpolice.com)
Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher (www.theregister.com)
Xbox Will Be Deleting More Of Your Game Captures As Of May 2024 (www.purexbox.com)
Hashicorp signs agreement to be acquired by IBM
www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-ibm...
AI Can Tell Your Political Affiliation Just by Looking at Your Face, Researchers Find (gizmodo.com)
IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4 billion deal to expand cloud software (www.reuters.com)
Cisco firewall 0-days under attack for 5 months by resourceful nation-state hackers (arstechnica.com)
Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System (computerhistory.org)
As TikTok ban threatens stability in social media ecosystem, some brands settle into the fediverse (digiday.com)
The possibility of a TikTok ban is inching closer to becoming a reality at this point. On Tuesday, the Senate passed the bill that would bar the social media platform from operating in the U.S. unless ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, sells its stake....
Nurses Protest 'Deeply Troubling' Use of AI in Hospitals (www.404media.co)
“Life-and-death decisions relating to patient acuity, treatment decisions, and staffing levels cannot be made without the assessment skills and critical thinking of registered nurses,” the union wrote in the post. “For example, tell-tale signs of a patient’s condition, such as the smell of a patient’s breath and their...
Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes (www.nytimes.com)
Hackers are carrying out ransomware experiments in developing countries (arstechnica.com)
Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....
Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore (www.theverge.com)
It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.
Internet Archive: Huge collection of amateur radio equipment manuals (archive.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14642241...
Tesla profits nosedive as more job cuts announced (www.bbc.com)
Tesla has seen its profits more than halve this year, and says it will bring forward the launch of new models after announcing thousands of job cuts to try to reverse its fortunes....
You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 (arstechnica.com)
The future is going to be great!