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DarkPattern.games - a website that rates mobile games for their "dark patterns" (www.darkpattern.games)
Very thankful (lemmy.world)
Satisfactory 1.0 (www.satisfactorygame.com)
Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Like Brazil, the European Union also has an X problem. (www.voanews.com)
Google & Facebook partner admits it can listen to device microphone to serve ads - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
A media firm that has worked with the likes of Google and Meta has admitted that it can target adverts based on what you said out loud near device microphones....
Ford Patents A Way To Bring Ads Inside Your Car (insideevs.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/41400661
Mafia: The Old Country will offer voice acting in Sicilian
I bet people who care about authenticity will love this.
Gay man says he was assaulted by Shake Shack employees after kissing his boyfriend at D.C. location (www.nbcnews.com)
Christian Dingus, 28, was with his partner when, he says, employees told the couple not to kiss inside, and the argument escalated outside....
What if? (sh.itjust.works)
Outsourcing emotion: The horror of Google’s “Dear Sydney” AI ad | The company suggests using AI to write a child’s fan letter and the ad is so bad that Google turned off comments for it on YouTube (arstechnica.com)
If you’ve watched any Olympics coverage this week, you’ve likely been confronted with an ad for Google’s Gemini AI called “Dear Sydney.” In it, a proud father seeks help writing a letter on behalf of his daughter, who is an aspiring runner and superfan of world-record-holding hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone....
YouTube's server-side ads resulted in a black screen for ad blocker users (www.ghacks.net)
Mashable reports that users ran into a black screen on YouTube, and that it stayed for about 6 seconds before the video began playing. The reports indicate it affected several browsers including Firefox, Edge, Vivaldi....
Fast-food chains battle for low-income diners with summer value meals ***Better headline: Fast food restaurants scratch head when customers don’t want to pay higher prices for shitty food. (www.cnbc.com)
New Samsung phones block sideloading by default (www.androidauthority.com)
Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized (www.theverge.com)
Or meet and cheese (lemmy.world)
Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
When is an ad an advertisement and not a recommendation? Microsoft clearly likes to use the term recommendation for what others may see as an advertisement....
Get in the Hilux
“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers (arstechnica.com)
It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.
Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission (www.neowin.net)
It's like a more challenging version of the trolley problem (lemmy.world)
EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones (www.theverge.com)
This will be YouTube in 2025 (lemmy.world)
(this is not real obviously) artist: Soren Iverson
well shoot (fedia.io)
Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall (www.vg247.com)
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are surging "faster than ever" to beyond anything humans ever experienced, officials say (www.cbsnews.com)
One of the major drivers of the exceptional heat building within Earth’s atmosphere has reached levels beyond anything humans have ever experienced, officials announced on Thursday. Carbon dioxide, the gas that accounts for the majority of global warming caused by human activities, is accumulating “faster than ever,”...
Starfield: Shattered Space - Official Trailer (www.youtube.com)
They’re still trying to make Starfield a thing
Adobe Promises That It Hasn’t Gone Full Big Brother (slate.com)
Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less (www.forbes.com)
Thank you Microsoft, just what I always wanted. Hard to believe this is real.
Actual Ad Link: www.instagram.com/microsoft365/p/C7j8ipnxIiI/?img…...
It’s not just boomers, young people are voting far right too (www.politico.eu)
Ahead of the European election, striking data shows where Gen Z and millennials’ allegiances lie....
CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)
You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
EcoFlow’s $200 PowerStream is so clever, you might buy a $4,000 solar generator (www.theverge.com)
Title reads like at ad, but this is a new way to reach energy independence. I actually have a small EcoFlow device and it’s pretty good for the price....
Why has no one thought of this before?! (lemmy.world)
Self-Driving Tesla Nearly Hits Oncoming Train, Raises New Concern On Car's Safety (lemmy.zip)
Craig Doty II, a Tesla owner, narrowly avoided a collision after his vehicle, in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode, allegedly steered towards an oncoming train....
Later, losers (lemmy.world)
Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news (english.elpais.com)
After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money (www.theguardian.com)
The theory is simple: instead of buying a household item or a piece of clothing or some equipment you might use once or twice, you take it out and return it.
Why the Swedes love doing something that Americans hate (www.bbc.com)
Sweden is infamous for having some of the highest taxes in the world, and yet the country’s tax agency is still one of Sweden’s most trusted institutions....
Seen this countless times
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....