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Instagram's unskippable ads test causes outrage among users (www.techspot.com)
Instagram has long been accused of stealing features from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter/X. It appears that the company has looked to YouTube for its latest idea: unskippable ads that you have to watch for a period of time before being able to scroll further....
TIL states that passed laws allowing a married person to seek a divorce without the consent of their spouse saw female suicide decline by 20 percent (www.nber.org)
Delivery Goes Wrong: New Cybertruck Slices Owner's Wrist During Inspection (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
A Tesla owner’s dream of taking his new Cybetruck for a spin turned into a nightmare. He landed in the emergency room with blood spurting from a wrist wound before even getting behind the wheel.
YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers (9to5google.com)
People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? (www.bbc.com)
Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves (arstechnica.com)
Beep beep (lemmy.world)
TIL Many bronze age peoples forgot what stone age tools were, and thought discovered ones as some kind of mystical talismans or signs from a thunder god (www.theguardian.com)
Also mistaken for fulgurite by the more naturalistically minded, apparently. Maybe most common in the Nordics, based on viking references?...
Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range (electrek.co)
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.
Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows (mashable.com)
Are you ultra woke on purpose?
just wondering
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Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production (newatlas.com)
Over 100 far-right militias are coordinating on Facebook (arstechnica.com)
Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors (english.elpais.com)
Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer (arstechnica.com)
Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO (www.techspot.com)
Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed (arstechnica.com)
Tesla slashes vehicle and self-driving-ish software prices as shares plummet (www.theregister.com)
Meta says you can’t turn off its new AI tool on Facebook, Instagram (globalnews.ca)
Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply (arstechnica.com)
Australians are 10x more likely to develop skin cancer than the average person
www.wcrf.org/…/skin-cancer-statistics/
On a huge election year for the world, Meta will shut down CrowdTangle, it's tool for election integrity observers without replacement (foundation.mozilla.org)
This is quite concerning
What's your take on Bluesky?
I recently finished the episode of The Verge’s podcast #Decoder with the interview to Bluesky’s CEO and it seems a quite interesting project. At the beginning I wasn’t looking really into it because of their choice of using a new protocol instead of the existing ActivityPub, but after listening to her and the reasons...
Should Airships Make a Comeback? (www.youtube.com)
YouTube now requires creators to disclose when AI-generated content is used in videos (alternativeto.net)
On popular online platforms, predatory groups coerce children into self-harm | Vulnerable teens are blackmailed into degrading and violent acts by abusers who then boast about it (wapo.st)
The first demonstration of entirely roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cell modules under ambient room conditions (www.nature.com)
Electric cars will be cheaper to make than gas vehicles but with much higher repair and insurance costs (www.notebookcheck.net)
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies (www.nytimes.com)
Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power | AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up. (wapo.st)
Facebook and Instagram are currently down.
‘He checks in on me more than my friends and family’: can AI therapists do better than the real thing? | Counselling and therapy | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
It’s cheap, quick and available 24/7, but is a chatbot therapist really the right tool to tackle complex emotional needs?