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Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts (www.nbcnews.com)
Russia adds 'LGBT movement' to list of extremist and terrorist organisations (archive.ph)
U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly (www.nytimes.com)
The department joined 16 states and the District of Columbia to file a significant challenge to the reach and influence of Apple, arguing in an 88-page lawsuit that the company had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones and less likely to switch to a competing device....
Diablo 4 Season 4 Campfire Chat Summary (www.youtube.com)
Big changes/improvements coming to season 4 which has been delayed until May 14.
Beeper couldn’t bring iMessage to Android — but it can still make a great chat app (www.theverge.com)
House likely to pass a bill that could ban TikTok, sending it to the Senate (www.nbcnews.com)
Reddit gets ready for IPO, setting a top valuation of $6.4 billion (www.axios.com)
Activision Blizzard’s ex-CEO Bobby Kotick reportedly wants to buy TikTok (archive.is)
Germany's parliament votes to legalize limited marijuana possession and allow 'cannabis clubs' (apnews.com)
In Britain, 'Antisemitism and Negative Attitudes About Jewish People Have Become Mainstream, Pervasive' (archive.is)
Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’ (nypost.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/10105454...
Ransomware gangs collected record $1.1 billion from attacks in 2023 (www.axios.com)
The fediverse, explained (www.theverge.com)
King Charles III diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace says (www.bbc.com)
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of February 4th
Hey y’all, what have you been playing!...
Google's Chrome Browser Analyzing Your Browsing History with so-called "Privacy Sandbox" Feature
For nearly two years now, Google has been gradually rolling out a feature to all Chrome users that analyzes their browsing history within the browser itself. This feature aims to replace third-party cookies and individual tracking by categorizing you into an interest category and sharing that category with advertisers. It’s...
A new internet is forming (& Meta wants to control it) [21:30] (youtu.be)
23andMe’s Fall From $6 Billion to Nearly $0 (archive.fo)
Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)
Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft...
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 28th
What are you all playing! I’ve been playing a lot of lies of p and have been dipping my toes back into binding of Isaac!
Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees (www.theverge.com)
The cuts work out to roughly 8 percent of the overall Microsoft Gaming division that stands at around 22,000 employees in total.
The Day Before studio say the game's downfall was thanks to "a hate campaign" (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Protests in Russia Put Spotlight on Wartime Ethnic Grievances: The conviction of an activist in the Ural Mountains sparked one of the biggest outbreaks of social unrest since the start of the war (www.nytimes.com)
Unpaywalled link...
Tetris Just Got Beaten Again (www.youtube.com)
The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance (www.zdnet.com)
Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users....
Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times (www.axios.com)
13-Year-Old Becomes First Person to Beat Tetris on NES (gizmodo.com)
Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter (www.theguardian.com)
Today 4 years ago, Dr. Li Wenliang warned of a suspected SARS patient in a Wuhan WeChat group. Soon later, he was arrested for “making false comments on the Internet about unconfirmed SARS outbreak.” (harakahdaily.net)
Dr. Wenliang’s message went viral, becoming the earliest warning of what we now know today as Covid-19. He returned to work, but contracted Covid from a patient, and died on February 7, 2020....