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Apple is now banned from selling its latest Apple Watches in the US (www.theverge.com)
Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap | ITPro (www.itpro.com)
Analysts have warned Windows 10 end of life plans could spark a global torrent of e-waste, with millions of devices expected to be scrapped in the coming years....
Prague shooting: Gunman dead after killing more than 15 at Charles University (www.bbc.com)
Flipboard is pivoting to ActivityPub and the fediverse (www.theverge.com)
This Firefox for Android feature you've been begging for is finally here (www.androidpolice.com)
YouTube screwing itself with adblockers again
I use Firefox and uBlock Origin. Not sure what kind of experience anyone else is having with YouTube, but recently my home page has been empty because I “don’t have watch history turned on”. Okay, fine. I won’t be able to browse suggested videos, and I’ll spend less time on their platform....
Apple partly halts Beeper’s iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead (arstechnica.com)
Proton Mail finally gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar (www.theverge.com)
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Beeper Mini Is Back | iMessage for Android (blog.beeper.com)
Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android (techcrunch.com)
There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works (www.theverge.com)
The true Cybertruck experience (sopuli.xyz)
Amazon's Fire TV is Adding Full-Screen Video Ads That Play When You Start Your Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com)
What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?
I was thinking about how I remember Maxis fondly, and I got to wondering what other people’s experiences were like!...
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 26th
What have you all been playing? I’ve been playing more dicey dungeons and cross code! Want to really commit to finishing cross code this time
World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28 (www.theguardian.com)
Hundreds of OpenAI staff tell board to resign or they'll quit (www.axios.com)
40 workers have been trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in India for over a week and 3 attempts to drill through the debris have failed so far (www.insider.com)
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Sweden’s Tesla Blockade Is Spreading. Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix charging points. (www.wired.co.uk)
Reddit appears to be blocking VPNs (unverified) (beehaw.org)
I’m on iOS 17.1.1 using Safari. I also have Proton VPN enabled in the states but if I try to visit any page on the website I see this:...
YouTube once again ahead of uBO on Firefox; fiddling with the extension settings not working this time and DDG search is useless ... anyone got ideas?
Pretty much the subject line. uBO has successfully blocked the nag screen enough times that I can’t play anything at this point. No preview loads, and the play button serves no function. I’d really prefer not to have to find content on YT, copy the URL and use Piped/Invidious, but this ongoing escalation is steeling my...
Iceland is bracing for a potential volcanic eruption. What is likely to happen and what are the risks? (www.cnn.com)
What can you tell me about Bluesky?
I just received my invite code today and took a quick look around the app. Like Mastodon I do not prefer microblogging platforms. And that’s all I know about Bluesky....
18+ *** NSFW!!!*** Israeli Air Force strikes Al Shifa Hospital Parking lot with an R9X missile "Ninja Bomb". The missile is equipped with 6 blades that deploy before impact without an explosion. (beehaw.org)
Israeli air force launches strike upon Hospital “Hamas Base” parking lot, with an R9X missile....
Scarlett Johansson hits AI app with legal action for cloning her voice in an ad (www.theverge.com)
Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat The October 7 Attack, Time And Again, Until Israel Is Annihilated (www.memri.org)
Hamad said that Palestinians are the victims of the occupation, therefore no one should blame them for the events of October 7 or anything else, adding: “Everything we do is justified.”
Netanyahu declares holy war against Gaza, citing the Bible (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
Even though Netanyahu is Jewish, he knows using (and in this case abusing) the Christian bible is a good way to keep support going among US evangelicals and the new Speaker of the House.
YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world (9to5google.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2787773 (!google)
Let the community work it out: A throwback to early internet days could fix social media’s crisis of legitimacy (www.niemanlab.org)
[…]why should a few companies — or a few billionaire owners — have the power to decide everything about online spaces that billions of people use? This unaccountable model of governance has led stakeholders of all stripes to criticize platforms’ decisions as arbitrary, corrupt or irresponsible. In the early, pre-web days...
Matthew Perry dead (www.tmz.com)
10 Year Old Son Clears The Second Capstone Dungeon In Diablo 4...
NOT the first capstone dungeon…The second capstone dungeon that gets you into the nightmare level…With a level 58 ball lightning sorcerer! See the following video to find out how. It’s fairly simple....
Threads is rolling out an edit button, and it's not locked behind a paywall | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Daredevil: Born Again Gets Major Creative Reboot With Original Writers Being Let Go | Entertainment News (www.gadgets360.com)
Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore (www.newyorker.com)
Israel strikes Gaza tower as death tolls jump after Hamas attack (www.aljazeera.com)
At least 198 Palestinians killed in Israeli air raids; Hamas attack kills 70 Israelis, ‘big number’ also captured.
Gmail is also getting emoji reactions (www.engadget.com)
Because sometimes, emoji make the best responses....