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Qualcomm benchmarking controversy: What's happening? (www.androidauthority.com)
Netflix Doc ‘What Jennifer Did’ Uses AI Images to Create False Historical Record (www.404media.co)
Google mocks Epic’s proposed reforms to end Android app market monopoly (arstechnica.com)
The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Apple alerts users in 92 nations to state-sponsored / mercenary-spyware attacks (techcrunch.com)
Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets (arstechnica.com)
But of course we all know that the big manufacturers don’t do this not because they can’t but because they don’t want to. Planned obsolescence is still very much the name of the game, despite all the bullshit they spout about sustainability.
US to award Samsung up to $6.6 billion chip subsidy for Texas expansion, sources say (www.reuters.com)
AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey (www.theregister.com)
Washington's Lottery AI site turned user photo into porn (mynorthwest.com)
Empowering Choice: Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web (blog.mozilla.org)
Ah, reddit
Sometimes I think this whole process of deleting content from Reddit in protest hasn’t really worked out for everyone…
The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled (www.wired.com)
Qualcomm quietly demos Baldur’s Gate 3 and Control on Snapdragon X Elite laptops (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/10871867...
United States v. Apple is pure nerd rage (www.theverge.com)
Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks (krebsonsecurity.com)
The lock-in problem at the heart of the Apple monopoly lawsuit (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/10657352...
Introducing GNOME 46, “Kathmandu” (release.gnome.org)
How the coming flood of AI-generated content might actually free the soul of Internet (www.staygrounded.online)
El Salvador Will Keep Buying 1 Bitcoin Daily Until BTC 'Becomes Unaffordable' With Fiat Currencies, Says President Bukele – Featured Bitcoin News (news.bitcoin.com)
El Salvador will continue buying 1 Bitcoin daily until it becomes unaffordable with fiat currencies...
Retiring the Mozilla Location Service (web.archive.org)
Patent infringement threat(Skyhook Holdings, Inc), lack of further investment seems to have been the reason of killing the service around 2021. It seems google location service seems to be the only player in town(other than OpenCellID, which I do not have experience with).
Leaked SpaceX documents show company forbids employees to sell stock if it deems they've misbehaved (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI’s GPT Is a Recruiter’s Dream Tool. Tests Show There’s Racial Bias (www.bloomberg.com)
Code used in the analysis is here
Firefox saw an increase in users (~50% in Germany and ~30% in France) following Apple’s default browser changes in the EU, as did Brave. (www.theverge.com)
Firefox spokesperson Christopher Hilton tells The Verge that the browser has seen a more than 50 percent jump in users in Germany and a nearly 30 percent increase in France....
Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act. (www.ghacks.net)
These changes are only applicable to users in the EEA. For those outside the region, Windows will continue to function as it is!...
Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 (www.pcgamer.com)
Interesting. Samsung making a bold move here, but one that could make sense.
Desperate TikTok lobbying effort backfires on Capitol Hill (www.bbc.com)
US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users (arstechnica.com)
Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text (theluddite.org)
I know there are other ways of accomplishing that, but this might be a convenient way of doing it. I’m wondering though if Reddit is still reverting these changes?