Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail (hackaday.com)
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" (www.eff.org)
Despite Spending $100 billion on AI Google is still no where close to a real ai assistant | Amazon Walkout failure and how no one making money with ai but with something else.. (www.arktrek.shop)
Microsoft PC Manager App 'Repairs' Your System by Making Bing the Search Default (uk.pcmag.com)
Microsoft is trying to restore Bing as the default search engine on users' browsers by spinning it as a "repair" through a utility app called PC Manager....
RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address (variety.com)
Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy (fortune.com)
The lunch rush is dead as Americans live for the weekend, office workers are pinching lunchtime pennies (www.nbcnews.com)
Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ (www.theverge.com)
Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant? (news.ycombinator.com)
Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices (www.theregister.com)
lmao imagine that
Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads (www.techradar.com)
Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....
Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running (arstechnica.com)
The Mac vs. PC war is back on? (www.theverge.com)
I find it hard to believe that, outside of work computers, many people would be choosing Windows over Mac or Linux, especially is AI is their goal....
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sues Meta, citing chatbot’s reply as evidence of shadowban (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit (www.businessinsider.com)
Reddit’s deal with OpenAI will plug its posts into “ChatGPT and new products” (www.theverge.com)
Minister suggests Canada is considering tariffs on Chinese EVs following U.S. move (www.cbc.ca)
Canada's industry minister says Ottawa is "considering all measures" after the U.S. announced it would be hiking tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and other related goods....
Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress (www.wired.com)
https://archive.ph/vlcmB
Visa Adds New Way To Share Customer Shopping Data With Retailers (www.businesswire.com)
Visa is rolling out new technology that will allow the payments giant to share more information about customers' preferences [non-paywalled source] based on their shopping history with retailers as it seeks to remain a top player in the competitive e-commerce space. From a report:...
The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. (www.theatlantic.com)
Online Content Is Disappearing (www.pewresearch.org)
cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/25166889
Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more (www.tomshardware.com)
Niagara strike against forced overtime: scabs can't keep up, management asks for custody agreements if employee wants time with kids (archive.ph)
History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says (theconversation.com)
By Tinglong Dai, Bernard T. Ferrari Professor of Business, Johns Hopkins University...
New Orleans Loses Bid to Tax Music Streaming Service (natlawreview.com)
The New Orleans Collector of Revenue (“Collector”) failed in its attempts to subject music streaming services to the City’s sales tax. In* *Apple, Inc. v. Collector of Revenue of the City of New Orleans et. al., Docket No. L01283 (May 2, 2024), the Louisiana Board of Tax Appeals, Local Tax Division, analyzed the...
