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European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls (arstechnica.com)

FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote (arstechnica.com)

The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president....

Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)

If you can, use Firefox.

Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says (arstechnica.com)

Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” (arstechnica.com)

Oh look, Sony revoking more licenses for video content that people "bought".

Reddit embracing all out enshittification (arstechnica.com)

Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed...

FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole (arstechnica.com)

Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week (arstechnica.com)

Reminder to switch browsers if you haven't already!...

Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)

A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...

Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 (arstechnica.com)

So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post (arstechnica.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.

Oregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing (arstechnica.com)

Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause (arstechnica.com)

As if the Prime Video app couldn't get any worse.

FCC to declare AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under existing law (arstechnica.com)

Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the agency says. I'm pretty sure this puts us on the timeline where we eventually get incredible, futuristic tech, but computers and robots still sound mechanical and fake.

Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app (arstechnica.com)

Rabbit R1 AI box is actually an Android app in a limited $200 box, running on AOSP without Google Play....

Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles (arstechnica.com)

Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves (arstechnica.com)

Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them (arstechnica.com)

I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.

Linux market share passes 4% for first time (arstechnica.com)

We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there's been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of...

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