Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue (www.404media.co)
Archive link: https://archive.ph/GtA4Q...
Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto (u.today)
Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, does not believe in cryptocurrencies, calling them a vehicle for scams and a Ponzi scheme....
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!...
European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls (arstechnica.com)
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (www.tomshardware.com)
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)
Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean” (www.neowin.net)
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....
Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two (www.hindustantimes.com)
Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway. (boingboing.net)
After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers (www.theverge.com)
Mozilla ends partnership with Onerep due to CEO's ties to data broker...
Elon Musk is a pigeon CEO, 'he comes, sh*ts all over us, and goes', says former Tesla manager (electrek.co)
Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news (english.elpais.com)
The Verge shows how Google search is useless (www.theverge.com)
The Verge published this spam article about the "best printers of 2024" to demonstrate how terrible Google's search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search "best printer" on Google....
Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts (www.zdnet.com)
Calling them "free-form ads," Reddit said the new advertisements are its most native format ever, designed to look and feel like community content shared by real people....
Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)
They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won't last. They're going full Microsoft Skype mode and it's only a matter of time.
Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza (www.theverge.com)
Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods (futurism.com)
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)
Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox (www.theverge.com)
The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack (bsky.app)
Brought to you by the Department of Erasing History.
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
If you can, use Firefox.
Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)
Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing. ...
Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed (mastodon.social)
For anyone wondering if Threads and Facebook at large will be a fine neighbor in the space and compatible with other apps/services in the fediverse: they’re already automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112126250737482807
