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Microsoft reveals even more emails to customers were accessed by Russia-based hackers (www.neowin.net)
Earlier this year, Microsoft revealed that a Russia-based cybercriminal group labeled as Midnight Blizzard got access to the email accounts of its top executives in late 2023. Today, the company has confirmed that it is informing more of its customers that emails sent to those executives were seen by that hacker group....
Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising (www.techradar.com)
Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...
Two definitions of self hosted
Disclaimer: I'm no expert on this....
Microsoft postpones Windows Recall after major backlash — will launch Copilot+ PCs without headlining AI feature (www.windowscentral.com)
YouTube looks to be testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers (9to5google.com)
YouTube is testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers, integrating ads directly into videos to make them indistinguishable from the main content....
AI will capture carbon through reverse buzzwordolysis
Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request (theintercept.com)
Mozilla, the maker of the popular web browser Firefox, said it received government demands to block add-ons that circumvent censorship....
Boeing sales tumble as the company gets no orders for the 737 Max for the second straight month (apnews.com)
Microsoft's new Paint Cocreator requires an NPU — AI-powered feature requires 40 TOPS of performance and a Microsoft account (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft quietly added a new AI feature, called Cocreator, into its raster graphics editor included in every version of Windows since 1985. You need a Copilot + PC with an NPU that can deliver 40 TOPS or better to use it. So, you need to shell out at least $1,099 to get one of the new Snapdragon X Windows Copilot+ PCs that...
Apple refuses to call Apple Intelligence 'AI' (www.engadget.com)
Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over OpenAI partnership (www.cnbc.com)
Kicked out (i.imgur.com)
This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI (www.wired.com)
When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed the new Windows AI tool that can answer questions about your web browsing and laptop use, he said one of the “magical” things about it was that the data doesn’t leave your laptop; the Windows Recall system takes screenshots of your activity every five seconds and saves them...
Google’s Privacy Chief Is Out And Will Not Be Replaced (www.forbes.com)
Google’s chief privacy officer, Keith Enright, will depart the tech giant after 13 years, with no plans yet to replace him, as the company restructures its teams in charge of privacy and legal compliance....
Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned (arstechnica.com)
Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza (www.theverge.com)
Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price (www.cnbc.com)
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....
Numa (lemmy.world)
Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results (arstechnica.com)
TikTok wants to be YouTube now, tests 60-minute video uploads (www.gsmarena.com)
The game was rule from the start (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
SGE, ChatGPT and the likes are the stupidest thing to come from AI
This may be an unpopular opinnion.....
Jellyfin | "We are pleased to announce the latest stable release of Jellyfin, version 10.9.0!" (jellyfin.org)
Take a skim through the link for full details (especially the breaking changes), but I have included some parts that I thought were important:...
EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again (www.techspot.com)
EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during 'Replay' moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being highlighted in...
Microsoft might be trying to sneak Bing into one of Windows 11’s apps – and some users won’t be happy (www.techradar.com)
Please be satire (sh.itjust.works)
Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling (www.pcgamer.com)
Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining (www.neowin.net)
Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.
Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants (gizmodo.com)
Despite its CEO railing against Biden, Tesla was more than happy to take the administration's money.
Elon Musk goes ‘absolutely hard core’ in another round of Tesla layoffs (www.theverge.com)
Minimum hardware for a client?
I've found some discussions about hosting the Jellyfin server on lower end devices, but what about the client? I imagine the requirements to be pretty low, since a gen 2 Chromecast worked fine....
How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone (www.cnet.com)
AI Can Tell Your Political Affiliation Just by Looking at Your Face, Researchers Find (gizmodo.com)
Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....
Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash (www.theregister.com)
Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: 'Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage'
Windows: Edge 123.0.2420.65 update from March 2024 unintentionally brings co-pilot app; no "spy function" (borncity.com)
Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. (mashable.com)
Well, Microsoft is getting ready to annoy its faithful Windows 10 user base with yet another prompt. This time, Microsoft wants Windows 10 users to switch from using a local account to their online Microsoft account.
Broadcom continues to kill off VMware products
I received the below email recently which continues to kill off VMware products....
Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband (www.popsci.com)
Why do we have to do the health insurance company's job for them?
Just so tired of almost every time a doctor submits stuff to insurance, we have to be the ones to make multiple phone calls to both the doctor's office and insurance to iron everything out, figure out what the issue is (it's always a different issue), and basically be the go-between for the office and insurance. What am I...
Useful Info On Dumbing Down Your TCL Roku TV (support.tcl.com)
Turning Off the Roku Features of Your TCL Smart TV...
Introducing selfh.st/apps, a Directory of Self-Hosted Software (selfh.st)