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Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths (www.theverge.com)
YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' (www.androidauthority.com)
YouTube first spoke about pause ads last year when it started trialing them in select regions. At the time, the company said that when you pause a video, it will shrink, and an ad will appear next to it....
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary (www.technologyreview.com)
Thanks to rapid advancements in generative AI and a glut of training data created by human actors that has been fed into its AI model, Synthesia has been able to produce avatars that are indeed more humanlike and more expressive than their predecessors. The digital clones are better able to match their reactions and intonation...
TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out (www.businessinsider.com)
Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail (www.androidpolice.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....
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)
This is not REAL capitalism! (lemmy.ml)
Washington's Lottery AI site turned user photo into porn (mynorthwest.com)
Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade (www.neowin.net)
I don't think people on this sub use it, but it's great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.
What non-FOSS software have you been unable to quit?
For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn't always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is...
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...
I've been playing xonotic and DAMN is it fun (xonotic.org)
I'm sure you all heard about it, i tried this open source (i think it's open source) shooter game called xonotic and it is FUN as hell, it's probably one of the best foss games i've ever played and i wanted to show this game off here...
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!...
File over App Philosophy (stephango.com)
I personally wouldn't recommend obsidian (mentioned at the end of the article), but still, I think the article is worth reading.
Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft, doing it's part to make the world a better place.
Fastmail vs Proton Mail
Who of you uses one of the above services, what do you think of it?
Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account (www.epicgames.com)
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/10062367...
I installed Windows 10 in a virtual machine...man, this is straight up dystopian.
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/be22ba36-0ad7-4d26-91d0-46ee2a934846.png...
10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox. (www.howtogeek.com)
10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.::The best browser sync out there.
Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption (www.tomshardware.com)