Volunteer amateur systems administrator for Beehaw. Stay-at-home dad. Outdoor enthusiast.
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Volunteer amateur systems administrator for Beehaw. Stay-at-home dad. Outdoor enthusiast.
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Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts (www.nbcnews.com)
U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly (www.nytimes.com)
The department joined 16 states and the District of Columbia to file a significant challenge to the reach and influence of Apple, arguing in an 88-page lawsuit that the company had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones and less likely to switch to a competing device....
Beeper couldn’t bring iMessage to Android — but it can still make a great chat app (www.theverge.com)
House likely to pass a bill that could ban TikTok, sending it to the Senate (www.nbcnews.com)
Reddit gets ready for IPO, setting a top valuation of $6.4 billion (www.axios.com)
Activision Blizzard’s ex-CEO Bobby Kotick reportedly wants to buy TikTok (archive.is)
zoom alternatives
are there any alternatives to zoom that have alot of features out of the box like live streaming to youtube support plus doesnt make you pay money to get extra features?
Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’ (nypost.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10105454...
is there any foss discord client for mobile?
Ransomware gangs collected record $1.1 billion from attacks in 2023 (www.axios.com)
The fediverse, explained (www.theverge.com)
Google's Chrome Browser Analyzing Your Browsing History with so-called "Privacy Sandbox" Feature
For nearly two years now, Google has been gradually rolling out a feature to all Chrome users that analyzes their browsing history within the browser itself. This feature aims to replace third-party cookies and individual tracking by categorizing you into an interest category and sharing that category with advertisers. It's like...
A new internet is forming (& Meta wants to control it) [21:30] (youtu.be)
23andMe’s Fall From $6 Billion to Nearly $0 (archive.fo)
Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)
Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft...
Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees (www.theverge.com)
The cuts work out to roughly 8 percent of the overall Microsoft Gaming division that stands at around 22,000 employees in total.
The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance (www.zdnet.com)
Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users....
Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times (www.axios.com)
Proton Mail finally gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar (www.theverge.com)
Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android (techcrunch.com)
What are some of the 'best' Lemmy apps for Android?
(single quotes around best for subjectivity) I'm trying to get all of my Android using friends and family into the Fediverse....