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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.
Operating Systems for Different Life Stages (lemmy.zip)
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Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)
More than half a million UniSuper fund members went a week with no access to their superannuation accounts after a “one-of-a-kind” Google Cloud “misconfiguration” led to the financial services provider’s private cloud account being deleted, Google and UniSuper have revealed.
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...
Tech workers should shine a light on the industry’s secretive work with the military (www.technologyreview.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.
Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain (restoreprivacy.com)
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Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time (arstechnica.com)
How working for Big Tech lost 'dream job' status (www.cnbc.com)
Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients' data with advertisers | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Dual booters be like (sh.itjust.works)
The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
Edward Zitron has been reading all of google's internal emails that have been released as evidence in the DOJ's antitrust case against google....
4K Chromecast with Google TV sequel is coming with new remote (9to5google.com)
Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics (wapo.st)
Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad (www.neowin.net)
Humane AI Pin: much-hyped gadget rocked by bad reviews (www.bbc.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/2686042...
YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps (www.theverge.com)
Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM (9to5mac.com)
Roku says 576,000 user accounts hacked after second security incident | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Jesus, again already?
Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites (arstechnica.com)
UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s (www.theguardian.com)
Windows 10 is the last version of Windows (www.pcmag.com)
Raising this dead article as Microsoft now delivers extended support pricing details for those who choose not to migrate to the newer version of Windows. The one they were told they'd not ever have to migrate to
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. ...
The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled (www.wired.com)
YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious (chipp.in)
Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment (www.androidpolice.com)
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse (www.vox.com)
Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.
Oregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing (arstechnica.com)
Twelve years after the death of Steve Jobs, the cracks are starting to appear at Apple (www.notebookcheck.net)
Blizzard locks you out of account if you don't agree to new terms; no ownership, forced arbitration (youtu.be)
Apple says it spent three years trying to bring Apple Watch to Android - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)
The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)
But this... does put a smile on my face (lemmy.ml)
Context:...
Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing (www.theverge.com)
The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the top of other apps and windows. After pausing that notification to address “unintended behavior,” the pop-ups have returned again on Windows 10 and 11....
Roku Data Breach: Over 15,000 Accounts Affected (www.claimdepot.com)
Google is silently blocking RCS messages on rooted Android phones and custom ROMs (www.androidauthority.com)
TL;DR...
Google Gemini refuses to answer questions about deaths in Gaza but has no problem answering the same question for Ukraine. (lemmy.world)
RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study (arstechnica.com)
RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study::Data is consistent with bosses using RTO to reassert control and scapegoat workers.
Conservative MP Says He Trusts Porn Companies Won’t Leak Digital IDs of Canadians Who Visit Porn Websites (pressprogress.ca)
Conservative MP Says He Trusts Porn Companies Won’t Leak Digital IDs of Canadians Who Visit Porn Websites::Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives voted to introduce digital IDs for porn users
Study featuring AI-generated giant rat penis retracted entirely, journal apologizes (www.vice.com)
Study featuring AI-generated giant rat penis retracted entirely, journal apologizes::A peer-reviewed study featured nonsensical AI images including a giant rat penis in the latest example of how generative AI has seeped into academia.