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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
If you can, use Firefox.
AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt (www.theverge.com)
Queer.af mastodon domain has been seized by the Taliban (mastodon.world)
Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption (www.tomshardware.com)
Skyrocketing bluesky engagement since opening to the public (lemmy.world)
How Quora Died (slate.com)
“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most...
Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars (electrek.co)
Police Departments Are Turning to AI to Sift Through Millions of Hours of Unreviewed Body-Cam Footage (www.propublica.org)
Any suggestions for overcoming addiction to capitalist big tech social media and streaming etc?
I've tried getting into peertube to have something to watch. I'm exploring copyleft music on open audio / funkwhale. I'm on here in lemmy as of this week. I'm playing with mastodon and the fediverse. I've tried studying psychology and psychology-adjacent territory like Deleuze and Guattari and Foucault and Derrida so I can break...
America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars: Whatever kind of EV you might want, chances are China has it. (www.theatlantic.com)
German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems (www.techspot.com)
Elon Musk's Neuralink implants brain tech in human patient for the first time (www.cnbc.com)
Hackers Crack Tesla Twice, Rake in $1.3 Million at Pwn2Own Automotive (www.hackread.com)
The floppy disk refused to die in Japan - laws that forced the continued use of floppies have finally hit the chopping block (www.tomshardware.com)
Biden Expected to Announce Billions in Chip Subsidies, WSJ Says (www.bloomberg.com)
Biden Expected to Announce Billions in Chip Subsidies, WSJ Says::The Biden administration is expected to soon announce billions of dollars in new subsidies to chipmakers including Intel Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing as part efforts to reshore production, the Wall Street Journal reported.
NASA invented wheels that never get punctured (www.zmescience.com)
NASA invented wheels that never get punctured::Would you use this type of tire?
Beeper’s push for iMessage on Android is really over (www.theverge.com)
White House calls for legislation after ‘alarming’ proliferation of Taylor Swift deepfakes — Social media networks also need to do more to prevent the spread of the images, said press secretary Kar... (www.bloomberg.com)
White House calls for legislation after ‘alarming’ proliferation of Taylor Swift deepfakes — Social media networks also need to do more to prevent the spread of the images, said press secretary Kar...::The White House said sexually-explicit AI-generated images of pop star Taylor Swift were concerning and that Congress...
Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox (www.theverge.com)
Apple plans to charge fees for sideloading (9to5mac.com)
Who would've thought? This isn’t going to fly with the EU....
Netflix is turning into cable TV (www.theverge.com)
Netflix is turning into cable TV::After the loss of behind-the-scenes talent and the acquisition of rights to WWE, Netflix is starting to feel more and more like basic cable.
Training Generative AI Models on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use - Change My Mind (mastodon.lawprofs.org)
I fucked with the title a bit. What i linked to was actually a mastodon post linking to an actual thing. but in my defense, i found it because cory doctorow boosted it, so, in a way, i am providing the original source here....
Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source (futurism.com)
"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that AI will soon need even more energy.