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Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )

I left a couple of months ago. Couldn't be happier....

Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade ( arstechnica.com )

Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade::North American sales are bad for everyone, except, miraculously, Google.

A partial car substitute? Trek’s new cargo bike, reviewed ( arstechnica.com )

Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency ( arstechnica.com )

Automated background removal was also added recently.

FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” ( arstechnica.com )

It’s about time that Intuit was called out for their scam. Hopefully, the attempt to stop the federal tax filing will get dismissed as well.

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome ( arstechnica.com )

Google is killing Play Movies & TV, will only have three video stores left ( arstechnica.com )

As X bleeds cash, Musk threatens Anti-Defamation League with defamation lawsuit — Musk claimed that ADL could be “on the hook” for $22B in X losses ( arstechnica.com )

As X bleeds cash, Musk threatens Anti-Defamation League with defamation lawsuit — Musk claimed that ADL could be “on the hook” for $22B in X losses::Musk claimed that ADL could be "on the hook" for $22B in X losses.

Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail ( arstechnica.com )

Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail::Judge also denied SBF's request to delay jail time.

Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best ( arstechnica.com )

Most of the 100 million people who signed up for Threads stopped using it ( arstechnica.com )

Most of the 100 million people who signed up for Threads stopped using it::"We're seeing more people coming back daily than I'd expected," Zuckerberg said.

Boeing has now lost $1.1 billion on Starliner, with no crew flight in sight ( arstechnica.com )

Boeing has now lost $1.1 billion on Starliner, with no crew flight in sight::"We're not really ready to talk about a launch opportunity yet."

Android phones can now tell you if there’s an AirTag following you ( arstechnica.com )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/795697...

Man open-sources the self-repairable AirPods Pro case that Apple won’t make ( arstechnica.com )

Man open-sources the self-repairable AirPods Pro case that Apple won’t make::The AirPods Pro "could have been easily made repairable with minimal effort."