Safety in typing, no cloud needed ( f-droid.org )
Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it ( www.theverge.com )
You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 ( arstechnica.com )
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it ( www.theverge.com )
Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract ( www.nbcnews.com )
"Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC."
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers ( www.theverge.com )
Kobo's new color E Ink eReaders start at only $150 ( www.pocket-lint.com )
Beeper Messaging App That Irked Apple Is Acquired by WordPress.com Owner ( www.bloomberg.com )
Automattic purchases Beeper in $125 million deal; CEO to join...
Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF ( littlegreenfootballs.com )
Citizen Lab: "Not only the Chinese government, but also US-based firms, are complicit in the political and religious censoring of content on China-accessible platforms" ( citizenlab.ca )
In its submission to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab gives recomnendations to hold Chinese and U.S. firms accountable for their involvement in online censorship and assisting victims of digital abuse and intimidation.
You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse ( wedistribute.org )
Um, yay?
Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers ( www.theverge.com )
Verge editor laments the perverse incentives of SEO rankings.
Hallucinated AI Dependencies as Vectors for Attack ( www.theregister.com )
Archive Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240330224149/https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/...
Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox ( arstechnica.com )
‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 ( www.techradar.com )
‘Significant security loophole’ found in Google software container system ( therecord.media )
The issue affected Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), a system used to deploy, scale and manage how applications are “containerized.” GKE — the tech giant’s implementation of the open-source Kubernetes project — is used widely in healthcare, education, retail and financial services for data processing as well as...
Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter ( www.theguardian.com )
New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion ( medium.com )
Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9762996
Flipboard is pivoting to ActivityPub and the fediverse ( www.theverge.com )
Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers ( www.engadget.com )
From the article: “In some ways, the current situation has spurred an arms race. YouTube has inadvertently improved ad blockers, as the new knowledge and techniques gained from innovating within the YouTube platform are also applicable to other ad and tracking systems.”
'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months ( theprogressplaybook.com )
Jitsi, the open-source video conferencing platform, now requires a Google, Microsoft, or Facebook account for their online service ( jitsi.org )
While Jitsi is open-source, most people use the platform they provide, meet.jit.si, for immediate conference calls. They have now introduced a "Know Your Customer" policy and require at least one of the attendees to log in with a Facebook, Github (Microsoft), or Google account....
What Does The Norwegian Meta Behavioral Ads Ban Really Mean? ( www.searchenginejournal.com )
The order on July 14 by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority imposes a country-wide three-month ban on personalized and behavioral ad targeting against Meta, starting August 2023. This means advertisers may see higher costs and lower relevance....
The Fall of Stack Overflow ( observablehq.com )
Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of questions and answers, as well as the number of votes these posts receive....
