Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED ( www.wired.com )
Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.
Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' ( www.businessinsider.com )
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...
DuckDuckGo is down. Is there any info about it?? ( lemmy.world )
Update: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-outage-affects-bing-copilot-duckduckgo-and-chatgpt-internet-search/...
Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week ( www.tomshardware.com )
Microsoft has been pushing hard for its users to sign into Windows with a Microsoft Account. The newest Windows 11 installer removed the easy bypass to the requirement that you make an account or login with your existing account. If you didn't install Windows 11 without a Microsoft Account and now want to stop sending the...
Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats ( stackdiary.com )
Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.
Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings ( www.cnbc.com )
At an all-hands meeting last week, Google executives responded to employee questions about declining morale even with financial performance improving.
HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware ( www.tomshardware.com )
On May 26, a user on HP's support forums reported that a forced, automatic BIOS update had bricked their HP ProBook 455 G7 into an unusable state. Subsequently, other users have joined the thread to sound off about experiencing the same issue....
Tesla is being investigated by the DOJ for securities and wire fraud by making misleading self-driving claims ( arstechnica.com )
Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away ( arstechnica.com )
The study (PDF), published this month by University of Chicago and University of Michigan researchers and reported by The Washington Post on Sunday, says:...
Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation ( www.theverge.com )
A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates....
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.
How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas ( sherwood.news )
Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns ( gizmodo.com )
How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion ( www.arktrek.shop )
Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower ( hub.jhu.edu )
EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones ( www.theverge.com )
Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams ( arstechnica.com )
1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog ( blog.mozilla.org )
The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to...
'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign? ( www.dailydot.com )
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Online Content Is Disappearing ( www.pewresearch.org )
Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web ( www.theverge.com )
EU attempt to sneak through new encryption-eroding law slammed by Signal, politicians ( www.theregister.com )
Steam announces game recording beta. ( store.steampowered.com )
Basically nvidia shadowplay for linux
Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. ( www.xataka.com )
