Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)
Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV (arstechnica.com)
Unsealed Documents Provide More Details On Federal Investigators’ YouTube Dragnet (www.techdirt.com)
Using StartAllBack? No Windows updates for you, says Microsoft (www.xda-developers.com)
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. (www.nytimes.com)
If the linked article has a paywall, you can access this archived version instead: archive.ph/aeQhP...
Academics reckon Apple's default apps have privacy pitfalls (www.theregister.com)
What web services do you subscribe to?
Really just curious what folks out there deem valuable enough to give money for monthly or annually. As a software engineer I have quite a few that keep me productive and I’ll list a few:...
Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs (www.404media.co)
Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)
A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...
The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline (arstechnica.com)
"Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally."
Looks like SEO chuds are now adding 'Reddit' to the titles. (www.marginalia.nu)
Weird netizens (blog.erlend.sh)
To free ourselves of our current predicament, we must simultaneously de-centralize and re-centralize identity....
Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. (mashable.com)
A shocking story was promoted on the “front page” or main feed of Elon Musk’s X on Thursday:...
Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV (arstechnica.com)
FCC won’t block California net neutrality law, says states can “experiment” (arstechnica.com)
Google Won’t Say Anything About Israel Using Its Photo Software to Create Gaza “Hit List” (theintercept.com)
The Israeli military has reportedly implemented a facial recognition dragnet across the Gaza Strip, scanning ordinary Palestinians as they move throughout the ravaged territory, attempting to flee the ongoing bombardment and seeking sustenance for their families....
Apple cuts hundreds of jobs after ditching the car project and more (www.theregister.com)
"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov (pluralistic.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14100831...
Here's the column Meta doesn't want you to see: Read the Kansas Reflector's piece about Facebook's climate change ad policy (www.thehandbasket.co)
Cory Doctorow on Search Engine Enshittification (pluralistic.net)
Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)
StoreDot’s EV battery cells achieve 2,000+ consecutive XFC cycles (electrek.co)
Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains (arstechnica.com)
A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....