Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges ( www.theverge.com )
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/1874605...
The era of cheap streaming is officially over ( www.cnn.com )
Madison Reeves on why she left LMG ( threadreaderapp.com )
Fairphone Fairbuds launch with replaceable batteries, titanium drivers and ANC ( www.notebookcheck.net )
Internet developments have gone from exciting to dreadful.
Idk if this is the right community for this conversation, but it’s been on my mind and I want to share it with someone....
YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked ( arstechnica.com )
New Anti-Consumer MacBook Pros - Teardown And Repair Assessment - Apple Silicon M1/M2 ( youtu.be )
No surprises here. Just like the lockdown on iPhone screen and part replacements, Macbooks suffer from the same Apple’s anti-repair and anti-consumer bullshit. Battery glued, ssd soldered in and can’t even swap parts with other official parts. 6000$ laptop and you don’t even own it.
Google is already pushing Web Environment Integrity into Chromium ( github.com )
Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform ( techcrunch.com )
Remote Work to Wipe Out $800 Billion From Office Values, McKinsey Says ( www.bloomberg.com )
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As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal ( www.pcmag.com )
Price of solar dropped 89% in ten years ( ourworldindata.org )
Solar now being the cheapest energy source made its rounds on Lemmy some weeks ago, if I remember correctly. I just found this graphic and felt it was worth sharing independently....
New! From Google! "Enhanced" ad privacy! ( midwest.social )
Got this notification when I opened Chrome when coming back to my desk after lunch....
Microsoft is trying to convince Windows 10 users to upgrade with full-screen prompts ( www.theverge.com )
Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer ( treeherder.mozilla.org )
An AI Singer-Songwriter Just Debuted Her Original Song—And The Responses Are Just Brutal ( www.comicsands.com )
AI singer-songwriter ‘Anna Indiana’ debuted her first single ‘Betrayed by this Town’ on X, formerly Twitter—and listeners were not too impressed.
The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse (US focused) ( buttondown.email )
Charlie Jane Anders discusses KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act)....
Maybe later... how about never, you fucks?
It is endlessly frustrating that companies have universally decided that they won’t let people say “no” to stuff, ever. There are no longer options to reject stupid-ass new “features”, only postponement until next time you open the app/website/program. They’ll continue pestering you for the rest of your life. I...
DuckDuckGo CEO says Google kills competition through phone deals that make it hard for users to switch search engines ( fortune.com )
Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing ( www.techradar.com )
Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak ( www.neowin.net )
Reddit Advised to Target at Least $5 Billion Valuation in IPO ( www.bloomberg.com )
Fairphone 3 gets 7 years of updates, besting every other Android OEM ( arstechnica.com )
Thoughts?
Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem ( www.theverge.com )
Not a good look for Mastodon - what can be done to automate the removal of CSAM?
Musk failed to get the necessary permits to change Twitter’s building signage to X, and the police shut it down just in time for “er” to remain. ( mastodon.social )
The awesome Taylor Lorenz reports this on Mastadon. Highly recommend to follow her if you like these updates about what’s going on.
