Green energy/tech reporter, graphic artist and vandweller.
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Green energy/tech reporter, graphic artist and vandweller.
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Online Content Is Disappearing ( www.pewresearch.org )
cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/25166889
Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away ( arstechnica.com )
I hate to go as cliche as "surprising absolutely no one," but really, this is not a surprise.
Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot ( arstechnica.com )
18+ Proxy Raye: an alternative frontend for adult websites
SEX SEX SEX PROXY ALT-FRONTEND...
Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Archive link
Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking ( arstechnica.com )
Surely the clearest path to retaining only the best.
I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun ( www.spacebar.news )
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track ( arstechnica.com )
Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling ( arstechnica.com )
The truly shocking thing to me is that any voters believe the ISP's arguments and are ... I guess fine with a portion of their monthly bills being earmarked for litigation to make their consumer experience ever worse....
Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers ( www.theverge.com )
AI unicorn Inflection abandons its ChatGPT challenger as CEO Mustafa Suleyman joins Microsoft ( www.forbes.com.au )
“While no one predicted this specific outcome, we shouldn’t be surprised,” added the investor Benaich. “If antitrust regulators make [mergers and acquisitions] prohibitively difficult, we should expect these bizarre semi-exits to become more common.”
Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet ( arstechnica.com )
Ars provides this asterisk:...
Once Again, Ron Wyden Had To Stop Bad “Protect The Children” Internet Bills From Moving Forward ( www.techdirt.com )
Wyden has been spectacular on actually understanding tech issues for a very long time at this point. The gerontocracy needs to stop acting like they have any clue how the internet works....
On DMA eve, Google whines, Apple sounds alarms, and TikTok wants out ( arstechnica.com )
As a general rule, when trillion-dollar companies don't like regulation, it simply means they're admitting the rules are good for their customers.
Generative AI Tools Now Advanced Enough to Mislead Voters, Researchers Show ( www.extremetech.com )
Not much to add here, given the opening dependent clause.
Elon Musk’s Vegas Tunnel Project Has Been Racking Up Safety Violations ( www.bloomberg.com )
archive.is link...
Large Language Models Are Drunk at the Wheel ( matt.si )
A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO ( www.theverge.com )
Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control ( www.wired.com )
That graphic sums up my entire educational experience....
Report: 75K loyal Redditors can snag shares before Reddit goes public ( arstechnica.com )
This is one of the more scathing pieces to come out on Ars about Reddit. As the site did not respond to inquiries, all that was available to report on was profoundly negative statements that Advance is unlikely to enjoy seeing.
Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating ( www.spacebar.news )
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement ( www.anildash.com )
"Open Source Windows" ReactOS just got better GUI install setup, no GPT yet ( www.neowin.net )
Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead ( arstechnica.com )
The Cult of AI: How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future ( www.rollingstone.com )
From the (middle of the) story: The reason CES was so packed with random “AI”-branded products was that sticking those two letters to a new company is seen as something of a talisman, a ritual to bring back the (VC) rainy season.
Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse ( arstechnica.com )
23andMe’s Fall From $6 Billion to Nearly $0 ( archive.fo )
Your next Windows PC may need at least 16GB of RAM ( www.ghacks.net )
Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 ( arstechnica.com )
Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees ( www.theverge.com )
But there may be more, and it’s possible that Google is attempting to spread out the bad news instead of having it hit all at once.
You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds ( gizmodo.com )
For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.
New solid state battery charges in minutes, lasts for thousands of cycles ( www.pv-magazine.com )
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new lithium metal battery that can be charged and discharged at least 6,000 times — more than any other pouch battery cell — and can be recharged in a matter of minutes....
Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees ( www.theverge.com )
So it continues.
Why Linux is Best for Most People ( medium.com )