My blog cost USD44 a year (merecivilian.com)
Didn’t know VPSs could get that cheap
KDE's Amarok 3.0 Music Player Released After Six Year Hiatus - Now Ported To Qt5 (www.phoronix.com)
Released back in March of 2018 was the Amarok 2.9 music player for this KDE project. Shipping today is finally Amarok 3.0 as the first major release in six years and now ported to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
Google is losing it (lemmy.world)
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good (arstechnica.com)
Stubborn polystyrene waste finally gets innovative recycling solution (interestingengineering.com)
Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong (futurism.com)
Arizona lawmaker uses ChatGPT to help craft legislation to combat deepfakes (www.nbcnews.com)
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Meta will train AI with data from European users (stackdiary.com)
The only exception is private messages, and some users have reported difficulty opting out.
Rabbit Gaslit Me, So I Dug Deeper (youtu.be)
Coffeezilla asks: “Is the LAM a Scam? Down the rabbit hole we go.”
Rabbit Gaslit Me, So I Dug Deeper | Coffeezilla (yt.elonego.com)
Is the LAM a Scam? Down the rabbit hole we go
China's latest AI chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping's political ideology (apnews.com)
EU industry chief calls on US to adopt new tech regulations, encourage shared digital market (cbnumy.blogspot.com)
Microsoft starts bundling Windows 11 with its 'PC optimizer' app in some regions (www.neowin.net)
PC optimizers are not a new concept, and they have been around for quite a while. Nowadays, many consider them unnecessary, but having an official program made by Microsoft that is capable of (allegedly) speeding up your PC may sound quite appealing....
Linus Tech Tips (LTT) release investigation results on former accusations (x.com)
There were a series of accusations about our company last August from a former employee. Immediately following these accusations, LMG hired Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law, to conduct a third-party investigation. Their website describes them as “one of the largest...
Google Tries to Pay Off the Antitrust Division & said juries (normal people) cannot decide hard cases. (www.thebignewsletter.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15750986
‘Selective hearing’ headphones: Hear clearly in a crowd with one look (newatlas.com)
Hands-on look at the Daylight DC1, the tablet with a potentially game-changing display (www.androidauthority.com)
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https://hub.alfresco.com/t5/abuse/claritox-pro-reviews-new-ingredients-side-effects-official/m-p/359068#M34860...
Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy | Mozilla privacynotincluded (foundation.mozilla.org)
China will reportedly install cameras with a facial recognition system in Hungary (polishnews.co.uk)
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Samsung forces repair stores to destroy customer smartphones, iFixit ends cooperation (www.notebookcheck.net)
Freshly baked free HTML template. old school and MS DOS design (lemmy.sdf.org)
Another template on the theme of MS DOS...
Google’s AI Overviews are out of control (stackdiary.com)
Would you like a spicy spaghetti dish? Just use some gasoline.
You can now share passwords within your Google family group (www.theverge.com)
