technology

Technical debt (hexbear.net)

China Intensifies Push to ‘Delete America’ From Its Technology (www.wsj.com)

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Qualcomm confirms that Huawei no longer need its chips (www.gizchina.com)

Company Brags About Using Smart Device Microphone Audio to Target Ads on Their Podcast (www.404media.co)

It's wild to see the contrast between this Yang Wang EV and all the ongoing news with the cybertruck. (www.tiktok.com)

Cars bad...

Am I wrong though? (hexbear.net)

Am I wrong though 2 (hexbear.net)

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Huawei is not a remarkable Chinese company. It's a typical Chinese company. That's the problem for US. (www.youtube.com)

I Went To China And Drove A Dozen Electric Cars. Western Automakers Are Cooked (insideevs.com)

What a Zoom cashier 8,000 miles away can tell us about the future of work: Is a new age of digital offshoring coming? (www.vox.com)

To put a human face on the way technology changes jobs, visit a fried chicken spot called Sansan Chicken in New York City’s East Village. There, the cashier takes your order over Zoom, from over 8,000 miles away in the Philippines. Another worker in the kitchen slides your order through a small window when it’s ready. These...

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry (futurism.com)

We first heard of AdVon last year, after staff at Gannett noticed product reviews getting published on the website of USA Today with bylines that didn’t seem to correspond to real people. The articles were stilted and formulaic, leading the writers’ union to accuse them of being “shoddy AI.”...

Nintendo is done paying Elon Musk for X integration: The platform reportedly charges API fees starting at $42,000 monthly. (www.engadget.com)

Nintendo has apparently had enough of X’s (Twitter’s) API fees. The Mario maker said on Wednesday that starting on June 10, direct integration from the Switch’s image album to Elon Musk’s Nazi-curious platform will no longer work. With Nintendo’s departure, all three major console makers have pulled the plug on native...

Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk’s X (www.theguardian.com)

The Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has left the board of Bluesky, the decentralised social network he helped start, and encouraged users to remain on his first site, now owned by Elon Musk and called X....

getting progressively pissed at the android phone market

I’ve been looking at phones to replace my Pixel 4a as the battery goes and it becomes increasingly silly to get it replaced instead of getting something new. I don’t like huge phones, which i consider to be anything over ~6.2". Everything under that is either:...

[Not the Onion] Microsoft launches AI chatbot for spies (arstechnica.com)

Saying the quiet part loud (hexbear.net)

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Smells like freedom. (hexbear.net)

SpaceX Dragon controls use Chromium and JavaScript. (www.infoq.com)

Intel officially introduces pay-as-you-go chip licensing for servers. Intel's Xeon Sapphire Rapids CPUs to activate additional features on demand. (www.tomshardware.com)

The final paragraph...

Windows 11 is losing market share to Windows 10 (www.pcgamer.com)

lmao...

Amazon Hikes Profits by Forcing Ads on PAID Prime Subscribers (www.youtube.com)

Tesla staff say firm's entire Supercharger team fired (www.bbc.com)

spoilerTesla has fired its entire Supercharger division, staff who worked in the team say. There are over 50,000 Superchargers globally, the company says, making it the world’s largest fast-charging network for electric vehicles. Boss Elon Musk said the firm would cut one in ten jobs, as it faces strong competition from less...

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