The Podcasts app is just the latest product to go through a process I’ve come to call The Google Cycle. It always goes the same way: the company launches a new service with grandiose language about how this fits its mission of organizing and making accessible the world’s information, quickly updates it with a couple of neat...
Billionaire Real Estate Mogul Hopes to Turn TikTok Into His Utopian Internet Dream (gizmodo.com)
Meta’s “set it and forget it” AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash (www.theverge.com)
The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake (www.techradar.com)
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Apple is reportedly planning a big AI-focused M4 Mac upgrade (www.theverge.com)
Researchers Develop Horrifying Face-Mimicking Robot (gizmodo.com)
Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon (www.pcworld.com)
Ransomware attackers are increasingly targeting backups — so make sure yours are protected (www.techradar.com)
Microsoft is working on an Xbox AI chatbot (www.theverge.com)
Google Podcasts is gone — and so is my faith in Google (www.theverge.com)
The Podcasts app is just the latest product to go through a process I’ve come to call The Google Cycle. It always goes the same way: the company launches a new service with grandiose language about how this fits its mission of organizing and making accessible the world’s information, quickly updates it with a couple of neat...
Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders (www.theverge.com)
Thunderbird goes from DEB to snap in Ubuntu 24.04 (www.linuxadictos.com)
Linux Mint 22 Adopts PipeWire, New Linux Kernel Cadence - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Could Google be using Reddit to revive an ancient, failed project? — 60,000+ Redditors may well be mTurk’ing for Google Answers 2.0 (www.techradar.com)
Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO (arstechnica.com)
Twiiit: A tool to find Nitter instances that haven't been ratelimited (twiiit.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/14982981
Firefox Sidebar Addon like Brave or Vivaldi?
There are tons of addons but they are all weird. I currently have lots of pinned tabs and would like to move those to a sidebar....
Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates (arstechnica.com)
One of Gaming’s Biggest YouTubers Wants to Replace Himself With AI (www.wired.com)
Ransomware attacks have doubled thanks to AI (www.techradar.com)
This new malware is going after Facebook Business accounts (www.techradar.com)
How to spot fake reviews online (www.bbc.com)