Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 (arstechnica.com)
Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.
It’s time for Americans to embrace small cars (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself” (arstechnica.com)
European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls (arstechnica.com)
Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge (arstechnica.com)
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users (arstechnica.com)
Reddit embracing all out enshittification (arstechnica.com)
Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed...
Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles (arstechnica.com)
Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (arstechnica.com)
YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked (arstechnica.com)
Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says (arstechnica.com)
So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post (arstechnica.com)
Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron (arstechnica.com)
Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts (arstechnica.com)
Time to get out of Google Podcasts for anyone that is still using the service.
OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material (arstechnica.com)
Apparently, stealing other people’s work to create product for money is now “fair use” as according to OpenAI because they are “innovating” (stealing). Yeah. Move fast and break things, huh?...
Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause (arstechnica.com)
As if the Prime Video app couldn’t get any worse.
Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app (arstechnica.com)
Rabbit R1 AI box is actually an Android app in a limited $200 box, running on AOSP without Google Play....
Film studios demand IP addresses of people who discussed piracy on Reddit (arstechnica.com)
Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)
A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)
Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs (arstechnica.com)
Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown (arstechnica.com)
Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets (arstechnica.com)
But of course we all know that the big manufacturers don’t do this not because they can’t but because they don’t want to. Planned obsolescence is still very much the name of the game, despite all the bullshit they spout about sustainability.
