UN calls on tech and media to stop taking fossil fuel ad money — but gets nothing in response (www.theverge.com)
“Stop acting as enablers to planetary destruction.”...
Microsoft announces a disc-less Xbox Series X console in white (www.theverge.com)
The new console option won’t include a disc drive, and will be entirely all-digital. Inside it’s identical to the Xbox Series X, with the same performance for existing Xbox games. This new white model will be available with 1TB of storage later this year, priced at $449.99....
CEO of Zoom: what if we take deepfake fraud, right, and make it a push-button feature of Zoom (www.theverge.com)
Best Buy is shutting down its Samsung repair program (www.theverge.com)
Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in (www.theverge.com)
Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in (www.theverge.com)
Where the CHIPS Act money has gone (www.theverge.com)
Why the video game industry is such a mess (www.theverge.com)
YouTuber arrested on federal charges for his Lamborghini helicopter firework stunt (www.theverge.com)
Alex Choi faces up to 10 years in prison.
Seven Samurai is coming back to theaters with a new 4K restoration (www.theverge.com)
Tesla CEO Elon Musk could leave if $56 billion pay package not approved, shareholders warned (www.theverge.com)
Twitch is disbanding its Safety Advisory Council and will replace it with streamers (www.theverge.com)
This might beat OpenAI
The CEO of Zoom wants AI clones in meetings (www.theverge.com)
Zoom founder Eric Yuan has big ambitions in enterprise software, including letting your AI-powered ‘digital twins’ attend meetings for you.
It’s getting cheaper to filter carbon dioxide out of the air (www.theverge.com)
Meta’s AI is summarizing some bizarre Facebook comment sections (www.theverge.com)
Have you spotted Meta’s AI in the comment section?
Elon Musk is taking on Tesla “oathbreakers” in fight for his $56 billion pay package (www.theverge.com)
Vote yes or get branded an “oathbreaker.”
PayPal will use your purchase information and shopping patterns to sell targeted ads (www.theverge.com)
“If you’re someone who’s buying products on the web, we know who is buying the products where, and we can leverage the data,” Grether said in a statement to the WSJ. He also said that PayPal will receive shopping data from customers using its credit card in stores....
Live Nation took 11 days to confirm the massive Ticketmaster data breach (www.theverge.com)
Friday night is the best time to admit you’ve been hacked.
Windows feature that screenshots everything labeled a security “disaster” (www.theverge.com)
Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/16008490...
Kobo announces its first color e-readers (www.theverge.com)
Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation (www.theverge.com)
A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates....
The Biden administration relaxes another vehicle emission rule (www.theverge.com)
Fuel economy will go up 2 percent per year.
Google’s $2.3 million check helped the company get a trial by judge instead of jury (www.theverge.com)
The DOJ claims Google abuses its monopoly power over online ads.
Samsung Electronics workers strike for the first time ever (www.theverge.com)
Workers held a one-day walkout over pay.
