Wildfire smoke slashed solar power generation (www.theverge.com)
Climate disasters are putting more pressure on power grids.
It’s not just you — flights are getting more turbulent (www.theverge.com)
How climate change makes flight turbulence worse
Twitch’s new Partner Plus tier outlines what it takes to get a 70 / 30 revenue sharing split (www.theverge.com)
Twitch is introducing a new “Partner Plus” program that will give streamers an increased 70 percent of the share of their subscription revenues — up to the first $100,000 brought in each year — with Twitch taking the other 30 percent....
A San Francisco library is turning off Wi-Fi at night to keep people without housing from using it (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft is no longer making Xbox One games (www.theverge.com)
Its the end of an era.
Google’s EU launch of AI chatbot Bard delayed by privacy concerns (www.theverge.com)
Google wanted to launch Bard in the EU this week but has to wait to answer concerns over its data privacy practices. It’s not clear what the exact objections are.
The Cleaners is a riveting documentary about how social media might be ruining the world (www.theverge.com)
Ostensibly The Cleaners is about the outsourced workers that these companies use to determine whether photos and videos that have been shared online should be allowed to stay there. The film tracks a handful of people based in Manila that spend their days looking at terrorist videos, political propaganda, self-harm videos, and...
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman tells employees to block out the “noise” and that the ongoing blackout of thousands of subreddits will eventually pass (www.theverge.com)
Embracer announces restructuring plan (www.theverge.com)
This may affect Star Trek Online, as Embracer bought Cryptic Studios back in '21. According to Verge, the restructuring "will include shutting down or selling off studios, halting or pausing development on games, and cutbacks to spending more generally."
Texas bans kids from social media without parental consent (www.theverge.com)
EU suggests breaking up Google’s ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling (www.theverge.com)
The European Commission targets Google’s core business.
EU suggests breaking up Google’s ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling (www.theverge.com)
The European Commission has made a formal antitrust complaint against Google and its ad business. In a preliminary opinion, the regulator says Google has abused its dominant position in the digital advertising market. It says that forcing Google to sell off parts of its business may be the only remedy, if the company is found...
[VERGE] How to start a smart home using Home Assistant (www.theverge.com)
[ sourced from The Verge ]
[VERGE] Google’s EU launch of AI chatbot Bard delayed by privacy concerns (www.theverge.com)
[ sourced from The Verge ]
[VERGE] Microsoft Teams integration is being removed from Windows 11 (www.theverge.com)
[ sourced from The Verge ]
Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts (www.theverge.com)
A Reddit result in Google might take you to a private page now
[VERGE] Pour one out for HDDs because PC games are starting to require SSDs (www.theverge.com)
[ sourced from The Verge ]
Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass” (www.theverge.com)
“There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well”
AWS us-east-1 outage again (www.theverge.com)
Remember: "friends don't let friends use us-east-1"
[VERGE] Twitter sued for $250 million by music publishers over ‘massive’ copyright infringement (www.theverge.com)
[ sourced from The Verge ]
Embracer was not the one group to rule them all after $2 billion deal falls through (www.theverge.com)
The company has announced a big restructuring.
Sony starts testing cloud streaming PS5 games (www.theverge.com)
I feel like it's hard enough to stream PS1-PS3 games without some crazy lag, depending on where you are and how things are. I can't imagine how choppy and insane it's gonna be to do a PS5 game, not to mention the bandwidth it would take has to be insane, right?...
Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts (www.theverge.com)
[VERGE] It’s not just you: Steam suddenly looks nice (www.theverge.com)
[ sourced from The Verge ]
Anker’s new Solix home solar battery system is a modular version of Tesla’s Powerwall (www.theverge.com)
