From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression-Prone: We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You (themarkup.org)
A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” used to target consumers based on highly specific, sometimes intimate information and inferences...
How do I fix resolution on an old monitor?
So I picked up a iiyama ProLite b2409HDS monitor (released 2009 I think?) the other day (out of my apartment's bin room, someone was moving out I think) and it's supposedly 1080p but looks horrendous!...
Which futuristic technology would you accept in or on your body and why?
I would definitely not use any technologies that use internet or can be hacked remotely. But I would accept some that would help my life significantly.
FreeBSD Celebrating Its 30th Anniversary (www.phoronix.com)
This month the FreeBSD project is celebrating its 30th anniversary since this open-source BSD operating system project was established.
Website Owners Say Traffic Is Plunging After Facebook Algorithm Change (gizmodo.com)
With no communication from the company, publishers relying on Facebook traffic are at the mercy of the inscrutable algorithm. Data shows an apparent change at Facebook in May caused website traffic to tank at some news sites.
Reddit claimed to have been hacked by BlackCat, and it has threatened to leak the data (www.neowin.net)
Further to Reddit's recent woes since the announcement of the API pricing change, claims have surfaced that it has suffered a data breach at the hands of BlackCat , with 80GB of zipped data taken.
The Shape of Interfaces to Come (medium.com)
Reddit CEO defiant as moderator strike shutters thousands of forums: 'We made a business decision that we’re not negotiating on' (fortune.com)
"Protest and dissent is important,” Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told the AP. “The problem with this one is it’s not going to change anything."
Apple knows phones are screwing up your eyes so it introduced a feature to help (www.phonearena.com)
iOS 17's Screen Distance feature will display a warning whenever you get too close to your phone.
Reddit’s average daily traffic fell during blackout, according to third-party data | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
On the day before the Reddit blackout began on June 12th, Similarweb logged more than 57 million daily visits to the platform.
Intel to invest $25 billion in Israel factory in record deal, Netanyahu says (www.reuters.com)
U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp will spend $25 billion on a new factory in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, calling it the largest-ever international investment in the country.
New Google lawsuit aims to curb fake business reviews (www.reuters.com)
Good, there's always a bunch of fake astroturfed reviews.
UC Irvine scientists create long-lasting, cobalt-free, lithium-ion batteries (news.uci.edu)
Is there some existing file format for MIDI 2.0? If not, then anybody there to spec it out with me?
I gave my game engine the capability of handling software synthesizers, and those software synthesizers also can receive MIDI 2.0 commands. While my engine does already have a MIDI 1.0 sequencer, it needs some workarounds....
Reuters :press: (@Reuters@press.coop): WATCH: An electric flying saucer takes a test run in China’s Shenzhen city. (press.coop)
Developed by Shenzhen UFO Power Technology, the flying saucer is equipped with 12 propeller blades surrounding the pilot seat in the middle of the craft #press
Viture XR Glasses (Dock Pack) Review | MMORPG.com (www.mmorpg.com)
VR is bigger than ever, but the Viture XR Dock Pack provides you with a personal 120-inch OLED screen all without blocking out the world around you. It's more than a little impressive.
Why AI Will Save the World | Andreessen Horowitz (a16z.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1353965...
European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries (www.techspot.com)
Among the many changes, the new rules would require batteries in consumer devices like smartphones to be easily removable and replaceable. That's far from the case today...
An Anti-Porn App Put Him in Jail and His Family Under Surveillance (www.wired.com)
On a Wednesday morning in May, Hannah got a call from her lawyer—there was a warrant out for her husband’s arrest. Her thoughts went straight to her kids. They were going to come home from school and their father would be gone. “It burned me,” Hannah says, her voice breaking. “He hasn’t done anything to get his bond...
Microsoft is getting rid of the following File Explorer features on Windows 11 (www.windowscentral.com)
You can say goodbye to these legacy File Explorer options on Windows 11
Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout (join-lemmy.org)
Twitter Runs Ads for Disney, Microsoft, NBA Alongside Neo-Nazi Videos (gizmodo.com)
Ads from household-name brands and nonprofits are appearing beside clips of a film blaming Jews for causing World War II.
Using AI apps to find Nasca geoglyphs (phys.org)
A team of archaeologists from Yamagata University, IBM Japan and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne used an artificial intelligence application to locate previously unknown Nasca geoglyphs. In their study, reported in Journal of Archaeological Science, the group used a variety of data sources to teach an AI app.
Any decentralized search engine?
Recently I'm interested in decentralized technologies such as Kbin from Reddit. And I wonder what about search engine....