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How the web became unreadable (infosec.pub)

YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users (www.androidauthority.com)

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)

Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike (www.vice.com)

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/719121...

Reddit is in danger of a death spiral (www.zdnet.com)

Huffman has said, "We are not in the business of giving that [Reddit's content] away for free." That stance makes sense. But it also ignores the reality that all of Reddit's content has been given to it for free by its millions of users. Further, it leaves aside the fact that the content has been orchestrated by its thousands of...

Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts (arstechnica.com)

California, the home to many of tech's biggest companies and the nation's most populous state, is pushing ahead with a right-to-repair bill for consumer electronics and appliances. After unanimous votes in the state Assembly and Senate, the bill passed yesterday is expected to move through a concurrence vote and be signed by...

US scientists achieve net energy gain for second time in a fusion reaction (www.theguardian.com)

Mozilla opposes Web Integrity API proposal (github.com)

No more ads on Elon’s X, EU Commission tells staff – POLITICO (www.politico.eu)

DuckDuckGo CEO says Google kills competition through phone deals that make it hard for users to switch search engines (fortune.com)

Here are the details on the grisly deaths of Elon Musk’s Neuralink monkeys (www.theverge.com)

Unity reportedly told dev Planned Parenthood and children's hospital are "not valid charities" (www.gamesindustry.biz)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/5555641...

Musk failed to get the necessary permits to change Twitter’s building signage to X, and the police shut it down just in time for “er” to remain. (mastodon.social)

The awesome Taylor Lorenz reports this on Mastadon. Highly recommend to follow her if you like these updates about what’s going on.

Musk says a 50% drop in ad revenue for Twitter is causing negative cash flow (www.phonearena.com)

Google's Manifest V3 changes will soon disable uBlock Origin on Chrome (www.androidauthority.com)

Price of solar dropped 89% in ten years (ourworldindata.org)

Solar now being the cheapest energy source made its rounds on Lemmy some weeks ago, if I remember correctly. I just found this graphic and felt it was worth sharing independently....

YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)

Google’s anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score | iFixit (www.ifixit.com)

ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule (arstechnica.com)

Archived version: archive.ph/JsTV6...

Internet providers that won FCC grants try to escape broadband commitments (arstechnica.com)

A group of Internet service providers that won government grants are asking the Federal Communication Commission for more money or an “amnesty window” in which they could give up grants without penalty....