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A lot of Reddit will go dark soon in protest of API changes

Inundated with complaints, Tesla created "Diversion Team" to cancel appointments.

Yesterday, I was reading a thread that asked what's the point of buying a new phone as often as as people do. In the comments there were a variety of answers, but what interested me is that there were a wide variety of answers for how long each person liked to go before upgrading. So I've attempted to come up with justifications...

Twitter’s dying, Reddit’s changing, everything else is entertainment – and there’s nowhere left to hang out.

Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.

The battle between Reddit and its CEO continues. With that battle continuing on, ActivityPubs user count continues to soar.

Someone used Midjourney to AI-generate images of politicians cheating on their spouses — though claims that it was well-intentioned.

An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.

The irony is not lost on us.

A nonprofit organization that researches links between social media, hate and extremism has been threatened with a lawsuit by X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

Bluesky, a decentralized Twitter-like social network, is pausing new signups “temporarily” to try and resolve performance issues it’s been experiencing after Twitter introduced limits on the amount of tweets you can see in a day. Even though you still need an invite code to be able to join Bluesky, it seems that the influx...

Google has quietly deprecated the Messages and Dialer apps in AOSP, and it could have ramifications for upstart brands and custom ROM fans.

The pivot-to-video strategy, which has been attempted and failed at by countless content companies, has its own Wikipedia page.

Robots presented at an AI forum said on Friday they expected to increase in number and help solve global problems, and would not steal humans' jobs or rebel against us.

A U.S. Air Force general said Thursday the Pentagon's artificial intelligence ethics are better than adversaries' because "our society is a Judeo-Christian society."

"The chatbot gave wildly different answers to the same math problem, with one version of ChatGPT even refusing to show how it came to its conclusion."...

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.

Everyone needs to read this.

Proponents boast that 802.11bb is 100 times faster than Wi-Fi and more secure.

Since its inception, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the flying billionaires heads up in the clouds who don't give a fuck for life offtheline

A tentative but less nebulous step toward superconductor-fueled electronics.

Starlink satellites can disturb observation even of those telescopes protected by radio-quiet zones.

Everything worked fine until Elon Musk took over.