Google, after protester firings, now looks just like every other company (www.axios.com)
City officials in Brazil unanimously voted to pass a bill that was secretly written by ChatGPT in just 15 seconds | Business Insider (www.businessinsider.com)
Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March | Reuters (www.theverge.com)
Opinion: Seems that Reddit are trying to IPO again. This clearly isn’t good news for user privacy on reddit.
Unsold Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 lose blood oxygen monitoring in the US | XDA Developers (www.xda-developers.com)
PlayStation is cutting off X sharing options | The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft to share details on bringing Xbox games to PlayStation next week | The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Call of Duty didn’t top the yearly sales charts for one of the first times since 2009 | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
Google toyed with the idea of buying out Epic Games back before Stadia launched | 9to5Google (9to5google.com)
Google busted for paying Apple 36% of search revenue derived from Safari | Android Police (www.androidpolice.com)
YouTube begins testing new 'Ask' and 'Topics' generative AI features | Android Central (www.androidcentral.com)
X is reportedly selling usernames and handles for $50,000 | Mashable (mashable.com)
The copyright fight over Fortnite dance moves is back on | The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Windows 11 will throttle 'excessive' users of AI as Copilot rolls out | PCWorld (www.pcworld.com)
Microsoft quietly ends unlimited cloud storage option on OneDrive | Techradar (www.techradar.com)
Realme GT 6T will pack a 120Hz LTPO display | GSMArena (www.gsmarena.com)
Stretchable e-skin could give robots human-level touch sensitivity (techxplore.com)
Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO (www.techspot.com)
Reddit just got worse for everybody (youtu.be)
What is your news search engine?
Over the years news search engine of Google and Bing has become increasingly useless, where even quoting specific keywords of news I know exists yields no result and I am choked with unrelated trendy local news. So, I am looking for a better news search engine (bonus if it also searches blogs and is able to differentiate as...
Superstars or Black Holes: Are Tech Clusters Causing Stagnation? - American Affairs Journal (Pluto: An article about technology stagnation.) (americanaffairsjournal.org)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/1958803...
FINRA/SEC is asking their members to bring their employees back to the office (web.archive.org)
YouTube reportedly has an Apple Vision Pro app on its roadmap | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
CIA Vault7 WikiLeaks source sentenced 40 years (convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material) (www.aljazeera.com)
Ex-CIA software engineer who leaked to WikiLeaks sentenced to 40 years...
Virgin Media UK Update on Plan to Withdraw Upp’s Full Fibre | ISPReview (www.ispreview.co.uk)
Opinion: I am sad to see more consolidation in the UK broadband space. This also will be annoying for Upp customers who will be switched to Virgin.