I Went To China And Drove A Dozen Electric Cars. Western Automakers Are Cooked (insideevs.com)
Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk’s X (www.theguardian.com)
The Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has left the board of Bluesky, the decentralised social network he helped start, and encouraged users to remain on his first site, now owned by Elon Musk and called X....
getting progressively pissed at the android phone market
I’ve been looking at phones to replace my Pixel 4a as the battery goes and it becomes increasingly silly to get it replaced instead of getting something new. I don’t like huge phones, which i consider to be anything over ~6.2". Everything under that is either:...
[Not the Onion] Microsoft launches AI chatbot for spies (arstechnica.com)
Smells like freedom. (hexbear.net)
Saying the quiet part loud (hexbear.net)
independent.co.uk/…/blinken-romney-israel-hamas-t…
SpaceX Dragon controls use Chromium and JavaScript. (www.infoq.com)
Intel officially introduces pay-as-you-go chip licensing for servers. Intel's Xeon Sapphire Rapids CPUs to activate additional features on demand. (www.tomshardware.com)
The final paragraph...
Windows 11 is losing market share to Windows 10 (www.pcgamer.com)
lmao...
Amazon Hikes Profits by Forcing Ads on PAID Prime Subscribers (www.youtube.com)
Tesla staff say firm's entire Supercharger team fired (www.bbc.com)
spoilerTesla has fired its entire Supercharger division, staff who worked in the team say. There are over 50,000 Superchargers globally, the company says, making it the world’s largest fast-charging network for electric vehicles. Boss Elon Musk said the firm would cut one in ten jobs, as it faces strong competition from less...
So it's official. Neofetch is no longer being actively developed. (github.com)
WhatsApp did a little genocide. (hexbear.net)
middleeastmonitor.com/20240418-israel-using-metas…
Fediverse already has a Tiktok replacement in the works (loops.video)
Curious if it’ll gain any traction. The dev already has an instagram clone.
They're going to try to put AI in everything. (hexbear.net)
Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not | Ars Technica...
The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
My brother sent me this today, I only skimmed it but i guess the reason google REALLY sucks now is the guy who built their search engine got replaced by a managerial ratfucker whose previous experience was being head of yahoo search (lol)
Bad news people (hexbear.net)
It just so happens that everything I care so deeply about aligns with the DOD (hexbear.net)
Biden signs bill criticized as "major expansion of warrantless surveillance" (arstechnica.com)
Congress passed and President Biden signed a reauthorization of Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), approving a bill that opponents say includes a “major expansion of warrantless surveillance” under Section 702 of FISA....
Impressive (hexbear.net)
New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion (medium.com)
The Impact of Corporate Trolls on Reddit: A Growing Problem...
More genius engineering from the engineering genius (hexbear.net)
Google to workers: "this is a workplace, not college." (www.axios.com)
Edward Snowden: "The NSA is just 𝗗𝗔𝗬𝗦 from taking over the internet, and it's not on the front page of any newspaper--because no one has noticed." (twitter.com)
threadreaderapp.com/…/1779885123363635572.html...
Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)
