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Best Linux Distro For Playing On Steam?

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14762903...

Moral Crumple Zones: Crushing the Human to Preserve Venture Capital (papers.ssrn.com)

Moral Crumple Zones discusses how humans are used to absorb liability from automated systems....

Microsoft and IBM make MS-DOS 4.00 Open-Source (alternativeto.net)

The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down (www.theverge.com)

The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco (newrepublic.com)

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Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained (youtu.be)

Qualcomm benchmarking controversy: What's happening? (www.androidauthority.com)

ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US (www.androidauthority.com)

Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. (www.texasmonthly.com)

The “Texas Miracle” loses some of its magic as Oracle announces it’s moving its new HQ out of Austin and Tesla lays off nearly 2,700 workers.

Photo-sharing community EyeEm will license users' photos to train AI if they don't delete them (techcrunch.com)

Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL?

Next year Windows 10 goes End of Life. Microsoft will undoubtedly push windows 11 hard, but a lot of machines won’t support it leading to a few economic points of interest:...

WhatsApp Must Act to Protect Elections | foundation.mozilla.org (foundation.mozilla.org)

The link above is for the petition...

Discord Shuts Down ‘Spy Pet’ Bots That Scraped, Sold User Messages (www.404media.co)

Discord banned a mass of accounts that were part of a service that scraped and sold user data, including messages posted across servers and what voice channels they joined, 404 Media has learned. The move comes after https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/, called Spy Pet, last week and...

Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths (www.theverge.com)

A Baltimore-area teacher is accused of using AI to make his boss appear racist (www.npr.org)

WeTransfer beta will allow payment per download (feddit.it)

It reads: News! Set a price for your file and got the payment before they will be downloaded...

YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' (www.androidauthority.com)

YouTube first spoke about pause ads last year when it started trialing them in select regions. At the time, the company said that when you pause a video, it will shrink, and an ad will appear next to it....

Exclusive: ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)

Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not (arstechnica.com)

Earlier this year, Microsoft added a new key to Windows keyboards for the first time since 1994. Before the news dropped, your mind might’ve raced with the possibilities and potential usefulness of a new addition. However, the button ended up being a Copilot launcher button that doesn’t even work in an innovative way....

Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. (www.tomshardware.com)

A System to Remove Real-World Reflections from RAW Photos (arxiv.org)

“We describe a system to remove real-world reflections from images for consumer photography. Our system operates on linear (RAW) photos, with the (optional) addition of a contextual photo looking in the opposite direction, e.g., using the selfie camera on a mobile device, which helps disambiguate what should be considered the...

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