Mark Zuckerberg delivers on promise to pour 'gasoline' on Threads growth as the platform regains users while X shrinks social media Article 597 words 21 votes
Automated translation programs cause problems with US asylum cases, make 'insane' mistakes Link 8 votes
Opinion by Brian Merchant: I’ve always loved tech. Now, I’m a Luddite. You should be one, too. Article 1165 words 69 votes
TikTok fined record £300m for putting children’s privacy at risk social media privacy Article 352 words 28 votes
How Barstool built an empire by swiping sports highlights and music clips online internet Article 2827 words 14 votes
EU ‘gatekeeper’ list has five American and no European companies apple google browsers microsoft Article 570 words 43 votes
How telling people to die became normal - merciless trolling is a fact of online life that may never go away social media Article 2446 words 37 votes
Google Gemini eats the world – Gemini smashes GPT-4 by 5X, the GPU-poors google.gemini Article 1976 words 9 votes
A developer built a 'propaganda machine' using OpenAI tech to highlight the dangers of mass-produced AI disinformation Article 494 words 27 votes
Fairphone 5 - Android updates for five years and at least eight years of security updates; possibly upto ten years, keeping the phone active until 2033 android Article 376 words 57 votes
Apple’s decision to kill its CSAM photo-scanning tool sparks fresh controversy apple privacy security Article 585 words 24 votes
Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats social media Article 2235 words 36 votes
Black Twitter abandons Musk's X. The influential online community that gave rise to social movements like #BlackLivesMatter is now a ‘digital diaspora’ in search of a new home. social media Article 1959 words, published Aug 6 2023 66 votes
How Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—four billionaire techno-oligarchs—are creating an alternate, autocratic reality Article 3042 words, published Aug 22 2023 31 votes
Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation social media Article 2646 words 35 votes
A data breach at Christie’s revealed exact GPS coordinates of collectors’ artworks Article 882 words, published Aug 21 2023 25 votes
Canada demands Facebook lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing facebook social media Article 228 words 51 votes
Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes social media facebook Article 609 words 79 votes
With growing demand for Nvidia's GPU chips there might not be enough to go around Article 484 words 24 votes
How to move your Instagram feed to Pixelfed, the photo app that doesn't track your every move social media privacy Article 221 words 41 votes
White House unveils ban on US investment in Chinese tech sectors linked to the military Article 599 words 41 votes
The cloud is a prison. Can the local-first software movement set us free? Article 3224 words 35 votes
Meta has long fought Europe's demands that it get people's consent before using their data for targeted ads – then a Norwegian regulator threatened daily fines social media facebook privacy Article 543 words 51 votes
Twitter threatens legal action against US nonprofit that tracks hate speech social media Article 425 words 113 votes
Get the lowdown on 'e/acc' — Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about progress at all costs, which has been embraced by Marc Andreessen Article 737 words 32 votes
‘Not for machines to harvest’: Data revolts break out against AI internet social media Article 1705 words 40 votes
Apple tests ‘Apple GPT,’ develops generative AI tools to catch OpenAI privacy microsoft apple.gpt google.cloud Article 17 votes
AI often mangles African languages. A network of thousands of coders and researchers is working to develop translation tools that understand their native languages Link 17 votes
Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme social media Article 1141 words 70 votes
Portland radio station now has an AI DJ as a midday host Article 326 words, published Jun 16 2023 14 votes
Why we don’t recommend Ring cameras: They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes amazon security.home Article 761 words 29 votes
Telstra’s Starlink deal could signal a new era of connectivity in hard-to-reach places internet.satellite Article 1698 words 7 votes