Twitter US ad sales plunged 59%, and internal forecasts are grim, NYT reports (arstechnica.com)
Why EA Sports and Nike think gaming NFTs can really work this time (arstechnica.com)
FTC: Amazon/Ring workers illegally spied on users of home security cameras (arstechnica.com)
Oh look, that thing they said definitely wasn’t happening was happening…
Google will start deleting inactive accounts after two years (arstechnica.com)
“A Really Big Deal”—Dolly is a Free, Open Source, ChatGPT-Style AI Model (arstechnica.com)
IBM plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI over time, pauses hiring certain positions (arstechnica.com)
"In supposedly gauging what the 'ecosystem' wants, all Google is really doing is asking itself what Google wants." (arstechnica.com)
Nvidia’s GameStream is dead. Sunshine and Moonlight are great replacements. (arstechnica.com)
System Shock gets May 30 PC release date. (arstechnica.com)
Fond memories of the original. Happy to see it might be finally out there.
Kombucha cultures can be turned into flexible electric circuit boards (arstechnica.com)
Valve used secret memory access “honeypot” to detect 40K Dota 2 cheaters (arstechnica.com)
Mysterious leak of Booking.com reservation data is being used to scam customers (arstechnica.com)
Google announces official Android support for RISC-V (arstechnica.com)
Death to passwords: Beta passkey support comes to Chrome and Android - But there are still unanswered questions about lock-ins (arstechnica.com)
Big Tech wants to kill the password, with “Passkeys” being the hot, new password replacement standard on the block. Passkeys are backed by Google, Apple, Microsoft, and the FIDO Alliance, so expect to see them everywhere soon. iOS picked up the standard in version 16, and now Google is launching passkey betas on Chrome and...
GeForce GPUs are 80% of EVGA’s revenue—but it’s cutting ties with Nvidia anyway (arstechnica.com)
How sustainable are fake meats? (Spoiler: much better than real meat/dairy) (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/458886...
Review: Playdate earns its $179 price tag with cute design, memorable games (arstechnica.com)
The cute, portable, and banana yellow $179 Playdate console is now shipping to its first batch of preorder customers, so we’re now free to review the quirkiest gaming system in years.
Is Firefox OK? Mozilla’s privacy-heavy browser is flatlining but still crucial to future of the web. (arstechnica.com)
100 million and counting: Nintendo affirms that Switch is still mid-cycle (arstechnica.com)
Members of Activision’s Raven Software QA team form a union (arstechnica.com)
Fairphone still updating old handsets (arstechnica.com)
Fair play; I don’t own a Fairphone, and I’m hoping to keep my current Android alive long enough to be able to go straight to a Linux phone. But this is another demonstration of why it’s good to support outliers
