Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge (arstechnica.com)
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron (arstechnica.com)
Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency (arstechnica.com)
Automated background removal was also added recently.
Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled (arstechnica.com)
One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion (arstechnica.com)
Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
I left a couple of months ago. Couldn’t be happier....
Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts (arstechnica.com)
Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won’t work on another device....
Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art (arstechnica.com)
I’ve generally been against giving AI works copyright, but this article presented what I felt were compelling arguments for why I might be wrong. What do you think?
Fairphone 3 gets 7 years of updates, besting every other Android OEM (arstechnica.com)
Thoughts?
Report: Potential NYT lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: nom.mom/post/121481...
People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality (arstechnica.com)
FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard (arstechnica.com)
Aww … poor little ISPs.
Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately (arstechnica.com)
John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, the company whose 3D game engine had recently seen backlash from developers over proposed fee structures, will retire as CEO, president, and board chairman at the company, according to a press release issued late on a Monday afternoon, one many observe as a holiday.
Judge rules White House pressured social networks to “suppress free speech” (arstechnica.com)
A federal judge yesterday ordered the Biden administration to halt a wide range of communications with social media companies, siding with Missouri and Louisiana in a lawsuit that alleges Biden and his administration violated the First Amendment by colluding with social networks "to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and...
US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art (arstechnica.com)
Controversial AI art piece from 2022 lacks human authorship required for registration.
Teen’s death after eating a single chip highlights risks of ultra-spicy foods (arstechnica.com)
The hot pepper linked to teen's death can cause arteries in the brain to spasm.
Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment (arstechnica.com)
Fairphone 5 - The Ars Technica Review (arstechnica.com)
Apple’s new iPhone 15 Pro gets new chips, better cameras, and a titanium frame (arstechnica.com)
SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million (arstechnica.com)
Film companies demand names of Reddit users who discussed piracy in 2011 (arstechnica.com)
Firefox lost users during “failed” Yahoo search deal, says Mozilla CEO (arstechnica.com)
Baker’s testimony shows that Mozilla depends so much on its deal with Google for revenue that “the biggest loser of a DOJ win in the Google case would be Mozilla.”