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Pornhub now blocks access to users in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.

… On Saturday, the r/IAmA moderators announced that they will no longer perform these duties:...

Initial hopes of 1 million shipments in 2024 dashed by manufacturing problems.

After nearly three decades, the Ariane 5 rocket reaches the end of the line.

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would continue its put-ChatGPT-in-everything adventure with a new Windows 11 feature called Copilot. The company added generative AI to Edge and to the Bing-powered taskbar Search field months ago, but Copilot promises to be the most visible and hard-to-ignore version of Microsoft’s big...

Valve cites unclear legal status, copyrighted training data in rejection message.

Don't like this article 😠 posting it in search of rebuttals. The word "moderation" is not to be found anywhere in it.

I've been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey—I'm just going to use "Mastodon" as shorthand here; purists can bite me) for over a year now and have been doing so full time for about six months, following Elon Musk buying Twitter (since on principle, I decline to give Elon Musk money or attention). This...

Project Iris said to be scrapped as Google focuses on AR software.

New Gen 11 model fixes the worst of Gen 10's flaws, but not without compromises.

Starting in version 1.54, [the browser] Brave will automatically block website port scanning, a practice that a surprisingly large number of sites were found engaging in a few years ago. According to this list compiled in 2021 by a researcher who goes by the handle G666g1e, 744 websites scanned visitors’ ports, most or all...

cross-posted from: vlemmy.net/post/317922...