Reddit Won’t Be the Same. Neither Will the Internet (www.wired.com)
Subreddits and third-party apps are going dark in response to Reddit’s proposed API changes. It’s the latest front in a labor battle between algorithms and the humans who feed them.
Air Pollution Is Deadlier Than You Think (www.wired.com)
Pornhub Accused of Illegal Data Collection (www.wired.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/VaZyg
Antarctic Sea Ice Is at Record Lows. Is It an Alarming Shift? (www.wired.com)
TikTok Keeps Removing Abortion Pill Content (www.wired.com)
Archive Link from archive.today...
ChatGPT’s Storytelling Chops Are No Match for Dungeons & Dragons (www.wired.com)
Cory Doctorow: The ‘Enshittification’ of [internet platforms like] TikTok (www.wired.com)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/487849...
The US Senate Wants to Reign In AI. Good Luck With That (www.wired.com)
cross-posted from: vlemmy.net/post/289714...
Deepfake Porn Reveals a ‘Pervert’s Dilemma' (www.wired.com)
Archive Link from archive.today...
The Wild World of Extreme Tourism for Billionaires (www.wired.com)
The Titan tragedy highlights the burgeoning trend of cavalier high-net-worth individuals exploring some of the most inhospitable places on Earth....
Update Your iPhone Right Now to Fix 2 Apple Zero Days (www.wired.com)
cross-posted from: vlemmy.net/post/245566...
Update Your iPhone Right Now to Fix 2 Apple Zero Days (www.wired.com)
cross-posted from: vlemmy.net/post/245566...
States With Abortion Bans Are Losing a Generation of Ob-Gyns (www.wired.com)
‘Building a Platform Like Twitter Is Not Difficult’ (www.wired.com)
'Midjourney Magazine' Is Here—and It’s Soulless (www.wired.com)
Filled almost entirely with AI-generated images, this magazine embodies the threat artificial intelligence poses to journalism.
The Reddit Blackout Is Breaking Reddit (www.wired.com)
The Reddit Blackout Is Breaking Reddit (www.wired.com)
“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”
How to Download Your Reddit Data and have full text search of it offline (www.wired.com)
Reddit has a form where you can request a copy of your data. The process can take up to 30 days, after which you will get a private message on your Reddit account with a download link. The data comes in the form of CSV files that you can open using Microsoft Excel or any text editor....
Satellites Keep Photobombing Space Images. Astronomers Need a Fix (www.wired.com)
An Anti-Porn App Put Him in Jail and His Family Under Surveillance (www.wired.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/651490...
The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens (www.wired.com)
“The United States government has been secretly amassing a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on its own citizens, a group of senior advisers informed Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, more than a year ago....
The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens (www.wired.com)
Cory Doctorow: The ‘Enshittification’ of [internet platforms like] TikTok (www.wired.com)
Best explanation I've seen so far of why platforms like Reddit tend to get crappy after a certain amount of time.
Do People Actually Want to Wear a Headset All the Time? (www.wired.com)
