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The Basic HTML function was helpful for people dealing with a slow internet connection but wanted to read their email.

Starting next year, users will be able to pay for fresh groceries using their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits from right within the Uber Eats app.

From the opinion piece:...

YouTube had the discretion to take down content that harmed users, judge said.

The last 25 years of Google’s history can be boiled down to a battle against the Google bomb. Is the search engine finally losing to its hijackers?

When college administrator Lance Eaton created a working spreadsheet about the generative AI policies adopted by universities last spring, it was mostly filled with entries about how to ban tools like ChatGPT.

The Auschwitz Memorial on Thursday criticised social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, for failing to remove an antisemitic post on the site.

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. recently updated its Terms of Service [https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/] to encompass what some critics are calling a significant invasion of user privacy.

This comic goes over the political history of technology in the workforce, showing that even automation to reduce manual labor was introduced as class warfare against the laborers, and that sabotage, protests and legal action were needed to preserve worker's rights.

Eight years later, Google can't find Gorillas.

Elon Musk blamed scraping by these unknown entities for Twitter's decision to put a cap on how many tweets a user can see per day.

The European Commission today decided it is safe for personal data to be transferred from the European Union to US-based companies, handing a victory to firms like Facebook and Google despite protests from privacy advocates who worry about US government surveillance.

Our vultures ponder decentralization over convenience

The Biden administration is appealing a federal judge's ruling that ordered the government to halt a wide range of communications with social media companies. President Biden and the other federal defendants in the case "hereby appeal" the ruling to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, according to a notice filed in US...

So I guess today they'll pass the entire userbase of the fediverse....

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

The third party API changes come into effect tomorrow (1/7/2023) so now's a good time to either purge or edit your existing content....

John Bannister Goodenough, the American co-inventor of Lithium-ion batteries and a co-winner of 2019 Nobel prize for Chemistry, has passed away. He was just a month short of turning 101. Goodenough also played a significant role in the development of Random Access Memory (RAM) for computers.

You can say goodbye to these legacy File Explorer options on Windows 11

Looks like someone threw up a tracker checking on subreddit going dark. Live status looks interesting....

All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts. U.S.

The social network X plans to compete with LinkedIn by offering job listings and more, CEO Elon Musk said in a new post.