Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets (techcrunch.com)
Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.
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Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.
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.
Twitter took Gene X Hwang's username and only offered him “some merch.”
An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.
Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each in a US District Court over dual claims of copyright infringement.
Everything worked fine until Elon Musk took over.
Just gonna leave this here.
Massachusetts considers a law at the vanguard of a broader movement to protect consumer privacy....
Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.
It looks like Google are pushing pretty hard on AdBlockers now. Looks like a pretty aggressive new UI from them....
Do you miss phones with replaceable batteries? By 2027, you won't anymore because, by law, almost every smartphone will have them again.
Meta's Threads app has a major flaw: you can't delete your Threads account without deleting your Instagram account.
Meta/Facebook's approach to GDPR compliance is largely insufficient, according to a new ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union....
A nonprofit organization that researches links between social media, hate and extremism has been threatened with a lawsuit by X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
The threat suggests that Threads is the most serious rival yet to Elon Musk’s chaotic social platform.
Why it'll only get worse from here.
Porcha Woodruff was getting her two children ready for school when police officers presented her with an arrest warrant alleging robbery and carjacking, court documents show.
Shareholder lawsuit said Tesla board pay "grossly exceeds" corporate norms.
Starlink satellites can disturb observation even of those telescopes protected by radio-quiet zones.
It seemed strange that Twitter posted this update on its business blog until the company mentioned that rate limiting has had a "minimal" effect on advertising. Many pointed out that limiting the number of tweets users could read per day would make it harder for advertisers to reach users and for Twitter to make money....
What's going on?
If this happens, will it be a mass exodus to Linux/Mac? Or will people just live with it? The fact that the Steam Deck has shown great promise in playing games on Linux has made me reconsider Windows yet again.