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.
John B. Goodenough, Nobel laureate who gave the world Li-ion batteries, passes away. (www.thehindubusinessline.com)
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 commandeers @X username from man who had it since 2007 (arstechnica.com)
Twitter took Gene X Hwang's username and only offered him “some merch.”
Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI (gizmodo.com)
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.
Right-wing misinformers and bad actors have already earned tens of thousands of dollars under Twitter’s new ad revenue sharing program (www.mediamatters.org)
Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement (www.theverge.com)
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.
Twitter's API keeps breaking, even for developers paying $42,000 (mashable.com)
Everything worked fine until Elon Musk took over.
Reddit says it’s ‘not acceptable’ for communities to go NSFW in protest (www.theverge.com)
Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
Just gonna leave this here.
Brave appears to be selling copyrighted data for AI training and giving third parties the “rights” to that data, while not disclosing its own robot crawler (www.techmeme.com)
First U.S. Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might Be Coming (www.wsj.com)
Massachusetts considers a law at the vanguard of a broader movement to protect consumer privacy....
FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore (arstechnica.com)
Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.
YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers (www.androidpolice.com)
It looks like Google are pushing pretty hard on AdBlockers now. Looks like a pretty aggressive new UI from them....
It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027 (www.androidauthority.com)
Do you miss phones with replaceable batteries? By 2027, you won't anymore because, by law, almost every smartphone will have them again.
PSA: You Can't Delete Your Threads Account Without Also Deleting Instagram (www.makeuseof.com)
Meta's Threads app has a major flaw: you can't delete your Threads account without deleting your Instagram account.
The European Court of Justice declares Meta's GDPR approach largely illegal (noyb.eu)
Meta/Facebook's approach to GDPR compliance is largely insufficient, according to a new ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union....
Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets (apnews.com)
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.
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
The threat suggests that Threads is the most serious rival yet to Elon Musk’s chaotic social platform.
Reddit is a Dying Mall (www.staygrounded.online)
Why it'll only get worse from here.
Detroit woman sues city after being falsely arrested while pregnant due to facial recognition technology (www.nbcnews.com)
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.
Musk, Tesla board to return $735M after being sued for overpaying themselves (arstechnica.com)
Shareholder lawsuit said Tesla board pay "grossly exceeds" corporate norms.
SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites 'leak' so much radiation that it's hurting radio astronomy, scientists say (www.space.com)
Starlink satellites can disturb observation even of those telescopes protected by radio-quiet zones.
Twitter says it couldn't tell people about rate limiting in advance | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
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....
Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud (www.theverge.com)
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.
Zoom's Updated Terms of Service Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out - Lemdro.id (lemdro.id)
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.
