technology

The FCC plans to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules (www.engadget.com)

FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel has announced the agency's plans to restore net neutrality protections. Previous rules, which prevented ISPs from blocking or throttling specific websites, were nixed in 2017 under the Trump administration.

Firefox 118 Released With Killer New Feature - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

ASUS Signs Agreement to Continue Development and Support of Intel's NUC Business (www.anandtech.com)

Ten years ago, this would have been far more exciting news. However, given the quality issues Asus has been having for several years, this is not the company that should be picking up the baton. I’d have preferred to see ASRock, given their portfolio of NUC-alikes.

New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion (medium.com)

Cross posted from: lemmy.world/post/9762996

Adobe calls off $20 billion acquisition of Figma (apnews.com)

Good

EU takes action against Elon Musk's X over disinformation (www.bbc.co.uk)

Google’s loss to Epic Games leads to $700M settlement with users, states (arstechnica.com)

Chat Rooms and Programming Content | Chat-to.dev (chat-to.dev)

Join chat rooms and explore programming content on Chat-to.dev.

Providing HTML Content Using Htmx (postgrest.org)

Flipboard is pivoting to ActivityPub and the fediverse (www.theverge.com)

Human brain-like supercomputer with 228 trillion links coming in 2024 (interestingengineering.com)

Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real (www.404media.co)

Adobe gives up on $20 billion acquisition of Figma (arstechnica.com)

Japanese Unicorn SmartNews failing in the US because the CEO went down the QAnon Rabbit Hole (restofworld.org)

The investors might want a refund after seeing what the money were used for....

This Firefox for Android feature you've been begging for is finally here (www.androidpolice.com)

Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final (mastodon.online)

TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms (arstechnica.com)

Most readers want publishers to label AI-generated articles — but trust outlets less when they do (www.niemanlab.org)

The man leading Kenyan content moderators’ battle against Meta (restofworld.org)

If AI is making the Turing test obsolete, what might be better? (arstechnica.com)

Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers (arstechnica.com)

Threads Has Begun Federating Via ActivityPub (daringfireball.net)

Adam Mosseri:...

Tech Billionaires Launch Fund to Create New Libertarian Societies (www.vice.com)

More efforts from tech bros to build Rapture....

FTC investigating Adobe over making it too hard to cancel (9to5mac.com)

Apple partly halts Beeper’s iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead (arstechnica.com)