The salaries of Wikimedia executives are sparking an online debate about tech sector wages (www.businessinsider.com)
Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration (www.theverge.com)
Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)
In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is...
Windows 11 scores dead last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros (www.notebookcheck.net)
Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight (www.theverge.com)
Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.
Wikimedia Foundation calls on US Supreme Court to strike laws that threaten Wikipedia (wikimediafoundation.org)
The Foundation supports challenges to laws in Texas and Florida that jeopardize Wikipedia's community-led governance model and the right to freedom of expression....
Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (pluralistic.net)
The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.
Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding (kitklarenberg.substack.com)
Android app maker Simple Mobile Tools acquired by ZipoApps (liliputing.com)
Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same (fortune.com)
European Parliament rejects mass scanning of private messages (edri.org)
The French government doesn't consider WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram secure enough, replaced by Olvid (Google translate link in post text) (www.lepoint.fr)
Google translate link : …translate.goog/…/les-ministres-francais-invites-…...
Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data (www.404media.co)
ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more.
Matrix 1.9 just came out! (matrix.org)
PeerTube Admin 28: PeerTube Version 6 - New Features [video] (tube.jeena.net)
YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users (www.404media.co)
Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."
A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams (arstechnica.com)
A book review on the latest Weinersmith creation. It’s true, there is so much we don’t know....
Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. (old.reddit.com)
Beijing reportedly asked Hikvision to identify fasting students in Muslim-majority province (www.theregister.com)
Engineered yeast breaks new record: a genome with over 50% synthetic DNA (www.nature.com)
Humane’s AI Pin (smartphone that projects on to your palm) launching soon @ $699 + 24$/mo subscription + integrates with openAI (www.theverge.com)
I wonder what Lemmings are thinking of this device. I admire the innovation but just don’t see how this would be used in practice outside of memes.
TikTok permanently banned account for posting a few videos about the Israel- Palestine situation. (lemmy.world)
Monopolistic…
