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Welcome to the Age of Paid Social Media (gizmodo.com)

Buyer Receives Fake Core i9-13900K With i7-13700K Guts From Amazon (www.tomshardware.com)

Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment (arstechnica.com)

"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate (www.salon.com)

GTA 6 Hacker Found To Be Teen With Amazon Fire Stick In Small Town Hotel Room (hackaday.com)

NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁 (en.wikipedia.org)

As a full time desktop Linux user since 1999 (the actual year of the Linux desktop, I swear) I wish all you Windows folks the best of luck on the next clean install 👍...

Should I use chromium based browsers or firefox?

Chromium has better features, but with google announcing its plan to ‘drm the internet’ I 'm not sure if it’d be a good idea.

youtube getting more agressive blocking users after 3 videos (lemmy.world)

youtube getting more aggressive… i’ve got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2. (www.neowin.net)

Wyze security camera owners reported that they could briefly see feeds from cameras they didn’t own (www.theverge.com)

I'm worried that in the future we will be forced to use smartphones just like in China

In China, you can’t exist without a smartphone, because for all existential things you have to do (paying bills, buying tickets etc.) , you are forced to use the almighty wechat app. Smartphones are a tool to manipulate and to spy on the population. It is a tool utilized by the ruling class, to control the masses. I hate the...

SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million (arstechnica.com)

Whatsapp has begun working on support for third party chats (Telegram/Signal) (wabetainfo.com)

The European Union has recently reached an agreement on a significant competition reform known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which will impose strict rules on large tech companies that will have to offer users the ability to communicate with each other using different apps. WhatsApp is one of the companies that will be...

iFixit Tears Down McDonald's McFlurry Machine, Petitions Government for Right to Hack Them (www.404media.co)

In light of articles all over Lemmy about Google pushing ManifestV3 onto Chrome and the majority of web users, isn't that an antitrust violation? (www.ftc.gov)

So as I understand it, Google’s using it’s monopoly market position to force web “standards” unilaterally (without an independent/conglomerate web specification standards where Google is only one of many voices) that will disadvantage its competitors and force people to leave its competitors....

AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company. They built software in under seven minutes — for less than $1. (www.businessinsider.com)

Google Messages just flicked the switch on end-to-end encryption for all RCS and group chats (chromeunboxed.com)

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