Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. (www.bbc.com)
White noise podcasts are costing Spotify $38m per year, and record labels are not happy about it (www.bloomberg.com)
The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center (www.techdirt.com)
Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…
Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron (arstechnica.com)
Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis (nypost.com)
Brave will not add Web Integration support (twitter.com)
I think we need all support we can get to fight Google on this, so I welcome Brave here actually....
VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it (www.pcgamer.com)
Why virtual reality makes a lot of us sick, and what we can do about it.
Microsoft accidentally leaks internal tool that can enable hidden Windows 11 features (www.windowscentral.com)
Mastodon Usage Soaring as Twitter Rebranding Leads to User Exodus: CEO Eugen Rochko (asumetech.com)
Blocking is going to be deleted from Twitter (lemmy.world)
Get out, now.
Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC (www.androidcentral.com)
Petition demands that Microsoft extends Windows 10 support (ghacks.net)
Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes (www.engadget.com)
The state of Playstore (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Ads upon ads upon ads
Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries (www.theverge.com)
USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (www.pcgamer.com)
Musk's new idea (slrpnk.net)
‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google (www.theverge.com)
Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube (www.theverge.com)
According to Elon Musk’s own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billion (finance.yahoo.com)
New Vaccine Can Completely Reverse Autoimmune Diseases Like Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes, and Crohn’s Disease (scitechdaily.com)
Researchers from Pritzker Molecular Engineering, under the guidance of Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell, demonstrated that their compound can eliminate the autoimmune response linked to multiple sclerosis. Researchers at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have developed
Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like. (news.yahoo.com)
Only one item can be delivered at a time. It can’t weigh more than 5 pounds. It can’t be too big. It can’t be something breakable, since the drone drops it from 12 feet. The drones can’t fly when it is too hot or too windy or too rainy....
YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)
Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet....
Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year (blog.mozilla.org)
Source: blog.mozilla.org/…/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-e…...
Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM (9to5google.com)
The Chrome team says they’re not going to pursue Web Integrity but…...
