ChatGPT In Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day (www.firstpost.com)
Repost from HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37109394
LMG has made a response video to Gamers Nexus' concerns (www.youtube.com)
The Windows 11 problem (www.spacebar.news)
Microsoft Defender Flags Tor Browser as a Trojan and Removes it from the System - Deform (deform.co)
Bored ape NFT event attendees get their faces burned by event lighting (www.theverge.com)
Who’d have thought BoredApe NFTs would be such an actual eyesore?
FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps (docs.fcc.gov)
Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music (techcrunch.com)
Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency (arstechnica.com)
Automated background removal was also added recently.
Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble (mashable.com)
Brands that don't buy enough Twitter ads will lose verification (www.theverge.com)
Starting August 7th, advertisers that haven’t reached certain spending thresholds will lose their official brand account verification. According to emails obtained by the WSJ, brands need to have spent at least $1,000 on ads within the prior 30 days or $6,000 in the previous 180 days to retain the gold checkmark identifying...
Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter? (variety.com)
Elon Musk said he will charge all X/Twitter users a fee to be on the platform. He suggested that such a change would be necessary to deal with the problem of bots on the platform....
Google tries to defend its Web Environment Integrity (techreport.com)
I’m happy to see this being noticed more and more. Google wants to destroy the open web, so it’s a lot at stake....
Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled (arstechnica.com)
Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level (vpncentral.com)
One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion (arstechnica.com)
Unity apologises. (www.pcgamer.com)
If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)
With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.
Streaming giants have banded together for lobbying power (www.theverge.com)
Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
I left a couple of months ago. Couldn’t be happier....
Are We Ready For This Site's Endless Feed of AI-Generated Porn? (futurism.com)
A very NSFW website called Pornpen.ai is churning out an endless stream of graphic, AI-generated porn. We have mixed feelings.
Spotify’s first US price hike for Premium is coming next week (www.theverge.com)
Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible (niemanreports.org)
A lot of people threaten to leave Twitter. Not many of them have actually done it....
Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts (arstechnica.com)
Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won’t work on another device....
Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers. (lemmy.world)
So this started coming up today. On every video. I can (so far) click the “x” and remove it to watch (still see 2 ads before the video, and one after 4 minutes - ruins music on YT), but did click the “Report issue” only for the dialogue box not to work....
Hydrogen locomotive (www.money.pl)
First hydrogen locomotive started working in Poland.
