How to Actually Clean Install Windows 11 (www.wired.com)
Basically, install Windows as you normally would, but when asked for Time and Currency format, select English (World) instead of your country....
Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working (www.businessinsider.com)
Update: Unity office death threat was made by a Unity employee (www.polygon.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/5340114...
Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him (futurism.com)
The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverse (mastodon.social)
It will be open source, end to end encrypted using Signal’s double ratchet encryption protocol, and he plans to make it easy for fediverse platforms to integrate it. The beta will release later this month....
Sync for Lemmy - Now Released on Play Store (play.google.com)
Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI (www.themarysue.com)
Authors using a new tool to search a list of 183,000 books used to train AI are furious to find their works on the list.
Whatsapp is going to run terribly... (www.androidcentral.com)
All these (ad)ons always take priority over performance.
Report: Potential NYT lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: nom.mom/post/121481...
BBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instance (social.bbc)
Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma (www.theverge.com)
People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality (arstechnica.com)
Masculine Policy: The GOP’s Plan To Outlaw ‘Porn’ And Suspend The First Amendment (www.techdirt.com)
George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement (www.theverge.com)
‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen (www.theverge.com)
Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel (www.aljazeera.com)
After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe (petapixel.com)
TL;DR:...
The Man Amazon Erased (www.tabletmag.com)
Jackson soon discovered that Amazon suspended his account because a Black delivery driver who’d come to his house the previous day had reported hearing racist remarks from his video doorbell. In a brief email sent to Jackson at 3 a.m., the company explained how it unilaterally placed all of his linked devices and services on...
Elektrek: "Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night" (electrek.co)
Most of My Instagram Ads Are for Drugs, Stolen Credit Cards, Hacked Accounts, Counterfeit Money, and Weapons (www.404media.co)
John Deere brags about sabotaging competitors & customers on hot mic - they're PROUD of it! (www.youtube.com)
John Deere brags about sabotaging competitors & customers on hot mic - they’re PROUD of it!
Google's Web DRM is Worse than I Thought... (www.youtube.com)
This video as a text article: blog.nicco.love/google-drms-the-web/
College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down (gizmodo.com)
‘It’s not you, it’s me’ is the gist of college student qualms with dating apps. Hook-up culture declines while young people search for genuine connection.
Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap. (www.businessinsider.com)
Sooner or later, everything old is new again....
Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately (arstechnica.com)
John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, the company whose 3D game engine had recently seen backlash from developers over proposed fee structures, will retire as CEO, president, and board chairman at the company, according to a press release issued late on a Monday afternoon, one many observe as a holiday.
