“We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?
POV) You use Windows 11 and set up Pihole for the first time. (sh.itjust.works)
This is AFTER debloating all the MS bs as much as I can....
The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb - IGN (www.ign.com)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake (www.theverge.com)
Nadella, Gates, and Ballmer have all admitted to Microsoft’s mobile mistakes.
Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds (www.axios.com)
The majority of U.S. adults don't believe the benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh the risks, according to a new Mitre-Harris Poll released Tuesday.
Elon Musk Says He Might Put X/Twitter Behind A Paywall (www.forbes.com)
Has HP printers always been this bad? (sh.itjust.works)
So my mother recently bought an ET-2800, By HP we had an HP printer before and we got a new one because the old one would not work with my sister’s Windows 11 Laptop. So I had to set it up for my mother, the manual said you can use it without the app. But there was no way to physically do that. Anyway, I downloaded the app on...
AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says In Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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
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)
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.