So, where do we go now? (www.theverge.com)
Not sure I agree with all of his points, but it’s a start that we’re at least publicly acknowledging this as the end of an era (for good IMO)
Can't remember name of an old Android app... help!
Hey all, I used to use a to do app and can’t remember name, it was very distinct though, please help!...
Did Google really just say they'll delete accounts "together with all data"? 😂 (media.kbin.social)
How much internet speed in Wi-Fi should I typically get on my smartphone?
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite, which according to the internet should be able to support speeds up to 1.2Ghz. I have a contract in which my provider should give me access to 500mbs on wi-fi but this is the most I ever got with my phone, I normally get 280mbs or lower. Is this considered normal, despite being a wireless...
Windows 11’s AI-powered Copilot (and its Bing-powered ads) enters public preview (arstechnica.com)
Last month, Microsoft announced that it would continue its put-ChatGPT-in-everything adventure with a new Windows 11 feature called Copilot. The company added generative AI to Edge and to the Bing-powered taskbar Search field months ago, but Copilot promises to be the most visible and hard-to-ignore version of Microsoft’s big...
PC speed gains erased by modern software (hackaday.com)
Interesting take on comparability vs performance. I gotta imaging capturing user data and sending to a cloud collector is also a big culprit.
Adventures in AI Programming: Daily Experiments with GPT-4 (reticulated.net)
‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power (www.theguardian.com)
Gfycat is shutting down September 1st (gfycat.com)
The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting https://www.gfycat.com and logging in to your account. After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com
The Tragic Tale of the Internet (video) (youtu.be)
Just released video about how the internet has completely changed for the worse. Fascinating discussion. What are your thoughts on this?
The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so, The mods of r/IAmA are stepping back (www.theverge.com)
Elon refusing to pay google for hosting could be behind the instability issues. (i.imgur.com)
It’s possible that the enforcement of a rate limit isn’t because of AI scraping, but rather because they failed to migrate before the June 30th deadline.
Twitter now forces you to sign in to view tweets (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
BlackCat ransomware pushes Cobalt Strike via WinSCP search ads (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
The BlackCat ransomware group (aka ALPHV) is running malvertizing campaigns to lure people into fake pages that mimic the official website of the WinSCP file-transfer application for Windows but instead push malware-ridden installers.
Elon Musk sets new daily Twitter limits for users (www.washingtonpost.com)
Elon Musk said verified accounts would be limited to reading 6,000 posts per day while unverified users will be limited to 600.
FTC prepares “the big one,” a major lawsuit targeting Amazon’s core business (arstechnica.com)
GitHub - 0xpayne/gpt-migrate: Easily migrate your codebase from one framework or language to another. (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.intai.tech/post/41753...
Twitter is refusing to pay Google for cloud services. Here’s why it matters, and what the fallout could be for users (theconversation.com)
With the Twitter limits today, I think we are already seeing the fallout begin....
Twitter is DDoSing itself (sfba.social)
The jokes are writing themselves.
Twitter tells users to touch grass, adds new rule limiting how many tweets you can read per day
Elon has responded to the criticism and is increasing the limits to a whopping:...
Twitter temporarily restricts tweets users can see, Elon Musk announces (www.bbc.com)
TL;DR: Twitter limits verified accounts to reading 6000 posts a day, unverified accounts to 600
Reddit Won’t Be the Same. Neither Will the Internet (www.wired.com)
Subreddits and third-party apps are going dark in response to Reddit’s proposed API changes. It’s the latest front in a labor battle between algorithms and the humans who feed them.
[The Verge] Apple is a $3 trillion company — again (www.theverge.com)
“While developers start work on building Vision Pro apps, the potential for people upgrading to the iPhone 15 this year is a big reason for investor optimism.”
