Meta fires staffers for using $25 meal credits on household goods (arstechnica.com)
Gotta get creative with your layoffs when you already did massive layoffs but still need to please wall street.
European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls (arstechnica.com)
Bluesky is cracking down on parody accounts and impersonators (sea.mashable.com)
Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor (proton.me)
Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. (old.reddit.com)
Research shows more than 80% of AI projects fail, wasting billions of dollars in capital and resources: Report (www.tomshardware.com)
RAND Report - The Root Causes of Failure for Artificial Intelligence Projects and How They Can Succeed
Solar modules deployed in France in 1992 still provide 75.9% of original output power (www.pv-magazine.com)
REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets (www.windowscentral.com)
China's New Hypersonic Passenger Plane Can Fly From London to New York in Under 2 Hours (vocal.media)
A Chinese aerospace company has successfully completed the first test flight of a groundbreaking hypersonic passenger aircraft.
It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)
Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week (www.theverge.com)
All the other brands went along
Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer (www.pcgamer.com)
Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI (futurism.com)
Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission (www.neowin.net)
Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025 (sh.itjust.works)
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First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released (sfconservancy.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/123708...
23andMe shutters cancer drug research programs, lays off 40% of staff (www.fiercebiotech.com)
PSA: You can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude (tech.michaelaltfield.net)
Internet Service Providers Try to Stop Net Neutrality in Court | Cord Cutters News (cordcuttersnews.com)
The little smart home platform that could (www.theverge.com)
Home Assistant is now part of the Open Home Foundation, a non-profit aiming to fight against surveillance capitalism and offer privacy, choice, and sustainability....
When can we expect 500TB drives to be available? (lemmy.world)
The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars (theconversation.com)
Barcelona is turning subway trains into power stations (grist.org)
