Stop using generative AI as a search engine (www.theverge.com)
U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack (www.nbcnews.com)
Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic' (www.nbcnews.com)
First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released (sfconservancy.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/123708...
All the other brands went along
Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers (www.theregister.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)
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.
Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week (www.theverge.com)
Hey Reddit lurkers! my ad-free, open source Reddit viewer RDX is on Android now (play.google.com)
Since a lot of you asked me to build an Android version and post about it here when I launch, and I sincerely apologise that I forgot to post on lemmy sooner. The free app was launched on Play store almost a month ago and has garnered some excellent reviews. It has feature parity with the iPhone App and works on all Android 8.0+...
Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI (futurism.com)
Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025 (sh.itjust.works)
Source...
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....
European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls (arstechnica.com)
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)
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)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Warns Android Users Not to Sideload Apps (www.gizmochina.com)
The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars (theconversation.com)
[Mental Outlaw] Apple May Soon Allow Sideloading Apps on iOS (odysee.com)
Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU (eupolicy.social)
Mozilla review of 25 car brands finds they're "a privacy nightmare" (foundation.mozilla.org)
Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google (www.theverge.com)
iFixit Tears Down McDonald's McFlurry Machine, Petitions Government for Right to Hack Them (www.404media.co)
AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless (qz.com)
Raspberry Pis Found in Abandoned Spin Scooters in Seattle (www.tomshardware.com)
