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)
8 Reasons Why WhatsApp Was Able to Support 50 Billion Messages a Day With Only 32 Engineers (newsletter.systemdesign.one)
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)
The NYC subway is using AI to detect fare dodgers (www.theverge.com)
Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month (9to5google.com)
The state of Playstore (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Ads upon ads upon ads
Framework Sold Out of 3 Batches of Laptop 16 in Less Than 3 Hours. (mander.xyz)
Image description: Image shows batches 1, 2 and 3 sold out for the Ryzen 7 7840HS which costs $1,399....
Meta being fined $100k a day for personalized ads in Norway (techcrunch.com)
Advertising revenue in Twitter crashes by 50% (lemmy.world)
nuff said
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)
Twitter owes ex-employees $500 mln in severance, lawsuit claims (www.reuters.com)
Elon Musk Urges Mr Beast to Post Videos on Twitter for Equal Earnings (i.imgur.com)
Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else (www.theverge.com)
