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.
When can we expect 500TB drives to be available? (lemmy.world)
Barcelona is turning subway trains into power stations (grist.org)
Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week (www.theverge.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
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)
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)
Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor (proton.me)
Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission (www.neowin.net)
Solar modules deployed in France in 1992 still provide 75.9% of original output power (www.pv-magazine.com)
Internet Service Providers Try to Stop Net Neutrality in Court | Cord Cutters News (cordcuttersnews.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)
PSA: You can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude (tech.michaelaltfield.net)
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)
Republican senator Josh Hawley calls for TikTok ban, cites influence on Israel-Hamas war opinions (www.nbcnews.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)
