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YouTube is cracking down on clickbait (www.theverge.com)

WhatsApp scores historic victory against NSO Group in long-running spyware hacking case | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Discord sued by users claiming Nitro subscription is too difficult to cancel (www.dexerto.com)

Fan-less cooling solution for laptops up to 40W launched (www.tomshardware.com)

Device uses movement of ions to generate airflow without any moving parts like in iPads and MacBook Air.

X jacks up Premium+ prices 37.5%, hits some markets harder (techcrunch.com)

Possible ban on Chinese-made drones dismays U.S. scientists (www.science.org)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/50462283

Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate (ash.harvard.edu)

Scottish Government bans use of WhatsApp for official business (www.scotsman.com)

Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first (arstechnica.com)

ruh roh (fedia.io)

TIL in 2012 NASA's messenger mission found icy glaciers on mercury (cosmosmagazine.com)

VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network (www.wired.com)

All of Telegram's Lies About Privacy (donald.cat)

Search for alternative to WordPress surges worldwide amidst rift between WP-Engine and Matt Mullenweg (www.techradar.com)

Data from Google Trends noted search requests around the website builder boomed in October 2024, especially on October 8, where it reached a peak score of 100....

Apple collaborates with NVIDIA to research faster LLM performance (9to5mac.com)

Apple engineers have shared new details on a collaboration with NVIDIA to implement faster text generation performance with large language models.

Google Contract Staff Reach Union Deal Banning Keystroke Monitoring (www.bloomberg.com)

Mozilla: Proposed contractual remedies in United States v. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers (blog.mozilla.org)

As written, the proposed remedies will force smaller and independent browsers like Firefox to fundamentally reexamine their entire operating model.

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