You know what scares us about big tech? Planned obsolescence. (www.fairphone.com)
HDMI 2.2 specs with increased bandwidth to be announced at CES 2025 (videocardz.com)
Scientists roll out revolutionary paint as one solution to global food shortage: 'We can grow more with less light' (www.thecooldown.com)
Social Media Moderation Cuts Fuel Extremism (www.lifeafterhate.org)
Suchir Balaji: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in apartment (www.bbc.com)
Switch pirate dodges Nintendo's multimillion-dollar lawsuit (overkill.wtf)
OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment (www.mercurynews.com)
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OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco apartment (www.mercurynews.com)
Google laid her off on maternity leave. Now she's suing. (www.sfgate.com)
Japanese publisher Kadokawa paid $3 million to Russia-linked hacker group after cyberattack (mainichi.jp)
TCL TVs will use films made with generative AI to push targeted ads (arstechnica.com)
Open source projects drown in bad bug reports penned by AI (www.theregister.com)
Itch.io games site taken down
Bluesky Post (this was also posted on twitter)...
AI is not Designed for You (www.youtube.com)
Federal judges uphold law that could ban TikTok, say platform could be unavailable in U.S. (www.nbcnews.com)
The D.C. Circuit voted to uphold the ban, citing national security threats and the collection of data from TikTok users.
Google has developed an AI tool that generates fully playable 3D worlds (www.gamescensor.com)
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
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)
