Eight TikTok creators file their own suit against the divest-or-ban law ( www.theverge.com )
Except it's not unique lol...
Online liability protections [for social media companies] have outlived usefulness, top lawmakers say ( thehill.com )
Hmmm... Making social media companies liable for what users post. I'm all for making them take a more active involvement in what's going on but that would open up anyone hosting stuff to a world of liability...
Archie has been resurrected ( archie.serialport.org )
Some people have apparently not only gone through the trouble of digging out the latest available version of Archie (old FTP indexer / search engine from the mid 80's / 90's before Google was a thing), but they even set up a fresh install and made a web interface available. Even better: The entire source code apparently also...
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT | Tom's Hardware ( www.tomshardware.com )
Negating all VPNs may have been possible since 2002 ( www.techspot.com )
Very interesting exploit of DHCP
ICYMI, Nicky Case's AI-Safety Explainer is finally out (starring robot catboy maids) ( pawb.social )
"Outer Alignment" comic...
Mozilla Finally Begins Offering Firefox ARM64 Linux Binaries ( www.phoronix.com )
YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users ( www.androidpolice.com )
kubernetes 1.30: uwubernetes ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
The Nvidia GeForce GTX era is finally over ( www.pcgamesn.com )
The end of an era!
The Tech Industry Doesn’t Understand Consent - Dhole Moments ( soatok.blog )
Canonical: up to 12 years of support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - gHacks Tech News ( www.ghacks.net )
Core support for Ubuntu won't change according to Shuttleworth. Ubuntu LTS versions continue to be supported for 5 years and non-LTS releases for 9 months. Ubuntu 23.04 is the current release version, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS the current long-term support release....
Students Horrified When Error Message Appears on Vending Machine, Revealing Something Dark (Facial Recognition) ( futurism.com )
Oh this is just too messed up…now vending machines have cameras in them?
Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users ( www.macrumors.com )
cross-posted from: lemmy.crimedad.work/post/39255...
Yes, you can have too many CPU cores - Ampere's 192-core chips break ARM64 Linux kernel in two-socket systems, company requests higher core count support | Tom's Hardware ( www.tomshardware.com )
Oops all cores
Microsoft is Locking Down Search for Public Code on GitHub ( news.itsfoss.com )
Enshittification begins again
Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal ( arstechnica.com )
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/5825583
'Gay furry hackers' claim second NATO cyber-break-in ( www.theregister.com )
The hacktivists, which describe themselves as made up of “gay furry hackers,” usually target government orgs whose policies they disagrees with, and have a flare for political publicity stunts, also posted a link to the purported stolen files on their Telegram channel....
Chrome now ships with a user-tracking ad platform baked in ( arstechnica.com )
Google’s browser not only got new chrome, it now also uses keeps track of all websites you visit to generate a topic list for ads that is shared with websites directly. Nobody asked for that.
Harting Modular Connectors ( pawb.social )
Yes. That’s a Valid configuration for these things
Custom Cyberdeck v002 ( pawb.social )
Not strictly Furry, but I do ise it to access FurryMUCK a bunch soooooo I say it counts XD...
Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment ( www.techdirt.com )
People really really really need to leave Twitter already.
"The tech industry was deflating. Then came ChatGPT." ( www.msn.com )
Get ready for the next bubble, folks.