The Podcasts app is just the latest product to go through a process I’ve come to call The Google Cycle. It always goes the same way: the company launches a new service with grandiose language about how this fits its mission of organizing and making accessible the world’s information, quickly updates it with a couple of neat...
Billionaire Real Estate Mogul Hopes to Turn TikTok Into His Utopian Internet Dream ( gizmodo.com )
Meta’s “set it and forget it” AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash ( www.theverge.com )
The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake ( www.techradar.com )
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Apple is reportedly planning a big AI-focused M4 Mac upgrade ( www.theverge.com )
Researchers Develop Horrifying Face-Mimicking Robot ( gizmodo.com )
Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon ( www.pcworld.com )
Ransomware attackers are increasingly targeting backups — so make sure yours are protected ( www.techradar.com )
Microsoft is working on an Xbox AI chatbot ( www.theverge.com )
Google Podcasts is gone — and so is my faith in Google ( www.theverge.com )
The Podcasts app is just the latest product to go through a process I’ve come to call The Google Cycle. It always goes the same way: the company launches a new service with grandiose language about how this fits its mission of organizing and making accessible the world’s information, quickly updates it with a couple of neat...
Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders ( www.theverge.com )
Thunderbird goes from DEB to snap in Ubuntu 24.04 ( www.linuxadictos.com )
Linux Mint 22 Adopts PipeWire, New Linux Kernel Cadence - OMG! Ubuntu ( www.omgubuntu.co.uk )
Could Google be using Reddit to revive an ancient, failed project? — 60,000+ Redditors may well be mTurk’ing for Google Answers 2.0 ( www.techradar.com )
Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO ( arstechnica.com )
Twiiit: A tool to find Nitter instances that haven't been ratelimited ( twiiit.com )
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Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates ( arstechnica.com )