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X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad
  • Suddenly it's 1960.

    Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Google have replaced ABC, NBC, PBS and CBS.

    Your "personal computer internet appliance" is a black-box running rented software, just like in the 'dumb-terminal time-sharing' era.

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    US broadband grant rules shut out small ISPs and municipalities, advocates say
  • When the dust settles, it'll be just like Ma Bell in 1975: There will be the "Internet Company" just like there was the Phone Company, with a probable 'bonus' of an extra "National Internet Corporation" modeled on the BBC.

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    ‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen
  • Off to the wrecking-yard and auto-parts house to get more spares for my '99...

    If you're going to monitor me like an airline pilot, you can pay me like one.

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    The new system to replace Reddit coins and awards is here. You got out at the right time.
  • The SEC or FTC or someone should sue Reddit for using the word 'decentralize' in connection with a feature that's only available within...Reddit! I don't care how many 'blockchains' and other buzz-terms they surround it with.

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    Microsoft accidentally leaks internal tool that can enable hidden Windows 11 features
  • Usual info-free article with clickbait headline. Tinfoil-heads will call it a "troll / honey-pot", designed to attract and identify 'troublemakers'.

    And from that comment section, it's working.

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    Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting
  • Nothing on Reddit can be proved to have come from a "user", and it's been that way since the "Great Spezzing of 2016", where 'spez' admitted to falsification and alteration of 'user' content.

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  • the-decoder.com AI creates a complete South Park episode: It's SHOW-1 time!

    The creative capabilities of Stable Diffusion or GPT-4 are well known. However, they lack the consistency for complex stories. SHOW-1 aims to change that.

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    Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down
  • I wonder if it was done on purpose after it came out that the Pentagon had typo'd ".ml" instead of '.mil' and exposed a lot of sensitive emails...

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    Deepfake voices improving kidnapping scams
  • The 'hostage-taker' will never be able to duplicate my family's grammar and sentence structure quirks, so I won't care how it "sounds"...

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    "Cis" and "trans" are different types of a person's.... what?
  • ...Behaviors and lifestyle choices. They do not rise to the immutable characteristics that qualify for civil-rights protection.

    And yes; I've seen the sleazy Wiki edit that attaches "perceived" to the definition of "immutable". 'I just have to believe...' belongs in a child's fairytale book.

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