Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent ( arstechnica.com )
FCC bans cable TV industry’s favorite trick for hiding full cost of service ( arstechnica.com )
Jails banned in-person visits in order to maximize revenue from voice and video calls as part of a "quid pro quo kickback scheme" with prison phone companies ( arstechnica.com )
Across the United States, hundreds of jails have eliminated in-person family visits over the last decade. Why has this happened? The answer highlights a profound flaw in how decisions too often get made in our legal system: for-profit jail telecom companies realized that they could earn more profit from phone and video calls if...
Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says ( arstechnica.com )
I guess we all kinda knew that, but it's always nice to have a study backing your opinions.
Oregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing ( arstechnica.com )
US verges on vaccination tipping point, faces thousands of needless deaths: FDA ( arstechnica.com )
USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update ( arstechnica.com )
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC ( arstechnica.com )
Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services ( arstechnica.com )
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys ( arstechnica.com )
The attack has been dubbed GoFetch: https://gofetch.fail/
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track ( arstechnica.com )
Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 ( arstechnica.com )
Do you need a dentist visit every 6 months? That filling? The data is weak ( arstechnica.com )
A 2020 Cochrane review that assessed the two clinical trials concluded that "whether adults see their dentist for a check‐up every six months or at personalized intervals based on their dentist's assessment of their risk of dental disease does not affect tooth decay, gum disease, or quality of life. Longer intervals (up to 24...
Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages ( arstechnica.com )
in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn't use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," reported that Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."...
After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease” ( arstechnica.com )
Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” ( arstechnica.com )
Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has ( arstechnica.com )
Was wondering what the hell was going on this morning.
Claude 3 notices when a sentence about pizza toppings doesn't fit with its surrounding text. Whole internet including Tim Sweeney and Margaret Mitchell concludes that it's probably self-aware now. ( arstechnica.com )
Windows-as-a-nuisance: How I clean up a “clean install” of Windows 11 and Edge ( arstechnica.com )
[Eric Berger] Seeing this eclipse is probably the highest-reward, lowest-effort thing one can do in life ( arstechnica.com )
Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default ( arstechnica.com )
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent ( arstechnica.com )
Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start” ( arstechnica.com )
A lot of people in the UK prosecutors offices and post office management should be going to prison.
Raspberry Pi is preparing for an IPO in London for likely more than $500M ( arstechnica.com )
Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week ( arstechnica.com )
