A San Francisco library is turning off Wi-Fi at night to keep homeless people from using it
10 months ago by [deleted] to /s/whatever from (theverge.com)
Indian farmers streamed fake pro cricket matches to Russian bettors for two weeks
1 year ago by Drewski to /s/NotTheOnion from (theverge.com)
After pulling songs, Neil Young is telling Spotify employees to quit their jobs
2 years ago by Antarchomachus to /s/news from (theverge.com)
Twitter is now an Elon Musk company: Twitter’s current CEO, CFO, and policy chief have left the building.
1 year ago by neolib to /s/SocialMedia from (theverge.com)
Meta is suing Meta for naming itself Meta
1 year ago by iamonlyoneman to /s/technology from (theverge.com)
British 5G towers are being set on fire because of coronavirus conspiracy theories
4 years ago by [deleted] to /s/Europe from (theverge.com)
Medical company threatens to sue volunteers that 3D-printed valves for life-saving coronavirus treatments - The valve typically costs about $11,000 - the volunteers made them for about $1
4 years ago by Orangutan to /s/politics from (theverge.com)
Reddit will no longer let you opt out of personalized ads - The change is rolling out over the coming weeks. Users in unspecified ‘select countries’ can still opt out.
7 months ago by neolib to /s/MeanwhileOnReddit from (theverge.com)
Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a $1,200 annual paywall
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/technology from (theverge.com)
Manchester artist "Wanksy" draws penises around potholes so the city will fix them
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/NotTheOnion from (theverge.com)
Parler is back online after a month of downtime
3 years ago by [deleted] to /s/SocialMedia from (theverge.com)
The world’s largest carbon removal project yet is headed for Wyoming. Grifters will waste billions of dollars burning coal to run the plant, to reduce an infinitessimal amount of the annual amount of CO2 being put out into the atmosphere.
1 year ago by iamonlyoneman to /s/environment from (theverge.com)
Facebook plans to change company name to focus on the metaverse
2 years ago by Tiwaking to /s/SocialMedia from (theverge.com)
Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen
10 months ago by Drewski to /s/MeanwhileOnReddit from (theverge.com)
Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps
10 months ago by [deleted] to /s/Reddit from (theverge.com)
YouTube is bringing unskippable 30-second ads to TV (To get around this you can install SmartTubeNext)
11 months ago by [deleted] to /s/technology from (theverge.com)
France is giving €4,000 to people who trade in their car for an e-bike
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/Europe from (theverge.com)
Bored Ape NFT event attendees report ‘severe eye burn’
5 months ago by jet199 to /s/NotTheOnion from (theverge.com)
Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time
9 months ago by Drewski to /s/MeanwhileOnReddit from (theverge.com)
Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud
10 months ago by [deleted] to /s/technology from (theverge.com)
‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google with regrets and fears about his life’s work
12 months ago by Drewski to /s/Artificial_Intelligen from (theverge.com)
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a human
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/Internet from (theverge.com)
Bored Apes creator sues conceptual artist for copying its NFTs
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/whatever from (theverge.com)
NFTs, explained - WTF!
2 years ago by jet199 to /s/nonmorons from (theverge.com)
ProtonMail court order leads to the arrest of French climate activist
2 years ago by FormosaOolong to /s/privacy from (theverge.com)
Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks
3 years ago by [deleted] to /s/technology from (theverge.com)
IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology
3 years ago by magnora7 to /s/TechCompanies from (theverge.com)
"95% of ATM swipes still rely on COBOL..."
3 years ago by Robin to /s/technology from (theverge.com)
Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data
2 months ago by Drewski to /s/privacy from (theverge.com)
Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed (multiple laptop brands, hardware and software hacks, whitehats asked to hack by MS)
5 months ago by iamonlyoneman to /s/technology from (theverge.com)
SpaceX’s second Starship flight test ends in an explosion minutes after launch - The booster was lost moments after separation, and the Starship’s flight termination system exploded the prototype soon after its planned engine shutdown.
5 months ago by neolib to /s/space from (theverge.com)
‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google
6 months ago by neolib to /s/MeanwhileOnReddit from (theverge.com)
Jon Stewart’s Apple TV Plus show ends, reportedly over coverage of AI and China
6 months ago by jet199 to /s/Entertainment from (theverge.com)
Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project
8 months ago by [deleted] to /s/cryptocurrency from (theverge.com)
Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem
9 months ago by [deleted] to /s/Internet from (theverge.com)
Twitter has started blocking unregistered users - if you want to browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web, then you currently need to be signed in to a Twitter account
10 months ago by [deleted] to /s/Twitter from (theverge.com)
Buyer beware: some SanDisk Extreme SSDs are wiping people’s data
Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/privacy from (theverge.com)
Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links
Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder and creator of ‘Moore’s Law’, dies at 94
The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library - A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in a lawsuit brought by four book publishers.
1 year ago by neolib to /s/Internet from (theverge.com)
Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first - After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm.
Gmail is now officially allowed to spam-proof politicians’ emails
Spain orders public places set air conditioning no lower than 27 degrees Celsius
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/news from (theverge.com)
Apple VP discourages retail workers from joining a union in leaked video - ‘I worry about what it would mean to put another organization in the middle of our relationship’
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/LateStageCapitalism from (theverge.com)
Brave’s De-AMP feature bypasses ‘harmful’ Google AMP pages
2 years ago by [deleted] to /s/Internet from (theverge.com)
Internet backbone provider shuts off service in Russia
Twitter and Google blocked ads from a medical journal about health and racism
2 years ago by Antarchomachus to /s/censorship from (theverge.com)
Episodes of Joe Rogan’s show are disappearing from Spotify
Brené Brown says she won’t release new episodes of her Spotify-exclusive podcasts ‘until further notice’
Bad software sent postal workers to jail, because no one wanted to admit it could be wrong
3 years ago by [deleted] to /s/Software from (theverge.com)
Reddit reveals daily active user count for the first time: 52 million
3 years ago by macadoum to /s/MeanwhileOnReddit from (theverge.com)
These students figured out their tests were graded by AI — and the easy way to cheat
3 years ago by [deleted] to /s/Education from (theverge.com)
UK mobile carriers politely ask people to stop burning 5G towers :-)
4 years ago by useless_aether to /s/conspiracy from (theverge.com)
Vaping Viagra? FDA says not okay
5 years ago by Mnemonic to /s/Health from (theverge.com)
Elon Musk forced to step down as chairman of Tesla, remains CEO
5 years ago by Mnemonic to /s/technology from (theverge.com)
Firefox saw an increase in users (~50% in Germany and ~30% in France) following Apple’s default browser changes in the EU.
1 month ago by PanzersGhost to /s/Browsers from (theverge.com)
Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes
2 months ago by PanzersGhost to /s/Security from (theverge.com)
GM and Honda join forces to make hydrogen fuel cells for “various products”. The two companies are now producing fuel cells out of its jointly owned facility in Michigan.
3 months ago by Chop_Chop to /s/Hydrogen from (theverge.com)
Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free
4 months ago by Drewski to /s/technology from (theverge.com)
Elon Musk tells advertisers: ‘Go fuck yourself’ - But he warns that advertisers could kill the company if the ad boycott continues.
4 months ago by neolib to /s/TechCompanies from (theverge.com)
Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google
7 months ago by Myocarditis-Man to /s/technology from (theverge.com)
X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014.
8 months ago by Monkecho to /s/conspiracy from (theverge.com)
People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars
9 months ago by Drewski to /s/Automotive from (theverge.com)
Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live is a beautiful relic — and the end of an era
9 months ago by Drewski to /s/Anime from (theverge.com)
The new USB Rubber Ducky is more dangerous than ever
9 months ago by [deleted] to /s/Security from (theverge.com)
Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups because so many people are joining from Twitter
9 months ago by neolib to /s/Bluesky from (theverge.com)
Around 60% of subreddits are still dark
Earth Day 2023: green or greenwashed?
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/politics from (theverge.com)
Twitter takes its algorithm ‘open-source,’ as Elon Musk promised - The company looks at things like how likely you are to interact with a user in the future and what communities and tweets are trending.
A Canadian private equity firm has acquired MindGeek, the company behind Pornhub, YouPorn... : "What, exactly, is Ethical Capital Partners, the investment firm that appeared just in time to make this single transaction? Well, its chairman Rocco Meliambro has roots in Canada’s cannabis industry"
1 year ago by neolib to /s/technology from (theverge.com)
US arrests Russian crypto exchange owner for allegedly laundering over $700 million - The US DOJ alleges Bitzlato crypto firm was a ‘safe haven’ for cybercriminals.
1 year ago by neolib to /s/cryptocurrency from (theverge.com)
Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright this weekend
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/books from (theverge.com)
Apple shipped me a 79-pound iPhone repair kit to fix a 1.1-ounce battery - I’m starting to think Apple doesn’t want us to repair them
Vimeo is telling creators to suddenly pay thousands of dollars — or leave the platform
2 years ago by Drewski to /s/TechCompanies from (theverge.com)
DuckDuckGo launches new Email Protection service to remove trackers (this is your chance to get an ‘@duck.com’ email address)
2 years ago by [deleted] to /s/privacy from (theverge.com)
The official Twitch Gaming channel cut off the live Metallica concert to play 8bit folk music to avoid DMCA
3 years ago by [deleted] to /s/music from (theverge.com)
Google salvaged Robinhood’s one-star rating by deleting nearly 100,000 negative reviews
3 years ago by trident765 to /s/nonmorons from (theverge.com)
Discord bans the r/WallStreetBets server. Reddit’s WallStreetBets subreddit is the driver of an unprecedented rally of GameStop stock, and has received a great deal of attention in the press as the stock continues to soar.
3 years ago by Pis-dur to /s/WorldNews from (theverge.com)
5G boxes are coming to people’s homes, whether they want them or not
Tesla sues former employee for allegedly stealing software
3 years ago by format to /s/technology from (theverge.com)
Moscow’s facial recognition system can be hijacked for just $200, report shows
3 years ago by killerjavi98 to /s/technology from (theverge.com)
California will ban new combustion-engine vehicles starting in 2035
3 years ago by [deleted] to /s/USnews from (theverge.com)
Mark Zuckerberg Launches a Push to Recruit Poll Workers for US Election on Facebook
3 years ago by [deleted] to /s/Facebook from (theverge.com)
Even Google engineers are confused about Google’s privacy settings
3 years ago by D0z to /s/privacy from (theverge.com)
Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
3 years ago by [deleted] to /s/Games from (theverge.com)
Mozilla is laying off 250 people and planning a ‘new focus’ on making money
3 years ago by Drewski to /s/TechCompanies from (theverge.com)
Microsoft integrates Android apps into Windows 10 with new Your Phone update
3 years ago by [deleted] to /s/Computers from (theverge.com)
SpaceX successfully launches first crew to orbit, ushering in new era of spaceflight
3 years ago by Drewski to /s/space from (theverge.com)
Apple and Google are building a coronavirus tracking system into iOS and Android
4 years ago by Drewski to /s/privacy from (theverge.com)
4 years ago by useless_aether to /s/WorldNews from (theverge.com)
Apple agrees to $500 million settlement for throttling older iPhones
4 years ago by magnora7 to /s/TechCompanies from (theverge.com)
Robots aren’t taking our jobs - they’re becoming our bosses
4 years ago by [deleted] to /s/technology from (theverge.com)
Atari-branded hotels
4 years ago by macadoum to /s/news from (theverge.com)
Smart Ovens turns on, heats up to 400° in the middle of the night
4 years ago by Ian to /s/technology from (theverge.com)
Google and Dell team up to take on Microsoft with Chromebook Enterprise laptops
French inventor successfully crossed the English Channel on a hoverboard
4 years ago by BillionDollarEgg3 to /s/science from (theverge.com)
A brief history of rodents in soda containers
4 years ago by Vigte to /s/whatever from (theverge.com)
The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
5 years ago by Mnemonic to /s/Internet from (theverge.com)
Chinese satellite captures stunning backside image of the Moon with Earth
5 years ago by BillionDollarEgg3 to /s/technology from (theverge.com)
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