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Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open-source Instagram competitor, labeling them as "spam" on Facebook and removing them immediately. 404 Media reports: Pixelfed is an open-source, community funded and decentralized image sharing platform that runs on Activity Pub, which is the same technology that supports Mastodon and other federated services. Pixelfed.social is the largest Pixelfed server, which was launched in 2018 but has gained renewed attention over the last week. Bluesky user AJ.
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Russia's central bank hiked rates to 21% late last year in a bid to cool soaring inflation. Read more ›
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Did it really just take a proper IP rating? Probably not, but it's still a major upgrade. Read more ›
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Users are exploring RedNote and Lemon8 as TikTok ban looms. RedNote, with over 300 million users, has emerged as a leading choice. In just a couple of days, the United States will decide whether to officially ban TikTok. As the clock counts down, TikTok users are finding creative ways to resist the impending ban, and... Read more » Read more ›
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Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen nearly 50 years ago. Here's a history of the company's leadership, products, layoffs, and more. Read more ›
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Parallels Desktop now supports running 64-bit x86 operating systems on Apple Silicon Macs through its proprietary emulation engine, enabling users to run traditional Windows and Linux distributions. However, performance is said to be "really slow." How-To Geek reports: The latest Parallels Desktop 20.2 update adds early support for x86 emulation on Apple Silicon, allowing traditional x86 PC operating systems to work on newer Mac computers. There were already apps like... Read more ›
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The actor's legal team is demanding all records related to the creation of 'Nicepool' in Deadpool & Wolverine, believing the character to be a slight against Baldoni. Read more ›
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We already knew Baldur's Gate 3 players loved mods, thanks to developer Larian previous announcements on the matter, but it turns out Baldur's Gate 3 players really love mods - with the studio now revealing over 100m mods have been downloaded for the acclaimed RPG. And what better way to celebrate that impressive milestone, you might be asking yourself, than by giving PC, Mac, and console players an officially curated... Read more ›
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg starts another year by focusing even more on efficiency. This time, he's targeting low-performing employees. Read more ›
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Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick to lead DoD, said troops will get back what "they lost because they were forced out due to an experimental vaccine." Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg wants more masculine energy at the social companies run by Meta. But his products are used by more women than men. Why is that? Read more ›
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A high school student has created a Doom port that runs inside a PDF file. DoomPDF was inspired by the recent release of Pdftris – Tetris in a PDF. Read more ›
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Photo by Anna Barclay/Getty Images For over a decade, you couldn’t easily fly a DJI drone over restricted areas in the United States. DJI’s software would automatically stop you from flying over runways, power plants, public emergencies like wildfires, and the White House. But confusingly, amidst the greatest US outpouring of drone distrust in years, and an incident of a DJI drone operator hindering LA wildfire fighting efforts, DJI is... Read more ›
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Laura Normand / The Verge Chinese officials are reportedly exploring a backup plan for TikTok after the Supreme Court appeared unlikely to save it from a US ban. With TikTok’s legal options nearly exhausted, multiple news outlets are reporting that China is considering an option it previously said it wouldn’t: letting ByteDance sell the app. The kicker? China is reportedly mulling having President-elect Donald Trump’s favorite tech billionaire, Elon Musk,... Read more ›
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Meta's annual performance-based job cuts strategy aims to boost employee standards, increase non-regrettable attrition, and remove lowest performers. Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg said Meta plans to make more extensive performance-based cuts." Staff have questioned how they will work in practice. Read more ›
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The SEC has sued Elon Musk for allegedly failing to disclose his purchase of Twitter stocks within the legally required timeframe. Read more ›
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Trump said his new "external revenue service" will go into effect on January 20 to help the US collect more revenue from foreign countries. Read more ›
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Today Peter Sarlin, co-founder and CEO of Silo.ai, Europe’s leading private AI lab, announced a substantial donation to strengthen AI research in Finland, funding 13 professorships across Finnish univ... Read more ›
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Sonos is continuing to clean house as the company recovers from the hits it took following a disastrous mobile app redesign last year. Just a day after CEO Patrick Spence departed the company, chief product officer Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also leaving. He will act as an advisor to interim CEO Tom Conrad during the leadership transition before fully exiting Sonos. Conrad informed Sonos employees about the latest leadership change in... Read more ›
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Diamond Comics Publishers, which once held a near-monopoly on the distribution of comics in America, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Read more ›
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Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open-source Instagram competitor, labeling them as "spam" on Facebook and removing them immediately. 404 Media reports: Pixelfed is an open-source, community funded and decentralized image sharing platform that runs on Activity Pub, which is the same technology that supports Mastodon and other federated services. Pixelfed.social is the largest Pixelfed server, which was launched in 2018 but has gained renewed attention over the... Read more ›
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OpenAI has shut down the developer behind a viral device that could respond to ChatGPT queries to aim and fire an automated rifle. Futurism reports: The contraption, as seen in a video that's been making its rounds on social media, sparked a frenzied debate over our undying attempts to turn dystopian tech yanked straight out of the "Terminator" franchise into a reality. STS 3D's invention also apparently caught the attention... Read more ›
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VLC media player, the popular open-source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has topped 6 billion downloads worldwide and teased an AI-powered subtitle system. From a report: The new feature automatically generates real-time subtitles -- which can then also be translated in many languages -- for any video using open-source AI models that run locally on users' devices, eliminating the need for internet connectivity or cloud services, VideoLAN demoed at CES.... Read more ›
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"I know, I know: 'Year of the Linux desktop ... yadda, yadda'," writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, a ZDNet senior contributing editor. "You've heard it all before. But now there's a Linux-powered PC that many people will want..." He's talking about Nvidia's newly-announced Project Digits, describing it as "a desktop with AI supercomputer power that runs DGX OS, a customized Ubuntu Linux 22.04 distro." Powered by MediaTek and Nvidia's Grace Blackwell Superchip,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa has said Meta's decision to end factchecking on its platforms and remove restrictions on certain topics means "extremely dangerous times" lie ahead for journalism, democracy and social media users. The American-Filipino journalist said Mark Zuckerberg's move to relax content moderation on the Facebook and Instagram platforms would lead to a "world without facts" and... Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized Apple's innovation record and business practices in a Joe Rogan podcast interview on January 10, claiming the iPhone maker has not "invented anything great in a while" and is "just sitting" on its flagship product 20 years after Steve Jobs created it. Zuckerberg accused Apple of using arbitrary App Store rules and 30% developer fees to offset declining iPhone sales. He also said Apple blocks... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The six biggest banks in the US have all quit the global banking industry's net zero target-setting group, with the imminent inauguration of Donald Trump as president expected to bring political backlash against climate action. JP Morgan is the latest to withdraw from the UN-sponsored net zero banking alliance (NZBA), following Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs. All six... Read more ›
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SC Media reports on a new jailbreak method for large language models (LLMs) that "takes advantage of models' ability to identify and score harmful content in order to trick the models into generating content related to malware, illegal activity, harassment and more. "The 'Bad Likert Judge' multi-step jailbreak technique was developed and tested by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, and was found to increase the success rate of jailbreak attempts... Read more ›
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BleepingComputer's Sergiu Gatlan reports: "Today, the White House announced the launch of the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, a new cybersecurity safety label for internet-connected consumer devices. The Cyber Trust Mark label, which will appear on smart products sold in the United States later this year, will help American consumers determine whether the devices they want to buy are safe to install in their homes. It's designed for consumer smart devices,... Read more ›
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"What if they ban TikTok and people keep using it anyway?" asks the New York Times, saying a pending ban in America "is vague on how it would be enforced" Some experts say that even if TikTok is actually banned this month or soon, there may be so many legal and technical loopholes that millions of Americans could find ways to keep TikTok'ing. The law is "Swiss cheese with lots... Read more ›
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