10-Aug-2023 – Disney exits the metaverse

Brief Summary: ”
Disney has shut off the last light in its metaverse division, parting ways with “metaverse “

10-Aug-2023 – Windows Weekly 841: You’ve Been Tennified

Brief Summary: “Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss Windows 11, more Big Tech earnings, Microsoft 365 and AI, .NET 8, Goo”

10-Aug-2023 – Yandex founder slams Russia’s ‘barbaric’ war in Ukraine

Brief Summary: “Arkady Volozh, the ex-boss of Russia’s tech giant, has previously faced criticism for not speaking o”

09-Aug-2023 – Disney is ‘actively exploring’ ways to crack down on password sharing

Brief Summary: ”

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge

Move over, Netflix — Disney might b”

09-Aug-2023 – 3D Print Your Own Seiko-Style “Magic Lever” Energy Harvester

Brief Summary: “Back in 1956, Seiko created their “magic lever” as an integral part of self-winding mechanical watch”

09-Aug-2023 – Llama from scratch (or how to implement a paper without crying)

Brief Summary: “Llama from scratch (or how to implement a paper without crying)
Brian Kitano implemented the model d”

09-Aug-2023 – Is It Safe to Use ChatGPT for Coding?

Brief Summary: “How safe is it to employ ChatGPT for coding? In this article, we’ll delve into the specifics of this”

09-Aug-2023 – Running DOOM in a Keycap Takes Careful Work

Brief Summary: “Shoehorning DOOM into different hardware is a classic hacker’s exercise, and [TheKeebProject] manage”

04-Aug-2023 – What ever happened to Premium Friday? Japanese government looks set to pull the plug

Brief Summary: ”
Not so premium now, are you, Friday?

Things have a way of changing so gradually, it’s sometimes ea”

03-Aug-2023 – Nokia Keeps the Dream of the ’90s Alive With an Update to Its Dumb Phones

Brief Summary: “The Nokia 130 and 150 are two new updated feature phones from Nokia that ship “with the form of an e”

03-Aug-2023 – The Time Before Gender Ideology

Brief Summary: ”

Another collaboration with Becky Hawkins!

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has four panels, e”

03-Aug-2023 – Etsy Scrambling To Avert a Widespread Sellers’ Strike

Brief Summary: “An Etsy boycott initiated by UK-based sellers over its payment system has gotten the American compan”

03-Aug-2023 – The FCC fines a multi-national robocaller, which placed 5B+ calls pretending to sell auto warranties to collect people’s personal information, a record $300M (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

Brief Summary: ”
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
The FCC fines a multi-national robocaller, which placed 5B+ calls pre”

03-Aug-2023 – HBO Max Was Renamed Max, and Warner Bros. Discovery Lost Subscribers

Brief Summary: “Warner Bros. Discovery lost 1.8 million subscribers in the three months following the launch of Max.”

03-Aug-2023 – Windows Weekly 840: Buried in Corn

Brief Summary: “Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss Windows 11 23H2 in the Beta channel, Microsoft 365, .NET 8, Activisio”

03-Aug-2023 – Raspberry Pi Availability Is Visibly Improving After Years of Shortages

Brief Summary: “An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton has been saying f”

02-Aug-2023 – Cory Doctorow’s New Book On Beating Big Tech At Its Own Game

Brief Summary: “Cory Doctorow, author, digital rights advocate, and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing, has launched “

02-Aug-2023 – For $8 a month, you can pretend like you never paid for Twitter

Brief Summary: “If you paid for Twitter Blue and now regret it because of the blue badge that adorns your profile, T”

02-Aug-2023 – GameStop To Remove Crypto Wallets Citing ‘Regulatory Uncertainty’

Brief Summary: “Video game retailer GameStop said it will remove its support for crypto wallets citing regulatory un”

02-Aug-2023 – ‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models

Brief Summary: “Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abru”

02-Aug-2023 – Second Life – Senra Avatars

Brief Summary: “As part of improvements to onboarding new Second Life users, a project by Linden Lab known as the “N”

02-Aug-2023 – FIZZ have shared their cathartic new single, ‘As Good As It Gets’

Brief Summary: ”
FIZZ have shared a new single, ‘As Good As It Gets’.

The band – dodie, Orla Gartland, Greta Isaa”