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+28Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025)
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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+1616TB WD Elements external hard drive is a great deal currently, ideal for data backup
WD has dropped the price of the Elements external hard drive down to its lowest price in over six months. The discount applies on the 16 TB model.
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+34The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
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+42In fear of more user protests, Reddit announces controversial policy change
Moderators now need Reddit's permission to turn subreddits private, NSFW.
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+45YouTube's new way to interrupt your viewing is going wide
YouTube is now widely rolling out pause ads. These ads will appear when you pause playback, in addition to regular YouTube ads.
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+18Why top internet sleuths say they won't help find the UnitedHealthcare CEO killer
TikTok users who would normally leap at the chance to identify an alleged criminal are standing down during the manhunt for the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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+42Linux and open-source documentation is a mess: Here's the solution
Simply telling someone to RTFM is not an answer when the manual is outdated, unreadable, or nonexistent. We need to improve the quality of our documentation, and the way to do that is simple.
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+24The Secret System Behind Every Call You Make Is About to Change Hands
Also, did the Chinese government just hack it?
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+36AlmaLinux Adds New Hardware Certification Program
AlmaLinux wants to be taken seriously by enterprise hardware vendors.
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+28Microsoft wants to change the way you use your PC. It needs to succeed.
Microsoft is changing the way you interact with your computer. But its efforts face serious competition from some old rivals.
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+38The World Map of the Internet in 2021 by Martin Vargic
After almost a full year of work, young Slovakian designer Martin Vargic is introducing the brand new Map of the Internet, up to date for the year 2021. This fun and extensive project aims to concisely, but still comprehensively visualize the current state of the World Wide Web today.
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+26The Surface Duo is dead — Microsoft pulls plug on $1,500 Surface Duo 2 after just one Android OS upgrade
Microsoft has issued the final security update for Surface Duo 2 ahead of its end of support date on October 21.
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+50The workers have spoken: They're staying home.
And companies can't make them come into the office. Really.
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+20New York Times tech union goes on strike one day before election
Strike called after negotiations between the guild and Times management failed to yield a contract agreement
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+38Mac and Windows users infected by software updates delivered over hacked ISP
DNS poisoning attack worked even when targets used DNS from Google and Cloudflare.
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+44What's New With the Just-Released Linux 6.10 Kernel
This mid-year 2024 kernel upgrade brings a host of exciting features and improvements that enhance performance, security, and hardware support across various platforms.
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+42Cloudflare reports almost 7% of internet traffic is malicious
Fortunately, there are things you can do to help protect yourself and your websites.
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+38Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source
The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.
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+40The 30+ best early anti-Prime Day deals: Best Buy, Walmart, Costco, and more
Prime Day returns in just days, but Amazon isn't the only place to save. Some of the best anti-Prime Day deals on home, tech, and lifestyle are already available at steep discounts from retailers such as Best Buy, Walmart, Costco, and more.
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+34Microsoft 365 goes down - again
UPDATED: It's not just you (or Crowdstrike) - Microsoft 365 really is going through an outage. Here's what we know.