FTC can’t afford to fight Amazon’s allegedly deceptive sign-ups after DOGE cuts FTC says credit card charges are capped at $1, amid other budget shortfalls.

The FTC's attorney says a recent "extremely severe resource shortfall in terms of money and personnel" has scrambled the agency's trial preparation.

Meta rep flagged 'critiques of tech industry figures' as 'sensitive or controversial content' Meta said that the journalist "should never have received this response," but the incident set off a wave of concern over censorship online.

Meta rep flagged 'critiques of tech industry figures' as 'sensitive or controversial content'
www.usermag.co/p/meta-rep-f... by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social

Same post, but in Apollo

Fixed that for you Christian 😇

Google is scamming us all 🥲

Google is ready to work on AI weapons now The company’s promise to avoid building AI applications that cause harm has been deleted

I wrote about Google unveiling its 'responsible AI progress report' by quietly deleting the part of its AI principles where it promised not to work on weapons www.platformer.news/google-ai-pr...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

400-nit brightness is a bummer. And I prefer a non-matte screen. But it's great to finally have more 5K monitor options.

Neither side deserves our attention

Spot the difference

what is the video quality like on here? good enough to post prototypes?

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

never change, Microsoft

UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000% The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.

"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission."

Lina Khan really is That Girl.

Right now c xx

wow the actual cast showed up for the Severance popup in Grand Central 🤯

My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North…

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers.

See what changes are in store for your county.

By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith

Mark Zuckerberg slams Apple in Joe Rogan interview: ‘They haven’t invented anything great in a while’ - 9to5Mac Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined the Joe Rogan Experience podcast today for a wide-ranging interview on content moderation, the Trump...

Meta has never invented anything great. Period. Their entire product strategy is CMD+C then CMD+V.

Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and @mikeisaac.bsky.social

- no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses
- no goals for hiring women and minorities

A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.

You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

Hopefully the price won’t be anywhere near Apple’s Pro Display XDR

That would be me

Touching to have Spotify celebrate the 1-year anniversary of my layoff by demonstrating that they could not, in fact, still do Wrapped just as well without me.

Earth’s surface painted with 2m temperature. 🧪

Contrasts in temperature between the ocean and land, as well as between different orographic features, allow you to clearly see surface details.

Model: IFS-FESOM | Shown: 2m temperature | Project: nextGEMS| Simulations @trackow.bsky.social
#SciArt

Wow! Look how much Iberia🇦🇩🇪🇦🇵🇹 has changed in 30 years! My new map shows the population growth & decline across the peninsula, using the Global Human Settlement data

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Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

Ban pharmaceutical ads!

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