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China bans gay dating app Grindr     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by John_B_14 to news 2.3 years ago (+59/-0)
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https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22910129/grindr-china-app-store-removal-ios-android

Grindr reportedly disappears from app stores in China

The LGBTQ dating app has been removed from Apple and popular Android app stores

Jan 31, 2022

LGBTQ dating app Grindr has been removed from the Apple App Store in China, and is also unavailable on popular Android app marketplaces, Bloomberg reports. The app reportedly disappeared from the iOS App Store on January 27th, although it’s unclear when it was removed from the country’s popular Android app stores — which are operated by local companies like Huawei and Tencent in the absence of the Google Play Store.

The apparent removals follow the Chinese government’s announcement last week that it would be cracking down on illegal content, pornography, and “ill-natured” activities online, Bloomberg previously reported. The tightening of restrictions comes ahead of China hosting the Winter Olympics in Beijing, which are due to kick off later this week. While homosexuality isn’t illegal in China, observers have noted that government policies have been increasingly intolerant, and Beijing censors have taken issue with gay themes in media.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22910129/grindr-china-app-store-removal-ios-android
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Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by John_B_14 to news 4 months ago (+34/-0)
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Panera Bread will let you pay using Amazon’s palm-scanning tech (mark of beast incoming. God help us)      (www.theverge.com)
submitted by knightwarrior41 to technology 1.1 years ago (+22/-1)
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https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23651843/amazon-one-panera-bread-palm-scanning-biometrics-payment-loyalty

Panera is deploying Amazon One, a payment service that allows customers to pay and collect membership rewards by scanning their palms.
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The Internet Archive is defending its digital library in court today     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by knightwarrior41 to technology 1.1 years ago (+16/-0)
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https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/20/23641457/internet-archive-hachette-lawsuit-court-copyright-fair-use

Book publishers and the Internet Archive will face off today in a hearing that could determine the future of library ebooks — deciding whether libraries must rely on the often temporary digital licenses that publishers offer or whether they can scan and lend copies of their own tomes.

At 1PM ET, a New York federal court will hear oral arguments in Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit over the archive’s Open Library program. The court will consider whether the Open Library violated copyright law by letting users “check out” digitized copies of physical books, an assertion several major publishers made in their 2020 suit. The case will be broadcast over teleconference, with the phone number available here.

1-888-363-4749, with access code 8140049.
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AMD ‘Zenbleed’ exploit can leak passwords and encryption keys from Ryzen CPUs / Some patches are already rolling out, but updates for most impacted processors aren’t expected until late 2023.     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by dosvydanya_freedomz to technology 9 months ago (+14/-0)
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https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/25/23806705/amd-ryzen-cpu-processor-zenbleed-vulnerability-exploit-bug

A new vulnerability impacting AMD’s line of Zen 2 processors — which includes popular CPUs like the budget-friendly Ryzen 5 3600 — has been discovered that can be exploited to steal sensitive data like passwords and encryption keys. Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy disclosed the “Zenbleed” bug (filed as CVE-2023-20593) on his blog this week after first reporting the vulnerability to AMD on May 15th.
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Microsoft testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu      (www.theverge.com)
submitted by Kozel to technology 3 weeks ago (+12/-0)
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https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128640/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-app-recommendations

What an incredible coincidence that they introduce ads in the official start menu around the same time that they begin blocking third party start menu replacements.
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Reddit to sell user data to AI learning tool.      (www.theverge.com)
submitted by RedBarchetta to whatever 2 months ago (+9/-1)
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Aging and irrelevant boomer musicians want back the Spotify royalty shekels they gave up in protest of Joe Rogan…     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by Steelerfish to Boomers 1.8 years ago (+7/-0)
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Louisiana bans kids from the internet without parental consent     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by Conspirologist to Universal 11 months ago (+7/-2)
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Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by Cynabuns to whatever 2.5 years ago (+6/-0)
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https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse
The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.

https://archive.md/POqcu
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The DOJ is reportedly investigating rent-setting software company RealPage     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by Scyber to news 1.4 years ago (+6/-0)
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https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/26/23479034/doj-investigating-rent-setting-software-company-realpage

The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has reportedly opened up an investigation into RealPage, the real estate technology company accused of contributing to higher-than-normal rent prices. According to a report from ProPublica, the DOJ is looking into whether the company’s rent-setting software allows landlords to coordinate and raise rent across the nation.
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BMW’s South Carolina plant is testing humanoid robot workers      (www.theverge.com)
submitted by dosvydanya_freedomz to technology 3 months ago (+5/-0)
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The Webb Space Telescope has reached L2 INSERTION     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by Lordbananafist to science 2.3 years ago (+6/-2)
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https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/24/22895050/nasa-jwst-space-telescope-final-orbit-lagrange-point

Can you believe just 2 short weeks ago we were all talking about the Webb Space Telescope and now the Webb Space Telescope has reached L2 insertion!!??!!??

I'm very excited.
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Tay Tweets     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by Ffat20 to funny 2 years ago (+4/-0)
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https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist

What do you think the chances are that ol' Muskey is gonna bring back ourgirl?
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India will reportedly introduce bill to make owning cryptocurrency illegal     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by veo to news 3.1 years ago (+3/-0)
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Samsung caught faking zoom photos of the Moon (Mar. 2023)     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by Dingo to whatever 3 months ago (+5/-2)
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https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moon-photos-ai-galaxy-s21-s23-ultra

Subtitle: A viral Reddit post has revealed just how much processing the company’s cameras apply to photos of the Moon, further blurring the line between real and fake imagery in the age of AI.

From the comments section, which is relevent for context.

OP here. First let me say that I really like this article, it interpreted my findings correctly, and is perfectly nuanced. However, the authors did not mention that there have been several updates to the experiments since, which explicitly show what I am claiming in even more detail: https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11p7rqy/update_to_the_samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are/

I mention this because I see a lot of comments where people still misunderstand what is going on. No, Samsung is not replacing your moon with a pre-downloaded moon.png, it's using a neural network to hallucinate some of those details in. My newer experiments show how this works in even more detail, and how an image looks when these 'enhancements' are not being applied.

It seems that Samsung wants to make everything you look at Fake-N-Gay(TM).
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Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by Conspirologist to technology 1 month ago (+3/-1)
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big cleaning at Twitter     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by boekanier to whatever 1.5 years ago (+2/-0)
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Sony’s $200 DualSense Edge for PS5 will have ‘moderately shorter’ battery life / The DualSense Edge gamepad, shipping January 26th for $200, has a long list of improvements. But battery life won’t be one.     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by knightwarrior41 to gaming 1.4 years ago (+2/-0)
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https://www.theverge.com/23518070/sony-ps5-dualsense-edge-gamepad-battery-life

$onyponys getting screwed again with that pricing and shortening battery life
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More secure computing RFPGA CPU stop spying      (www.theverge.com)
submitted by Cantaloupe to whatever 1.3 years ago (+2/-0)
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https://www.theverge.com/22323002/mister-fpga-project-retro-computer-console-early-pc

It should be possible to make your own CPU in an RFPGA - reprogrammable FPGA

Add some battery backed up RAM.

Run whonix, tails, on a ramdisk.

Pull the power the whole OS is gone.

And the CPU function can be verified to be without fuckery
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Microsoft is experimenting with a Windows gaming handheld mode for Steam Deck-like devices / A leaked hackathon project gives us an     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by dosvydanya_freedomz to gaming 1 year ago (+2/-0)
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Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud      (www.theverge.com)
submitted by Niggly_Puff to technology 10 months ago (+2/-0)
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US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by Conspirologist to technology 1 month ago (+2/-1)
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The jew media says Tesla is fucked because of Musk     (www.theverge.com)
submitted by Spaceman84 to technology 1.4 years ago (+2/-1)
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AMD announces Ryzen Z1 and Z1 Extreme chips for handheld gaming PCs      (www.theverge.com)
submitted by dosvydanya_freedomz to technology 1 year ago (+1/-0)
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https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/25/23696722/amd-ryzen-z1-z1-extreme-rog-ally

On Friday, we told you how AMD is quietly arming a whole new wave of Steam Deck competitors. But the company’s now saying the quiet part out loud: today, it’s officially announcing the AMD Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme, a pair of 4nm processors specifically aimed at handheld gaming PCs.

The Ryzen Z1 Extreme pairs eight of AMD’s Zen 4 CPU cores and 16 threads with 12 of its RDNA 3 graphics cores as well as 24MB of cache — and promises up to a whopping 8.6 teraflops of raw graphic performance, far closer to the 10.28 teraflops of a Sony PS5 than the 1.6 teraflops you get with a Steam Deck.