@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-13 00:05:49
Apple's stock dropped 5% on Thursday, its worst day since April, following FTC scrutiny of Apple News and reports about delays with Siri (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/apple-stock-worst-day-ftc-siri.html
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-03-07 22:14:15
@floheinstein@chaos.social2026-02-12 05:00:06
Good morning everyone! Somebody else on their way to Helsinki today? It's time for Disobey 2026!
#disobey26 #disobeyFI #infosec
@lpryszcz@genomic.social2026-04-10 19:33:16
'Back in the 70's a researcher named Philip Brickman studied lottery winners and found that people who won big were no happier than anyone else within a few months. He called it the "hedonic treadmill." You get the thing, the feeling fades, you chase the next thing.
The Strive is the hedonic treadmill all over again, but it comes with a mandatory pair of white sneakers and a Claude Max subscription.'
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2026-04-10 19:31:02
I'm listening to Science Friday talking about how GLP-1 medications may affect addition.
One of the guests made the point that many people have used alcohol to not feel things that may be troubling their life, and that while GLP-1 may take away the desire to drink, it doesn't treat the underlying problems. Thus GLP-1s may need to be accompanied by something else to help them deal with the feelings they've been avoiding with alcohol.
@mela@zusammenkunft.net2026-04-03 06:00:16
Has somebody else encountered the following TTRPG paradox?
You are in 2 to 4 games. Because of life, stuff and session cancellation, you will play max two sessions a week, most of the time only one, and sometimes you'll have several weeks without any session.
You add one game.
Why? Because of all that white space in your schedule!
Suddenly, you have up to 5–7 sessions a week as the stars align and all your GMs and fellow players manage to get their schedules in ord…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-02 19:05:42
Marc Elias writes:
DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:
Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"
And, it included a non-party in the caption.
These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.
@pre@boing.world2026-03-13 22:35:16
One of my VR Lighthouses died last month. These things are gyroscopically spinning 24 hours a day for, what, a decade now? Nearly.
No wonder. Mostly the industry seems to be settling on using head-mounted cameras rather than sweeping infra-red beams and receptors on the head anyway.
It is true that lighthouses give accurate positioning, but means I can't easily take the headset next door, say. Or to a party.
So inside-out, as they call it, is fine for the headset now and mostly okay for the hand-controllers.
But it offers no solution at all for the foot-trackers and hip-tracker that I need for puppetting the characters in the #vr #slimeVR #trackers
@pgcd@mastodon.online2026-04-03 12:57:41
Some scents cause me an extremely peculiar feeling somewhere in my palate, towards the front of the mouth, occasionally even doing *something* to my incisives.
Does anybody else know what I'm talking about and maybe, just maybe, know what's the correct definition?
(searching for "scents that affect teeth and palate" only has halitosis-based results)
For reference: patchouli (patchoulol) is an example of such scents, for me.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-26 11:45:57
The European Commission launches a DSA investigation into Snapchat for failing to protect children, including assessing its age verification measures (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-probes-snapchat-for-fa…
