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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-13 01:05:59

Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock that would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, following backlash (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
theverge.com/news/878447/ring-

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Amazon-owned Ring has canceled its proposed integration with Flock

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-03-13 00:39:05

The Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE ) 
tagged Jewish themes as “#DEI” (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in ChatGPT
when searching for federal humanities grants to cancel last year,
according to a class-action lawsuit. 
The methodology contributed to the cancellation of National Endowment for t…

Lawsuit says DOGE used ChatGPT to tag Jewish-themed humanities grants as ‘DEI’ before cancelling them
JTA – The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) tagged Jewish themes as “DEI” (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in ChatGPT when searching for federal humanities grants to cancel last year, according to a class-action lawsuit.  The methodology contributed to the cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants to study violence against women during the Holocaust, postwar Soviet Jewish literature, and hundreds […]

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-04-13 15:36:53

⚰️ The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces
#games

The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces
A eulogy for the console soul.

@mela@zusammenkunft.net
2026-02-12 13:14:48

QuitGPT
technologyreview.com/2026/02/1

A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions
Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-03-12 11:24:04

If a not-for-profit for-profit privacy-protecting company funded by surveillance capitalism isn’t trustworthy, I don’t know what is. @… polymaths.social/@c…

Chad McCullough (@cmccullough@polymaths.social)
When Mozilla released Firefox 148.0 with the "AI kill switch", I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt and give it a try. It worked...for a while. With the 148.0.2 update, however, the kill switch was disabled and a lot of my settings had changed. That's it. That's the one chance I was going to give them but Firefox, once again, has been removed from all of my hardware. I can no longer trust Mozilla to do the right thing. I am officially done. #mozilla #firefox #noai

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-12 12:49:33

Source: Browns cutting OT Conklin after 6 years espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/481831

Browns releasing starting OT Jack Conklin, source says - ESPN
The Browns are releasing Jack Conklin, a starting offensive tackle whose six seasons in Cleveland were marred by injury, a source told ESPN.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-03-13 14:00:49

"Testing the waters: can pumping chemicals into the ocean help stop global heating?"
#Chemicals #Environment #Oceans

Testing the waters: can pumping chemicals into the ocean help stop global heating?
To some it was a reckless experiment but scientists hope the dispersal of 65,000 litres of sodium hydroxide into the Gulf of Maine could ease the climate crisis

@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-13 15:16:00

Still too damned many not showing up. Left work at 15:30 should be at home at just after 16:00. Arrived at home at almost 17:00!
ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/oc-t

OC Transpo cancels fewer trips as more buses hit the roads
Fewer bus trips were cancelled across the City of Ottawa during the first week of February as more buses were available for service, according to OC Transpo.

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-02-13 17:16:55

After surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety
Following mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad,
the Amazon-owned company walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial
law-enforcement technology company.
theverge.co…

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Amazon-owned Ring has canceled its proposed integration with Flock

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-13 15:11:34

Adobe agrees to pay $75M to resolve a US government lawsuit accusing it of concealing hefty termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
reuters.com/world/adobe-pay-75