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@cdarwin@c.im
2026-05-12 06:33:31

L.A. mayoral forum canceled after leading candidates pull out
Organizers on Monday canceled a televised forum for Los Angeles mayoral candidates after City Councilmember Nithya Raman dropped out,
which meant all three of the leading candidates would be no-shows.
Mayor Karen Bass originally committed to the forum but dropped out last week,
saying she would instead travel to Sacramento to lobby state officials for funding on a variety of issues including homelessness a…

L.A. mayoral forum canceled after leading candidates pull out
Organizers on Monday canceled a televised forum for Los Angeles mayoral candidates after City Councilmember Nithya Raman dropped out, which meant all three of the leading candidates would be no-shows.

@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

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-05-11 13:51:47

"Romania to conclude memorandum with Mastercard implementing European Digital Identity Wallet"
Who knows more details about this? Many questions. 🤔
actmedia.eu/financial-and-bank

Romania to conclude memorandum with Mastercard implementing European Digital Identity Wallet
The Romanian government and Mastercard Europe S.A. will sign a memorandum of understanding for the development, by December, of a national wallet solution for d...

@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.

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-13 02:24:56

Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash
cnbc.com/2026/02/12/amazons-ri

@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 […]

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-12 03:21:07

Source: Anthropic is in talks with Blackstone and other PE firms to form a JV selling consulting services for integrating Claude into portfolio companies (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/an

Anthropic in Talks With Blackstone, Other PE Firms to Form AI Consulting Venture
Anthropic is in talks with a consortium of private equity firms including Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman about forming an AI-focused joint venture to sell the Claude maker’s technology to companies funded by the investment firms, according to a person involved in the discussions and another ...

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-03-10 14:09:49

🥳 New Kitten¹ Release
• Fixed: Errors in a project’s _main.script.js_ now cause a hard crash without retry attempts. The errors are also now better classified and communicated.
• Housekeeping: Removed unmaintained dev dependency, updated supported ES versions to esnext and simplified jsconfig.json.
Full change log:

app/CHANGELOG.md at main
app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-11 20:56:03

Microsoft says that Windows 11 Xbox mode, a controller-first, full-screen gaming interface, will begin rolling out in April and work across all PC form factors (Abhijith M B/Windows Latest)
windowslatest.com/2…

Microsoft confirms Xbox Mode for Windows 11 PCs in 2026, and I tested the new console-style gaming interface
Microsoft confirms Xbox Mode for Windows 11 PCs coming in 2026, and I tested the new console-style gaming interface on a Windows PC