@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe EU says Apple and Meta will not face sanctions immediately after their 60 day DMA grace period ends on June 26, following €500M and €200M fines in April (Peggy Corlin/Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06…
@nelson@tech.lgbtCalamus 31 What ship, puzzled at sea
Just when I'm beginning to think I have some facility reading Whitman I meet a head-scratcher like this. Taken literally this is a poem about Whitman offering to guide a boat at sea, or to offer military troops to a besieged city.
But presumably it's a metaphor. Whitman offering to guide and help those in need. It's a little strange?
Hard-pressed for a gay reading here but I'll focus on this:
Here, sailor! Here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot.
Here Whitman is offering himself to a sailor, naming himself the most perfect pilot. I could imagine that being a metaphor of sexual mentorship. But honestly that's a stretch.
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesBeen volunteering with @… and @… since January.
We are in the Toronto Star today!
Thanks @…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company is speeding up construction of its second and third plants in Arizona "by several quarters" to meet robust US chip demand (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at social media "clippers", who are paid $0.50 to $2 per thousand views by streamers, podcasts, and startups to make buzzy moments go viral online (Ben Raab/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meet-the-clip…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzReally good clear explanation from @…, laying out various problems and risks with trying to implement "age verification" online.
"Firstly, in order to prove your age you’re being asked to hand over some fairly important personal details. ... Usually the company you’re handing these details to is a third party, often one you will never have heard of before. ...
"The data that is being collected for age verification purposes is extremely tempting to hackers ... and at the moment there is no specific regulation outlining the security standards that these companies should meet ...
"Let’s say all the current age verification providers are incredibly robust, though. ... The question still remains... should you be sharing this information with random websites anyway?
"... once you’ve trained the population of an entire country to routinely hand over their credit card details in order to access content, you have given them an incredibly bad habit that it’s going to be tough to break. ... You don’t just prove your age once, after all, you potentially have to do it dozens of times, to access a bunch of different websites. Everything from BlueSky to PornHub to Spotify and even maybe Wikipedia. It becomes a weekly or perhaps monthly occurrence. Just as individual users don’t tend to read every website’s terms and conditions, it’s unlikely they’re all going to do due diligence checks on every provider who asks for ID, especially once they’ve become used to just handing that data over.
"And although that may not be a problem for _you_, you tech-savvy cleverclogs, if you’ve ever found yourself in the position of unpaid IT support for one of your less knowledgeable friends or relatives, hopefully you can see why it’s a huge problem for the UK population more broadly."
And more!
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct #OSA
@nelson@tech.lgbtThe Death Stranding games are all about connecting people together through delivery services. So how come every time you meet someone new you don't meet them, you meet a hologram of them instead? It's like the whole world is nothing but Zoom calls.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at social media "clippers", who are paid $0.50 to $2 per thousand views by streamers, podcasts, and startups to make buzzy moments go viral online (Ben Raab/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meet-the-clip…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialE eu a pensar que tinha sido o Borat.
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/sci-tech-vr0v1u2nz/-/a-NQ-Kpwb6RASYGbvxDfYZyg:a:89340020-/0
@dfupdate@social.linux.pizzaMeet the Update Computer Club at #Uppsala Tech Conference today! We brought a #C64 and some #retrogames for you to play!
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Google, Meta, and Apple's pledges to spend billions on new Silicon Valley housing failed to meet expectations; Apple spent $1.6B by July 2024, the most (Nicole Friedman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/tech-compa…
@cdarwin@c.imThere's a lot of pressurefor businesses to get ahead with AI.
And I imagine at many companies
there's a sense that if you don't keep up, you're leaving innovation on the table.
At the same time, there's a gap between the excitement around AI and understanding what it means for each role.
CarGurus started an internal initiative "AI Forward" to meet business units and function where they are.
The group works together to evaluate u…
@nelson@tech.lgbtAnd 2.5 hours later, Starlink is back. The service rather unimpressively promises 99.9% uptime, or about 9 hours of outages a year. So they can do this about once a quarter and still meet their sandbagged goal.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is set to meet Trump on Monday to propose ways the US and Intel could work together, show his commitment to the US, and more (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/intel-ceo-singled-out-by-tru…
