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  • Spotify Deleted 75 Million AI-Generated Tracks – and It’s Not Done Yet

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  • Authorized AI remixes and covers? Fine. AI-assisted mixing and mastering? Also fine. Flooding the platform with thousands of thirty-second tracks tagged as “relaxing rain sounds”? That’s where you get purged. Spotify is actively working with labels to clear AI-created content for legitimate sale, according to Rolling Stone.

    Money talking to money. No one's asking the artists to weigh in.

  • Framework proved repairable laptops can work, but almost nobody is willing to buy one

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  • It's a step.

    Step 1: new hardware (Framework), familiar OS (Windows)

    Step 2: familiar hardware (Framework), new OS (Linux)

    Step 3: "I use Arch Linux, btw."

  • Memory price surge begins to cool as consumers hit affordability limit — AI demand still keeps DRAM and NAND prices climbing through Q3 2026

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  • as consumers hit affordability limit

    That happened years ago, mate.

  • I wore Meta AI glasses for a month — and even after struggling with privacy concerns, I'm still not convinced they're the future of wearables

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  • In contrast, what made the targeted ads somewhat more troubling was the fact that tied in with the privacy footage revelations — where the glasses are recording to an extent even if they're not — was the feeling that the glasses could see everything I saw. And that was a hard thing to shake.

    Sure, most people on the internet are aware of search history, cookies, tracking, and personal data use being leveraged to promote products, ideas or suggested searches. But being confronted by targeted suggestions based on what you're seeing immediately in front of you is a somewhat shocking wake-up call.

    It's baffling that tech journalists aren't telling people to run screaming from devices like these.

  • Mark Zuckerberg Just Got Rather Badly Humiliated

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  • Tl;dr: Meta has to use Gemini, because their own AI can't keep up. And then Google cut off their access.

    In yet another sign that his company is seriously struggling to keep up in the AI race, Google informed Meta earlier this year that it was cutting Meta off from the Gemini AI capacity it needed, the Financial Times reports.

    Ironically, the lack of access to Gemini — which is far superior to anything Meta has built in-house — slowed down Meta’s own AI projects, including data moderation and customer services, highlighting how heavily Zuckerberg’s company is leaning on its competitors as its own AI efforts languish.

  • Uruky - The Paid European Search Engine (Review)

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  • F-Droid and the Future of Open-Source Android; An Interview with DocWolle

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  • anything in particular you want to say to the people reading our interview?

    I encourage everyone to visit keepandroidopen.org to understand what’s at stake with Android’s future, and I warmly invite users to explore my projects on F-Droid. If you value privacy, transparency, and true software freedom, I hope you’ll find something useful in my work.

  • Fortune 500 bosses demanding staff return to the office share one trait: Narcissism, research finds

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  • Narcissists tend to see narcissism as a positive.

    So it's more like, "people wish they had as much confidence and self esteem as I do."

  • We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together.

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  • Copyright The Linux Foundation and its contributors

    Didn't expect to see that, but it's official.

  • Meta's WhatsApp to be led by Indian startup founder Kunal Shah

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  • Indian fintech ​firm CRED's ‌founder Kunal Shah ​will become ​Meta-owned WhatsApp's new ⁠leader, ​the messaging app's ​current head Will Cathcart said ​on ​Monday in a ‌post ⁠on X.

    The announcement comes after ​CRED ​announced ⁠it will raise ​about $900 ​million ⁠from Meta.

    Fun fact: that's literally the entire article.

  • Tech giant Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs as it embraces AI

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  • I'm sure Larry will be just fine

  • Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People

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  • Are they actually getting arrested?

    Or do they just go on unplanned, paid vacations?

  • Open Source vs the Invisible Hand

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  • open source has run for thirty years on a basis the textbook says cannot hold. It looks more like several arrangements overlaid on each other, part gift economy, part shared infrastructure, part public archive, part reputation system, with no single mechanism carrying it.

    If this kind of shit had been scribbled in the margins of my economics textbook, I would've paid more attention in class.

  • OpenAI made $13 billion in 2025 and lost $21 billion doing it

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  • Commodore 64's New Flip Phone Skips Android for Linux-Based Sailfish OS

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  • That's a bit far, isn't it?

    Let's see what the article actually says...

    Making Flip Phones Great Again The Specs Get Yours

    This is an advertisement.

  • Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress

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  • But the AI can!

  • Ads in New York must now label AI-generated 'synthetic performers'

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  • In before

    We had no idea the performer in the advertisement for our product was AI-generated. We outsource our marketing to a third party agency and had no involvement in the production of this content.

  • Donut Lab's miracle battery found to be a fraud, investigation claims

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  • Microsoft is letting you kill Bing in Windows 11 Search, after years of forcing it on every PC

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  • I assume they're replacing it with Autopilot Scout TotallyNotAIGuysISwearThisTime.

  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    Alberta Tech interview with the CEO of malus.sh

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/04/copyright-and-dmca-best-practices-fediverse-operators
  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    Waterfox to integrate Brave adblock engine, with search ads enabled by default

    www.waterfox.com /blog/15-years-of-forking/
  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    What's the point of switching to Discord alternatives, if they're going to be subject to the same age verification laws?

  • Curated Tumblr @sh.itjust.works
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    The God of Arepo

  • VTubers @sh.itjust.works
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    Laughing purple dragon

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Dismantling the Anti-AI Bubble Case