President Donald Trump plans to again extend the deadline requiring China's ByteDance to divest TikTok's U.S. business or be effectively banned in the country.

Facebook announces that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels (techcrunch.com)

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Facebook announced on Tuesday that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation.

Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers (kianbradley.com)

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Even Klarna is launching a mobile phone service now (www.theverge.com)

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Patreon will increase the cut it takes from new creators (techcrunch.com)

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Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI (www.404media.co)

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How Cambridge Analytica Used Intimate Data to Exploit Gun Owners’ Private Lives (projects.propublica.org)

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Windows Hello face unlock no longer works in the dark, and Microsoft says it's not a bug (www.windowscentral.com)

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A recent Windows update has changed how Windows Hello face unlock works, now requiring a color camera in addition to IR sensors to authenticate you. That means it can no longer see you in low-light environments.

Using Signal groups for activism (micahflee.com)

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Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism. Communities around the US are organizing to defend against ICE raids, to protest Israeli genocide, for mutual aid, and for other forms of fighting fascism. Signal can help people safely organize in all of these contexts.

WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook (noyb.eu)

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[Opinion] Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up (www.theregister.com)

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Opinion: Parent company Mozilla's not my fave either

Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds (www.theverge.com)

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Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them” (deadline.com)

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Fake bands and artificial songs are taking over YouTube and Spotify (english.elpais.com)

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AI-generated songs have made their way onto streaming services and it’s not just ambient or electronic music: fake bands, be they rock, salsa, or jazz, are also abundant

Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads (www.theverge.com)

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WhatsApp is officially getting ads (www.theverge.com)

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The end of an ad-free WhatsApp.

Yet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's why (www.zdnet.com)

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‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone (www.euronews.com)

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The 15 metres wide battery can store a month's heat demand in summer - how does it work?

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