Collaborate Disseminate
“In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks,” writes author Janus Rose in an article for 404 Media. Here’s an excerpt: There are lots of advantages to the cassette lifestyle. Unlike vinyl records, ta… Continue reading ‘Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes’
Apple will allow alternative iOS app stores and external payment systems in Brazil after settling an antitrust case with the country’s competition authority, following a lawsuit brought by MercadoLibre back in 2022. Thurrott reports: Yesterday, Brazil’… Continue reading Apple To Allow Alternative App Stores For iOS Users In Brazil
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Two years ago, Lizmary Fernandez took a detour from studying to be an immigration attorney to join a free Apple course for making iPhone apps. The Apple Developer Academy in Detroit launched as part of th… Continue reading Apple’s App Course Runs $20,000 a Student. Is It Really Worth It?
Key to efficient hardware emulation is an efficient mapping to the underlying CPU’s opcodes. Here one is free to target opcodes that may or may not have been imagined for …read more Continue reading Abusing x86 SIMD Instructions to Optimize PlayStation 3 Emulation
Adult children across the United States are increasingly reporting that their aging parents have developed what looks remarkably like the smartphone addiction [non-paywalled source] typically associated with teenagers, a phenomenon The Atlantic’s Charl… Continue reading The Phone-Based Retirement Is Here
After Anna’s Archive published a massive scrape containing 86 million songs and metadata from Spotify, the streaming giant responded by disabling the nefarious accounts responsible. A spokesperson for Spotify told Recorded Future News that it “has iden… Continue reading Spotify Disables Accounts After Open-Source Group Scrapes 86 Million Songs From Platform
Microsoft has denied any plans to rewrite Windows 11 using AI and Rust after a LinkedIn post from one of its top-level engineers sparked a wave of online backlash by claiming the company’s goal was to “eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft b… Continue reading Microsoft Says It’s Not Planning To Use AI To Rewrite Windows From C To Rust
Italy’s antitrust regulator Italian Competition Authority ordered Meta to suspend a policy that blocks rival AI chatbots from using WhatsApp’s business APIs, citing potential abuse of market dominance. “Meta’s conduct appears to constitute an abuse, si… Continue reading Italy Tells Meta To Suspend Its Policy That Bans Rival AI Chatbots From WhatsApp
Amazon finds itself caught between two competing impulses as AI shopping agents from OpenAI, Google, Perplexity and Microsoft mushroom across the e-commerce space — block them to protect its dominant position, or partner with them to avoid being left … Continue reading Amazon Faces ‘Leader’s Dilemma’ – Fight AI Shopping Bots or Join Them
Disposable cameras are a fun way to get into classical photography. However, they can also be a valuable source of interesting parts that can be put to other uses. For …read more Continue reading Disposable Camera Viewfinder Becomes 3D Printed Lens