In a ‘Test’, Google Is Automatically Rewriting News Headlines in Its Search Results
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/google-rewriting-headlines-search/In a ‘Test’, Google Is Automatically Rewriting News Headlines in Its Search Results – Pixel Envy
Sean Hollister, the Verge: Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web. People loved Google’s trustworthy “10 blue links” search experience and its unspoken promise: The website you click is the website you get. Now, Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with […]
Lobbying Firms Funded by Apple and Meta Are Duelling on Age Verification
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/apple-meta-age-verification-lobbying/Lobbying Firms Funded by Apple and Meta Are Duelling on Age Verification – Pixel Envy
Emily Birnbaum, writing for Bloomberg in July: Meta is also helping to fund the Digital Childhood Alliance, a coalition of conservative groups leading efforts to pass app-store age verification, according to three people familiar with the funding. The App Store Accountability Act is based on model legislation written by the Digital Childhood Alliance. The lobbying […]
Tech CEOs and Investors Are Just Saying Stuff – Pixel Envy
Jacob Silverman, Business Insider: The growing bloat of popular tech rhetoric could serve as evidence for how the tech industry, having conquered so much of daily life, work, and entertainment, has begun to exhaust its imaginative capacities. Industry leaders promised that the mammoth capital for AI outlay would lead to the creation of a smarter-than-human […]
Adobe Pays Early Termination Fee, or ‘Settlement’, in U.S. Lawsuit Over Hidden Fees
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/adobe-ftc-settlement/Adobe Pays Early Termination Fee, or ‘Settlement’, in U.S. Lawsuit Over Hidden Fees – Pixel Envy
When the United States Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice jointly filed a lawsuit in 2024 against Adobe, I commented on the similarities between that complaint and the one against Amazon. Both are about the ease of entering into subscriptions that are later difficult or expensive to leave, both had alleged personal liability by […]
Meta Realizes Horizon Worlds on Quest Never Had Legs, Will Shut It Down in June
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-horizon-worlds-vr/Meta Realizes Horizon Worlds on Quest Never Had Legs, Will Shut It Down in June – Pixel Envy
A few weeks ago, Meta published an update from Samantha Ryan, of Reality Labs, announced a “renewed focus” and a “doubling down” on virtual reality. It planned to achieve this by “almost exclusively” betting its future on the smartphone Horizon Worlds app. In an announcement today, Meta shifted its definition of “almost exclusively” to simply […]
A Roadmap for Currency Symbol Implementation – Pixel Envy
The Unicode Consortium would like to remind you to work closely with them if you are introducing a new symbol for your currency: Such public usage leads to a need for the symbol to be encoded in the Unicode Standard and supported in commercial software and services. Standardization of a new character and subsequent support […]
A Friendly Wager on the Future of Repairability and Performance
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/macbook-neo-repairability-performance/A Friendly Wager on the Future of Repairability and Performance – Pixel Envy
On a recent episode of “Dithering”, Ben Thompson and John Gruber discuss the Tech Re-Nu teardown of the MacBook Neo and what it reveals about the supposed trade-offs of repairability. Thompson says at about 5:48 into the paywalled episode: The MacBook Neo is a perfect counterpoint to the iFixit perspective. It’s like: you can get […]
Trump Administration to Receive $10 Billion Kickback for TikTok Deal
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/trump-tiktok-kickback/Trump Administration to Receive $10 Billion Kickback for TikTok Deal – Pixel Envy
Miriam Gottfried and Amrith Ramkumar, Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration is set to receive a roughly $10 billion fee from investors in the recently completed deal to take control of TikTok’s U.S. business, delivering it a windfall for keeping the popular social-media app alive in America. The payment is part of the agreement through […]
Transport Canada’s Vehicle Headlights Survey – Pixel Envy
Transport Canada is running a survey about the brightness of car headlights: While new headlight technology in vehicles can help drivers see better, they can also cause problems for other road users. Transport Canada wants to learn how headlight glare affects road users and what vehicle or lighting features may influence how people experience it […]
Reuters: Meta Is Planning to Wreck the Lives of 20% of Its Staff Because It Is Spending So Much on Data Centres
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/reuters-meta-layoffs-rumour/Reuters: Meta Is Planning to Wreck the Lives of 20% of Its Staff Because It Is Spending So Much on Data Centres – Pixel Envy
Katie Paul, Jeff Horwitz, and Deepa Seetharaman, Reuters: Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers. No date has been set […]
