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The Verge and 404 Media are exploring the fediverse as a way to take more control over their referral traffic and onsite audience engagement.

I’m intrigued by this app but somehow the article failed to mention the name of the app 🙄

I didn’t have an Amiga, but I always thought the stuff that came out of the demo scene was neat. Glad to see this stuff being archived and made accessible.

Monster Energy’s corporate infrastructure exposed: employee training, customer stereotypes, Beast Bux rewards, and a file system API that’s STILL wide open.

A good indictment of the current state of the Internet.

This is an extreme example, but it shows how dangerous it can be to rely on weak passwords.

This was an interesting examination of the “open offices” that have come to dominate workplaces in the U.S.

This podcast about Tea (the recently hacked viral app) is wild. What a sketchy company.

But the figures rely on hardware and usage assumptions that may be inaccurate.

Despite its boosters’ claims, AI will never be able to replace a human guides writer

Brian Merchant put together this collection of stories from tech workers displaced by AI.

Not at all surprising. The data broker world is a black hole of bad practices.

I was curious about the portrayal of Native Americans in a book from my youth and this blog post does a good job of covering all the problematic aspects.

Bootcamps always sold inflated promises, but I’d imagine it’s much worse now.

Over 100,000 ChatGPT chats were shared publicly. Some were indexed, many archived. What went wrong, what it means for SEO & what happens next.

What is truth? What is history?

“What Tea has accomplished, though, is showing what women are up against. The men so hell-bent on revenge against Tea’s users are illustrating that hatred of women is alive and well.”

An interesting look at pricing for AI usage and how costs scale.