Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm

The probe announced will assess whether Meta has breached rules under the EU’s Digital Services Act, noting that Facebook and Instagram’s UI and algorithms may cause behavioural addictions in children and create "rabbit-hole effects." The EU is concerned that Meta isn’t doing enough to prevent minors from accessing inappropriate content and that its age-verification tools may not be effective.

It will additionally assess whether Meta’s content recommendation systems and default privacy settings provide enough privacy, safety, and security for minors.

If Meta is found to be in violation of DSA rules, it could face fines of up to six per cent of the company’s global revenue

🔗 TheVerge
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FFmpeg has been sponsored by Sovereign Tech Fund

FFmpeg announced that Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has become its first government sponsor. This funding will help sustain the project's maintenance.

• Investment Amount: €157,580.00
• Investment Year(s): 2024, 2025

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund also supports other open-source projects including Bundler & RubyGems, OpenJS Foundation, Pendulum, Fortran, curl.

🔗 Sovereign Tech Fund | FFmpeg
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Winamp's source code will be available on September 24

Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application's source code will be open to developers worldwide.

Winamp will open up its code for the player used on Windows, enabling the entire community to participate in its development. This is an invitation to global collaboration, where developers worldwide can contribute their expertise, ideas, and passion to help this iconic software evolve.

• Interested people can submit their information here: FreeLLama

🔗 Winamp
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Twitter is officially X.com now

Twitter has officially adopted X.com for all its core systems. That means typing twitter.com in your browser will now redirect to X.com

A message also now appears at the bottom of the X login page that reads, “We are letting you know that we are changing our URL, but your privacy and data protection settings remain the same.”

🔗 TheVerge
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Want to block Google AI Overviews? This is how you can do it

Note: This is for PCs only

Here, we change the search engine's URL so that it opens the "Web" filter instead of "All" in Google

• Go to chrome://settings/searchEngines for Chromium-based browsers, and
• Go to about:preferences#search for Firefox
• Click on "Add" to add a new search engine, which is the custom URL in this case.
• Fill the following:
• Name: Google - Web (or anything else)
• Shortcut: google.com (or anything else)
• URL: https://google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s (you can change the domain according to your region if you want to, like google.in or google.au)
• Now, set it as the default search engine.

Here's how this works:
• The custom URL that we are using includes ?udm=14 which opens the Web filter, and %s is the query that you type in the "Search or Enter address" bar.
• You can try this URL as an example: https://google.com/search?udm=14&q=is+chrome+the+worst+browser+ever%3F

Video tutorial?
• Sure thing mate, here you go: Video Tutorial

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Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition - Giveaway!

Its been a while since I've given away something, lol.

Anyways, the winner of this giveaway will be given a key, which can be redeemed and installed through GOG Galaxy.
Also, you can see the details of the game on: Steam

This giveaway ends on 18th May 2024 at 11:50PM, so enter right now!
The giveaway has ended.

🔗 Enter the giveaway

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Since our previous winner didn't respond, here's our new winner!

Please pm @agam778.

Thank you for participating!

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Alright, redeemed.

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Tesla vs Tesla: US carmaker sues Indian namesake for copying trademark

Elon Musk's carmaker Tesla has sued an Indian battery maker for infringing its trademark by using the brand name "Tesla Power" to promote its products, seeking damages and a permanent injunction against the company from a New Delhi judge.

Tesla in a hearing said the Indian company had continued advertising its products with the "Tesla Power" brand despite a cease-and-desist notice sent in April 2022.

During the hearing, the Indian company, Tesla Power India Pvt Ltd, argued that its main business is to make "lead acid batteries" and does not intend to make electric vehicles.

🔗 Reuters
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Project Elixir, despite its promise of a customizable and better Android experience, presents significant risks that users should be aware of.

A post from @TheNotesOfJosh on X/Twitter, he reported that there's a malicious code that prevents people to use their pro features and leads to something worse, "... this code is set to wipe your data, your internal storage, your external storage, and if you have any, your ESIMs too. The conditions to trigger this code are to try enabling paywalled custom Android features." They recently changed their ways to make it even more unusable.

And the fact that they didn't even make a post on their announcements channel regarding this change makes it even worse. It can trigger all android users already.

A side note; we are not spreading dramas, or even spreading false information, this post was made to spread the awareness. The receipts you'll see inside the post are enough to avoid them. If you need more details, check the full thread.

Update: Project Elixir is officially dead.

🌐 X/Twitter
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An update from Project Elixir:

Well, important announcement!

It's been a good time having you guys in the community for the last two years. And I'm very thankful to all the users who have supported us every time when we needed.

We have already apologised, but people doesn't get our point and it's fine. You are free to spread misinformation.

Still, I will request users who believe in our project for the last two years, you can do a fact Check by yourself instead of going with the trend and blindly hating without knowing what is the reality

For now project is being closed completely for public release for indefinite time.

And again, thanks a lot for being with us.

NOTE: Those users who have ever supported project Elixir and wants updates for free can ping us at any time. Your device should be officially active.

Regards,
Team Elixir

🔗 Post link
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Akane Foundation's Accord: Gramophone but Apple

Inspired by Apple Music's clean and user-friendly design, Accord Music Player is a fork of the Gramophone music player app created by Akane Foundation. The user-interface is similar to that of Apple Music.

It has all the basic features that allow users to easily browse, play, and manage their music library. It supports synced lyrics as well!

A side note...

🌐 Distribution - Chat | Download
🌐 GitHub
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Humane looking to sell the company barely a month after Ai Pin release

According to “people familiar with the matter,” Humane is “seeking a buyer for its business” and in talks with a financial advisor to assist in a potential sale. It’s noted that the process is still very early, but that Humane is looking for a sale between $750 million and $1 billion.

It should come as no surprise that the startup is looking to sell itself to a larger company, but the speed at which this is happening seems especially quick.

🔗 9to5Google
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Apple is challenging the €1.8 billion antitrust fine related to a Spotify complaint

This March Apple was hit with a massive €1.8 billion fine ($2B) over a complaint initially filed by Spotify back in 2019. The complaint was simple – Apple is charging app makers a 30% tax when a user subscribes to their service for a year and 15% for subsequent years. That gave an unfair advantage to Apple Music over Spotify as the latter was forced to raise subscription costs to cover the tax.

Now, Apple has filed its own suit with the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg to try and overturn the hefty fine. Apple suggests that the European Commission didn’t provide credible evidence that consumers were harmed by its App Store policies.

🔗 GSMArena
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