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Technology@beehaw.org•Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
351·26 days agoOnlyfans is also affected
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Technology@beehaw.org•On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.
15·29 days agoTexas is the most unfree state there is
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Entertainment@beehaw.org•Chappell Roan yells 'f--k ICE forever' during Los Angeles concert
30·1 month agoTaylor Swift take notes
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Technology@beehaw.org•Imgur blocks access to UK users after regulator warned of fine
12·1 month agoThanks I will update the link in the OP
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Technology@beehaw.org•Tech CEOs Praise Donald Trump at White House Dinner
27·2 months agoThe scene opens confusingly. The camera zooms too close to the president’s face; the table at which the tech executives are seated seems far too long. Mark Zuckerberg is there, and Bill Gates and Tim Cook and Satya Nadella and Sam Altman and on and on, a baker’s dozen or so of Silicon Valley’s most powerful people—cutthroat competitors all—united here to pledge allegiance to Donald Trump.
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World News@beehaw.org•Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans
1·2 months agoSome therapists use AI themselves! Might as well skip the middle man?
Declan would never have found out his therapist was using ChatGPT had it not been for a technical mishap. The connection was patchy during one of their online sessions, so Declan suggested they turn off their video feeds. Instead, his therapist began inadvertently sharing his screen.
“Suddenly, I was watching him use ChatGPT,” says Declan, 31, who lives in Los Angeles. “He was taking what I was saying and putting it into ChatGPT, and then summarizing or cherry-picking answers.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/02/1122871/therapists-using-chatgpt-secretly/
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Entertainment@beehaw.org•If you had an 18 hour flight, what would you watch?
2·2 months ago- All seasons/episodes of friends
- Breaking bad
- John Wick franchise
- Comedy specials
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Technology@beehaw.org•Hackers Went Looking for a Backdoor in High-Security Safes—and Now Can Open Them in Seconds
44·3 months agoAbout two years ago, security researchers James Rowley and Mark Omo got curious about a scandal in the world of electronic safes: Liberty Safe, which markets itself as “America’s #1 heavy-duty home and gun safe manufacturer,” had apparently given the FBI a code that allowed agents to open a criminal suspect’s safe in response to a warrant related to the January 6, 2021, invasion of the US Capitol building.
Politics aside, Rowley and Omo were taken aback to read that it was so easy for law enforcement to penetrate a locked metal box—not even an internet-connected device—that no one but the owner ought to have the code to open. “How is it possible that there’s this physical security product, and somebody else has the keys to the kingdom?” Omo asks.
So they decided to try to figure out how that backdoor worked. In the process, they’d find something far bigger: another form of backdoor intended to let authorized locksmiths open not just Liberty Safe devices, but the high-security Securam Prologic locks used in many of Liberty’s safes and those of at least seven other brands. More alarmingly, they discovered a way for a hacker to exploit that backdoor—intended to be accessible only with the manufacturer’s help—to open a safe on their own in seconds.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Travel reporter accuses Hyatt of $500 smoking fee scam
43·4 months agoWhen travel reporter Zach Griff checked into The Pell, a JDV by Hyatt property in Rhode Island, he expected a relaxing stay with his wife and 9-month-old daughter. Unfortunately, he left on a sour note after the hotel charged him a $500 smoking fee following his stay.
The problem? Griff says he’s never smoked a day in his life, let alone in a hotel room while staying there with his family.
Griff, a senior reporter at The Points Guy, took his story public on social media after the hotel allegedly charged him the $500 fee based on readings from an air quality sensor. The sensor data was supplied by a third-party company called Rest, which claims hotels can easily collect fees from smoking events.
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Entertainment@beehaw.org•Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows
8·4 months agoWhat kind of message does this send!?
you’ll still be able to access content you own
lmao, give it a year or two and they will kick you out
There is no incentive for them to store your stuff for you forever
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World News@beehaw.org•Pizza order shows the world is on the brink
2·5 months agoReminds me of this skit from please don’t destroy
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World News@beehaw.org•Romanian president signs law allowing troops to shoot down Russian drones in country’s airspace
13·6 months agoThanks Romania! This is smart and sensible law.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Ticketmaster proudly announces it will follow the law and show prices up-front
42·6 months agoTicketmaster wants you to know it’s “all in” on up-front pricing. In a blog post published on Monday, the company triumphantly declared that it’s “putting fans first” and including fees in the first price you see for a ticket. Not mentioned in Ticketmaster’s announcement: An FTC rule requiring that exact change just so happened to take effect today.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•GTA 6's delay doesn't mean the games industry's in trouble - it's already dead
11·6 months agoClickbait title, GTA 6 delay has nothing to do with the game industry
Previous titles from rockstar like RDR2 and GTA 5 were also delayed
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Technology@beehaw.org•Petition: Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - Please sign it!
4·7 months agoThat would be lovely. One of the things holding up back linux is lack of good creative software. For example things like video editing or image post processing.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10
4·8 months agoI very much like the UWP version and prefer it over the desktop version
It’s a shame they are killing it
This goes to show that Microsoft is completely pulling the plug on first class touch support for their products to support surface devices. Since Panos Panay left Microsoft, surface devices have been losing what makes them special.
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World News@beehaw.org•‘A spectacle to horrify the world’: what the papers say about Trump and Vance’s meeting with Zelenskyy
4·9 months agoThe inquiry reported that Trump withheld military aid[a] and an invitation to the White House from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in order to influence Ukraine to announce an investigation into Trump’s political opponent Joe Biden, and to promote a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine–not Russia–was behind interference in the 2016 presidential election.[4][5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump




















I like the customization options on the s25. Including “One Hand Operation +” and “good lock”.
Regarding pixel phones. They are extremely bare bones in terms of software features. Plus the issues you mention like 911 call failures, battery failures, etc are simply unacceptable.