Reddit crashed for three hours on Monday after nearly 8 000 subreddits went dark
switching to private or read-only mode in protest of the platform's new API
fees because what do you get when you cause your user's favorite third-party
apps to shut down you get exactly what you freaking deserve
I'm James and this is techlinked and this is what Reddit looked like to a lot
of people who are just trying to ask strangers whether or not but Reddit CEO
you are but Reddit CEO Steve Huffman wasn't worried he sent out a
company-wide memo downplaying the user protest which was immediately leaked to
the media and also the users not a great show of internal confidence Huffman
claimed that the blackout hasn't had significant Revenue impact and that he
anticipates that many subreddits will return by Wednesday it is currently well
into Wednesday and around 6 000 subreddits are still private or locked
with many users pushing to continue indefinitely so if you're trying to find
out information on parenting PC gaming or photography we try to do alliteration
but the last one is kind of f sounding you might be Sol am I the app is
understandably up and running though because I think it qualifies as a public
service at this point the CEO's memo continued there's a lot of noise with
this one amongst the noisiest we've seen and like all blow ups on Reddit this one
will pass as well Huffman then warned employees to be mindful of wearing
Reddit gear in public apparently for fear that they might be harassed or
attacked by Angry users because that's what people assume when they see
somebody wearing the logo of the world's most popular Forum wow that's definitely
one of reddit's 2000 employees and definitely not one of their 430 million
active users it's their fault time for some incredibly specific Revenge don't
worry don't worry our bottom line is fine but somebody May assault you
Rockstar has removed 189 vehicles from
Grand Theft Auto online a nearly 10 year old game in a spectacular case of
nominative determinism I mean a crime simulator that steals cars it makes
sense like the fact that William headline is a real journalist I'd like
how rich Fairbanks the CEO of Capital One
the change was part of GTA's San Andreas mercenaries update which made the
admirably mercenary decision to actively remove features from the game when
Rockstar announced that it was removing lesser used vehicles in order to
streamline the browsing experience for the in-game shop there was very little
protest probably because that's a remarkably casual way to say that you're
removing over a quarter of the game's vehicle selection including some very
popular cars and putting it behind a paywall pay wall yeah that's right the
vehicles aren't gone they're part of a brand new perk for players with a GTA
Plus subscription which is only available for your PS5 and Xbox series X
and S not PC or Legacy consoles although if you already bought one of the cars
you can keep it according to Rockstar players can also Spin The Game's lucky
wheel once every 24 hours for a chance to win the paywalled cars as a reward
for enabling companies to make never-ending live service games instead
of Titanfall 3. we're streamlining your wallet by removing the money good job
and an Amazon Customer claims to have been locked out of a smart home for a
week after a delivery driver accused his doorbell of racism this 2023 sentence
the customer Brandon Jackson said he
received no notification and initially assumed that he had been hacked his
smart home simply shot off the lights and all his devices stopped working
Amazon apparently froze his account pending investigation rendering all his
connected systems inoperable for a week it's just like that Ray Bradbury short
story with the stereotypical 1950s nuclear family living in an automated
house where the children used their VR Nursery to train digital Lions to eat
their parents except instead of artificial lines the danger here is a
delivery driver thinking you said a No-No word poop footage from the
customer security system shared with Lewis Rossman seems to show that no one
was home at the time of the incident that you feed dorby the yuffie again
yuffie doorbell apparently gave an automated response excuse me can I help
you as the driver who was wearing headphones was walking away I however
would like to forward an alternate theory that the doorbell is alive it's
sentient and it's racist now it's time for the quick bits brought to you by
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today we know you can't Google tldr tech
news Reddit anymore so please enjoy these five quick bits Comcast has
complained to the FCC about new regulations that will require them to
clearly disclose their prices and monthly fees on broadband facts labels
that are strikingly similar to nutritional information panels on the
back of packaged food apparently the government has a limited number of fonts
personally I'm thinking of switching to satellite internet cable just has too
many refined carbs according to Comcast displaying all their monthly fees will
impose significant administrative burdens and unnecessary complexity which
is a funny way of saying we are fully aware that our payment structure is
confusing and disguises the true cost of the product because that is on purpose
that's why we did it there's cocaine in this soda Google shopping is rolling out
a virtual try on tool powered by AI trained on a set of real models of
various sizes striking different poses it will attempt to predict how different
garments will drape fold cling stretch and twirl
starting today U.S Shoppers can see how women's tops from Brands like h m and
anthropology will look on body types between double x s and quadruple XL just
in time for Father's Day get your dad the Bluffs of his dreams but remember that sometimes his dream blouse is
wearing no blouse at all
real life Trucking Company Schneider National is putting up virtual
Billboards in the game American Truck Simulator to try and Recruit new
employees amid a driver's shortage gaming is leading to a real job
transferable skills because who hasn't dreamed of turning their escape from the
stresses of work into the source of those stresses as it turns out a certain
segment of the truck simulator fan base approves of the ads as they like the
immersion the real ads bring into the game this is getting very meta
any fans looking for a career change should keep in mind that American Truck
Simulator allows you to pause at any time to use the bathroom and one thing
the game can't simulate is how a truck cab smells nothing sits in the nostrils
like Diesel and steel farts although I like my brand a Turkish Government
website has been hacked exposing the private information of nearly 85 million
Turkish citizens which is based on a quick Google search here all of them the
data apparently includes names phone numbers addresses and deeds banking
details and National identification numbers instant colonoscopy the
identification numbers are unique and used to access services like banking
education Healthcare Social Security taxes and voting it's the worst thing
imaginal it's like your social security number except somehow worse experts are
describing this current incident as the biggest data leak in Turkish history
which isn't hard because again it's every single man woman and child
currently living in Turkey including the president a strikingly similar breach in
2016 resulting in the leak of 50 million Turkish citizens private data not even
two-thirds of the country rookie numbers this is big and finally our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ has returned sort of more accurately there's an AI generated
Jesus on Twitch and he is distractingly Caucasian he's also answering questions
and taking requests from his new twitch chat disciples questions like is Call of
Duty a sin and Jesus why do we hide eggs on Easter are we hiding them from you
this isn't the only case of an online AI chatbot being used as a preacher but
others have stopped short of creating an actual artificial Jesus probably because
it's heresy robot Messiahs are specifically forbidden in second
Thessalonians AI Jesus voice is appropriately echoey and ethereal but
the animation of his mouth can be best described as Unholy disturbing or quite
possibly blasphemy definitely blessed me
and it will be even more Blasphemous for you do not come back on Friday for more
Tech link Jeff I swear to all that is Holy if you don't come back you Jeff
with the J I'll tell your mom and she will be very
disappointed in you