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Reddit crashed for three hours on Monday after nearly 8 000 subreddits went dark

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switching to private or read-only mode in protest of the platform's new API

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fees because what do you get when you cause your user's favorite third-party

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apps to shut down you get exactly what you freaking deserve

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I'm James and this is techlinked and this is what Reddit looked like to a lot

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of people who are just trying to ask strangers whether or not but Reddit CEO

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you are but Reddit CEO Steve Huffman wasn't worried he sent out a

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company-wide memo downplaying the user protest which was immediately leaked to

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the media and also the users not a great show of internal confidence Huffman

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claimed that the blackout hasn't had significant Revenue impact and that he

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anticipates that many subreddits will return by Wednesday it is currently well

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into Wednesday and around 6 000 subreddits are still private or locked

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with many users pushing to continue indefinitely so if you're trying to find

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out information on parenting PC gaming or photography we try to do alliteration

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but the last one is kind of f sounding you might be Sol am I the app is

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understandably up and running though because I think it qualifies as a public

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service at this point the CEO's memo continued there's a lot of noise with

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this one amongst the noisiest we've seen and like all blow ups on Reddit this one

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will pass as well Huffman then warned employees to be mindful of wearing

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Reddit gear in public apparently for fear that they might be harassed or

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attacked by Angry users because that's what people assume when they see

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somebody wearing the logo of the world's most popular Forum wow that's definitely

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one of reddit's 2000 employees and definitely not one of their 430 million

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active users it's their fault time for some incredibly specific Revenge don't

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worry don't worry our bottom line is fine but somebody May assault you

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Rockstar has removed 189 vehicles from

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Grand Theft Auto online a nearly 10 year old game in a spectacular case of

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nominative determinism I mean a crime simulator that steals cars it makes

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sense like the fact that William headline is a real journalist I'd like

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how rich Fairbanks the CEO of Capital One

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the change was part of GTA's San Andreas mercenaries update which made the

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admirably mercenary decision to actively remove features from the game when

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Rockstar announced that it was removing lesser used vehicles in order to

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streamline the browsing experience for the in-game shop there was very little

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protest probably because that's a remarkably casual way to say that you're

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removing over a quarter of the game's vehicle selection including some very

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popular cars and putting it behind a paywall pay wall yeah that's right the

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vehicles aren't gone they're part of a brand new perk for players with a GTA

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Plus subscription which is only available for your PS5 and Xbox series X

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and S not PC or Legacy consoles although if you already bought one of the cars

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you can keep it according to Rockstar players can also Spin The Game's lucky

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wheel once every 24 hours for a chance to win the paywalled cars as a reward

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for enabling companies to make never-ending live service games instead

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of Titanfall 3. we're streamlining your wallet by removing the money good job

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and an Amazon Customer claims to have been locked out of a smart home for a

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week after a delivery driver accused his doorbell of racism this 2023 sentence

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the customer Brandon Jackson said he

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received no notification and initially assumed that he had been hacked his

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smart home simply shot off the lights and all his devices stopped working

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Amazon apparently froze his account pending investigation rendering all his

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connected systems inoperable for a week it's just like that Ray Bradbury short

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story with the stereotypical 1950s nuclear family living in an automated

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house where the children used their VR Nursery to train digital Lions to eat

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their parents except instead of artificial lines the danger here is a

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delivery driver thinking you said a No-No word poop footage from the

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customer security system shared with Lewis Rossman seems to show that no one

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was home at the time of the incident that you feed dorby the yuffie again

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yuffie doorbell apparently gave an automated response excuse me can I help

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you as the driver who was wearing headphones was walking away I however

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would like to forward an alternate theory that the doorbell is alive it's

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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

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news Reddit anymore so please enjoy these five quick bits Comcast has

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complained to the FCC about new regulations that will require them to

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clearly disclose their prices and monthly fees on broadband facts labels

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that are strikingly similar to nutritional information panels on the

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back of packaged food apparently the government has a limited number of fonts

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personally I'm thinking of switching to satellite internet cable just has too

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many refined carbs according to Comcast displaying all their monthly fees will

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impose significant administrative burdens and unnecessary complexity which

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is a funny way of saying we are fully aware that our payment structure is

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confusing and disguises the true cost of the product because that is on purpose

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that's why we did it there's cocaine in this soda Google shopping is rolling out

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a virtual try on tool powered by AI trained on a set of real models of

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various sizes striking different poses it will attempt to predict how different

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garments will drape fold cling stretch and twirl

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starting today U.S Shoppers can see how women's tops from Brands like h m and

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anthropology will look on body types between double x s and quadruple XL just

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in time for Father's Day get your dad the Bluffs of his dreams but remember that sometimes his dream blouse is

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wearing no blouse at all

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real life Trucking Company Schneider National is putting up virtual

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Billboards in the game American Truck Simulator to try and Recruit new

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employees amid a driver's shortage gaming is leading to a real job

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transferable skills because who hasn't dreamed of turning their escape from the

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stresses of work into the source of those stresses as it turns out a certain

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segment of the truck simulator fan base approves of the ads as they like the

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immersion the real ads bring into the game this is getting very meta

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any fans looking for a career change should keep in mind that American Truck

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Simulator allows you to pause at any time to use the bathroom and one thing

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the game can't simulate is how a truck cab smells nothing sits in the nostrils

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like Diesel and steel farts although I like my brand a Turkish Government

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website has been hacked exposing the private information of nearly 85 million

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Turkish citizens which is based on a quick Google search here all of them the

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data apparently includes names phone numbers addresses and deeds banking

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details and National identification numbers instant colonoscopy the

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identification numbers are unique and used to access services like banking

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education Healthcare Social Security taxes and voting it's the worst thing

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imaginal it's like your social security number except somehow worse experts are

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describing this current incident as the biggest data leak in Turkish history

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which isn't hard because again it's every single man woman and child

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currently living in Turkey including the president a strikingly similar breach in

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2016 resulting in the leak of 50 million Turkish citizens private data not even

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two-thirds of the country rookie numbers this is big and finally our Lord and

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Savior Jesus Christ has returned sort of more accurately there's an AI generated

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Jesus on Twitch and he is distractingly Caucasian he's also answering questions

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and taking requests from his new twitch chat disciples questions like is Call of

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Duty a sin and Jesus why do we hide eggs on Easter are we hiding them from you

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this isn't the only case of an online AI chatbot being used as a preacher but

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others have stopped short of creating an actual artificial Jesus probably because

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it's heresy robot Messiahs are specifically forbidden in second

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Thessalonians AI Jesus voice is appropriately echoey and ethereal but

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the animation of his mouth can be best described as Unholy disturbing or quite

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possibly blasphemy definitely blessed me

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and it will be even more Blasphemous for you do not come back on Friday for more

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Tech link Jeff I swear to all that is Holy if you don't come back you Jeff

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with the J I'll tell your mom and she will be very

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disappointed in you