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I ditched my browser and RSS reader on Android for these two command-line apps instead

I got tired of the modern, cluttered web. So I found a solution in the command-line by using two CLI apps together.

'Diversifying' social feeds can cut exposure to toxic content and preserve enjoyment

A new study from Northwestern University and the University of Chicago offers underlying evidence that the engagement-based ...
Engadget

Irish regulators are investigating whether Meta is using 'dark patterns' to steer people away from non-algorithmic feeds

Irish regulators have opened two investigations into Meta over whether the company is sufficiently complying with a European law requiring platforms to offer users alternatives to targeted algorithmic ...
Truthout

Indigenous Leaders Warn AI Boom Repeates Patterns of Extraction

Indigenous Kaxinaw women from the Praia do Carapana community are seen filming a scene during a film workshop. Mucuripe is an isolated village of the Indigenous Kaxinawá people, located ten hours by ...
Crypto Briefing

Trump claims Iranian nuclear sites obliterated, uranium extraction doubted

The market for US obtaining Iranian enriched uranium by May 31 has cooled. Trump’s claim of “obliteration” implies less accessible uranium for the US, consistent with prior assessments of severe ...
TechCrunch

Netflix plans to add a vertical video feed, use AI for recommendations

Netflix is going to launch a TikTok-like vertical video feed within its apps this month, and plans to use AI broadly for content creation and recommendations, the company said on Thursday. “We have ...
Crypto Briefing

Trump announces US-Iran uranium extraction partnership at ‘leisurely pace’

Trump announced a U.S.-Iran partnership to extract enriched uranium at a “leisurely pace,” and the market for US obtaining Iranian enriched uranium by May 31 sits at 27.5% YES. The biggest move was a ...
Engadget

Epic is reportedly building an extraction shooter for Disney

Besides a wealth of Fortnite skins based on Disney IP, it hasn't really been clear what the entertainment company has gotten in return for its $1.5 billion investment in Epic from 2024. That could ...
Lifehacker

You Should Be Using Reddit on Your RSS Reader

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...
Interesting Engineering

Scientists use toxic ‘forever chemicals’ to extract 99% pure battery-grade lithium

In chemistry, some problems are so persistent that they are nicknamed “forever.” Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are notorious environmental villains. These compounds linger in ...
GitHub

OSINT Threat Intelligence Pipeline

Pulls cybersecurity and threat intel from NewsAPI, AlienVault OTX, RSS feeds, Abuse.ch, and MITRE ATT&CK, pushes raw events into Kafka, and runs NLP enrichment via spaCy transformer models to extract ...