Moscow says SpaceX’s internet service ‘cannot be officially used here in any way’.

Source: Elon Musk denies selling Starlink to Russia after Ukraine claims use in war

I supposed I shouldn’t be surprised Starlink made its way over to Russia. I’m hoping to be surprised if Elon does something about it. I’m not holding my breath. Effective altruists don’t really care about the present day and it doesn’t take the chosen one any closer to mars, so….

On a brutal December day, 17% of Spotify employees found out they had been laid off in the company’s third round of job cuts last year. Not long after, music fans around the world realized that the cult-favorite website Every Noise at Once (EveryNoise), an encyclopedic goldmine for music discovery, had stopped working. These two […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Source: Spotify’s layoffs put an end to a musical encyclopedia, and fans are pissed

We should all be watching carefully what is happening to genuine huma produced content. The tech-bro corporate dystopia we find ourselves in hit the creatives hard, and it continues to destroy truly human work in favor of hard algorithms and the “promise of AI” wether we like it or not.

Enlarge / The Rings of Power… now in HDR10+ for ad-tier users. (credit: Prime Video ) On January 29, Amazon started showing ads to Prime Video subscribers in the US unless they pay an additional $2.99 per month. But this wasn’t the only change to the service. Those who don’t pay up also lose features; their accounts no longer support Dolby Vision or Dolby Atmos. As noticed by German tech outlet

Source: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier—and didn’t tell subs

I don’t know about you, but Amzon just keeps getting better and better.

We’ve speculated on stuff like this happening for a long time. I didn’t consider that a video game console would be the first. I thought it would happen on Amazon.