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Jess Weatherbed

Jess Weatherbed

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    Firefox upgrades its anti-tracking features.

    The browser is now better at blocking “fingerprinters” that gather information about your system to ID you, even after clearing cookies or using private browsing. Mozilla says the improvements almost halve the number of Firefox users tracked by fingerprinting, preventing websites from obtaining details about hardware specifications, touchscreen support, and dock or taskbar dimensions.

    A graph showing Mozilla’s phase 2 improvements to Firefox fingerprinting protections.
    Mozilla’s phase 2 rollout is complete as of the release of Firefox 145.
    Image: Mozilla
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    Jess Weatherbed
    Tesla’s Cybertruck chief steps down.

    Siddhant Awasthi, who was also in charge of the Model 3 program, announced his departure on LinkedIn after three years overseeing the Cybertruck’s dismal rollout. A recent recall notice shows that just 63,619 have been sold in the US since its 2023 launch — far from the 250,000 annual sales that Elon Musk once predicted.

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    Jess Weatherbed
    Sorry for the sketchy Solitaire screw-up.

    NFL analyst Mina Kimes, one of several ESPN personalities who promoted Papaya Gaming’s Solitaire Cash app on social media, says she’s “deeply embarrassed” for the endorsement. Papaya is currently tied up in a federal lawsuit over whether it used bots to control what were advertised as skill-based games.

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    Jess Weatherbed
    Is gold your type?

    For employees at Insta360, that would be a very literal question. The Chinese camera company recently gave 21 staffers a bonus in the form of gold keycaps, the heaviest being the space key, which South China Morning Post reports weighs 35.02 grams and is valued at $45,000.

    A photo of gold keycaps given as a bonus to Insta360 employees.
    And by the look of it, the keycaps are actually functional.
    Image: Sohu
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    Jess Weatherbed
    Solid Glass.

    Never mind Liquid Glass, the new Apple TV intro was made using the real stuff, filmed by shining colorful lighting behind a glass model of the logo. With big companies like Coca-Cola and Google putting out entirely AI-generated marketing, it’s nice to see some things being made the old-fashioned way.

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    Jess Weatherbed
    “At long last, we can begin.”

    If you can’t wait until November 26th to experience the final season of Stranger Things (which has taken more than three years to release), you can now watch the first five minutes of its first episode, “The Crawl.” It’s been an age since we’ve seen Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) looking so baby-faced.

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    Jess Weatherbed
    Texas is the latest state suing Roblox.

    Following similar lawsuits in Louisiana and Kentucky, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on X that he’s suing the gaming company for “putting pixel pedophiles and profits” over child safety.

    “We cannot allow platforms like Roblox to continue operating as digital playgrounds for predators where the well-being of our kids is sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed.”