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Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says

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Reddit is planning to introduce a paywall this year, CEO Steve Huffman said during a videotaped Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Thursday.

Huffman previously showed interest in potentially introducing a new type of subreddit with "exclusive content or private areas" that Reddit users would pay to access.

When asked this week about plans for some Redditors to create "content that only paid members can see," Huffman said:

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tashpool
20 days ago
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A hosting website wants money for your work. How could this possible go wrong?
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Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again

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Here we (maybe) go again: Reports from a handful of early adopters of Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card are reporting that their power cables are melting (so far, there's at least one report on YouTube and one on Reddit, as reported by The Verge). This recalls a similar situation from early in the RTX 4090's life cycle, when power connectors were melting and even catching fire, damaging the GPUs and power supplies.

After much investigation and many guesses from Nvidia and other testers, the 4090's power connector issues ended up being blamed on what was essentially user error; the 12VHPWR connectors were not being inserted all the way into the socket on the GPU or were being bent in a way that created stress on the connection, which caused the connectors to run hot and eventually burst into flames.

The PCI-SIG, the standards body responsible for the design of the new connector, claimed that the design of the 12VHPWR connector itself was sound and that any problems with it should be attributed to the manufacturers implementing the standard. Partly in response to the 4090 issues, the 12VHPWR connector was replaced by an updated standard called 12V-2x6, which uses the same cables and is pin-compatible with 12VHPWR, but which tweaked the connector to ensure that power is only actually delivered if the connectors are firmly seated. The RTX 50-series cards use the 12V-2x6 connector.

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tashpool
22 days ago
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"Both of the reported 5090 incidents involved third-party cables..."
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An Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remake Is Coming And It Could Be Out This Year

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After years of rumors suggesting it was in the works, a remake of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion appears to be closer to releasing than ever, with some sources suggesting it could come as early as 2025. The modern version, created in Unreal Engine 5, would give fans of the open-world RPG series something to take their…

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tashpool
52 days ago
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They finally stopped re-releasing Skyrim, and now onto re-releasing Oblivion. RIP the old Bethesda.
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Meta axes third-party fact-checkers in time for second Trump term

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Meta announced today that it's ending the third-party fact-checking program it introduced in 2016, and will rely instead on a Community Notes approach similar to what's used on Elon Musk's X platform.

The end of third-party fact-checking and related changes to Meta policies could help the company make friends in the Trump administration and in governments of conservative-leaning states that have tried to impose legal limits on content moderation. The operator of Facebook and Instagram announced the changes in a blog post and a video message recorded by CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

"Governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more. A lot of this is clearly political," Zuckerberg said. He said the recent elections "feel like a cultural tipping point toward once again prioritizing speech."

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tashpool
58 days ago
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Control the media to kill Democracy. Disgusting.
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Terrifier 3 Is Every Bit as Gory, Depraved, and Entertaining as You’re Hoping For

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Terrifer 3 Review

Art the Clown is back and he's celebrating Christmas in the latest horror film from director Damien Leone.
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tashpool
167 days ago
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Entertaining? These movies have no horror, no soul.
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Elon Musk Deletes Tweet That Asked Why No One Is Trying to Assassinate Biden

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The tech billionaire with a security clearance posted the question on X and later deleted it.
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tashpool
171 days ago
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The level of stupid one person can attain is baffling.
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