Topic: corporate greed
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Ditch Outlook: Why It's Time to Switch
Microsoft Outlook is criticized for being bloated and unresponsive, with performance issues stemming from excessive background processes and telemetry collection. The application includes deceptive advertisements that mimic unread emails and complicates account recovery with poor customer support...
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Strava Locks Popular Year in Sport Recap Behind Paywall
Strava has moved its popular annual Year in Sport recap behind a paywall for the first time, a significant shift that has frustrated its free-user community. Users and critics have widely condemned the decision as greedy and exploitative, arguing it monetizes user-generated data instead of adding...
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Oakland Ballers Let AI Manage the Team: The Results
The Oakland Ballers experimented with an AI manager for a game, using historical and team data to autonomously make strategic decisions like substitutions and pitching changes. While the AI performed consistently with human management, the experiment sparked controversy among fans who felt it pri...
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Amazon Pulls AI Video After Fallout Backlash
Prime Video removed an AI-generated recap of *Fallout* due to significant factual errors, including misstating the timeline and inventing a false climactic scene, following fan criticism. This incident is part of a pattern, as Amazon recently faced backlash for using subpar AI dubbing in anime se...
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