#featuredeath — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #featuredeath, aggregated by home.social.
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AFP: OpenAI shelves plans for erotic chatbot. “OpenAI has put plans for a sexually explicit chatbot on hold indefinitely, the company said Thursday, amid mounting concerns about the societal and reputational risks of releasing such a product.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/31/afp-openai-shelves-plans-for-erotic-chatbot/ -
The Register: 2026 brings a bumper crop of Microsoft tech funerals. “Windows 11 Home and Pro 24H2 hit end of support on October 13, as does the veteran Microsoft Publisher, with no real replacement in sight for customers who need to dash off the odd certificate or two.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/16/the-register-2026-brings-a-bumper-crop-of-microsoft-tech-funerals/ -
Tom’s Hardware: Windows Media Player’s ‘find album information’ functionality has been removed — you’ll have to find other software for playing and ripping CDs with relevant track information . “Microsoft has quietly removed ‘find album information’ and ‘update album info online’ tools from the Media Player apps supplied with Windows 11. We checked both Windows Media Player […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/13/toms-hardware-windows-media-players-find-album-information-functionality-has-been-removed-youll-have-to-find-other-software-for-playing-and-ripping-cds/ -
The Register: Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching. “Important news for Gmail power users: Google is dropping the feature whereby Gmail can collect mail from other email accounts over POP3. The company hasn’t exactly gone out of its way to call attention to this – like actually telling anybody anything.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/11/the-register-gmail-preparing-to-drop-pop3-mail-fetching/ -
The Register: Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching. “Important news for Gmail power users: Google is dropping the feature whereby Gmail can collect mail from other email accounts over POP3. The company hasn’t exactly gone out of its way to call attention to this – like actually telling anybody anything.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/11/the-register-gmail-preparing-to-drop-pop3-mail-fetching/ -
The Register: Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching. “Important news for Gmail power users: Google is dropping the feature whereby Gmail can collect mail from other email accounts over POP3. The company hasn’t exactly gone out of its way to call attention to this – like actually telling anybody anything.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/11/the-register-gmail-preparing-to-drop-pop3-mail-fetching/ -
The Register: Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching. “Important news for Gmail power users: Google is dropping the feature whereby Gmail can collect mail from other email accounts over POP3. The company hasn’t exactly gone out of its way to call attention to this – like actually telling anybody anything.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/11/the-register-gmail-preparing-to-drop-pop3-mail-fetching/ -
Engadget: Google has killed Privacy Sandbox. “Google’s Privacy Sandbox is officially dead. In an update on the project’s website, Google Vice President Anthony Chavez has announced that the company was sunsetting the remaining technologies developed for Sandbox due to their ‘low levels of adoption.'”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/19/engadget-google-has-killed-privacy-sandbox/
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Engadget: Dropbox is pulling the plug on its password manager. “Dropbox is saying goodbye to its password manager after five years of service. This leaves current customers in a lurch, as the company has also announced that users only have a few months to extract all of their data.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/04/engadget-dropbox-is-pulling-the-plug-on-its-password-manager/
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Android Authority: Google backpedals on plans to totally kill this legacy service. “Google has updated the blog post where it announced the shutdown of Google URL Shortener. In the update, the Mountain View-based firm states that it has reconsidered discontinuing support for all goo.gl URLs. Despite claiming earlier that 99% of these links had no activity in June, Google says it received […]
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Google for Developers: Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available. “Any developers using links built with the Google URL Shortener in the form https://goo.gl/* will be impacted, and these URLs will no longer return a response after August 25th, 2025. We recommend transitioning these links to another URL shortener provider. Note that goo.gl links generated via Google apps (such as […]
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Android Headlines: Android Instant Apps Join Google+ & Stadia: Another Google Idea Bites the Dust . “Now, in regard to Instant Apps, that was a really nice idea by Google. Unfortunately, however, they never became popular. Instant Apps basically allow users to launch part of apps without even installing them, just to experience them before pulling the trigger. It is actually a really good […]
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Engadget: Microsoft is phasing out its Remote Desktop app in May. “The Remote Desktop app for Windows is (almost) dead; long live the Windows app. Microsoft said on Monday that its legacy Remote Desktop client, which has already been replaced on other platforms, will no longer be supported on Windows after May 27, 2025. But you aren’t losing any functionality here.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/17/engadget-microsoft-is-phasing-out-its-remote-desktop-app-in-may/