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• ‘Be an engineer to understand the engine’: Why consultant Nick Manning thinks principal media is anti-marketer
• Finding a Voice.
• https://cepa.org/article/the-heart-of-war-ukraines-key-battlefield-system/
• Marco d'Itri: systemd has not implemented age verification
• https://www.beeler.tech/navigator-award-2026/?_hsmi=410102850
• Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
• Relax, It’s Only An Existential Threat
• Publicis vs. The Trade Desk isn’t really about transparency – it’s about who gets the margin
• Staff at New Data Center Powered by Human Brain Cells Need to Swap Out Cerebrospinal Fluid Every Day
• Nevada utility to Lake Tahoe: Find electricity elsewhere
• Not Enough Workers for the Job
• Half a Gigabyte of Ads
• Windows 8 Was Peak Microsoft and I will die on this hill
• Delve Accused of Fraud
• Polymarket’s Social Feed Experiment Is Turning a Prediction Market Into a Misinformation Machine
• Groups of Unknown Drones Spotted Over US Base Housing B-52 Bombers
• Pakistan’s solar boom is helping it save billions during the ongoing energy crisis
• Valve Is Quietly Building a Container to Run Steam on Linux — and It Could Change Everything About Desktop Gaming
• Lina Khan was right
• 90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective
• Publicis Advises Clients to Avoid The Trade Desk, According to a Leaked Memo
• https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/01/how-china-aligned-itself-with-saudi-arabias-vision-2030
• https://media.licdn.com/dms/document/media/v2/D4E1FAQFFSNsSNJyHoQ/feedshare-document-url-metadata-scrapper-pdf/B4EZ0Md9XyJUA8-/0/1774030674357?e=1774656000
• https://grepbeat.com/2026/02/26/durhams-rewarded-interest-puts-consumers-in-control-of-their-data/
• https://www.campaignlive.com/article/ibm-ogilvy-end-32-year-creative-partnership/1952294
• https://gothamist.com/news/new-era-for-street-vendors-mamdani-names-top-advocate-as-nycs-vendor-czar
• https://www.promarket.org/2025/12/03/the-political-economy-of-brazils-pix-payment-system/
• https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250731-how-brazil-innovative-pix-payment-system-is-angering-trump-zuckerberg
• The Trade Desk-Publicis Fight Is Really a War Against Transparency
• Judge Questions Whether Android Users Consented To Meta Tracking
• ★ ‘Your Frustration Is the Product’
• Outpost Moved its Servers to the E.U.
• The Rise Of Principal Media And The End Of The Agencies As We Knew Them
• FBI is buying data that can be used to track people, Patel says
• Beavers can turn streams into carbon stores – we measured how much
• Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.
• https://monopoly-report.com/p/the-dilemma-of-the-dsar-dmv
• Elon Musk's xAI sued for turning three girls' real photos into AI CSAM
• Teens sue xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them
• https://www.iccl.ie/news/new-iccl-report-on-privacy-enhancing-technologies/
• https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/facebook-scam-ads/
• https://omaroakes.substack.com/p/if-the-uks-online-advertising-cant
• 'Gamblers on POLYMARKET vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite Iran missile story'...
• Why harmful content keeps reaching children online – and what advertising has to do with it
• The 49MB Web Page
• The 49MB Web Page
• OpenAI’s own mental health experts unanimously opposed “naughty” ChatGPT launch
• From The Sofa
• How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-brands-didnt-grow-need-digital-rebalancing-dr-augustine-fou-s4xxe/
• The Washington Post Is Using Reader Data to Set Subscription Prices. How Does That Work?
• IAB Sweden Expels Meta: Warns Advertisers About Fraud, Brand Safety
• Disrupting 59M Malicious Impressions: Inside D-Shortiez Testing Infrastructure and Campaign Management
• Afrobeats celebrates cybercrime and it’s becoming a global problem
• https://www.privacyguides.org/
• https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exchanges-oppose-potential-us-treasury-intervention-oil-futures-market-2026-03-12/
• https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html
• Not an SSP
• A Survival Guide for Justice Department Attorneys
• Virginia to become second state that allows balcony solar
• IAB Sweden kicks out Meta over failure to tackle deceptive ads
• https://epic.org/ninth-circuit-deals-another-blow-to-big-techs-campaign-for-broad-immunity-from-regulation-allows-parts-of-californias-design-code-to-go-into-effect/
• The Broken State of Mobile Marketing: How Attribution Theft Created a $100B Fraud Scheme
• ★ The MacBook Neo
• Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature
• MASSIVE WIN FOR PLAINTIFFS: Federal Court Keeps Wiretap And FCRA Claims Alive In Allstate/Arity Software Development Kit Tracking Class Action—Right On The Heels Of The Texas AG Lawsuit
• https://clickport.io/blog/is-your-analytics-script-a-wiretap
• https://clickport.io/blog/stop-using-google-analytics
• USA Rejected Ukraine’s Proposal to Combat Iranian Drones in 2025: Decision Now Considered a Mistake
• Is Spotify Enabling Massive Impersonation of Famous Jazz Musicians?
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/europeans-are-dangerously-reliant-on-us-tech-now-is-a-good-time-to-build-our-own
• Valve faces federal class action lawsuit claiming loot boxes run illegal gambling system
• Gamblers can now bet on the outcome of wars – and that’s a problem
• Zen fascists will control you...
• Holding Companies Need High Level Strategic Plans, Not Just Announcements of New Structures and Cost Reduction Targets. Independent Agencies Will Take Advantage...
• The Privacy ‘Zealots’ Were Right: Ad Tech’s Infrastructure Was Always A Risk
• The Noble Path
• Social Media: Ban or Regulate?
• More on making a killing from prediction markets
• Prediction Markets Are Eroding Our Civic Soul
• https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview
• Insider Journalism
• Personal tech, social media, and the “decline of humanity”
• The Millisecond That Could Change Cancer Treatment
• Never bet against x86
• Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI
• BYD just killed your EV argument with a battery that competes with gas engines
• How to Trust Advertisers
• Traffic to top tech publications has plummeted since 2024, new analysis shows
• Markdown, llms.txt and AI crawlers
• The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do.
• Opt-Out Friction Can Cost You Money – Just Ask Ford
• Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024
• The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do
• California's Age Assurance Lacuna
• https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2026/03/04/big-tech-data-ai-consumer-privacy-law-woodrow-hartzog-neil-richards
• The Privacy Card I Carry Everywhere
• I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age
• Online ads just became the internet's biggest malware machine
• Ad Tech, which Creates 'Audience Balkanization,' is Ineffective for Many Advertisers and Unhealthy for Democracy
• To attend prom or a football game, California students first had to surrender their data
• Price premiums are the ultimate measure of successful professional relationships. Holding Companies have failed to achieve them
• Zed: We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
• Orwellian "Doublethink" and Programmatic Advertising
• CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements
• https://www.idcomms.com/blog/wpp-project-claridges-cmo-advice
• The Secretive Company Filling Video Game Sites With Gambling And AI
• A one-liner for freeing ports on OS X
• https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/rory-sutherland-ad-agencies-don-t-have-an-ai-problem-they-have-a-pricing-problem
• Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you
• Prediction Markets Need Insider Trading, Despite What They Say
• The joys of cash benchmarking
• Meta Reveals New Ad Rules for Financial Advertisers
• https://wccftech.com/china-has-reportedly-built-the-first-euv-machine-prototype/
• https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/
• Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency
• https://searchengineland.com/small-businesses-compete-google-ads-462009
• https://www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/ad-tech-says-its-not-in-the-surveillance-business-now-is-the-time-to-prove-it/
• A.I. Isn't People
• https://www.notebookcheck.net/I-dumped-Windows-11-for-Linux-and-you-should-too.1190961.0.html
• https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/02/if-you-dont-keep-good-records-dont-be-surprised-if-your-tos-formation-fails-in-court-white-v-paypal.htm
• Machiavellian marketing
• "Made in EU" - it was harder than I thought.
• https://attentionworth.com/
• declared
• https://www.blogsareback.com/cors-and-rss
• “because fuck you”: why consumer choice is being stripped away and how the tech industry profits from it
• The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic
• Easily Replaceable USB-C Port Spawned By EU Laws
• Study: Dolly Parton is the Greatest
• https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/26/burger_kings_new_ai/?td=keepreading
• https://news.mit.edu/2026/study-ai-chatbots-provide-less-accurate-information-vulnerable-users-0219
• Digital products and services are getting worse – but the trend can be reversed
• Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring
• The Baltimore Beat experiments with pay-what-you-can ads
• America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice.
• New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes
• Your smart TV may be crawling the web for AI
• New York sues Valve over alleged illegal loot box gambling operation
• Discord distances itself from Persona age verification after user backlash
• The Business Case for Moral Marketers
• This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
• https://seekingalpha.com/news/4557790-oddity-tech-falls-again-after-bull-ratings-are-pulled-on-wall-street
• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oddity-crashes-36-ad-issue-125438739.html?guccounter=1
• Why “magic links” and passcodes are taking over news logins
• AI Added ‘Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
• https://www.kunm.org/local-news/2026-02-06/a-data-privacy-bill-just-advanced-in-the-legislature-what-could-it-mean-for-new-mexicans
• https://ccianet.org/news/2026/02/ccia-raises-concerns-with-new-mexico-privacy-bill-that-departs-from-national-standards-and-risks-digital-innovation/
• https://www.techpolicy.press/the-eus-digital-omnibus-must-be-rejected-by-lawmakers-here-is-why/
• Is Digital Spending Really Killing Brand Growth?
• https://app.sciencesays.com/p/keep-your-ads-away-from-toxic-content
• EY's chief digital officer says marketing is at an AI 'inflection point'
• Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Price-Fixing Scheme to Inflate Costs Across the Economy
• CalPrivacy Sponsors Whistleblower Protection Bill
• https://safeguardprivacy.com/enforcement-has-shifted-the-ecosystem-is-now-the-target/
• How in the Hell Did Joann Fabrics Die While Best Buy Survived? It Wasn't Amazon
• A Hack is Not Enough
• High-End Construction Really Does Help Everyone
• The path to ubiquitous AI
• https://substack.com/home/post/p-187892457
• Informed Guesswork
• The left is missing out on AI - by Dan Kagan-Kans
• The Hyperlocal Economics Nobody Wants to Admit
• “We Belong to Each Other Now”: Lessons from Minneapolis
• Mozilla's privacy preserving ad attribution: The future or an oxymoron?
• Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich
• EthicalAds Newsletter - January 2026
• Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books
• The Future Of Brand Creativity Belongs To The Small And Reckless
• The one problem with Russia's shadow fleet Europe still hasn't addressed
• TWO COURTS, TWO COOKIE CASES, ONE VERY BIG QUESTION: When Does a Click Become Communication?
• In Graphic Detail: Subscriptions are rising at big news publishers – even as traffic shrinks
• I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes
• https://www.carloangiuli.com/pages/accessible-latex.html
• https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-URL/wp-content/uploads/sites/412/2026/02/18203422/A-Little-Tech-Policy-Agenda.pdf
• The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited
• 'This is the future' — Amid blackouts, these Ukrainian mountain villages have green solution
• THIS IS HOW FASCISM LOSES IN AMERICA
• Notes on clarifying man pages
• What's next for Chinese open-source AI
• Why the World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kids
• Europe Is America’s Secret Weapon. And We’re Giving It Up.
• EU Parliament blocks AI features over cyber, privacy fears
• https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/journalism-is-dead-long-live-journalism/
• Using Starlink ruse, Ukrainian cyber forces trick Russian soldiers into revealing positions, donating to armed forces
• https://pro.stateaffairs.com/us/disruption/model-bill-to-protect-kids-online-aims-to-withstand-big-tech-challenges
• You *Can* Do Something To Hurt the Oligarchs
• Let's Keep Our Chomebooks
• Vitalik Buterin warns prediction markets risk sliding into ‘corposlop’
• We've lost the Google antitrust enforcer - now it's with these guys
• I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform
• Linux CVE assignment process
• Benjamin Mako Hill: Why do people participate in similar online communities?
• The Measurement Caddies
• https://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/future-transit.html
• https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/02/californias-consumer-privacy-act-ccpa-assists-a-private-right-of-action-shah-v-myfitnesspal.htm
• Big Business Has Pam Bondi Fire Trump's Antitrust Chief
• The Cookie Mullet
• How tech giants track you across the web, even if you don't use their apps
• Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage
• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrnl94lq5vo
• MAGIC MEETS COMPLIANCE: California AG Drops The Hammer On Disney, Securing The Largest CCPA Settlement Yet At $2.75 Million.
• The $24 Trillion Payments War Europe Is Quietly Waging on Visa and Mastercard
• The Anthropic test refusal string: kill a Claude session dead
• https://oodaloop.com/analysis/decision-intelligence/democratization-of-danger-preserving-liberty-and-human-agency-in-the-age-of-super-empowered-individuals/
• How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”
• Communities are not fungible
• Is NearlyFreeSpeech.NET anti-AI?
• The Software Sovereignty Scale
• Social media has stopped churning out megastars, and it's remaking the creator economy
• ICE activity is pushing readers to nonprofit news sites that cover immigrant communities
• https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/youtube-relaxes-monetization-guidelines-for-some-controversial-topics/
• The pitch deck is dead. Write a pitch.md instead.
• https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/13/1/250377/479652/Using-prediction-markets-and-forecasting-surveys
• Have I hardened against LLMs?
• Speaking Out
• https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/super-bowl-breaks-advertising-rules/
• https://socialmedialab.ca/2025/04/21/the-hidden-game-how-scammers-use-chameleon-ads-to-bypass-metas-moderation/
• Article: The Fallen Apple
• Zombie Pipeline: Why Sable is Still a Pipe Dream
• Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
• We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world
• Crypto Bros Nauseated After Realizing Bitcoin Itself Was Funded by Jeffrey Epstein
• The hottest job in tech: Writing words
• major feed services will tell you about the readership of your feed in the header of their requests apparently, this is visible in server logs as Darek Kay discovered in 2021
• The Tech Elites in the Epstein Files
• The radical confidence of Generative AI and MAGA (Spilling Ink #14)
• A letter to the 300 axed Washington Post staffers from Carole Cadwalladr
• Adblocking ≠ Piracy
• Inside the Minneapolis restaurant that has stopped charging for food until ICE leaves the city
• Ditching bike helmets laws better for health
• Stealing cable has evolved: the new face of TV piracy
• As the nation’s eyes turn to Minneapolis, they’re also turning to Minnesota Public Radio
• Claude Says Non to Ads
• Ad Blockers didn’t help kill the open web
• Jeff Bezos Is Destroying What’s Left Of The Washington Post To Please Our Dim, Unpopular Autocrats
• Gambling advertising spend continues to fall in the UK led by £30M drop in TV ads
• Topics API Review
• A Taxonomy of the Broligarchs
• Here's how I know more people read my personal blog via RSS then any other platform
• Firefox 148 Will Let You Block All Built-In AI Features
• https://www.gendigital.com/blog/insights/research/scam-ad-machine-meta
• https://antimonopoly.ca/report-world-of-scams-the-fraud-problem-at-the-heart-of-online-advertising/
• CROSS SITE TRACKING SURVIVES: Data Broker Pixel Case Heads To Discovery Under CIPA And ECPA
• Sports betting reshaped newsrooms, and it’s “a little gross.” Now, here come the prediction markets
• AI controls are coming to Firefox
• The Dumbest Thing I’ve Seen This Week
• The Big Tech Walkout 2025
• Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025
• https://danluu.com/codenames/
• The ICE Resistance That You’re Not Seeing
• Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
• The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake
• Microsoft’s Quiet Exodus: Why Enterprise Developers Are Abandoning Windows for Linux Workstations
• Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In
• The Hidden Threat in Your Search Results: How Mac Malware Infiltrates Google’s Advertising Ecosystem
• Pluralistic: Disenshittification Nation (29 Jan 2026)
• The World Files for Economic Divorce from America
• Google ‘exploring updates’ to let publishers opt out of AI Overviews
• Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,069
• The digital noose and what you can do about it.
• Court Filing Claims Zuckerberg Blocked Curbs at Meta on Sex-Talking Chatbots for Minors
• Google Exploring Ways To Allow Sites To Opt Out Of AI Overviews & AI Mode
• Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars
• "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again
• The Dependency Layer in Digital Sovereignty
• How the new era of CEO supervillains are trapped in their own ideology
• Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia’s Drone War
• Meta Is Blocking Links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
• Nudify app proliferation shows naked ambition of Apple and Google
• Supreme Court to decide how 1988 videotape privacy law applies to online video
• https://werd.io/always-punch-up/
• “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial
• Indonesia to Buy KAAN Fighter Jet Only If Free of U.S. Components
• France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative
• Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
• https://www.fantasticanachronism.com/p/how-i-made-10k-predicting-which-papers-will-replicate
• The missing 66% of your skillset
• A Man Bought Meta’s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert in Search of Aliens
• When AdTech Misrepresent Their Own A/B Tests
• https://ai-delete.org/
• With ‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ Korean women hold the sword, the microphone — and possibly an Oscar
• Congress Wants To Hand Your Parenting To Big Tech
• Grains of sand prove people – not glaciers – transported Stonehenge rocks
• I research the harm that can come to teenagers on social media. I don’t support a ban
• ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools
• Sony hands TV business to TCL. What it means for you.
• How the ‘confident authority’ of Google AI Overviews is putting public health at risk
• NCAA has its prop bet ban request sunk by Missouri watchdog
• Against Markdown
• Meet the Minneapolis Neighbors Standing Up to ICE by the Thousands
• Backseat Software
• Into the abyss
• How much can a city take?
• ‘NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books’
• Your Search Button Powers my Smart Home
• Meta's Legal Team Abandoned Its Ethical Duties
• Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI
• Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models
• Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W
• It's Time to Count the Cost of Freedom
• https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/01/23/clean-steel-in-the-making-inside-europes-future-green-metallurgical-plants
• Canada Prepares for the What-if Moment
• 'AI' is a dick move, redux
• Meta wants to block data about social media use, mental health in child safety trial
• The Weighted Highland Cow Scam: How it Works and Where to Buy a Real Highland Cow
• People who use chatbots for news consider them unbiased and “good enough,” new study finds
• It's Not Just a Prisoner's Dilemma
• Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS
• Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback
• https://berjon.com/chimeralogist/
• What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubble
• Pluralistic: Google's AI pricing plan (21 Jan 2026)
• Majority of CEOs Alarmed as AI Delivers No Financial Returns
• https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/cricutstickers.html
• https://www.theverge.com/tech/864601/zipline-drone-delivery-food-takeout-texas
• Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots
• A Website To Destroy All Websites
• https://sfdps.org/
• https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/05/1020376/resist-big-tech-surveillance-data/
• Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IVb: Training Hoplites?
• https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/tran.70048
• Slop is Everywhere For Those With Eyes to See
• Russian Propaganda Infects AI Chatbots
• [$] A free and open-source rootkit for Linux
• California’s Opt Me Out Act: Your Privacy Just Got Easier
• Just the Browser: scripts to remove all the crap from your browser
• Dingbat Imperialism, the Lowest Stage of Capitalism
• https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/research/HaidtRausch_WHR_2026_Jan14.pdf
• Meta's Internal Research about harms of social media
• https://stubgroup.com/blog/google-ads-new-trademark-policy/
• ‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk
• I used AI chatbots as a source of news for a month, and they were unreliable and erroneous
• Breaking: ‘Tommy Robinson’ appears to admit to searching for gay underage sex
• Why Every Country Should Set 16 (or Higher) as the Minimum Age for Social Media Accounts
• The Megawatt Mirage: NVIDIA's $4.5 Trillion Valuation Depends on a Grid That Cannot Deliver
• Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach
• If AI coding is so good … where are the performance numbers?
• Newsrooms are taking comments seriously again
• https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/kaiser-members-get-cash-46-million-privacy-21295417.php
• US tech giants allying with European far-right to strip back EU rules
• https://www.afr.com/world/asia/advertising-group-dentsu-s-push-to-sell-global-unit-close-to-collapse-20260114-p5nu2a
• Just the Browser helps you remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers
• what’s permuting itself around in my head, part one:
• Linux in the Air
• ‘More focused on advertising than ever before’: Nearly all of X’s top 100 advertisers returned, ads boss claims
• Battle Lines Are Drawn (Predictions 2026, #2)
• Its Your Job To Keep Your Secrets
• AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them
• EXCLUSIVE: Mike Pence's Group Hires Former Heritage Legal Scholar Amid Exodus From Think Tank
• Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws
• Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized
• https://insideunmannedsystems.com/in-first-attack-by-uuv-ukraines-sub-sea-baby-drone-blasted-russian-black-sea-kilo-submarine/
• Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off
• Big Oil Knows That Trump’s Venezuela Plans Are Delusional
• 💬🗞️ Why newsrooms are taking comments seriously again
• When Google Locked the Door, Three MIT Students Picked the Lock
• Resistance honeypots
• https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ruling-on-another-website-wiretapping-8653616/
• Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow
• Toward a Proof of Concept for MyTerms
• This Free Script Disables Every AI Feature in Windows 11
• How Did TVs Get So Cheap?
• X accuses music publishers of ‘weaponizing’ DMCA takedowns
• I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great
• AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse
• Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
• https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/09/boffins_probe_commercial_ai_models/
• Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life
• Grok generates bikini pics of children — UK, US oddly powerless
• How Markdown took over the world
• Google is taking over your Gmail inbox with AI
• Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
• Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
• How to disable Gemini on Android, Gmail, Chrome, Photos, & Google apps. Opt out of AI tracking now!
• https://torontolife.com/city/a-mississauga-grass-by-law-has-been-struck-down-over-freedom-of-expression/?%E2%80%A6
• https://eurovoix.com/2025/12/17/moldova-selectia-nationala-2026-finalists-revealed/
• https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/hacktivist-deletes-white-supremacist-websites-live-on-stage-during-hacker-conference/
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says it will cease operations in May
• https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/09/court-fetishizes-facebooks-tos-statement-that-it-takes-appropriate-content-moderation-actions-calise-v-meta.htm
• Gamified War in Ukraine: Points, Drones, and the New Moral Economy of Killing
• A New Maritime Policy Agenda
• Can Mamdani and Khan Prove the Public Still Has Power?
• Trump’s ‘American Dominance’ May Leave Us With Nothing
• Markdown Fixup: An Opinionated Markdown Linter
• The year of technoligarchy
• Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit
• January 7, 2026 at 6:50 PM UTC.
• Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews
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• https://www.calishat.com/2025/01/01/five-ways-google-could-improve-search-in-2025-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-ai/
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• https://store.boingboing.net/sales/microsoft-windows-11-pro-7
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