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- On the fine art of technology reviews
- Facebook’s AI Told Parents Group It Has a Gifted, Disabled Child
- Russian US election interference targets support for Ukraine after slow start
- Caitlin Clark’s staggeringly low starting salary, briefly explained
- Biden might actually do something about ludicrously expensive concert tickets
- Adtech giants like Meta must give EU users real privacy choice, says EDPB
- EU privacy body adopts view on Meta’s controversial ‘consent or pay’ tactic
- https://mediacatmagazine.co.uk/why-we-should-seek-inspiration-from-marketing-rogues/
- AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?
- https://aftermath.site/humane-ai-marques-brownlee~
- Battle lines drawn as US states take on big tech with online child safety bills
- Amazon is filled with garbage ebooks. Here’s how they get made.
- Paying maintainers: the HOWTO
- They're Looting The Internet
- We need to rewild the internet
- Next steps for me…
- Is the ‘Dead Internet’ theory suddenly coming true? This could be a sign
- The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
- https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/02/how-much-of-ais-recent-success-is-due-to-the-forer-effect/
- How Oregon’s new right-to-repair law forced Apple to change
- An Open Letter to Every Automaker.
- Meta’s ‘consent or pay’ tactic must not prevail over privacy, EU rights groups warn
- This building wants to be the Swiss army knife of urban living
- Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPL
- LLMs Are This Close to Destroying the Internet
- Evidence that LLMs are reaching a point of diminishing returns — and what that might mean
- https://betanews.com/2024/04/09/malicious-search-engine-ads-drive-latest-phishing-threat/
- Right-Wing Media Are in Trouble
- Here are 13 other explanations for the adolescent mental health crisis. None of them work.
- Backdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened
- Notes on git's error messages
- Hollywood Believes The Time Is Ripe To Bring Back SOPA
- Landlords have a secret weapon in the war over high rents
- Gemini 1.5 and Google’s Nature
- Google and world’s largest ad group announce landmark AI collaboration
- Verified curl
- Both Things Can Be True: Meta Can Be Evil AND It’s Unlikely That The Company Deliberately Blocked A Mildly Negative Article About It
- 2,000 senior women win “biggest victory possible” in landmark climate case
- Why Does Ad Tech Still Fail To Spot – And Stop – MFA-Fueled Schemes?
- This one’s for the white guys
- Paul Graham, proto-techbro.
- Flying Under The Radar Is Not A Realistic Compliance Strategy
- A Memo to OpenAI: You Are Not the Protagonists
- Publisher: OpenAI’s GPT Store bots are illegally scraping our textbooks
- Ideas for my dream blogging CMS
- I Receive a Letter from a High School Student
- Google’s Protected Audience Protects Advertisers (and Google) More Than It Protects You
- Can I Interest You in a Brand-New Sparkling Water Brand?
- Where Did My Traffic Go? Hint: It Wasn’t an Algorithm Update
- Interview with Former Russian Central Bank Economist: "It's Time To Slowly Bleed Russia's Economy Dry"
- “Pink slime” local news outlets erupt all over US as election nears
- Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains
- John Goerzen: The xz Issue Isn’t About Open Source
- Rantz: Washington’s Lottery forced to pull site after distributing AI porn of lotto user
- xz backdoor and autotools insanity
- US government funds pilot project for heated sand energy storage
- New Catan game has overpopulation, pollution, fossil fuels, and clean energy
- Declassified NSA Newsletters
- German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice
- 7 Things You Should Know About California’s Privacy Watchdog
- Apple Got Caught Censoring Its Own Regulator Lina Khan
- Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability
- Class-Action Lawsuit against Google’s Incognito Mode
- Judge allows Roblox illegal gambling suit to proceed
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- xz, Tidelift, and paying the maintainers
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- Google agrees to delete Incognito data despite prior claim that’s “impossible”
- The future of search-driven affiliate content
- Redis’ license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about
- When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst?
- Antitrust, Meta, Apple and more
- AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them
- https://defector.com/youre-supposed-to-be-glad-your-tesla-is-a-brittle-heap-of-junk
- A few thoughts on the Apple DOJ antitrust case, from someone who isn’t riding his first rodeo
- Last Week Missouri Told The Supreme Court No Gov’t Should EVER Interfere With Speech; This Week It Sues Media Matters For Its Speech
- Government Sales
- https://time.com/6957890/next-tech-backlash-hygiene/
- Glyph Lefkowitz: Software Needs To Be More Expensive
- Disillusioned Businesses Discovering That AI Kind of Sucks
- Everything I know about the XZ backdoor
- The Xz Backdoor Highlights the Vulnerability of Open Source Software—and Its Strengths
- [$] Radicle: peer-to-peer collaboration with Git
- Tether isn’t a Blockchain company.
- Why Ontario school boards are suing social media platforms for causing an attention crisis
- https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor~
- https://www.ghostery.com/blog/privacy-report-advertisers-and-adblockers
- Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
- Why I went back to buying CDs (and you should too)
- Russia is looking into making its own video game console
- Google suspended 12.7 million ad accounts and blocked 5.5 billion ads in 2023
- The Ars Technica guide to keyboards: Mechanical, membrane, and buckling springs
- Amazon loses EU court bid to delay digital rules on online ads
- The Miseducation of Kara Swisher: Soul-searching with the tech "journalist"
- Why Bluesky Remains The Most Interesting Experiment In Social Media, By Far
- CONFIRMED: Elon Musk’s X lost a HUGE brand safety certification after our complaint
- Models All The Way Down
- Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart!
- 404 Media Now Has a Full Text RSS Feed
- United States v. Apple
- A judge just killed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against an anti-hate research org
- Nubai Ventures Sues Outbrain, Claiming Its Traffic Is Riddled With Bots
- Ron DeSantis signs bill requiring parental consent for kids under 16 to hold social media accounts
- No, the West is not to blame for Russia’s war in Ukraine. Why this myth – and others – are so difficult to dispel
- DAMAGED CREATIVITY
- https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/03/Symposium-Rethinking-Economics-Angus-Deaton
- Sequencer launches as a writer-owned popular science magazine
- https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/10/the-history-crisis-is-a-national-security-problem/
- A Letter From Our Founder
- There’s No Such Thing as Good Housing News
- Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point
- EU signals doubts over legality of Meta’s privacy fee
- The delivery rider who took on his faceless boss
- Google fined €250m in France for breaching intellectual property deal
- They Praised AI at SXSW—and the Audience Started Booing
- AI Is Threatening My Tech and Lifestyle Content Mill
- There is no EU cookie banner law
- Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media
- Logitech’s Casa Pop-Up Desk Elevates Your MacBook for More Comfortable Computing
- A Close Up Look at the Consumer Data Broker Radaris
- A Big Defeat for Big Tech
- Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet
- Are We Watching the Internet Die?
- Cover Animal For ActivityPub Book
- The Ultimate Ideal Bestest Base Font Size That Everyone Is Keeping a Secret, Especially Chet
- Underdog Overdrive
- Vancouver’s new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous
- Tiktok and the Fediverse
- The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
- Montana Man Pleads Guilty to Creating Massive Franken-Sheep With Cloned Animal Parts
- Redwood trees are growing almost as fast in the UK as their Californian cousins – new study
- Trump just rug-pulled the China hawks on TikTok
- The FTC’s PrivacyCon Was Chock-Full Of Warning Signs For Online Advertising
- The Class Struggle in Silicon Valley
- LA Car Culture Warriors In Shambles After Overwhelming Vote for New Bike Lines
- Adalytics Report Torches Ad Tech For Touting MFA Prevention While Scarfing MFA Supply
- GREEDFLATION
- We ❤️ RSS
- How Google Blew Up Its Open Culture and Compromised Its Product
- The Tech Industry Doesn’t Understand Consent
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- Mark Jason Dominus: Optimal boxes with and without lids
- We're not Meta support: State AGs tell Zuck to fix rampant account takeover problem
- Tracking ads industry faces another body blow in the EU
- We need to talk about Jakob
- How the US Army Can Close its Dangerous—and Growing—Small Drone Gap
- Go ahead and block AI web crawlers
- J-Group Says Hedge-Fund Papers Unwelcome
- TRAINING PLANNERS TO DO ADVERTISING
- Privacy Sandbox’s Latency Issues Will Cost Publishers
- Missing The Human Touch
- Sports Illustrated Threw Lavish Parties As It Was Shit-canning All Its Actual Journalists
- AN ADVERTISING STORY
- A Wonky Experience
- For the first time ever, Ukraine has passed the winter heating season relying exclusively on domestic gas
- Now the EU is asking questions about Meta’s ‘pay or be tracked’ consent model
- The less-than-magical Willy Wonka event, briefly explained
- The State of the Culture, 2024
- Google hit with €2.1B lawsuit from more than 30 European media companies
- Meta's pay-or-consent model hides 'massive illegal data processing ops': lawsuit
- Generative AI Might Finally Bend Copyright Past the Breaking Point
- Reminder – Google is enforcing stricter rules for consumer finance ad targeting
- Google is the new IBM
- Meta’s ‘consent or pay’ data grab in Europe faces new complaints
- Platforms are selling your work to AI vendors with impunity. They need to stop.
- Axel Springer and 31 other media groups in Europe file a $2.3B lawsuit against Google, alleging that they suffered losses due to its digital ad practices
- A rejected PSA for the de-Googling community on Reddit
- Wendy’s says ‘dynamic’ pricing won’t tack surge pricing onto your nuggets
- Don't let Reddit monetize your knowledge just so Google can train its AI
- A Colossal Blockbuster That Justifies Its Scale
- Actor From Willy Wonka Fiasco Says AI-Generated Script Was 'Terrifying for the Kids'
- Your TV Is Too Good for You
- An HTML Switch Control
- The Rentier Economy, Vulture Capital, and Enshittification
- Facebook Drops Anti-Scraping Lawsuit Against Bright Data (Guest Blog Post)
- The Vice Media Collapse Was Entirely The Fault Of Incompetent, Fail-Upward Brunchlords
- was first to report about the lawsuit
- Google Reportedly Paying News Outlets to Unleash an Avalanche of AI Slop
- Cops called after parents get tricked by AI-generated images of Wonka-like event
- Regurgitated ‘American Pie’ adds sour taste to GenAI copyright claims
- If Online Ads Feel More Annoying, It’s Because They Are
- The Four Internet Analogies of the Apocalypse
- How Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Targets -- and Putin...
- Motivation for an open-source flow battery
- Home Screen Advantage
- Most big legacy news publishers across 10 countries are blocking OpenAI’s crawlers, report finds
- Preparing to Win the First Fight of the Next War
- Balancing Games
- Google promotes sketchy product “reviews” from big publishers at the expense of small indie sites, a small indie site argues
- The AI community needs to take copyright lawsuits seriously
- RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study
- It’s MFA Freedom Day! Celebrate By Fixing Your Supply Chain
- How artists are fighting generative AI
- Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data
- Are you ready to back up your AI chatbot's promises? You'd better be
- OUT NOW: "Where the God-Knives Tread" Part 1
- Belief in magic may be declining
- Malefactors of Great Meh.
- FTC Fines Avast $16.5 Million For Selling Browsing Data Harvested by Antivirus
- https://www.teenvogue.com/story/influencer-parents-children-social-media-impact
- Dune: Part Two Blows Away Your Sandworm-Sized Expectations
- Google reneged on the monopolistic bargain
- Heat pumps outsold gas furnaces again last year — and the gap is growing
- KitchenAid Did It Right 87 Years Ago
- Copy local music to iPhone with VLC and without iTunes
- The Supreme Court Case That Has Some Liberals Defending Big Tech
- Europe's data protection laws cut data storage by making information-wrangling pricier
- Pluralistic: Google reneged on the monopolistic bargain; The Bezzle excerpt (Part IV) (21 Feb 2024)
- Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom?
- Updating GOV.UK’s crown
- Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI
- Fake Funeral Live Stream Scams Are All Over Facebook
- DTC Brands Are Trying Email, Since Social Alone Won’t Cut It
- How Google is killing independent sites like ours
- Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO
- Carlos Garcia Campos: WebKit Switching to Skia for 2D Graphics Rendering
- TRANSACTIONAL THINKING
- Terry Gilliam’s Air Canada
- A (tiny, incomplete, single user, write-only) ActivityPub server in PHP
- Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount
- AMC to pay $8M for allegedly violating 1988 law with use of Meta Pixel
- Another Court Finds an “Enforceable Browsewrap.” MAKE IT STOP–Hawkins v. CMG
- DOJ: Confiscated Russian funds will support Ukraine — via Estonia
- Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
- Apple’s App Store is Riddled With Popular Piracy Brands (Update)
- Death of a Chatbot, body blow to an industry
- Terminal Count
- Trading trust
- European digital rights groups say the future of online privacy is on a knife edge
- Hip Hip Hooray For Hipster Antitrust
- The high cost of Uber’s small profit
- Popular git config options
- A sneaky piracy app is trending in Apple’s App Store
- Pluralistic: How a billionaire's mediocre pump-and-dump "book" became a "bestseller" (15 Feb 2024)
- The original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file from 1990, can we open it?
- Chrome Privacy Sandbox Has A Message For The IAB Tech Lab: Our Baby Isn’t Ugly
- Air Canada found responsible for chatbot error
- Or Die.
- Or Die.
- Be Long Israel. We Are.
- Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?
- A company tracked visits to 600 Planned Parenthood locations for anti-abortion ads, senator says
- Six months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable
- Girding For Battle In The Privacy Sandbox With IAB Tech Lab CEO Tony Katsur
- THE SILENT MAJORITY
- Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference Needs a Big Pocket
- The Ukraine war is ultimately about Poland
- Protests and Power
- Seven reasons why the world should say No to Sam Altman
- Broader opens: on the relevance of cryptolaw for open lawyers
- California’s fast food workers gain new, first-of-its-kind union to represent them
- America Tires Of Big Telecom’s Shit, Driving Boom In Community-Owned Broadband Networks
- Alameda Point Economic Development is Stuck in the Past
- Ending the Churn: To Solve the Recruiting Crisis, the Army Should Be Asking Very Different Questions
- Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat
- The Tyranny of the Marginal User
- Just Say It, Democrats: Biden Has Been a Great President
- “Don’t let them drop us!” Landline users protest AT&T copper retirement plan
- This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time
- Data broker selling de-anonymized info to face FTC lawsuit after all
- What Do We Say to Emily? The Human Cost Of Advertising Data Abuse
- The CEOs Are Warming to Trump
- The Real AI Weapons Are Drones, Not Nukes
- A student newspaper in Iowa just bought two local weeklies
- KOSA isn’t designed to help kids.
- Google Bard: fast, gorgeous, and out of control
- Announcing Interop 2024
- The Taylor Swift Deepfakes Disaster Threatens to Change the Internet As We Know It
- Fake Bill Ackman and Jim Cramer Instagram Ads are Trying to Take My Money
- Helvetica is more than a font, it’s a state of mind
- Pluralistic: My McLuhan lecture on enshittification (30 Jan 2024)
- "Driverless" cars always have a driver
- An Ode to the Inter Typeface
- To protect kids, California might require chronological feeds on social media
- https://www.techpolicy.press/child-endangerment-in-los-picus-fan-groups-facebook-still-has-a-child-predation-problem/
- What's the incentive to tell the truth on surveys?
- Podcast: Why Google Is Shit Now
- Compressing Text into Images
- Richard Prince “New Portraits” Show Was a Big Fair Use Error
- We Need Your Email Address
- Publishers: Ditch Google search addiction or die
- First tech platform breaks ranks to support kids online safety bill
- Using Google Search to Find Software Can Be Risky
- Founder of Neo-Nazi Group the Base Instructs Followers to Use 'Uncensored' AI
- CGI programs have an attractive one step deployment model
- Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone
- AI-Generated Taylor Swift Porn Went Viral on Twitter. Here's How It Got There
- Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes
- Eric Schmidt's 'White Stork' project to build combat drones
- Penn Jillette wants to talk it all out
- Chinese Startup 01.AI Is Winning the Open Source AI Race | WIRED
- Is Silicon Valley a Ponzi scheme?
- Inside a Global Phone Spy Tool Monitoring Billions
- Vizio lawsuit part 2: adding more complexity to the GPL
- Web CGI programs aren't particularly slow these days
- Luis Villa: After Twitter
- These Are the Notorious NSA Furby Documents Showing Spy Agency Freaking Out About Embedded AI in Children's Toy
- https://checkmyads.org/updates/google-shark-tank-keto-scam/
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- Ad Tech Companies Will Keep Their Privacy Lawyers Busy This Year
- Meta to let EU users deny cross-site tracking as Digital Markets Act bites
- Chocolate Evening.
- https://bastianallgeier.com/feed
- My grandpa was a Nazi
- How plagiarism-detection programs became an unlikely political weapon
- Huge Proportion of Internet Is AI-Generated Slime, Researchers Find
- Meta’s content moderator subcontractor model faces legal squeeze in Spain