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• OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT Medical Advice That Allegedly Killed College Student
• Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI Is Backfiring Badly
• https://courtneyradsch.substack.com/p/meta-must-negotiate-with-publishers?r=2nzssq
• Graduation Speaker Shocked When She’s Loudly Booed by Students for Saying AI Is the Future
• Position or Perish: The Narrative Blueprint
• Don Marti
• #dataBrokers
• #DROP
• #calPrivacy
• https://alamedafree.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=351893
• Putin’s War Comes Home to Moscow
• To maintain their independence, publishers are fleeing Substack
• WordPress powers 47% of the web. Now it's more social, too
• Divergent Thinkers Are the Real Heros
• The Price of Free: What Big Tech Really Thinks You’re Worth
• https://overturned.substack.com/p/senators-to-zuckerberg-answer-for
• https://support.google.com/marketingplatform/answer/15732590?hl=en
• Santa Clara County sues Meta over scam ads on Facebook and Instagram
• Oracle Forced to Cancel Incredibly Polluting Natural Gas Plant to Power AI Data Center
• Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax
• Sony's failed war against Internet piracy may doom other copyright lawsuits
• Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
• An Approaching Crisis
• https://thenextweb.com/news/imagine-a-world-where-news-sites-drop-display-ads-it-might-not-be-that-far-away
• https://www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/apples-upcoming-safari-changes-will-shake-ad-tech/
• Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
• https://onezero.medium.com/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs-b2e8d5cda826
• Don Marti
• #privacyLabor
• #MyTerms
• Checkmate in Iran
• https://webwideopen.com/interview-with-rory-sutherland-part-2/
• https://webwideopen.com/the-future-of-advertising-a-conversation-with-rory-sutherland/
• https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2026-03-24-a-week-in-gas-town/
• Advertising's new 'safety' fight
• How dangerous is Anthropic’s Mythos AI? | Bruce Schneier
• Google Softens Chrome’s On-Device AI Pledge as 4GB Model Downloads Quietly
• Meat Industry Price Fixer Sentenced to Make Money
• Pluralistic: Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox (09 May 2026)
• Russia doesn’t have much to celebrate on Victory Day, as Ukraine brings the war home to Putin
• https://gamma.app/docs/The-Shift-Redefining-Value-in-the-AI-Era-60hr4sq7w7lpbyb?mode=doc
• https://zgp.org/
• Chrome's 4GB AI model isn't new, but you're not wrong for being confused
• Spending Just 10 Minutes With AI Can Fry Your Brain, Researchers Find
• https://home.cern/computer-security-block-ads-stay-clean/
• The agent principal-agent problem
• https://ferd.ca/my-blog-engine-is-the-erlang-build-tool.html
• The Real WPP Story Is in the Margin, Not the Revenue
• One Difference Makes All the Difference
• GitHub is sinking
• Don Marti
• The 81st Birthday Gift
• Section 230 Wasn’t Written for This
• Court rules Trump's 10% tariff is just as illegal as the tariff it replaced
• California Just Sent a $12.75 Million Message About Your Car’s Data
• Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview
• GM fined under CCPA for selling CA driver data without consent
• Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives"
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• #CalPrivacy
• #deleteAct
• #cppa
• #cpra
• #ccpa
• #event
• #local
• #california
• #alameda
• https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/07/chrome-silently-installs-a-4-gb-local-llm-on-your-computer/5230893
• https://marketingaccountability.substack.com/p/digital-advertising-is-a-casino-pretending
• A Publisher Didn’t Get Its UID2 Setup Right. The Trade Desk Didn’t Notice. What Went Wrong?
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• https://gmk.center/en/posts/chinas-path-to-carbon-free-steel/
• Turn Off ChatGPT’s New Ad Tracking
• Richard Dawkin’s Claude Delusion
• https://onlinesafety.substack.com/p/turn-off-chatgpts-new-ad-tracking?r=233e75
• https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc
• https://gizmodo.com/stop-letting-google-get-away-with-it-1846414787
• App Store Search Ads and the Slippery Slope
• Solex Energy plans 5 GW solar cell factory in India
• https://font.subf.dev/en/
• https://www.404media.co/unauthorized-edit-to-ukraines-frontline-maps-point-to-polymarkets-war-betting/
• Stories That Matter: Advertising has reached peak self-delusion
• https://www.techpolicy.press/tech-policy-is-on-the-front-line-of-fascism-vs-democracy-pick-a-side/
• https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1
• https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/meta-has-made-child-exploitation-a-cost-of-doing-business/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/magazine/placebo-effect-medicine.html
• https://bobsullivan.net/cybercrime/criminals-impersonate-doctor-with-deepfake-ads-sell-supplements-could-you-tell/
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-24/the-overparked-states-of-america
• https://digiday.com/marketing/ad-retargeters-trying-work-around-gdpr-apple/
• https://www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/privacy-enforcement-crossed-a-line-in-2025-and-theres-no-going-back/
• https://www.adexchanger.com/the-sell-sider/a-subprime-content-crisis/
• https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/08/28/court-backs-data-protection-commission-over-google-inquiry/
• https://digiday.com/media/a-running-list-of-publisher-lawsuits-targeting-googles-ad-tech-practices/
• https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-zelenskyy-visits-saudi-arabia-putin-weighs-g20-attendance/a-76928614
• https://themarkup.org/privacy/2026/04/21/websites-break-california-privacy-law-at-industrial-scale-survey-finds
• https://theconversation.com/why-meta-is-in-trouble-in-nigeria-and-what-this-means-for-facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp-users-257048
• https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/media-mix-digital-saturation-longterm-growth-evidence-fou-pluve/
• https://www.warc.com/en/article/broad-reach-awareness-not-hyper-targeted-digital-is-what-drove-consistent-revenue-growth-over-the-last-15-years-2c600936054044f895051b8956bea69e
• https://www.fortressofdoors.com/ad-blockers-and-the-four-currencies/
• https://www.kyivpost.com/post/73593
• https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2194256/ukraine-nasa-martian-killer-drones-laws-physics
• https://www.backstoryandstrategy.com/p/pittsburgh-post-gazette-saved-from-what
• https://skepchick.org/2025/08/did-this-kid-use-ai-to-fake-research-about-how-great-ai-is/
• https://lastweekilearned.com/2025/04/01/week-4-of-march-2025-big-tech-gets-a-check-up/
• https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-companies-ruining-apps-websites-internet-worse-google-facebook-amazon-2023-3
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/e89454f2330bb964
• https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/Online-Exclusive/2025-OLE/The-Coming-Blitzkrieg/
• https://monopoly-report.com/p/are-gpc-signals-anti-competitive
• https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/04/17/app-store-scams-are-getting-worse-and-apple-isnt-doing-enough
• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee3932
• https://lifehacker.com/tech/this-android-malware-is-attacking-smart-home-devices
• https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/09/court-fetishizes-facebooks-tos-statement-that-it-takes-appropriate-content-moderation-actions-calise-v-meta.htm
• https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/computing/computer-security-block-ads-stay-clean
• “Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone else”
• https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/two-americans-sentenced-for-helping-north-korea-steal-5-million-in-fake-it-worker-scheme/
• https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-wont-let-big-tech-hide-behind-first-amendment-anymore-opinion-2091253
• https://www.w3.org/policies/antitrust-2024/
• https://www.adweek.com/agencies/ftc-cracks-down-on-ad-giants-over-alleged-brand-safety-collusion/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20180215164857/https%3A//www.spectator.co.uk/2018/02/reducing-activities-to-their-core-misses-the-point/
• https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/those-meddling-kids-the-reverse-scooby-doo-theory-of-tech-innovation-comes-with-the-excuses-baked-in/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20131031020612/http%3A//www.marketingmag.com.au/blogs/surveillance-marketing-isnt-right-for-brand-or-audience-43190/
• https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/g-s1-27676/tiktok-redacted-documents-in-teen-safety-lawsuit-revealed
• https://sourcegraph.com/blog/cheating-is-all-you-need
• https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-created-playbook-fend-off-pressure-crack-down-scammers-documents-show-2025-12-31/
• https://www.vox.com/2021/11/18/22783108/federalist-society-capitalism-woke-corporations-milton-friedman-supreme-court-judiciary-judges
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/09/the-eu-has-a-secret-weapon-to-counter-trumps-economic-bullying-its-time-to-use-it
• https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-tells-strangers-it-owns-my-phone-number-whatsapp-2024-8
• https://maarthandam.com/2025/12/25/salesforce-regrets-firing-4000-staff-ai/
• https://www.honest-broker.com/p/5-ways-to-stop-ai-cheating
• https://www.afterbabel.com/p/how-metas-lawyers-perfected-the-playbook
• Apple is getting serious about ads
• https://www.inma.org/blogs/ideas/post.cfm/3-swedish-publishers-support-decision-to-expel-meta-from-iab-sweden-membership
• https://web.archive.org/web/20250918005720/https%3A//www.agencyhackers.com/dont-be-evil/
• Five major publishers are suing Meta over Llama. They have evidence that the previous plaintiffs did not.
• Largest Russian Oil Refinery Catches Fire After Drone Strike in Leningrad Region
• Don Marti
• https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-05-05/a-devout-muslim-in-pakistan-is-making-a-living-from-islamophobic-ai-slop
• #Mozilla
• Don Marti
• Five Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg
• Heat pump sales rise 17% across Europe in Q1 as energy prices surge
• ‘Noir, Japan’s Hard-Boiled Bittersweet Answer to Oreos’
• Nearly 20 US state-run health insurance exchanges include ad trackers that send user data like race and citizenship info to companies like Meta, TikTok, Google
• AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That's good news for the Steam Machine.
• 'Nature' Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education
• New Components and Foreign Parts Manufactured in 2025 Discovered in Shahed Drones
• Usage-based pricing killing your vibe, here's how to roll your own local AI
• Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
• How To Follow Jesus—Without the Church
• Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion
• Curing U.S. Health Care, Part II
• The question nobody asked Zuckerberg
• Meet all 37 White House ballroom donors funding the $400 million build, including Silicon Valley tech giants, crypto bros and the Lutnicks
• Criminals impersonate doctor with deepfake ads, sell supplements
• https://www.techpolicy.press/congresss-new-privacy-bill-is-built-on-empty-promises/
• AlamedaPost.com and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
• Local Small Language Models in the Browser: A First Glance at Chrome’s Built-in AI and Prompt API with Gemini Nano
• https://navigator.indicator.media/
• The more young people use AI, the more they hate it
• Adobe’s ‘Modern’ User Interface Is Just Webpages
• A Disastrous Federal Privacy Bill
• On Prediction Market Regulation
• Don Marti
• Advertiser-Agency Relationships Have Become Too Combative, and No One Benefits
• The Attribution Cartel
• California Privacy Protection Agency Releases Letter Opposing the SECURE Data Act
• GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown
• Consumers lost $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, FTC reports
• Aftermath: California Gas Prices Are Up, and It’s Not Just the War
• Half of AI health answers are wrong even though they sound convincing – new study
• Even PayPal Ads Has Its Own ID Now
• Ghost In The Machine has launched!
• ADOPTING THE ST. PAUL PRINCIPLES
• Update on CC Signals: What Changed and Why
• AI as a Fascist Artifact
• My Best Idea: Decision Markets
• China Builds 80% of the World’s Audio Gear Including Heritage Brands You’d Never Suspect, Says Top Hi-Fi Insider
• How Digital Marketing Technology Broke Democracy:
• Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators
• Why I Hate Paul (And The Religion He Made Up)
• Does The New Federal Data Privacy Bill Have A Snowball’s Chance Of Passing?
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• ‘The damage is done’: global oil crisis has changed fossil fuel industry for ever, IEA chief says | Oil | The Guardian
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
• AI traders are already testing prediction markets—and losing money
• Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine
• Don Marti
• https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/chinese-solar-exports-double-in-a-month-to-hit-record-high-amid-energy-crisis/
• Don Marti
• Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
• https://www.semafor.com/article/04/23/2026/chinese-solar-exports-hit-record-high-in-march
• https://www.propublica.org/article/walmart-financial-services-became-fraud-magnet-gift-cards-money-laundering
• Don Marti
• https://flipboard.com/@axiosnews/politics-o9rs3homz/-/a-FZ-2UUjcS7KEu3-VV2ebaw%3Aa%3A2150299410-%2F0
• Crypto scam lures ships into Strait of Hormuz, falsely promising safe passage
• This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men
• Don Marti
• #attributionCartel
• Don Marti
• In Interesting Times, Who Cares Wins
• https://techjusticelaw.org/press-releases/meta_scam_ads_lawsuit/
• Grievance Poisoning in the First Degree
• What Happens When The Attribution Cartel Meets Advertising’s Halo Effect?
• https://www.westwoodone.com/blog/2026/04/13/marketers-vastly-understate-the-sales-effect-of-creative-and-significantly-overestimate-the-impact-of-targeting-3/
• Why A 1967 Privacy Law Is Powering A New Wave Of Ad Tech Lawsuits
• Adobe Has Rid Itself of Its Allies
• Quiet Mode
• Jaron Schneider
• https://suewallst.com/lawsuits/oddity-tech-ltd-class-action-lawsuit-odd
• A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale
• The Internet Archive is not "in peril". Stop doing its PR, and start doing some journalism
• Don Marti
• #security
• #privacy
• #adblocking
• Don Marti
• Objection AI: venture capital tries to block bad press
• Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies
• https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2019/12/18/how-to-give-a-good-apology-part-1-the-four-parts-of-accountability/
• https://organizingmythoughts.org/rss/
• How Silicon Valley Humiliated the Democrats
• Journalists champion Wayback Machine after news publishers limit article archiving
• The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Psychological Hazards
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jennifer-l-vercellone-esq-12a75b26_privacy-consentmode-googleanalytics-share-7450683193483075584-G2j5
• Fraudulent Cryptocurrency App in Mac App Store Stole $9.5 Million From 50-Some Users
• Freecash Was More Like Scamcash
• Thomson Reuters Fired Worker For Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says
• The Wall Street Journal Wonders Why There Are Suddenly So Many Sleazy Fees
• Peak absurdity, Part II
• What Australia must learn from Ukraine about drone technology and the future of warfare
• Meta Is Launching An Easy Button For CAPI
• Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat
• Ad Tech’s Bielefeld Problem: What If None of It Is Real?
• Someone Filed a Bogus DMCA Notice to Kill a Story About A Sketchy SEO Firm. It Worked — Briefly.
• https://www.kqed.org/news/12079887/what-is-the-point-of-californias-privacy-laws-if-big-tech-ignores-them
• In the face of rampant AI, is ‘data poisoning’ a new form of civil disobedience?
• WebXRay Audit Finds Opt-Out Tracking Requests Are Not Honoured
• Cookies, Whether You Want Them Or Not; Feeding The ‘Industry Plants’
• For Google Advertisers Who Overpaid The Monopoly – Don’t Hate, Arbitrate
• The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Work
• Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit
• https://united24media.com/latest-news/for-the-first-time-ukrainian-unmanned-systems-capture-russian-position-without-infantry-or-losses-17874
• The new rules for AI-assisted code in the Linux kernel: What every dev needs to know
• Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable
• https://www.airandspaceforces.com/drone-incursions-b-52-base-strategic-installations/
• How Austin’s stunning drop in rents explains housing in America
• Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
• https://www.seismic.org/blog/we-ve-seen-this-movie-before-what-history-tells-us-about-ai-s-%E2%80%98inevitability%E2%80%99-argument
• Let’s talk about LLMs
• You can absolutely have an RSS dependent website in 2026
• Nowhere Is Safe
• The Evolution of Deception: When Scams Stop Looking Like Scams
• Why Privacy Compliance Won't Save Us
• Three reasons to think that the Claude Mythos announcement from Anthropic was overblown
• EFF is Leaving X
• The Case Against Social Media: Seven Lines of Evidence
• https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FTC-2023-0047-0066
• France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
• Vulnerability research is cooked
• Here’s my favorite story so far this week
• [$] A flood of useful security reports
• https://bexelbie.com/2026/04/01/whats-in-a-sashiko-review
• ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AI
• April 8, 2026
• Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
• https://vsquare.org/orban-spying-toolkit-cobwebs-webloc-hungary-spyware-citizen-lab/
• What should we take from Anthropic’s (possibly) terrifying new report on Mythos?
• Consumer electronics are innovative but lack imagination
• Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
• https://reversemediaschedules.com/
• College Students Losing Ability to Participate in Class Discussions Because Due to Offloading Their Thinking to AI
• What’s Actually in a Sashiko Review?
• Anthropic's Restraint Is a Terrifying Warning Sign
• https://www.zdnet.com/article/maybe-open-source-needs-ai/
• AMD AI director says Claude Code is becoming dumber and lazier since update
• https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/server-side-tracking-to-shape-future-of-pixel-privacy-litigation
• Why Geo RCTs Beat User-Level Tests for Ad Sales Measurement
• Fox is the latest to add prediction markets as a new ‘data layer’ for news coverage
• Introducing headers.dev
• Why Is the New York Times Laundering the Reputation of a Sleazy AI Startup That’s Selling GLP-1s via a Dishonest Dumpster Fire of Fake Doctors, Phony Before-and-After Pictures, a Warning From the FDA, and Other Glaring Red Flags?
• Trump Is Putting America’s Weaknesses on Display
• Hackers breached the European Commission by poisoning the security tool it used to protect itself
• [$] Sharing stories on Scuttlebutt
• Dawn’s refill jug got an ergonomic makeover
• It's open season for refusing AI
• What Regulators Talk About When They Talk About Ad Tech
• Why We’re Removing Our Programmatic Ads
• https://www.zdnet.com/article/investment-scam-paid-social-media-ads/
• The invisible problem
• Introduction - What is BrowserGate?
• Alameda’s ICE Response
• Philippines accelerates grid entry for 1.28 GW of solar
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/06/opus-dei-gareth-gore-pope-leo
• The back story behind the first “$1.8 Billion” dollar “AI Company”
• The Nail Test: Why this $54 billion innovation is terrifying Western auto executives
• Meta freezes AI data work after breach puts training secrets at risk
• Embattled startup Delve has ‘parted ways’ with Y Combinator
• https://createsend.com/t/d-E2683A4BF592FC2F2540EF23F30FEDED
• Go Ahead and Use AI. It Will Only Help Me Dominate You.
• What does Open Source mean?
• NOISE COMPLAINT: How Data Tracking Technology Must Be Shown
• Newsmedia is the original everything app
• Trump ignores biggest reasons his AI data center buildout is failing
• https://www.webpronews.com/polymarkets-social-feed-experiment-is-turning-a-prediction-market-into-a-misinformation-machine/
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140673626004642
• The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
• Microsoft-Owned LinkedIn Allegedly Fingerprints Visitors and Scans Installed Chrome Extensions
• https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/03/what-number-of-uk-users-constitutes-a-significant-number-for-the-purposes-of-the-online-safety-act-2023/
• https://bobsullivan.net/cybercrime/gas-station-hero-stops-crypto-kiosk-scams-again-and-again/
• WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG? (IT NEVER STOPS)
• Cooking Barbacoa... and the Dog in the Ad
• Life Altering Postgresql Patterns
• Australia says Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube are not complying with its child social media ban. Court action may follow.
• Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
• https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
• Iran’s Revolutionary Guards just named 18 US tech firms as military targets. The age of the civilian data centre is over.
• How the Silicon Valley sneaker that was once worth $4 billion ended up selling for $39M
• Publish And Be Damned
• https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-psychosis-sycophancy-rlhf/
• https://taikundigital.com/blog/google-is-robbing-you/
• How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cost-testing-vs-being-wrong-rick-bruner-gewce/
• The Myth of the Unwanted Internet
• Why Have Most Advertisers Suffered From Slow Brand Growth Rates Since 2009? Ten Major Reasons
• Zuck Says AI Will Make Advertising So Good Its Share of GDP Will Grow. Is That Really Possible?
• Judge throws out Musk’s advertising boycott lawsuit against X’s former sponsors
• Nonprofit news outlets had a strong traffic month in January
• 'Opening up air defense market' — Defense Minister Fedorov reports 1st drone shootdown by 'private sector' air defense units
• https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enjoy-c-1819576375/
• Shopper AIs are here. Who do you advertise to when humans don't shop any more?
• https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/03/new-ftc-data-show-big-jump-reported-losses-fraud-125-billion-2024
• Solar is winning the energy race
• Russia was expecting a windfall from soaring oil prices, but relentless Ukrainian drone attacks are devastating nearly half its export capacity
• Ukraine Seals Billion-Dollar Defense Partnerships with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE
• Third Drone Attack in a Week Hits Ust-Luga Oil Terminal
• Supreme Court rejects Sony's attempt to kick music pirates off the Internet
• Pussy Riot Activists Occupy Ubiquiti Headquarters, Which Supplies 80% of Radio Links for Russian Army
• AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar
• Trump says UK’s aircraft carriers are just ‘toys’, repeating complaint about lack of support for US in Iran – UK politics live
• [$] The many failures leading to the LiteLLM compromise
• The SEO parasites buying, exploiting and ultimately killing online newsbrands
• Jury finds Meta and YouTube built ‘addiction machines’ that harmed a child, awards $3 million in landmark trial
• AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec
• A Different Perspective on the ‘Design Choices’ Social Media Company Verdicts
• No § 230 Immunity for Meta's AI-Generated Ads
• https://uk.themedialeader.com/are-we-monetising-addiction-ad-industry-faces-reckoning-following-social-media-addiction-lawsuit-verdict/
• Elon Musk loses big in court; X boycott perfectly legal
• The coming compute war in Ukraine
• Judge Tosses Musk's WFA Ad Boycott Suit
• ‘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
• 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
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• Valve Is Quietly Building a Container to Run Steam on Linux — and It Could Change Everything About Desktop Gaming
• Lina Khan was right
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• 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/
• If the UK’s online advertising can’t police itself, who will?
• 'Gamblers on POLYMARKET vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite Iran missile story'...
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• 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
• 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.
• What’s your attention worth?
• 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
• 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.