Google's New Web Environment Integrity Proposal Dismissed by Brave, Mozilla, and Vivaldi (news.itsfoss.com)
France’s browser-based website blocking proposal sets a disastrous precedent for the open internet (blog.mozilla.org)
In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list. Such a move...
‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models (www.theguardian.com)
Employees say they weren’t adequately warned about the brutality of some of the text and images they would be tasked with reviewing, and were offered no or inadequate psychological support. Workers were paid between $1.46 and $3.74 an hour, according to a Sama spokesperson.
Alphabet illegally ended contract employment for Google staffers as they tried to unionize, organizers say in a complaint to US labor board (www.business-standard.com)
Wikipedia Fighting Overseas SLAPP Suit Because Someone Didn’t Like The Factual Info Posted About Them (www.techdirt.com)
The case started in August 2021 with a complaint that de Paço was upset about the Portuguese and English language versions of the articles about him. The first judicial pass went well. But that’s where the good news ends. The next level of Portugal’s court system decided the lower court was wrong about everything, which...
PRQL — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement (prql-lang.org)
With our own image and video search, Brave Search now offers comprehensive independent results, giving users a fully-fledged, privacy-preserving choice outside of Big Tech (brave.com)
archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet (gyrovague.com)
Comcast, Centurylink Fail To Derail Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Network In Bountiful, Utah (www.techdirt.com)
The city of Bountiful, Utah voted to build a $48 million fiber network to provide affordable gigabit broadband for its residents and businesses. Regional internet providers Comcast and CenturyLink opposed the plan and tried to force a public vote through a taxpayer group they fund. However, communities often build their own...
Apple removes Russian-language news podcast produced by Meduza, an independent media outlet, from Apple Podcasts (meduza.io)
Earlier this summer, the Russian state censorship authority had asked Apple to block the show, Meduza says on its website. According to the outlet, Apple didn’t provide any explanation.
Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users (gizmodo.com)
“Absurd”: Google, Amazon rebuked over unsupported Chromebooks still for sale (arstechnica.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/vNSJa
AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay (www.theregister.com)
Cloud giant AWS will start charging customers for public IPv4 addresses from next year, claiming it is forced to do this because of the increasing scarcity of these and to encourage the use of IPv6 instead....
How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk (US-specific) (www.platformer.news)
Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang in the balance...
Google is working on essentially putting DRM on the web (github.com)
The much maligned “Trusted Computing” idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is DEFINITELY NOT worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google’s ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google’s...
Google’s Web Environment Integrity project raises a lot of concerns (siliconangle.com)
How Chinese surveillance methods are going global [Tutanota blog] (tutanota.com)
Authoritarian countries - but also democracies - use surveillance technology from China.
“AI” Hurts Consumers and Workers -- and Isn’t Intelligent (techpolicy.press)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2811405...
X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his @music account (arstechnica.com)
Archived version: archive.li/Yg8r8...
AI Weirdness: Baby onesie designs (www.aiweirdness.com)
4 Big Positive Changes coming to Google Search – including removing Private Info and Images from Search (beehaw.org)
Google has announced several key changes to make its search platform safer for users by giving more control to South Africans (and other countries) over what personal information appears in results....
'According-to Prompting' Language Models Improves Quoting from Pre-Training Data (arxiv.org)
Large Language Models (LLMs) may hallucinate and generate fake information, despite pre-training on factual data. Inspired by the journalistic device of “according to sources”, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in the U.S. propose ‘according-to prompting’: directing LLMs to ground responses against previously...
The LK-99 “superconductor” went viral — here’s what the experts think (www.theverge.com)
LK-99 has been touted as a potential room-temperature superconductor that could revolutionize fields like energy and transportation. However, many experts are skeptical as the initial research papers have not been peer-reviewed and contain inconsistencies and imprecisions. Early attempts to replicate LK-99 have had mixed...
Pixel Binary Transparency: verifiable security for Pixel devices - Google Security Blog (security.googleblog.com)
cross-posted from !googlepixel !android...