Google’s new Topics API makes users vulnerable to fingerprinting attacks (www.theregister.com)
Google has stated it plans to address developers’ concerns by “making web publishers promise not to abuse the API”....
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AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, U.S. Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
The difference between the two security features is that Safe Browsing will compare a visited site to a locally stored list of domains, compared to Enhanced Safe Browser, which will check if a site is malicious in real-time against Google’s cloud services....
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)
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FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (www.eff.org)
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YouTube test threatens to block viewers if they continue using ad blockers | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
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Apple’s iMessage is not a “core platform” in EU, so it can stay walled off (arstechnica.com)
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HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers (www.techspot.com)
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States sue Meta claiming its social platforms are addictive and harm children's mental health (apnews.com)
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Spotify Premium Will Include Instant Access to 150,000+ Audiobooks (UK/AUS tomorrow, US to follow) (newsroom.spotify.com)
cross-posted from !android
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The Man Amazon Erased (www.tabletmag.com)
A man who got kicked off a service because of an alleged remark.
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ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is. (www.eff.org)
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Sites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emerge (arstechnica.com)
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News Corp profits dive 75% as Rupert Murdoch-owned company hints at AI future (www.theguardian.com)
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Weawow is a free and ad-free weather service with 4.9 ratings, choice of weather service, and highly customisable widgets (beehaw.org)
I rediscovered this weather app again (for Android and iOS) and am quite amazed that it now has a 4.9 out of 5 rating on the Google app store, and 5m+ downloads just on Android....
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A Quick Look into Microsoft’s New Default Font (jdsalaro.com)
Hey Folks!...
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Google reminds us that Google Chat can be used with friends and family (9to5google.com)
tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo's) successor, google chat.
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Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue (www.404media.co)
“You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness.”
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Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers (www.cnn.com)
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Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)
Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...
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‘We definitely messed up’: why did Google AI tool make offensive historical images? (www.theguardian.com)
Brin’s “We definitely messed up.”, at an AI “hackathon” event on 2 March, followed a slew of social media posts showing Gemini’s image generation tool depicting a variety of historical figures – including popes, founding fathers of the US and, most excruciatingly, German second world war soldiers – as people of...
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Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead (arstechnica.com)
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Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud (arstechnica.com)
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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers (www.engadget.com)
From the article: “In some ways, the current situation has spurred an arms race. YouTube has inadvertently improved ad blockers, as the new knowledge and techniques gained from innovating within the YouTube platform are also applicable to other ad and tracking systems.”
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