Google Decides To Pull Up The Ladder On The Open Internet, Pushes For Unconstitutional Regulatory Proposals (www.techdirt.com)
Amazon claims it isn’t a “Very Large Online Platform” to evade EU rules (arstechnica.com)
That mom-and-pop Seattle operation just can’t catch a break.
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....
Elon Musk’s ‘fund your legal bill’ tweet is a brand new level of bullshit (www.theverge.com)
Sorry, another news from this asshole, but this is too much assholery to don’t be shared...
X is suing a nonprofit group in US federal court over reports that hate speech has flourished at the platform formerly known as Twitter (techxplore.com)
Signal tests usernames so you can avoid sharing your phone number (www.theverge.com)
‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense (www.forbes.com)
A website called zleague.gg has been scraping Reddit threads, feeding them into an AI and publishing auto-generated summaries without proper oversight. World of Warcraft players on Reddit noticed this and created a fake thread about a made-up feature called Glorbo to trick the AI. The AI then published an article summarizing the...
AI-powered news sites are dumb and Redditors managed to trick them (www.gamingonlinux.com)
This is the humanless future, hurray!
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk admits X 'may fail, as so many have predicted' (www.businessinsider.com)
Unpatchable AMD Chip Flaw Unlocks Paid Tesla Feature Upgrades (www.tomshardware.com)
Original source: www.blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/…/index.html#jai…
Tesla warns that a federal probe into whether it exaggerated the range of its cars may lead to a 'material adverse impact on our business' (fortune.com)
Does Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (jarv.is)
tl;dr: No. Quite the opposite, actually — Archive.is’s owner is intentionally blocking 1.1.1.1 users....
Elon Musk railed against shadow bans—now he’s using them on his critics (www.dailydot.com)
Mastodon Is the Good One (www.404media.co)
Firefox tests a built-in checker for fake reviews (www.theverge.com)
Evernote Lays Off Most of Staff, Triggering Fears of Closure (www.thurrott.com)
Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix (matrix.org)
Highlights include Sliding Sync (instant login/launch/sync), Native OIDC (industry-standard authentication), Native Group VoIP (end-to-end encrypted large-scale voice & video conferencing) and Faster Joins (lazy-loading room state when your server joins a room).
Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible (niemanreports.org)
Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent (www.ghacks.net)
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First Google Search Result for Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” Is AI Generated Selfie (www.404media.co)
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do (www.vox.com)
Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data (arstechnica.com)
Twitter is now X (www.twitter.com)
Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem (www.theverge.com)
Mastodon, an alternative social network to Twitter, has a serious problem with child sexual abuse material according to researchers from Stanford University. In just two days, researchers found over 100 instances of known CSAM across over 325,000 posts on Mastodon. The researchers found hundreds of posts containing CSAM related...
