Your website can now opt out of training Google's Bard and future AIs (techcrunch.com)
Apple asks US Supreme Court to strike down Epic Games order (www.reuters.com)
Apple removes app created by Andrew Tate (www.theguardian.com)
Apple removes app created by Andrew Tate::Legal firm had said Real World Portal encouraged misogyny and there was evidence to suggest it is an illegal pyramid scheme
Europol Sought Unlimited Data Access in Online Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (balkaninsight.com)
According to minutes released under FOI, the European police agency pushed for unfiltered access to data that would be obtained under a proposed new scanning system for detecting child sexual abuse images on messaging apps, with a view, experts say, to training AI algorithms.
The EU says X is the worst platform for disinformation | Just as it removes a way to report election misinformation (www.techspot.com)
The EU says X is the worst platform for disinformation | Just as it removes a way to report election misinformation::undefined
Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O (www.phoronix.com)
Four years after the Raspberry Pi 4 shipped, today the Raspberry Pi 5 is launching with a much improved SoC leading to significant performance gains....
Your Fitbit is useless – unless you consent to unlawful data sharing (noyb.eu)
Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform (techcrunch.com)
Reddit said Wednesday that the platform is revamping its privacy settings with an aim to make ad personalization and account visibility toggles consistent. Most notably though, it is removing the ability to opt out of ad personalization based on Reddit activity....
Germany Will Force 80% of Gas Stations to Install EV Charging, Too (www.thedrive.com)
After USB-C win, EU tells Tim Cook that Apple must 'open up its gates to competitors'. (9to5mac.com)
After USB-C win, EU tells Tim Cook that Apple must ‘open up its gates to competitors’.::The iPhone 15 has USB-C, a move largely due to impending legislation in the European Union requiring smartphones and other…
FTC files “the big one,” a lawsuit alleging Amazon illegally maintains monopoly (arstechnica.com)
FTC files “the big one,” a lawsuit alleging Amazon illegally maintains monopoly::FTC: Amazon “extracts enormous monopoly rents from everyone within its reach.”
Losing subscribers, Disney+ starts fighting password sharing, too (arstechnica.com)
Losing subscribers, Disney+ starts fighting password sharing, too::The enforcement is starting with Canada.
Here’s the Email Amazon Sent Sellers It’s Allegedly Screwing Over After FTC Filed Antitrust Lawsuit (www.vice.com)
FCC details plan to restore the net neutrality rules repealed by Ajit Pai (arstechnica.com)
FCC details plan to restore the net neutrality rules repealed by Ajit Pai::Democrats finally have 3-2 majority needed to regulate ISPs as common carriers.
Bing's chat advertising pushing malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Pornhub goes dark in Arkansas after age verification law kicks in (www.theverge.com)
Pornhub goes dark in Arkansas after age verification law kicks in::Pornhub operator MindGeek has blocked all users in Arkansas from the site after the state’s new age verification law went into effect.
Online Ads Can Infect Your Device with Spyware (www.scientificamerican.com)
An investigative report reveals that new spyware can slip in unseen through online ads—and there is currently no defense against it. So not only that online ads are intrusive and can infect devices through malware, they can also be used for spying.
"Our Wire Mothers" - It's important for us to be careful that our technology does not supplant the human need for socialization. (www.staygrounded.online)
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Oops! Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI (venturebeat.com)
Oops! Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI::Gagan Ghotra observed that Google Search had begun to index shared Bard conversational links into its search results pages, potentially…
ChatGPT users can now browse internet, OpenAI says (www.msn.com)
How to use Stable Diffusion to create AI art on your PC (www.pcworld.com)
A look back at 40 Years of GNU and the Free Software Foundation (www.zdnet.com)
Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music (techcrunch.com)
Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform (techcrunch.com)
Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform::Reddit is removing the ability to opt out of ad personalization based on Reddit activity and adding ability to restrict certain types of ads.
Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets” (arstechnica.com)
Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets”::The modified firmware used by BlackTech is hard to detect.
