Welcome to the Age of Paid Social Media (gizmodo.com)
YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead (fortune.com)
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Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect (www.economist.com)
Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect::undefined
Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard (www.theregister.com)
Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard::US govt confirms outage, leaves feline in a quantum state of uncertainty
Google Indexing Bard Conversations In Search Results (www.searchenginejournal.com)
Google is coming under scrutiny after people discovered transcripts of conversations with its AI chatbot are being indexed in search results....
In a leaked memo, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke put limits on employees having side hustles, saying Shopify requires 'unshared attention' (www.businessinsider.com)
In a leaked memo, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke put limits on employees having side hustles, saying Shopify requires ‘unshared attention’::Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke discourages employees from side hustles in company memo, saying their jobs require their undivided attention.
HyperTech News Report #0003 - Expanding Horizons
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Ad-free Facebook, Instagram access planned for $14 per month in Europe (arstechnica.com)
Murena Two will have a a kill switch to prevent snooping (murena.com)
Murena is launching a smartphone with physical switches to turn off the camera, microphone and network.
Elon Musk's Twitter stock purchases under probe by SEC (www.reuters.com)
Elon Musk’s Twitter stock purchases under probe by SEC::Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is being sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which is trying to compel him to testify as part of a probe into his $44 billion takeover of social media giant Twitter, a Thursday court filing showed.
Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices — A new report details Amazon’s Project Nessie pricing algorithm (www.theverge.com)
Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices — A new report details Amazon’s Project Nessie pricing algorithm::Amazon deployed a secret algorithm to gauge how high it could raise prices before its competitors stopped increasing their prices as well.
Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users (www.ghacks.net)
How authoritarian governments are using generative AI (www.platformer.news)
A new report finds at least 16 countries using synthetic media to mislead their citizens — and the number is growing fast
Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025 (www.theregister.com)
PayPal sued in US consumer case over 'industry-high' transaction fees (www.reuters.com)
Ecosia adds Microsoft Clarity and optional Google search results and advertising (www.ecosia.org)
Ecosia adds “contractually forced” Microsoft Clarity tracking (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/…/about-clarity | privacy faq : learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/faq#privacy), which will record the behaviour of users on the website. Recording clics, size, and more....
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You can’t get rid of it, you can only hide it: Microsoft imposes controversial Windows Backup on users (gadgettendency.com)
You can’t get rid of it, you can only hide it: Microsoft imposes controversial Windows Backup on users::Like it or not, the Windows Backup app installed in Windows 10 and Windows 11 is here to stay, with Microsoft calling it a “system component” that can’t be
How TikTok profits off dangerous health trends (www.vox.com)
Google Intros Chromebook Plus Devices With More Power, Apps and AI for $399 (www.cnet.com)
The new Plus category of Chromebooks is an assurance that you’ll get a higher level of performance and features but still at a reasonable starting price....
The Google Pixel 8 is official with 7 years of updates (arstechnica.com)
How To Turn Off Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” Ad Tracking—and Why You Should (www.eff.org)
Google did it again.
Xiaomi's MIUI now flags Telegram as dangerous in China (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Zero-days for hacking WhatsApp are now worth millions of dollars (techcrunch.com)
TikTok ran a deepfake ad of an AI MrBeast hawking iPhones for $2 — and it's the 'tip of the iceberg' (www.businessinsider.com)
TikTok ran a deepfake ad of an AI MrBeast hawking iPhones for $2 — and it’s the ‘tip of the iceberg’::As AI spreads, it brings new challenges for influencers like MrBeast and platforms like TikTok aiming to police unauthorized advertising.
