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Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI (www.climateaction.org)

The leap in emissions is largely due to energy-guzzling data centers and supply chain emissions necessary to power artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The report estimated that in 2023, Google’s data centers alone account for up to 10% of global data center electricity...

Let's talk about Google Chrome and ads, and getting around Google's ad enforcing tactics (manifestv3)

Google has been blocking adblockers, or atleast trying to for some time now. Notably on Youtube....

AI Is Rewriting Meme History (www.wired.com)

Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch (www.theverge.com)

The FTC is investigating PC manufacturers who scare you away from your right to repair (www.theverge.com)

Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (www.reuters.com)

Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag (techcrunch.com)

Millions of OnlyFans paywalls make it hard to detect child sex abuse, cops say (arstechnica.com)

YouTube’s Rulings on Gaza War Videos Spark Internal Backlash (www.wired.com)

A month after Hamas militants from Gaza attacked an Israeli music festival last October, the Hebrew rap duo Ness & Stilla premiered “HarbuDarbu” on YouTube. The military hype song celebrates Israeli forces waging war in Gaza and has drawn over 25 million views; its critics have termed the song a violent and hateful...

Can somebody please tell Waze I don't care about vehicles parked on the side of the road? Or at least that this is not a fundamental safety issue and should be a toggle on feature?

It’s by far the most occurring alert I receive....

Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor (proton.me)

Threads hits 175 million users after a year (www.theverge.com)

Proton just launched a privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs (www.theverge.com)

Proton Docs is a privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Word, offering similar features and layout....

China’s plastics boom set to create another source of trade tensions as the country's petrochemicals sector keeps expanding despite weaker demand (www.straitstimes.com)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/408358...

Russia using Kaliningrad as a base to disrupt EU satellites, report says (www.cybersecurity-help.cz)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/408016...

AI-powered network of Russia-based websites masquerading as local American newspapers is pumping out fake stories targeting the US election, investigation finds (www.bbc.com)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/405394...

Human Rights Watch urges the European Commission to assess the impact of state-imposed forced labor in China's Xinjiang region in Electric Vehicle sector (www.hrw.org)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/390314...

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