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Advertising and the Future of the Web
- Google Loses Big Antitrust Fight, Which Will Mean What, Exactly?
- Breaking up Google would offer a chance to remodel the web
- Advertising Cartel that Allegedly Conspired to Withhold Digital Advertising Revenue
- The Global Alliance for Responsible Media is ‘discontinuing’ after Elon Musk’s X filed an antitrust lawsuit against it
- Firefox’s new Web Site Advertising Preferences are a dark pattern and the idea of private personalised ads is nonsense anyway
- Forget Apple, the biggest loser in the Google search ruling could be Mozilla and its Firefox web browser
AI SUCKS
- 77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds
- Survey says AI is more buzzkill than buzzword for marketing
- Apple signs the White House’s commitment to AI safety
- AI Safety is a scam
Crowdstrike Outage fallout
- Root Cause Analysis
- Crowdstrike: Delta Air Lines refused free help to resolve IT outage
- Microsoft hits back at Delta — says airline refused help following CrowdStrike outage, and even ignored an email from Satya Nadella himself
- CrowdStrike sued by investors over massive global IT outage
- Let’s not celebrate CrowdStrike – let’s point to a better way
Solutions Roundup
- Linux for UX Designers - What I learned after a year of doing design work on Linux
- Cosmic - Launch page
- Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS First Alpha With COSMIC Desktop Is Released
- COSMIC Team Interview: Building Your Own User Experience
- Street Level Surveillance
- Brain Made
- Furi Labs FLX1 Linux Phone first impressions
After the Break:
Tech Troubles
- Design flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out
- DOJ sues TikTok, alleging “massive-scale invasions of children’s privacy”
- Bumble and Hinge allowed stalkers to pinpoint users’ locations down to 2 meters, researchers say
- Ecovacs home robots can be hacked to spy on their owners, researchers say
- This 3D printed laser chip-hacking device uses a $20 laser pointer, costs $500 to build, and was developed so that ‘people can do this in their homes’
Control Grid Updates
- Z-Library: More Domains Seized Than Any Other Pirate Site in History
- Banks Find AML “Ineffective”, Propose Access To Social Media
- Gold rush for data: Paris 2024 Olympic apps are eavesdropping on users
- Palantir and Microsoft Partner to Deliver Enhanced Analytics and AI Services to Classified Networks for Critical National Security Operations
- As unrest fueled by disinformation spreads, the UK may seek stronger power to regulate tech platforms
Dunking on Bitcoin
- Snowden’s Warning to Bitcoiners…and everyone
- The problems with Bitcoin are cultural.
- Bitcoin and Network Effects: A myth?
Fine Details:
- Hackers can wirelessly watch your display via HDMI radiation
- What Comes Next is Nothing: FOSS, subculture and platform collapse
- 404 Media Interviews Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors & AI
- Russia blocks Signal for ‘violating’ anti-terrorism laws
- What Does It Mean To Be A Signal Competitor?
