Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same (www.bbc.com)
Elections in India: Fighting for votes in 'the world's biggest data mine' (www.bbc.com)
India’s combination of high smartphone take-up and lax regulations mean that most political parties have gathered “the data to do everything”...
Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to Share Customer Data, Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts, Leaked Contract Shows (www.404media.co)
The contract requires repair shops to “immediately disassemble” devices that have parts “not purchased from Samsung.”
The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
I found this article a bit too elaborate and digressive, but it has a lot of content and sourcing....
HouseFresh disappeared from Google Search results. Now what? - An elaborate historical analysis and overview of Google search results and media landscape (housefresh.com)
From Forbes and Money content farms, to Google search algorithm changes promoting generic and generated content and big media platforms over specific results, to Google prioritizing ads, overpriced, and other worse results.
China is eager to show the world that it can lead in generative AI technology. But one of its first challenges is chillingly unique - how to make its chat bots speak like the Communist Party. (chinamediaproject.org)
China is determined not just that it won’t be left behind, but that it will lead the generative AI trends of the future. But this comes with substantial political risk for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership....
The Birth, Boom and Bust of the Hard Disk Drive (www.youtube.com)
Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue (www.404media.co)
“You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness.”
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good (arstechnica.com)
Rabbit Gaslit Me, So I Dug Deeper | Coffeezilla (yt.elonego.com)
Is the LAM a Scam? Down the rabbit hole we go
China will reportedly install cameras with a facial recognition system in Hungary (polishnews.co.uk)
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Sony Teases Futuristic Phones and PlayStation Controllers for the Coming Years - Yanko Design (www.yankodesign.com)
Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has (arstechnica.com)
Was wondering what the hell was going on this morning.
New frontier, old tactics: Chinese espionage group targets African and Caribbean governments (thehackernews.com)
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Hacker Breaches Scam Call Center, Warns Victims They've Been Scammed (www.404media.co)
Electricity grids creak as AI demands soar (www.bbc.com)
Here is the study: Power Hungry Processing: Watts Driving the Cost of AI Deployment?...
ASML and TSMC Can Remotely Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan (www.bloomberg.com)
ASML Holding NV and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have ways to disable the world’s most sophisticated chipmaking machines in the event that China invades Taiwan, according to people familiar with the matter....
A Primer on Mastodon's New Board Members (wedistribute.org)
AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside (www.wired.com)
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Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU. (mullvad.net)
Under the slogan ‘Think of the children’, the European Commission tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens. When the scandal was revealed, it turned out that American tech companies and security services had been involved in the bill, generally known as ‘Chat Control’ – and that the whole thing had been...
Chinese, Iranian, and Russian cyberattacks against water utilities across the U.S. becoming more frequent and more severe, officials say (fortune.com)
- Attacks against water provider’s websites aren’t new, but now attackers are increasingly targeting utilities’ operations...
Car makers BMW, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Volkswagen (VW) used parts made by supplier with links to Chinese forced labour, U.S. probe says (www.bbc.com)
BMW, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Volkswagen (VW) used parts made by a supplier on a list of firms banned over alleged links to Chinese forced labour, a US congressional report has said....
Facebook and Instagram parent Meta approved political ads in India that incited violence (www.theguardian.com)
- Adverts containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groups***- Adverts contained known slurs towards Muslims in India, such as “let’s burn this vermin” and “Hindu blood is spilling, these invaders must be burned”***- One advert called for the execution of an...
YouTube reportedly blocks anti-war videos in Russia at the Kremlin’s request (www.themoscowtimes.com)
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