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Short of donning a tin-foil hat and going to live in the woods, it's practically impossible to completely isolate yourself from all vulnerability to data snoopers. However, there are some practical steps that anyone can take to improve things.
Google Reader was supposed to be much more than a tool for nerds. But it never got the chance.
A drone flies over a peaceful Southern California marsh and unleashes a rain of larvae-killing bacterial spore pellets. Its target: a surging population of mosquitoes that can spread diseases to humans.
What's going on?
YouTube is currently running what it describes as a "small experiment globally," warning users to toggle off their ad blockers and avoid being limited to only three video views.
Meta is planning to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads. They plan to take advantage of new regulation in the EU called the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which will force Apple and Google to open up their mobile platforms to alternative methods of downloading apps.
Everything worked fine until Elon Musk took over.
The third party API changes come into effect tomorrow (1/7/2023) so now's a good time to either purge or edit your existing content....
Meet Byju Raveendran's entrepreneur-wife, Divya Gokulnath, who is one of India's richest businesswomen with an estimated net worth of Rs. 4,550 crores. Here's her inspirational journey.
Valve cites unclear legal status, copyrighted training data in rejection message.
Welcome to the FOSAI Nexus!...
February 13, 2012...
Amazon to be accused of punishing sellers who don't use its fulfillment services.
Federal regulators are fighting Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of the video game powerhouse Activision Blizzard.
Lina Khan, the F.T.C. chair who is the architect of the lawsuit, and the growing campaign to finally rein in big tech.
Researchers have discovered the first programmable RNA-guided system discovered in eukaryotes. The technology, known as Fanzor, has the potential to be more easily delivered to cells and tissues than CRISPR-Cas systems, and further refinements could make them a valuable new technology for human genome editing.
https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb
Project Iris said to be scrapped as Google focuses on AR software.
“The former NBCUniversal advertising head, who started as chief executive on June 5, is seeking to launch full-screen, sound-on video ads that would be shown to users scrolling through Twitter’s new short-video feed, according to three people familiar with the situation.”...
Google has quietly deprecated the Messages and Dialer apps in AOSP, and it could have ramifications for upstart brands and custom ROM fans.
It looks like Google are pushing pretty hard on AdBlockers now. Looks like a pretty aggressive new UI from them....
A recent study on OpenAI's GPT-3 shows the potential risks and benefits of AI in generating and disseminating (dis)information....
Recently I found this developer who has published dozens of small, useful extensions for firefox. Nothing groundbreaking that I know of but everything looks to have been made with care to efficiency and minimal permissions to do one thing well. Each has its own github repo where the developer responds to issues....
Quantum computing could revolutionize our world. For specific and crucial tasks, it promises to be exponentially faster than the zero-or-one binary technology that underlies today's machines, from supercomputers in laboratories to smartphones in our pockets. But developing quantum computers hinges on building a stable network of...
Apple has joined the growing number of organizations opposed to the UK's pending Online Safety Bill, saying the proposed law threatens the end-to-end encryption that protects private messages....