This week's net.wars, "Remediating monopoly", ponders the future of AI versus search envisaged by the judge in the (first) Google case: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/09/05/remediating-monopoly/
#NetWars #Google #Monopoly #Antitrust
A growing number of young consumers are turning to analog and single-purpose devices like cyberdecks and e-readers as a form of resistance to AI-first platforms and increasingly automated digital systems. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/15/world/gen-z-tech-trend-anti-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #analogartificialintelligence #ai #cyberdeck #alphabet #google #ebay #siliconvalley #microsoft #siliconvalley #genz
Good morning to everyone who says “searching” and not “googling”. 🤝
I have to admit we do have great food for lunch at work.. most of the time...
Cuban sandwich with Yucca fries
English Sunday roast, mashed potatoes (under the veggies stew)
***** WARNING REGARDING GOOGLE/ALPHABET *****
#Google (#Alphabet) is reinstating the worst of #YouTube creators who were "permanently" banned for COVID-19 and election integrity misinformation. Alphabet is now saying "Biden made them do the bans."
Clearly, billionaire CEO Sundar -- who we've seen palling around with Trump of course -- has gone full MAGA. Google is purposely conflating -- that is, purposely confusing -- necessary moderation to protect people and elections from masses of misinformation designed to mislead them, often in devastating ways -- from censorship created to suppress specific valid points of view.
There is an enormous difference -- Sundar and his Alphabet minions know this full well. They also know that their Gemini AI is a source of often dangerous misinformation on a planetary scale, and it's likely this has also entered into their recently (in a letter to Congress) announced changes.
Given Google's enthusiastic embrace of MAGA, I do not consider my past statements applauding the security and privacy of user information at Google to be reliable guidance moving forward from now. I have no confidence that Sundar would not quickly (or ultimately) agree to virtually any demands made by the Trump administration, however invasive or illegal they might actually be.
I do not have specific recommendations for alternatives to Google or their services, so please don't ask me for them! But I do recommend keeping the obvious shift in Google's behavior in mind, and you would be wise to assume that they are fully and completely in bed with fascist Trump in many ways -- or soon will be -- absent clear and convincing evidence to the contrary.
If Google/Alphabet wishes to discuss any of this with me and point out any errors in my analysis, they know my email address.
Take care, all.
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🚨 Google is now asking you to grant camera access and show your hands to prove you're a human?!
--> I am not a robot tests have officially gone to far.
Just when you think the Big Tech can't get more privacy-invading, it does! 🫣
AI slop is threatening journalism by churning out clickbaity versions of original stories, capturing web traffic, and destroying readers' trust in media. NiemanLab's Ben Paviour takes a look at how it's proliferating, with the help of Google.
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Slop #Journalism #Media #MediaIndustry #Google #Technology #Tech
Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project'
The F-Droid project, which distributes open source apps for Android, will end if Google goes ahead with its plans to enforce developer registration for app installation, according to the project's board member Marc Prud'hommeaux.
Last month, Google said that from next year, but with a gradual rollout, Android certified devices will only install apps that are registered by verified developers, even when sideloaded, meaning that they are installed from a source other than the official Play store.
Users should have the right to run whatever software they want on a computer they own, Prud'hommeaux said.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/googles_dev_registration_plan_will/
Another #media group capitulates to the #tyrant
#YouTube Settles #Trump Lawsuit for $24.5 Million
Trump sued #Alphabet, the parent company of YouTube & #Google, & other #socialmedia companies after the platforms suspended his accounts in 2021.
#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/technology/youtube-trump-lawsuit-settlement.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Google só poupa empresas na verificação de apps e pouco se importa com usuários
Segundo o site OS News, os planos do Google são tão terríveis quanto se imaginava.
Os desenvolvedores terão que pagar para enviar os dados pessoais para o Google antes que possam ter o app instalado em celulares Android.
A nova exigência é completamente incompatível com o funcionamento da F-Droid.
Somente estudantes e hobistas estão livres das taxas, mas ainda precisam entregar dados e terão enormes burocracias e restrições na distribuição dos apps.
O Google ainda jura que não vai compartilhar os dados com governos, mas essa é só mais uma mentira em tudo o que diz a respeito das novas imposições.
Só empresas receberão colher de chá, com o Google terceirizando os cuidados com a "segurança" para o time de TI delas.
Precisamos fazer barulho antes que seja tarde demais porque nem os EUA e nem a falsa fada sensata União Europeia vão fazer algo a respeito.
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US Supreme Court allows order forcing #Google to make #app store reforms
#SCOTUS declined on Monday to halt key parts of a judge's order requiring #Alphabet's Google to make major changes to its app store Play, as the company prepares to appeal a decision in a lawsuit brought by "Fortnite" maker #EpicGames.
#law #tech
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-supreme-court-allows-order-forcing-google-make-app-store-reforms-2025-10-06/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Google plan to limit ad-blockers kicks off next week.
If only there were a way we could fire Chrome so we could out-fox Google's plan 🤔
#BigTech Helped Bankroll the #EastWing Destruction
#Meta, #Amazon, #Microsoft, #Apple, & #Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the #Trump admin. They all cut checks for the ballroom.
#TechBros #plutocracy #billionaires #corporations #corruption #bribery #extortion #law #antitrust #regulations #AI #energy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/white-house-east-wing-destruction-google-meta-apple-microsoft-amazone/
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⚠️🇺🇸Google becomes alt-right fascist’s largest advertiser: Orban's party becomes Google's biggest advertiser in EU (more) https://kyivindependent.com/orbans-party-biggest-spenders-of-google-advertising-in-eu/ #Ukraine #Press #USA #UnitedStates #Google #EU #EuropeanUnion #News #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#EUVote #SaveEUfromFarRight
#NoUSRepublicans2024
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So I went to F-Droid and attempted to download the public transport plugin for Kvaesitso.
And I got a Google Play Protect popup message warning "harmful app detected".
It gave no further details about why this app is harmful.
Does anyone know if this app is harmful? If so how?
Or is this Google being a monopolist and blocking competing open source apps?
#Google #Android #AskFedi #FDroid #GooglePlay #degooglization #degoogleyourlife #Kvaesitso #infosec
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Remember? "Sideloading" is here to stay, and won't go away, they said? Don't be afraid, they said? Something something "we heard you"? Suuuure! Who would ever doubt it!
Attached the copy of a mail developers with apps in the PlayStore CURRENTLY receive. Please, read the text in the red box carefully:
"Apps not registered by September 2026 WILL NO LONGER BE INSTALLABLE ON CERTIFIED ANDROID DEVICES in select countries."
See an exception there? I don't.
JesusGPT…
Former CEO of Intel Building Special AI to Bring About Second Coming of Christ
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/former-ceo-intel-ai-christ
#religion #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #tech #technology #BigTech #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #OpenAI #ChatGPT
pensando o que deu na cabeça das pessoas que ditam o rumo de empresas como o #google
visto que é uma empresa que já teve "don't be evil" como lema.
hoje em especial to incomodado com respostas de IA acima dos resultados de pesquisa, tradução automática forçada de páginas, tradução de áudio forçada de vídeos no YouTube.
na real eles só não fazem um absurdo estilo #recall da #microsoft porque não tem um OS de desktop tão popular quanto o windows.
parece que essas empresas entraram, coletivamente, em uma fase "que se foda o cliente, nos importamos ainda menos do que antes".
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🇮🇷 #Iran Just Named 💩 #Google, 💩 #Microsoft and 💩 #Nvidia, 💩 #Palantir, 💩 #Amazon and 💩 #Oracle as Its #NEXT #TARGETS.
.. Basically a Shitfest!
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🇮🇷 #Iran has reportedly expanded the scope of the ongoing #Middle_East conflict by naming major US technology companies as potential targets. According to reports citing Iran’s IRGC-linked Tasnim News Agency, offices and infrastructure connected to companies such as Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Oracle, and Palantir have been described as “new targets” as the conflict moves toward what analysts call infrastructure warfare.
These companies operate critical cloud computing infrastructure, data centers, and regional headquarters across Israel and several Gulf countries. Iranian officials claim that technologies developed by these firms have been used in military and intelligence operations supporting Israel and the United States.
The warning comes as tensions escalate across the Middle East, with infrastructure, financial institutions, and economic centers increasingly being mentioned as potential targets. Analysts say that if technology infrastructure becomes part of the conflict, the economic and geopolitical consequences could extend far beyond the battlefield.
In this video we explain:
• Why Iran named major tech companies as targets
• How cloud infrastructure and data centers became part of modern warfare
• The role of companies like Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia in global military technology
• What this could mean for the future of cyber and infrastructure conflict.
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🚨 World's first social media ban begins: Australian & under‑16? Your social media account is now locked. 🚨
What's next? From Dec 27 #AgeVerification checks for search engines like #Google.
BUT - Once your data is in the system, what's stopping it from being used for surveillance?
And what happened to #Privacy? 🧐
YouTube already has it ➡️ https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-youtube-ai-age-verification
I spent 15 mins vibe coding with Google Gemini and made my first chrome extension showing train arrivals at Kendall/MIT......
And I still don't know anything about JavaScript... All I know is cars with the number greater or equal than 1900 are new ones...
#LLM #AI #VibeCoding #MBTA #Google #GoogleGemini
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