What Went Wrong With Yahoo!?
At the turn of the millennium, Yahoo! was the most visited site on the web. In Web 1.0 terms, Yahoo! was like Google and Facebook combined. So what happened?
AI hallucinations can influence search results and other AI, creating a dangerous feedback loop
Writing disclaimers to ward off machine scrapers doesn't work
Sony rebrands Bravia Core streaming movie service, bringing it to PlayStation for the first time
Sony's streaming movie service lands on PS4 and PS5
In the age of AI disinformation, people remain the biggest challenge
A lot of people will believe what they want
FTC accuses Amazon of manipulating prices using a secret algorithm that made it $1 billion
Part of the Commission's anticompetitive lawsuit against the tech giant
Microsoft Copilot is showing ads in Windows 11 now, too
The AI revolution is here, and it's got custom ads for everyone
Google's new spam rules pushes mass email senders to include an unsubscribe button
There are also new rules regarding authentication and spam limits
Meta thinks it can charge up to $17 per month to eliminate ads on Facebook and Instagram
The move could appease European regulators concerned with data collection practices
Netflix is planning (another) price hike since the last one in early 2022
Ad-free Netflix could cost more soon
A Florida company called "X" is suing Elon Musk's X over trademark infringement
It's unlikely to be the only one
Meta trained its AI assistant using your public Facebook and Instagram posts
Private posts and conversations were excluded
FBI indicts three in insider trading scheme that utilized Xbox 360 chat to hide comms
Ringleader could be looking at as much as 165 years in prison
Booking.com "technical issue" leads to months-long payment delays for hoteliers
The company recorded $5.5 billion in revenue and a profit of $1.3 billion during Q2
Google's "Privacy Sandbox" is still ad tracking tech, the EFF warns
True privacy-abiding browsers have already rejected the technology
A hot potato: The hotly debated "Privacy Sandbox" tech is Google's solution to the universal hate reserved for third-party cookies and behavioral advertising. The Sandbox brings several new technologies including the Topics API, which would classify users in interest-based categories by carefully watching what they do and where they go on the web.
Mobile data cost rankings: the U.S. is one of the most expensive countries, Israel has the cheapest data plans
Zimbabwe has the most expensive data at $43.75 per GB (!)
ChatGPT can browse the web for answers once again, voice and image recognition are also rolling out
GPT's capabilities keep on expanding, but output quality will inevitably vary
Watch Mark Zuckerberg awkwardly attempt to hype a Snoop Dogg chatbot
Dogg as "The Dungeon Master" is not cool, it's cringe
Spotify will use OpenAI's tech to translate podcasts to more languages
In a nutshell: Spotify reports that the number of people listening to podcasts has surpassed 100 million and continues to grow. The streaming service is now exploring new methods to broaden access to its podcast service for an even larger audience of creators and languages. It aims to achieve this by leveraging the capabilities of AI algorithms to automatically translate content from some prominent figures in the industry.
The FCC is preparing to restore net neutrality in the US
Repeal of net neutrality put the FCC on the wrong side of history, new chairwoman said
The EU says Twitter/X is the worst platform for disinformation
Just as it removes a way to report election misinformation
What just happened? The European Union has identified X, formerly Twitter, as the social media platform with the highest ratio of misinformation/disinformation posts. The news came just as X disabled a feature that allows users to report misinformation related to elections.
Apple made a search deal with Google because there was no "valid alternative," Eddy Cue tells court
The companies also agreed to defend the deal against government scrutiny
Gen Z falls victim to online scams more often than boomers, says Deloitte survey
Growing up with the internet vs. watching it arrive
In brief: There might be a stereotypical image of internet users aged 70 to 79 happily handing their bank details over to a "Nigerian prince" they just met on Facebook. But the surprising truth is that Generation Z – those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s – get scammed a lot more than their boomer grandparents.
Google mourns the death of data center pioneer Luiz André Barroso
Barroso is credited with laying the foundations of modern cloud computing
Spanish soccer league wants Google to remove IPTV pirate apps from users' phones
If it "can be done for child pornography," they should do it for IP piracy, too...
Mozilla warns of potential dark patterns in new browser choice screens coming to Europe
Design matters