I’ve been on the Android ecosystem for 15 years, I literally thought this was an onion article.

Wouldn’t it be great if independent auditors were standard, responsible for holding companies accountable for their data security practices, coupled with a rating system akin to those used in the banking sector? Before paying for a service, consumers would be aware of how secure the service is. Say A++ or AAA.

It would be a pain in Silicon Valley’s ass for sure, but it would go a long way toward giving consumers peace of mind and bringing about a whole new industry in the process.

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

The Tron-inspired Cybertruck failed in a catastrophic accident because apparently the super powered x-treem window wipers were turbo maxed to the power of RAD.

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Have you tried the Grayjay app https://grayjay.app/ although it encourages you to not block ads and sponsors for the benefit of the creators you can in the settings. It also allows you to connect with your various accounts, YouTube and others.

Xitter, nice name, sounds like an adolescent skin condition.

“it’s not known whether the leak came from within the company or one of its vendors.”

Isn’t it time that big tech companies and their sale of private data get regulated? I see a giant class-action lawsuit in the making here.

Unfucking believable, also the grift continues “Avast has been acquired by Gen Digital, a firm that contains Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, CCLeaner, and ReputationDefender, among other security businesses.”

In the EU, there are standards that must be adhered to, but it’s unclear what privacy standards Meta will maintain or discard in other parts of the world. Their “free” WhatsApp messenger monetizes by collecting user data, including device information, contacts’ phone numbers, and usage patterns. This data collection also allows them to pinpoint your location and share this information with Facebook.

Outside the EU, Meta could potentially use other apps to supplement these data points. It has been well documented that WhatsApp/Meta has shared this data with authorities when required in the past. This move doesn’t give me the warm and fuzzies.

This is the second click bait article I’ve seen today from L4sBot.

Good to know, I thought I was reading the Onion there.

We need to protect our toothbrushes people, from being enslaved into botnets. What has the word come to, who needs a toothbrush connected to the internet?

I’ve been using iask.ai or Phind.com for mostly quick answers to my simple questions, these get me by but I’m no coder or author and I have noticed these options are often pretty terrible for math queries.

Edit: the above services I’m pretty sure are not open source, but their privacy policies seem reasonable.

Not really a win for the casual web user - What Google will stop doing is selling web ads targeted to individual users’ browsing habits, and its Chrome browser will no longer allow cookies that collect that data for the means of selling to third party advertisers.

Meanwhile, Google will still track and target users on mobile devices, and it will still target ads to users based on their behavior on its own platforms, which make up the majority of its revenue and won’t be affected by the change.

Ad companies that rely on cookies will simply have to find another way to target users.

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Older than that, this seems a bit like click bait, Intel secured a grant to build a chip plant in Israel in 2015. Actually there is a report from Reuters in 2014. This is just reporting on recurring contracts by the looks of it. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-intel-plant-idUSKCN0HH1F720140922/

And those who have ETFs or index funds that track the S&P 500 also have Tesla stock as a hot trash albatross to deal with.

Why bother with Google when they can just ask your telco.