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PC Mag – Concerned about high prices that might come with tariffs? Our experts offer handy buying advice to help you navigate this tricky global trade war.”Uncertainty reigns in global trade, with tensions brought on by the Trump administration’s decision to levy tariffs—taxation based on a percentage of a product’s value—on imports from countries near …
Ars Technica: “ChatGPT will now recommend products to be bought offsite—but no sponsored ads just yet. On Thursday, OpenAI announced the addition of shopping features to ChatGPT Search. The new feature allows users to search for products and purchase them through merchant websites after being redirected from the ChatGPT interface. Product placement is not sponsored, …
The World After Amazon – A project to support workers to reclaim the power of future-making Read as a PDF Read as an EPUB Order a book Listen as a podcast Download the audiobook In 2023, the Worker as Futurist Project supported 13 rank-and-file Amazon workers to write short, speculative fiction about The World After …
HuffPo: Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for. A few years ago, Jeff was working for a California bank that asked him to look into getting the business listed on a website …
The New York Times no paywall – “Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, adding to legal troubles that could reshape the $1.88 trillion company and alter its power over the internet. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District …
BoingBoing – “Boing Boing’s publisher Jason Weisberger recently jailbroke his Amazon Kindle because he doesn’t like being told what he can and can’t do with the hardware he owns. I feel the same way. But I feel even saltier about companies ‘selling me‘ digital content and then f****** with that purchase. Sure, sometimes changes to …
“AI results are increasingly dominating web search (in the cases when people are still searching and not simply asking ChatGPT). That change will completely remake the internet experience. And that is really bad news for sites that depending on search traffic. Bloomberg (Gift Article): Google AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling ‘Betrayed.’”
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 29, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 22, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …
“All users are currently auto opted in so you should toggle the setting off to not share your data. A lot of buzzword AI mumbo jumbo. Here, eBay just created a New toggle switch to their modified terms of service for “Can we sell your data”. eBay’s link is https://accountsettings.ebay.com/ai-preferences
Pluralistic: “Even by Amazon standards, this is extraordinarily sleazy: starting March 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon’s cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing. It’s easy to flap your hands at this bit of thievery …
