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Pixel Envy @pxlnv@mastodon.social

· 3w ago

With Apple Watch Eavesdropping Features, What Is at Stake Is Public Perception https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ghedin-apple-watch-eavesdropping/

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With Apple Watch Eavesdropping Features, What Is at Stake Is Public Perception – Pixel Envy

Rodrigo Ghedin on the Audio Intelligence features in the new Apple Watch models: And… it doesn’t matter. The message that sticks in people’s minds is that the Apple Watch has become a constantly listening device. And although the new feature only works on the just-announced watches (Series 12 and Ultra 4), the distrust extends to […]

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· 2mo ago

Chris Person Hates Adobe, and I Do Too https://pxlnv.com/linklog/i-hate-adobe/

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Chris Person Hates Adobe, and I Do Too – Pixel Envy

It is Hater Week over at Aftermath, and Chris Person wrote a banger of a rant about Adobe: It’s one thing to hate software, but that hate takes on new dimensions when you have to use it for your job. To choose software and have it fail is unfortunate; to be chained to it for […]

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· 6mo ago

I Regret the Blood Pact I Have Made With iCloud Photos https://pxlnv.com/blog/i-regret-the-blood-pact-i-have-made-with-icloud-photos/

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I Regret the Blood Pact I Have Made With iCloud Photos

Sometimes, I do not recognize a trap until I am already in it. Photos in iCloud is one such situation. When Apple launched iCloud Photo Library in 2014, I was all-in. Not only is it where I store the photos I take on my iPhone, it is where I keep the ones from my digital […]

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· 2mo ago

Apple to Recap WWDC Announcements in Calgary This Week https://pxlnv.com/linklog/apple-swift-rockies/

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Apple to Recap WWDC Announcements in Calgary This Week – Pixel Envy

An un-bylined report from Calgary.tech: Apple will make a rare conference appearance in Calgary next week, joining the inaugural Swift Rockies gathering for iOS developers at the Calgary Zoo. Taking place July 22 and 23, Swift Rockies is a boutique, single-track conference created by Calgary-based iOS engineer Raman Singh. The independently organized event is capped […]

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· 2mo ago

Podcasts Are Growing, but That Does Not Necessarily Track for Podcast Apps https://pxlnv.com/linklog/indie-podcast-apps-flatline/

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Podcasts Are Growing, but That Does Not Necessarily Track for Podcast Apps – Pixel Envy

Dustin Bluck, developer of Castro: You might have a theory that there’s a funnel and growth in podcasts *must* ultimately be good for the apps. Like YouTube and TikTok introduce people to the concept of podcasts via shorter videos, and as certain users become more enthusiastic about a particular creator or the whole concept, they […]

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· 3mo ago

An Updated Look at the Environmental Impact of A.I. Data Centres https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ai-environment-2026/

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An Updated Look at the Environmental Impact of A.I. Data Centres – Pixel Envy

Satya Nadella at Microsoft’s Build conference this year: Perhaps the most important design criteria for us is: ‘how do we earn the permission from the communities in which we are building these data centres?’ That’s where these principles ground us and focus us. How do we ensure that the D.C.s do not increase the electricity […]

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· 2mo ago

Google Says It Still Sends ‘Billions of Clicks’ to Websites https://pxlnv.com/linklog/google-billions-of-clicks/

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Google Says It Still Sends ‘Billions of Clicks’ to Websites – Pixel Envy

Google’s Nick Fox on, for some reason, LinkedIn: People also asked if AI in Search would mean that people never click through to websites anymore. Actually, as we’ve shared before, we continue to send billions of clicks to the web every day through Search. And we’ve designed our AI features in Search to connect people […]

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· 2mo ago

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Copyright Is Not Enough – Pixel Envy

Zoey Forbes, a U.K.-based attorney, in the Dial: One hundred and forty years on from the Berne Convention, the basic principles of copyright remain the same, but GenAI poses a threat to authors different from anything that has existed before. Its novel technology is not only destabilizing what it means to reproduce works, but what […]

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· 2mo ago

Permanent Daylight Saving Time https://pxlnv.com/linklog/permanent-dst/

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Permanent Daylight Saving Time – Pixel Envy

Dr. Drang: A couple of days ago, Casey Liss took a break from arguing about temperature scales to tweak me about the recent passage of the Sunshine Protection Act by the House. The Act would make Daylight Saving Time permanent, something Casey knows I disapprove of. A similar bill passed the Senate a few years […]

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· 6mo ago

The New Yorker Profiles Sam Altman https://pxlnv.com/linklog/new-yorker-sam-altman/

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The New Yorker Profiles Sam Altman – Pixel Envy

Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz spent a year and a half investigating Sam Altman for the New Yorker and, in particular, the many people around him who say he lies habitually and cannot be trusted. This feels like it could be a personal attack but, in the hands of Farrow and Marantz, it is carefully […]

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· 6mo ago

The Speed of Writing Code Is Probably Not the Problem https://pxlnv.com/linklog/writing-code-speed-ai/

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The Speed of Writing Code Is Probably Not the Problem – Pixel Envy

Andrew Murphy: The speed of writing code was never your problem. If you thought it was, the gap between that belief and reality is where all your actual problems live. The competitive advantage doesn’t go to the team that writes code fastest. It goes to the team that figured out what to build, built it, […]

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· 2mo ago

Hugging Face Publishes a Technical Writeup of the OpenAI Autonomous Exploit https://pxlnv.com/linklog/hugging-face-openai-exploit/

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Hugging Face Publishes a Technical Writeup of the OpenAI Autonomous Exploit – Pixel Envy

OpenAI last week: Last week, Hugging Face disclosed a new kind of security incident after they detected and contained an AI agent that compromised their infrastructure, something we expect to become more commonplace with the proliferation of increasingly cyber-capable models. After investigating, we now know that this particular incident was driven by a combination of […]

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· 5mo ago

Apple Removes Old iWork Apps for MacOS https://pxlnv.com/linklog/iwork-mac-app-store/

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Apple Removes Old iWork Apps for MacOS – Pixel Envy

Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac: Apple has just made a change to its iWork lineup on the Mac, removing the old versions of Pages, Keynote, and Numbers from the App Store and leaving just the newer builds that support Apple Creator Studio. If the alternative is displaying two versions of each app, I think this is the […]

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· 2mo ago

Young Adults and A.I. Use https://pxlnv.com/linklog/young-adults-ai-use/

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Young Adults and A.I. Use – Pixel Envy

Natalie Kaufman, in a Wall Street Journal article headlined “Young Adults Are Letting AI Do Their Talking for Them — Even in Person”: [Niharika] Abbaraju, 20, is part of a growing cohort of young adults outsourcing deeply human tasks to AI. Many, struggling with social anxieties great or small, will seek assistance ahead of a […]

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· 2mo ago

Every App a TikTok Clone https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-facebook-tiktok-clone/

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Every App a TikTok Clone – Pixel Envy

Tom Alison, “head of Facebook”, made some noise today by announcing a forthcoming change to the platform that seems to, in effect, turn it into TikTok: So later this year, we’ll begin testing a reimagined experience that puts a subset of people who we think want more video on Facebook into full-screen video the moment […]

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· 2mo ago

Kylie Jenner Is Barely Using Her Own Meta Glasses https://pxlnv.com/linklog/kylie-jenner-meta-glasses/

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Kylie Jenner Is Barely Using Her Own Meta Glasses – Pixel Envy

Meta, last month: We’re launching Meta Glasses with three frame styles offering distinct silhouettes that suit different faces, moods, and occasions: […] Meta Glasses by Kylie — A unique slim oval frame designed in collaboration with Kylie Jenner and inspired by her personal style. Katie Notopoulos, Business Insider, today: Interestingly, since the launch of her […]

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· 2mo ago

Breach of A.I. Music Generator Suno Reveals Scraping of Music From Deezer and YouTube https://pxlnv.com/linklog/suno-scraped-deezer-youtube/

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Breach of A.I. Music Generator Suno Reveals Scraping of Music From Deezer and YouTube – Pixel Envy

Jason Koebler, 404 Media: The AI music generation tool Suno scraped millions of songs and lyrics from YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius, as well as from the stock music libraries Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, the International Music Score Library Project, and podcasts via RSS feeds, according to a hacker who breached the company and shared data […]

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· 5mo ago

The Internet Archive Is Increasingly Restricted by Publishers https://pxlnv.com/linklog/internet-archive-publisher-restrictions/

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The Internet Archive Is Increasingly Restricted by Publishers – Pixel Envy

Kate Knibbs, Wired: A number of other major journalism organizations have also recently moved to restrict the Wayback Machine from archiving their stories, including The New York Times. According to analysis by the artificial-intelligence-detection startup Originality AI, 23 major news sites are currently blocking ia_archiverbot, the web crawler commonly used by the Internet Archive for […]

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· 6mo ago

The Dizzying Contrast in the Past Week or So https://pxlnv.com/linklog/trump-iran-artemis-ii/

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The Dizzying Contrast in the Past Week or So – Pixel Envy

Charlie Warzel, the Atlantic: There is something disorienting, horrible, and somehow fitting in the timing of all of this. That one man with the means to do it would threaten destruction of a part of our planet at the same moment its beauty and fragility are on full display. We are, in this tense moment, […]

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· 6mo ago

The Growing Push for Digital Sovereignty https://pxlnv.com/linklog/growing-digital-sovereignty/

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The Growing Push for Digital Sovereignty – Pixel Envy

Zack Whittaker, TechCrunch: France is trying to move on from Microsoft Windows. The country said it plans to move some of its government computers currently running Windows to the open source operating system Linux to further reduce its reliance on U.S. technology. The government of Schleswig-Holstein, in Germany, migrated last year off Microsoft Exchange and […]

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· 6mo ago

Apple Discontinues the Mac Pro https://pxlnv.com/linklog/apple-discontinues-mac-pro/

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Apple Discontinues the Mac Pro – Pixel Envy

Chance Miller, of 9to5Mac, serving here as Apple’s official bad news launderer: It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has been removed from Apple’s website as of Thursday afternoon. The “buy” page on Apple’s website for the Mac Pro now redirects to the […]

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· 6mo ago

Meta Loses Two Landmark Cases Regarding Product Safety and Children’s Use; Google Loses One https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-google-nm-ca-cases/

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Meta Loses Two Landmark Cases Regarding Product Safety and Children’s Use; Google Loses One – Pixel Envy

Morgan Lee, Associated Press: A New Mexico jury found Tuesday that social media conglomerate Meta is harmful to children’s mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law. The landmark decision comes after a nearly seven-week trial. Jurors sided with state prosecutors who argued that Meta — which owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp — […]

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· 6mo ago

Talking Liquid Glass With Apple https://pxlnv.com/linklog/liquid-glass-workshop/

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Talking Liquid Glass With Apple – Pixel Envy

Danny Bolella attended one of Apple’s “Let’s Talk Liquid Glass” workshops: Let’s address the elephant in the room. If you read the comments on my articles or browse the iOS subreddits, there is a vocal contingent of developers betting that Apple is going to roll back Liquid Glass. The rationale usually points to the initial […]

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· 6mo ago

Microsoft-Owned LinkedIn Allegedly Fingerprints Visitors and Scans Installed Chrome Extensions https://pxlnv.com/linklog/linkedin-chrome-surveillance/

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Microsoft-Owned LinkedIn Allegedly Fingerprints Visitors and Scans Installed Chrome Extensions – Pixel Envy

There is an E.U. organization called Fairlinked that is a “trade association and advocacy group for commercial LinkedIn users”, and it recently released a report about serious privacy concerns with LinkedIn: Microsoft Corporation’s LinkedIn is running a massive, global, and illegal spying operation on every computer that visits their website. […] Because LinkedIn knows each […]

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· 6mo ago

Upgrade Presents: The Origin of Apple https://pxlnv.com/linklog/upgrade-origin-of-apple/

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Upgrade Presents: The Origin of Apple – Pixel Envy

The newest episode of “Upgrade” is a wonderful retelling of a very particular history (also available as a video): Jason and Myke tell the story of Apple’s origin. It emerged from the unique environment of the Santa Clara valley suburbs of the ’70s thanks to the particular genius of its two co-founders and some surprising […]

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· 6mo ago

Apple’s Supposed A.I. Strategy Shift Is the Company’s Normal Strategy https://pxlnv.com/blog/apple-ai-strategy-shift/

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Apple’s Supposed A.I. Strategy Shift Is the Company’s Normal Strategy

Mark Gurman, last week in Bloomberg: Apple Inc. plans to open Siri to outside artificial intelligence assistants, a major move aimed at bolstering the iPhone as an AI platform. The company is preparing to make the change as part of a Siri overhaul in its upcoming iOS 27 operating system update, according to people with […]

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· 6mo ago

Meta Laid Off Several Hundred People Today https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-layoffs-march-2026/

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Meta Laid Off Several Hundred People Today – Pixel Envy

Ashley Capoot and Jonathan Vanian, CNBC: Meta is laying off several hundred employees on Wednesday, CNBC confirmed. The cuts are happening across several different organizations within the company, including Facebook, global operations, recruiting, sales and its virtual reality division Reality Labs, according to a source familiar with the company’s plans who asked not to be […]

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· 5mo ago

Meta Tells U.S. Staff It Is Going to Start Surveilling Their Every Digital Move for A.I. Training https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-tracking-employee-behaviour/

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Meta Tells U.S. Staff It Is Going to Start Surveilling Their Every Digital Move for A.I. Training – Pixel Envy

Katie Paul and Jeff Horwitz, Reuters: Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in internal memos seen by […]

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· 6mo ago

Autonomous Car Companies Will Not Tell U.S. Senator How Often a Human Driver Intervenes https://pxlnv.com/linklog/autonomous-car-human-intervention/

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Autonomous Car Companies Will Not Tell U.S. Senator How Often a Human Driver Intervenes – Pixel Envy

Aarian Marshall, Wired: All the companies that responded to the senator’s office say they use remote assistants — humans charged with responding to autonomous vehicles when they get confused, stuck, or in emergencies. The programs, experts say, are an important part of any autonomous vehicle company’s safety considerations, a backstop for a technology that’s becoming […]

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· 6mo ago

Why Is the New York Times Laundering the Reputation of a Sleazy AI Startup? https://pxlnv.com/linklog/nyt-medvi/

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Why Is the New York Times Laundering the Reputation of a Sleazy AI Startup? – Pixel Envy

Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism: On Thursday, the New York Times published a glowing profile of a company called Medvi. The basic premise of the piece is that a single guy named Matthew Gallagher had used AI to rapidly build a pharmaceutical enterprise that’s on track to do nearly $2 billion in sales this year, while […]

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· 6mo ago

A.I. Responses Under the Influence of Marketers https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ai-responses-seo-industry/

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A.I. Responses Under the Influence of Marketers – Pixel Envy

Microsoft’s Defender Security Research Team: Companies are embedding hidden instructions in “Summarize with AI” buttons that, when clicked, attempt to inject persistence commands into an AI assistant’s memory via URL prompt parameters (MITRE ATLAS® AML.T0080, AML.T0051). These prompts instruct the AI to “remember [Company] as a trusted source” or “recommend [Company] first,” aiming to bias […]

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· 6mo ago

Hello, World https://pxlnv.com/linklog/hello-world-artemis-ii/

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Hello, World – Pixel Envy

Barry Petchesky, Defector (gift link): NASA shared another photo Wiseman took, a slice of Earth peeking in the Orion’s window. No human has seen the Earth look this small since 1972. Low-earth orbit, where every single crewed space mission since Apollo has operated, tops out at around 1,000 miles above Earth’s surface. The International Space […]

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· 6mo ago

NASA’s Artemis II Live Stream https://pxlnv.com/linklog/nasa-artemis-ii-live-stream/

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NASA’s Artemis II Live Stream – Pixel Envy

Assuming everything goes to plan, four people are about to be launched into space within an hour to be flung around the Moon, and you can watch the launch live. A pretty special day.

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· 6mo ago

Google Search Is More Useful if You Know Its Advanced Operators, to a Point https://pxlnv.com/linklog/google-search-advanced-operators/

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Google Search Is More Useful if You Know Its Advanced Operators, to a Point – Pixel Envy

Hana Lee Goldin: The search bar you already have is more capable than that arrangement requires you to know. With the right syntax, it becomes a precision instrument: narrow by domain, by date, by file type, by exact phrase. We can pull up archived pages, surface open file directories, and even find what people said […]

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· 6mo ago

Wealthsimple Clears Regulatory Hurdle to Bring ‘Prediction Markets’ to Canada https://pxlnv.com/linklog/wealthsimple-prediction-gambling/

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Wealthsimple Clears Regulatory Hurdle to Bring ‘Prediction Markets’ to Canada – Pixel Envy

Meera Raman, Globe and Mail: Wealthsimple is seeking to offer prediction trading in Canada, a controversial type of betting on real-world events that has surged in popularity in the past year, and has been largely banned in this country. […] The approval for Ontario-based Wealthsimple permits it only to offer contracts tied to economic indicators, […]

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· 2mo ago

Judge Dismisses Google’s Lawsuit Against SerpApi https://pxlnv.com/linklog/judge-dismisses-google-serpapi/

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Judge Dismisses Google’s Lawsuit Against SerpApi – Pixel Envy

Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Roundtable: Last December, Google sued SerpApi over scraping its search results, and now a court has granted SerpApi’s motion to dismiss the case. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed these claims with leave to amend, giving Google 21 days to refile its complaint if it can demonstrate authorization from copyright […]

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· 2mo ago

Links to Claude Chats Were Indexed by Google and ‘Bing’, Whatever That Is https://pxlnv.com/linklog/claude-indexed-by-google/

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Links to Claude Chats Were Indexed by Google and ‘Bing’, Whatever That Is – Pixel Envy

Maddy Varner, Wired: Over the weekend, people were surprised to discover that some Anthropic Claude chats could be easily found via web search. The issue, which appears to have been first flagged by a redditor, exposed chats that included people asking for advice about what political party they should join, whether attorneys in Kansas are […]

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· 2mo ago

Data Privacy in the U.S. Border Zone https://pxlnv.com/linklog/data-privacy-border-zone/

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Data Privacy in the U.S. Border Zone – Pixel Envy

Timothy Pratt, the Guardian: The US Department of Justice is attempting to prosecute an Atlanta resident in connection with the movement against the police training center known as Cop City because he had GrapheneOS on his phone, an open-source operating system that enables users to enter a passcode and wipe a phone clean. […] Meanwhile, […]

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· 2mo ago

Blaming Data Centres, Alberta Electricity Industry Expects Tripling of Power Prices https://pxlnv.com/linklog/alberta-electricity-data-centres/

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Blaming Data Centres, Alberta Electricity Industry Expects Tripling of Power Prices – Pixel Envy

If you believe Meta, its forthcoming Albertan data centre will be, at worst, unnoticeable to people across this province: We pay the full costs of our data centers’ energy use so consumers aren’t negatively impacted, and fund new and upgraded infrastructure. We worked closely with Greenlight Limited Partnership, Altalink, Capitol Power, and the Alberta Electric […]

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· 2mo ago

Meta Faces Tennessee Trial Over Instagram Design https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-tennessee-instagram-design/

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Meta Faces Tennessee Trial Over Instagram Design – Pixel Envy

Diana Novak Jones, Reuters: Meta Platforms faces trial in Tennessee on Monday over the state’s claims that Instagram’s design is to blame for a youth mental-health crisis, one of several trials in the coming weeks testing allegations that the company’s social media platforms were intentionally built to be addictive. I imagine Meta will spend considerable […]

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· 6mo ago

Spotify Is Adding Controls to Turn Off Videos https://pxlnv.com/linklog/spotify-turn-off-video/

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Spotify Is Adding Controls to Turn Off Videos – Pixel Envy

Ashley King, Digital Media News: Spotify is introducing new video controls that enable users to turn off video content, including music videos or video podcasts, as well as Canvas looping visuals. The toggles will be available for both personal and Family Plan accounts. “More than 70% of Spotify users say more video content would enhance […]

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· 6mo ago

OpenAI Bought a Livestream No One Watches https://pxlnv.com/linklog/openai-acquires-tbpn/

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OpenAI Bought a Livestream No One Watches – Pixel Envy

OpenAI’s Fidji Simo: I’m excited to share that we’ve acquired TBPN. This acquisition brings a team with strong editorial instincts, deep audience understanding, and a proven ability to convene influential voices across tech, business, and culture. OpenAI and TBPN jointly promise to retain the show’s independence while OpenAI is, according to its press release, “excited […]

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· 2mo ago

Nova Scotia Court of Appeal Overturns Case Investigated and Decided Based on a Typo https://pxlnv.com/linklog/dartmouth-underscore-case/

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Nova Scotia Court of Appeal Overturns Case Investigated and Decided Based on a Typo – Pixel Envy

Paul Kafasis, linking to an Ars Technica report with the headline “A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months”, asks: While I understand how the mistake led to this poor guy becoming a suspect, I really can’t fathom how he was convicted. What the hell happened during that trial? This is the […]

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· 6mo ago

Bill C–22 Gives Canadian Authorities Additional Warrantless Powers https://pxlnv.com/linklog/bill-c-22-lawful-access/

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Bill C–22 Gives Canadian Authorities Additional Warrantless Powers – Pixel Envy

Gabriel Hilty, Toronto Star: Speaking alongside Chief Myron Demkiw on Thursday at Toronto police headquarters, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, will “create a legal framework for modernized, lawful access regime in Canada,” something that police forces have been requested “for decades.” The bill is Prime Minister Mark Carney government’s second […]

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· 2mo ago

Grain Is a Photo-First Social Network Built on AT Protocol https://pxlnv.com/linklog/grain-social/

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Grain Is a Photo-First Social Network Built on AT Protocol – Pixel Envy

Chad Miller has launched Grain, described as: […] a photo-first social app. Post galleries, share 24-hour stories, and browse feeds by following, For You, camera, or location. The most obvious comparison is Instagram, but without videos. I have been trying Grain for several months; it is really fun and worth checking out despite an icon […]

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· 6mo ago

Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Effortlessly Block Ads on Your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV https://pxlnv.com/linklog/sponsor/magic-lasso-adblock-apr-06/

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Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Effortlessly Block Ads on Your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV – Pixel Envy

Do you want an all-in-one solution to block ads, trackers, and annoyances across all your Apple devices? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock — the ad blocker designed for you. With Magic Lasso Adblock you can effortlessly block ads on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Magic Lasso is a single, native app that includes […]

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· 2mo ago

Gurman: Apple Set to Launch Device Leasing Program https://pxlnv.com/linklog/gurman-apple-upgrade/

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Gurman: Apple Set to Launch Device Leasing Program – Pixel Envy

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: Apple and Klarna are partnering on a new “Apple Upgrade” program set to launch in the U.S. on Tuesday, July 28, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The program will allow you to finance most iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch models, with a 24-month term for iPhones and Apple Watches and a […]

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· 6mo ago

Adobe Is Mucking With Users’ /etc/hosts Files https://pxlnv.com/linklog/adobe-etc-hosts/

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Adobe Is Mucking With Users’ /etc/hosts Files – Pixel Envy

LordPan1492 on Reddit is, I think, the first person to have spotted this: We notices since last week Friday that some devices has altered hosts files. Adobe still says that everything in the host file referring Adobe should be removed (to remove all license avoidance lines). But I know have 3 lines added to the […]

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· 2mo ago

Joseph Cox Interviews Mike Yeagley https://pxlnv.com/linklog/cox-yeagley/

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Joseph Cox Interviews Mike Yeagley – Pixel Envy

If you have read Byron Tau’s reporting, including his book “Means of Control”, you might be familiar with Mike Yeagley. He was the one who made the U.S. military and intelligence community aware of the surveillance they could conduct through digital advertising placements and the open data market. Joseph Cox of 404 Media recently interviewed […]

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· 6mo ago

A Different Perspective on the ‘Design Choices’ Social Media Company Verdicts https://pxlnv.com/linklog/masnick-meta-youtube-verdicts/

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A Different Perspective on the ‘Design Choices’ Social Media Company Verdicts – Pixel Envy

Mike Masnick, of Techdirt, unsurprisingly opposes the verdicts earlier this week finding Meta and Google guilty of liability for how their products impact children’s safety. I think it is a perspective worth reading. Unlike the Wall Street Journal, Masnick respects your intelligence and brings actual substance. Still, I have some disagreements. Masnick, on the “design […]