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Mozilla shuttering its Mastodon server….

Mozilla has announced that its Mastodon server will shut down in December, and there has been a backlash in the fediverse – something I really cannot see the fuss about. Having instances come and go… 

zuckerberg

Meta scraped all public posts for AI

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I haven’t posted that much for a while due to me researching the following posts to try to get to the bottom of it…. and well erm failing mainly! I cannot confirm what I wanted… 

threads

Threads direct link to fedi sharing

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Threads has now got a direct link (where supported) to enable and disable fediverse sharing.This makes life a lot easier if you do want to enable it! https://www.threads.net/settings/account/fediverse

zuckerberg

Facebook admits scraping in AU

Facebook has admitted that it scraped EVERY Australian adults public posts and photos to train its own AI with NO opt-out option. This shows why I am personally warning people about Metas shady and wrong… 

apple

EU hits Apple and Google hard…

The EU has ordered both Apple and Google to cough up some large fines. Apple has to pay back £11 billion in taxes and Google has been fined £2 billion for market dominance abuse. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgwkwxr4eqo… 

fediverse

Is this the biggest Fediverse flaw?

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With the news that Firefish is basically shutting down I am seeing a worrying trend happening on federated services recently. Because it is fairly easy to move your account around, services and platforms that federate… 

ai bubble

Beginning of the AI bubble bursting?

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Stocks in nVidia have slid almost 10% today as markets readjust to a feeling that the US is heading towards a recession. NV has also been hit hard as a lot of people are saying… 

x

Musk defies X ban in Brazil….

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You can’t say Elon Musk isn’t tenacious, I mean the lengths he will go to prove he is right, right? https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-x-ban-brazil-starlink-b2606095.html After several people have been jailed in the UK for Tweets/X’s about unrest and… 

telegram

Telegram under fire!

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Telegram the instant messaging app and more is under increasing fire over regulation and more. In Europe the legal eagles are trying really hard to clamp down on things like copyright infringements and illegal goods…