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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
So I’m not sure about this, but I have signed up for this, well so you don’t need to! The idea is for subscription based premium content, so this post will just be a taster…
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…
2024 has seen a real paradigm shift in Social Media and its usage. I have posted about this many times (!) because after solid and real growth for decades we are seeing some real shifts,…
In a move that nobody really doubted, Brazil has suspended X/Twitter in the country. Musk said Brazil has suspended truth, but in reality it is more that Brazil suspended the mouthpiece of a radical megalomaniac…
This reports says how many large websites and website owners are opting out of Apple AI training. Whilst this *seems* good I am hearing that despite this Apple and many other companies are scraping the…
