AI gadgets will be hot in 2024. You don’t need one.
Washington Post [read free]: “For the past decade, tech companies have chased a dream: Invent a gadget to replace the smartphone. That’s why companies have created computers for your face and wrist,...
View ArticleThe Perfect Webpage
The Verge – How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same….Google controls around 90 percent of the search market, by some measures,...
View ArticleUsing the Wayback Machine and Google Analytics to Uncover Disinformation...
Bellingcat: “Google Analytics is a popular service for tracking and analysing traffic to a website. Through a short code placed in the source of a website, a user can monitor the performance of all...
View ArticleHP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly
Ars Technica: “HP has used its “Dynamic Security” firmware updates to “create a monopoly” of replacement printer ink cartridges, a lawsuit filed against the company on January 5 claims. The lawsuit,...
View ArticleGoogle quietly updates Chrome’s incognito warning in wake of tracking lawsuit
The Verge: “Weeks after agreeing to settle a lawsuit that accused Google of illegally tracking browsing activity even after users activated Chrome’s incognito mode, the company has quietly updated how...
View ArticleWhat Happened to My Search Engine?
Ted Gioia – Or why tech upgrades are now mostly downgrades: “…Here are the things missing from the original search engines. They didn’t practice 24/7 surveillance of users. They didn’t sell user’s...
View ArticleGoogle Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find
404 – “Google search really has been taken over by low-quality SEO spam, according to a new, year-long study by German researchers. The researchers, from Leipzig University, Bauhaus-University Weimar,...
View ArticleEach Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies
Consumer Reports: “By now most internet users know their online activity is constantly tracked. No one should be shocked to see ads for items they previously searched for, or to be asked if their data...
View ArticleFind out what websites are Built With
“BuiltWith® covers 92,628+ internet technologies which include analytics, advertising, hosting, CMS and many more. See how the internet technology usage changes on a weekly basis. With BuiltWith.com...
View ArticleAre Premium AI Prompts Worth the Money?
MakeUseOf: ” AI prompt marketplaces offer ready-to-use prompts for generative AI tools, saving time and effort in crafting effective prompts. AI prompt engineers post their results to AI prompt...
View ArticleThink Deepfakes Are Bad? ‘Cheapfakes’ Are Far More Dangerous
Daily Beast: “You’ve likely already been schooled on how to spot a deepfake, a dangerous but relatively immature artificial intelligence tool. Are there odd shadows or glares? Are the lips synced up...
View ArticleAuthors Are Fighting Amazon’s Audible
Libro.FM Blog: “Amazon’s impact on the book industry is no secret to most readers. From taking business from independent bookshops—business they depend on, unlike Amazon—to limiting accessibility of...
View ArticleEach Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies
Via LLRX – Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies – By now most internet users know their online activity is constantly tracked. No one should be shocked to see ads for items they...
View ArticleTikTok is changing the way books are recommended and sold
The Economist: “…TikTok, which has more than 1bn regular users, is making a mark on the world of publishing. Much of this is done through BookTok, the app’s community of users who comment on books. It...
View ArticleNew tool to automatically remove your personal information from data broker...
Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus – “Today, Mozilla Monitor (previously called Firefox Monitor), a free service that notifies you when your email has been part of a breach, announced its new paid...
View ArticleAmazon hides cheaper items with faster delivery, lawsuit alleges
Ars Technica: “Amazon rigged its platform to “routinely” push an overwhelming majority of customers to pay more for items that could’ve been purchased at lower costs with equal or faster delivery...
View ArticleDoes anyone even want an AI search engine?
Fast Company: “You’ve probably already noticed your search engines are starting to evolve. Google and Bing have already added both AI-generated results and conversational chatbots to their respective...
View ArticleIs Google Getting Worse?
Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search Engines. Janek Bevendorff, Matti Wiegmann, Martin Potthast, and Benno Stein.”Many users of web search engines have been...
View ArticleHow Google is killing independent sites like ours
And why you shouldn’t trust product recommendations from big media publishers ranking at the top of Google. “Google regularly launches updates to its algorithm to continuously improve search results...
View ArticleFTC Order Will Ban Avast from Selling Browsing Data for Advertising Purposes
“The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider Avast to pay $16.5 million and prohibit the company from selling or licensing any web browsing data for advertising purposes to settle...
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