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Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery (old.reddit.com)
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To kill the AI chatbot feature, search for browser.ml.chat.enabled and set it to false.

To stop smart tab grouping, search for browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled and set it to false.

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Court order snips out part of Wikipedia article, editors debate whether to frame shreds or pulp them (en.wikipedia.org)
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Wikipedia disinformation report: The article in the most languages - Who is this guy? (en.wikipedia.org)
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Coding bootcamps, a Silicon Valley mainstay for over a decade, are facing decline as AI eliminates the kind of entry-level roles for which they trained people (neuters.de)
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Why Are Silicon Valley’s Utopians Are Prepping for Collapse? (www.thenerdreich.com)
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Reddit.

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Just Buy Nothing: A fake online store to combat shopping addiction — A dopamine-safe shopping experience. Fake carts, no consequences (justbuynothing.com)
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  • Realistic Shopping Experience: Complete e-commerce simulation with cart, checkout, and order tracking
  • AI-Powered Product Catalog: Products generated from Midjourney images using OpenAI Vision
  • Chrome Extension: "iBuyNothing Guard" interrupts Amazon checkout pages
  • Authentic Images: Brand-free professional product photography
  • Categories: Electronics, Home & Kitchen, Books, Video Games, Toys & Games
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Dead need right to delete their data against AI, lawyer says (www.theregister.com)
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Today’s humanoid robots look remarkable, but there’s a design flaw holding them back (theconversation.com)
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Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court (www.freepress.net)
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Justice Department Reaches Proposed Settlement with Greystar(Largest U.S. Landlord) to End Its Participation in Algorithmic Pricing Scheme (www.justice.gov)
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Humans make better content cops than AI, but cost 40x more (www.theregister.com)
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The Secret History of Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
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Hackernews.

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Google is testing an AI-powered Google Finance website in the US, letting users ask questions, access advanced charting tools, view a live news feed, and more (blog.google)
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Americans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit’s Chaotic UK Age Verification Rollout (www.eff.org)
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Microsoft will phase out its Lens scanner app, launched in 2014 as Office Lens, starting in September; users can create new scans in the app only until December (support.microsoft.com)
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The top lawyer for Elon Musk's xAI just quit after saying he doesn't get to see his kids enough (infosec.pub)
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Source.

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Apple CEO gives Trump gold gift exceeding company policy; Tim Cook's 24-karat gold present exceeds Apple's $10 limit for US officials. (ppc.land)
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Fake Friend: How ChatGPT betrays vulnerable teens by encouraging dangerous behavior (counterhate.com)
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Full PDF Report.

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President Trump says Intel’s new CEO “must resign immediately” (infosec.pub)
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In NOAA Cuts Fallout, Private Companies Fill Weather Data Gaps: As the weather agency struggles to maintain forecasting, some experts worry about relying on private companies instead. (undark.org)
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Brokered Violence: Safety for Sale in the Free Marketplace of Data (www.lawfaremedia.org)
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Media Capitulation Index: Who Owns the Media (www.freepress.net)
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Buy or Bury: Meta’s Reckoning for Market Dominance (publicknowledge.org)
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Finland leads new Digital Sovereignty Index with highest number of self-hosted deployments across 60 countries | Nextcloud blog (dsi.nextcloud.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/40035733

Around the world, discussions about digital sovereignty are intensifying. Governments, institutions, companies and civil society are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of controlling their own digital infrastructure. From concerns about data protection and vendor lock-in to questions of political autonomy, the topic has moved from niche circles to mainstream policy debates. In our new Digital Sovereignty Index, we show how countries compare in digital independence!

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Nextcloud developed the Digital Sovereignty Index (DSI): a simple metric to illustrate how much self hosted collaboration applications are actively used across nearly 60 countries. It represents the relative amount of deployments of self-hosted productivity & collaboration tools per 100,000 citizens, compared to other countries.

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Here is a more detailed description: https://nextcloud.com/blog/digital-sovereignty-index-how-countries-compare-in-digital-independence/

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From YouTube to boob tube How the Kremlin’s slow-motion YouTube block pushed Russians back into the arms of television (meduza.io)
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