Stop using generative AI as a search engine (www.theverge.com)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Warns Android Users Not to Sideload Apps (www.gizmochina.com)
Elon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it. (mashable.com)
If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)
With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.
DeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearable (i.imgur.com)
dearrow.ajay.app
These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor (yiffit.net)
Yikes.
Zuckerberg Declares War on Censorship (Not Really Though) (www.kenklippenstein.com)
N1 rocket was ahead of it's time (lemmy.world)
Scalefusion UEM
Scalefusion is a next Gen UEM that helps organizations of all sizes to manage their devices and endpoints from a single consolidated dashboard.
Effective obfuscation (www.citationneeded.news)
Asus unveils full suite of RTX 5000 series gaming laptops, complete with 100% DCI-P3 screens (www.tomshardware.com)
Before GPS There Was LORAN (hackaday.com)
DisplayPort 2.1b Arriving This Spring With DP80LL Cables (www.phoronix.com)
Ethereum to Accelerate the Cross-chain Interoperability (notes.ethereum.org)
Part of the tech is extended email-like addressing standard where @ will send your funds directly to specified Ethereum compatible blockchain or rollup
New technology guys in Texas
Biohybrid's Neural Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons (singularityhub.com)
To get around the problem of damaging 10,000 neurons just to connect with 1,000, Biohybrid is experimenting with an approach that makes donor neurons a part of the implant itself - potentially allowing for dramatically better connection scaling.
Apple to pay $95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit (www.reuters.com)
"SPINACH": LLM-based tool to translate "challenging real-world questions" into Wikidata SPARQL queries (en.wikipedia.org)
More generally, this kind of task is called "Knowledge Base Question Answering" (KBQA). The authors observe that many benchmarks have been published for it over the last decade, and that recently, the KBQA community has shifted toward using Wikidata as the underlying knowledge base for KBQA datasets. However, they criticize...
[Europe only] This year whatsapp will finally open interoperability ?
due to the new rules of European Union, whatsapp has/had one year - iirc - to open the app to talk with other apps. iirc, this started on February/March of 2024 and we are in 2025. Anyone knows more details or news about it? This is ONLY applicable to European Union countrys, iirc.
Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025 | Internet Archive Blogs (blog.archive.org)
9 Things I Find Joyful About Tech in 2024 (mudkip.me)
I listed things I found positive in tech in 2024, including fields like Linux desktop developments, handheld gaming devices, the fediverse and open platforms.