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The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits

When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.

Comcast adds motion sensing to millions of its newer routers, with a privacy catch | TechCrunch

A new feature added to Comcast's newest routers can detect if there is motion inside your home without needing traditional motion sensors.

Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy

Sony has been scaling down its digitial store for a few years.

PlayStation Is Deleting Terminator 2 And 550 Other Movies

Movies like Rambo: First Blood, Bridget Jones' Diary and The Deer Hunter are all being unceremoniously removed

Broken by Design - Ad Tech and What We Can Do About It

This is the first banner ad. Created for an AT&T advertising campaign in 1994 by Wired Magazine it is perhaps the most influential thing to ever happen to the internet. No single thing has done more to change, deform, alter, or make sustainable the web. When it launched, it had a 44% CTR - that’s...

A new US phone network for Christians aims to block porn and gender-related content

Launching next week on T-Mobile's network, the cell plan takes a nuclear approach to online safety.

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!

Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user has not even installed.

X makes it 1,900 percent more expensive to post links | The Verge

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Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data

Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture ​mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its ‌artificial-intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in internal memos ​seen by Reuters.

Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC for a cloud one

Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos once said how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options from companies like AWS and Azure.

Google’s work in schools aims to create a ‘pipeline of future users,’ internal documents say

A major lawsuit revealed details of Google's business motivations to get its products into schools. A Google spokesperson said the documents "mischaracterize our work."

Cloudflare becomes the first internet intermediary aside from local ISPs to block pirate sites in the UK; the MPA requested blocking close to 200 pirate domains

Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: Cloudflare becomes the first internet intermediary aside from local ISPs to block pirate sites in the UK; the MPA requested blocking close to 200 pirate domains

Google’s shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month

It’s time to change to a new URL shortener.

Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers

This memo describes an experimental method for the encapsulation of IP datagrams in avian carriers. This specification is primarily useful in Metropolitan Area Networks. This is an experimental, not recommended standard.

The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds

When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting with the heat turned all the way up.