Satya Nadella said today he doesn't know who wrote the "make people addicted" document or who leaked it. Well the author's name is on the document. He's the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Scout and he's been posting about it on LinkedIn for months.
Nadella linked to a Futurism aggregation instead of the actual @404mediaco article.
Guess he Binged it. 🤷♂️
Apple Intelligence and a smarter Siri sounds great in a world where it's your choice, your hardware, or at worst a server sitting effectively next to the iCloud you're already trusting. It lands very differently when the honest version of the announcement is: we can't actually deliver the privacy we promised AND the capabilities we promised, but here it is anyway.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/apples-privacy-stance-the-latest-act-of-courage
#apple #siri #ai #privacy #nvidia #google #appleintelligence #bigtech #wwdc #userhostile #blog
Microsoft's internal planning doc for their new always-on AI agent 'Scout' has a three-phase strategy. Phase one is labeled — in the actual document, written by actual employees — "Make people addicted."
The doc was co-created with AI. The humans verified every sentence and sent it to stakeholders anyway.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/they-said-the-quiet-part-out-loud-again
#microsoft #scout #ai #aipolicy #bigtech #userhostile #openclaw #blog
Jensen Huang spent Computex 2026 telling a room full of people that AI job losses are complete nonsense — then in the same afternoon explained that the future of personal computing is an autonomous AI agent with a name that texts you on WhatsApp while you're not at your desk. Oh, and Nvidia's too busy reinventing the PC to bother with gaming handhelds.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/jensens-reality-bubble-at-computex-2026
#nvidia #jensen #ai #computex2026 #userhostile #blog #gaming #bigtech
OpenAI is being sued by a state AG. That is not too surprising after all the dirty laundry aired in the Altman V. Musk aka Evil v. Evil trial. The actual surprise is it is Florida's leading the charge, not California or Massachusetts or Connecticut.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/wait-florida
#openai #chatgpt #ai #aipolicy #bigtech #florida #blog #userhostile #theranasai
Checking out the subatomic particles: The Proton, Neutron, Electron, and the often forgotten Close-ad-button. One of these is not like the others — except it kind of is, because someone engineered it to behave like a law of nature. A little dive into the X that doesn't work. (And yes, there's another X that doesn't work. That's a different post or posts.)
“the report highlights the presence of the following eight major manipulative design patterns [in opt-out procedures]:
* Failing to provide a clear mechanism to opt out of sale and sharing of personal information
* Not clearly linking opt-out form from homepage and/or privacy policy
* Requiring consumers to submit multiple separate forms
* Deceptive statements about opt-outs and their success
* Confusing or scary language
* Requiring consumers to log in or pay for a subscription before opting out
* Design elements hiding important opt-out information
* Checkbox options preselected
Policymakers and regulators need to step in to provide real privacy protections for consumers. To that end, the report provides these recommendations […]
https://epic.org/good-luck-opting-out-manipulative-design-patterns-in-opt-out-processes-2/
#DarkPatterns #UserHostile #PredatoryCapitalism #SurveillanceCapitalism #ConsentMatters #YouAreTheProduct
The DOJ subpoenaed Apple, Google, Amazon, and Walmart for the names, addresses, and purchase histories of 100,000+ people who downloaded a car diagnostics app.
Not the actual target, just people who had an app on their phone.
The company they actually want is in the Cayman Islands. So they went after the app stores instead.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-app-store-is-a-dragnet
#bigtech #privacy #surveillance #apple #google #amazon #walmart #doj #appstore #userhostile #infosec #cleanairact #blog
Everyone's cheering users for rejecting AI search by switching to DuckDuckGo. Ask AI is right on the search bar on the homepage, the DDG app Has AI in its official name. There is a no-AI option--on a subdomain most may never find. They didn't reject AI. They rejected Google and no choice. That's a real and meaningful distinction — it's just not the one being celebrated.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-escape-that-wasnt
#google #duckduckgo #search #ai #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #googleio #kagi #searxng #blog
(Dropping this on out there as not sure if I'll be online much for Memorial Day)
Valve is in court arguing loot boxes are fun surprises. So how'd we get here? Deep dive from cartridges to horse armor to live service graveyards. The history matters if you want to understand what's happening now.
#gaming #lootbox #dlc #gamehistory #microtransactions #liveservice #stopkillinggames #steam #userhostile #gaminghistory #insertcoin #blog
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