How to be careful with #AI services for #privacy (all the information you give to them is saved and used to feed the machine):
In general, don't put anything into a prompt that you wouldn't feel comfortable revealing to the public or seeing on a billboard. Remember, once you hit enter on the prompt, you've lost control of that information.
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-ai-tools-devices-aware-youre.html

Well, here is a fresh angle to doomscrolling:
Far from being benign tools, #smartphones parasitize our time, our attention and our personal information, all in the interests of technology companies and their advertisers.
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-smartphone-parasite-evolution.html

This court case will be worth following:
even when their phones are turned off, #Google causes #Android devices to surreptitiously send information over cellular networks “for Google’s own purposes,” including targeted digital advertising. These transfers improperly eat up data that users purchase from their mobile carriers, the plaintiffs allege.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-takes-gamble-class-action-jury-trial-over-cell-phone-data-use-2025-06-04/

#Privacy and #security focused de-googled phones ready for prime time:
When you take the best parts of Android and work to turn it into software built for users instead of financial gain, the results are amazing. With the release of /e/OS 3, it's reached the point where it's a good choice for everyone. #Android
https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/wonder-what-life-is-like-without-google-or-apple-you-need-to-try-this-alternative

Instead of Firefox, Librewolf or Waterfox? #browser
https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-browser-for-privacy/

Dreaming of traveling and working remotely? Digital nomads recognize the benefits but also risks of their lifestyle. An extensive study among traveling workers reveals the highs and lows of the nomad life. #remotework #digitalnomad
https://klaava.com/digital-nomads-feel-powered-by-their-lifestyle-but-recognise-inevitable-downsides-as-well/

A truly useful service Tosdr.org that summarizes Terms of Service and #Privacy Policy documents, and grades the services along the safe for use - avoid at all cost axis. My first thought was that it must be all AI, but Tosdr began more than 10 years ago.
https://tosdr.org/en/

Hmm, to me this looks more like one of many #AI apps that can independently do useful tasks for us ---
#Microsoft calls it the "open agentic web," with users sending AI-powered "agents" out into the void to do their bidding.
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-05-microsoft-radically-surf-web.html

New Firefox: a keyboard shortcut to open a pop-up that previews a link's contents when you hover over it. It's a new way that #AI is being integrated into browsers that may help users but hurt publishers.
--- Ultimately, the #browser popup could also include and ad? ---
https://www.engadget.com/ai/the-war-on-links-escalates-with-firefoxs-experimental-ai-previews-123059735.html

The difference in the average cost is vast between the cheapest and the most expensive European countries: only 28 dollars a day in Georgia, but wallet-hurting 251 dollars a day in Switzerland. Top 20 low bugdet countries. #travel #Europe
https://klaava.com/here-are-the-cheapest-countries-to-travel-in-europe/