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Remember Web 3.0?

Sounds like Real Housewives of Irrelevance S16E05.

https://www.platformer.news/meta-oversight-board-funding-cancel/

Exclusive: Meta has discussed ending funding to the Oversight Board

Shifting priorities and budget pressures could bring an end to the company’s experiment in independent governance, sources say

Platformer
Executive Summary

Microsoft Corporation’s LinkedIn is running a massive, global, and illegal spying operation on every computer that visits their website. 1. The Regulation of Linkedin In 2024 Microsoft was designated as a “gatekeeper” under the Digital Markets Act in the EU. The two regulated products are Microsoft Windows and Microsoft LinkedIn. The Digital Markets Act mandates that gatekeepers allow business users and authorized third parties free, effective, high-quality, continuous and real-time access to all data, including personal data, that is generated through the use of (LinkedIn).

BrowserGate

Remember the Apple’s-Fallen-Behind-In-AI brigade practically ordering Cupertino last year to buy Perplexity?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/perplexitys-incognito-mode-is-a-sham-lawsuit-says/

Perplexity's "Incognito Mode" is a "sham," lawsuit says

Google, Meta, and Perplexity accused of sharing millions of chats to increase ad revenue.

Ars Technica

Artemis II astronaut outfits: Bright Orange.

iPhone 17 Pro phones they’re using: Dignified Silver, not Cosmic Orange.

Much approved.

WSJ: “OpenAI Buys Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPN

TBPN staff will help with marketing and communications at OpenAI but keep their editorial independence, the ChatGPT parent says”

Brooklyn Bridge, $5.

Can we at least wait until Jony Ive ships his egg product, before they turn off all the lights there?!
Will Apple’s new development tool still be called ‘Xcode’?
Trick question: If Apple just hired a Vice President of Product Marketing for Artificial ​Intelligence (from Google), does it mean it’ll start charging for AI?