🔖 Denmark Begins its Exit from Microsoft — and This is Just the Beginning: The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning | It’s FOSS
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Denmark Begins Its Exit from Microsoft — and This Is Just the Start
The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.
🔖 Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers: A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok | 404 Media
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Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
🔖 Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments— Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market |
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Rural Fire Departments Squeezed By Software Prices As Investors Profit
Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market.
🔖 The great AI hype correction of 2025: Four ways to think about this year's reckoning | MIT Technology Review
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The great AI hype correction of 2025
Four ways to think about this year's reckoning
🔖 Kindle’s New AI Feature Can Answer Questions About Your Books (Whether Authors Want It or Not): The Kindle app's new feature will provide AI-generated tips to explain your book's plot or how the characters relate to one another, though it's currently on
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LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash
LG's recent software update has forcibly installed Microsoft Copilot, an AI assistant, on smart TVs without removal options, sparking widespread user backlash over privacy, bloatware, and loss of control. This highlights growing tensions in smart devices, where monetization often overrides user preferences.
🔖 This Group Pays Bounties to Repair Broken Devices—Even If the Fix Breaks the Law: Fulu sets repair bounties on consumer products that employ sneaky features that limit user control | WIRED
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This Group Pays Bounties to Repair Broken Devices—Even If the Fix Breaks the Law
Fulu sets repair bounties on consumer products that employ sneaky features that limit user control. Just this week, it awarded more than $10,000 to the person who hacked the Molekule air purifier.
🔖 Google Data Centers Will Bring Nuclear Power Back To Tornado Country: A destructive storm in 2020 prematurely shut down Iowa’s only nuclear plant. With Google’s plans to reopen it to power nearby data centers, will extreme weather threaten the reactor
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Google Data Centers Will Bring Nuclear Power Back To Tornado Country - Inside Climate News
A destructive storm in 2020 prematurely shut down Iowa’s only nuclear plant. With Google’s plans to reopen it to power nearby data centers, will extreme weather threaten the reactor’s safety?
🔖 CBP agents held a U.S. citizen for hours until he let them search his devices: A federal lawsuit argues that the agency's policy of perusing travelers' personal data without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment | Reason
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CBP agents held a U.S. citizen for hours until he let them search his devices
A federal lawsuit argues that perusing travelers' personal data without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.
🔖 Gartner urges businesses to 'block all AI browsers' - what's behind the dire warning: Analysts suggest that agentic browsers create an unacceptable risk for CISOs today, with data exposure now a top security concern - but far from the only one | ZDNET
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Gartner urges businesses to 'block all AI browsers' - what's behind the dire warning
Analysts suggest that agentic browsers create an unacceptable risk for CISOs today, with data exposure now a top security concern - but far from the only one.
