Welllllll this isn't great.

Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website

"...a system that evaluates your company’s landing page in real time and, if it decides the page won’t perform well enough for a specific user, replaces it with an AI-generated version assembled on the fly. The user never sees what your team built, they see what Google's machine learning model thinks they should see instead."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website

#SEO #Google #AI #enshittification

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On a planet that is boiling and will cook people alive because we cannot stop burning fossil fuels, the rich are pushing for fascism to prevent the dying people from revolting.

In such a world, with this context, the rich are saying, "All those people posting anonymously—we want to know who they are, where they live."

How can—in such a world—anyone believe that "age verification" or "chat control" is about protecting children? More so, when children are raped by the Epstein class and forced below the poverty line by neoliberals and nobody is ever held accountable.

How can anyone say, "Let's give these neoliberals the benefit of the doubt?"

#surveillance #fascism #ClimateCatastrophe #ChatControl #AgeVerification #Chatkontrolle

OK this is a stupid question, but why have Linux projects (apparently) fallen over themselves to comply with an age-recording statute in a single US state (albeit a large one), when those projects have been failing for decades to respect national and even international law regarding disability?

#accessibility #disability #linux #FreeSoftware #fascism #AgeVerification #infantilism

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/

The lasting damage was knowing it could happen at all: that a single contributor with no stated organizational backing could submit compliance infrastructure for surveillance law directly into the software that boots your computer, get it merged by two Microsoft employees, and have the creator of systemd personally block the removal.

The US Congress Judiciary Committee is pushing US tech companies, such as Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok and X, to provide access to ALL communications with European Commission officials that relate to the enforcement of EU digital rules, in letters sent Monday. 🚨🇪🇺

The committee said its subpoenas require that documents are not deleted or modified, and that it expects “full compliance.”

Behold, the CLOUD act in practice.

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-congress-judiciary-committee-big-tech-private-communication-eu-officials/

#digitalsovereignty #usfascism #eupolicy