Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers ( www.theverge.com )
Mozilla ends partnership with Onerep due to CEO’s ties to data broker...
The Verge shows how Google search is useless ( www.theverge.com )
The Verge published this spam article about the "best printers of 2024" to demonstrate how terrible Google's search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search "best printer" on Google....
Firefox saw an increase in users (~50% in Germany and ~30% in France) following Apple’s default browser changes in the EU. ( www.theverge.com )
Firefox spokesperson Christopher Hilton tells The Verge that the browser has seen a more than 50 percent jump in users in Germany and a nearly 30 percent increase in France.
Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing” ( www.theverge.com )
Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’ ( www.theverge.com )
Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data ( www.theverge.com )
Avast, the cybersecurity software company, is facing a $16.5 million fine after it was caught storing and selling customer information without their consent. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the fine on Thursday and said that it’s banning Avast from selling user data for advertising purposes.
Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone ( www.theverge.com )
Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....
US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones ( www.theverge.com )
The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.
Firefox saw an increase in users (~50% in Germany and ~30% in France) following Apple’s default browser changes in the EU, as did Brave. ( www.theverge.com )
Firefox spokesperson Christopher Hilton tells The Verge that the browser has seen a more than 50 percent jump in users in Germany and a nearly 30 percent increase in France....
Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths ( www.theverge.com )
Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption ( www.theverge.com )
Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. ( www.theverge.com )
Apple is finally allowing Firefox to use its own engine on the iPhone (but only in the EU) ( www.theverge.com )
Looks like DRM prevented to watch movies in many theaters yesterday ( www.theverge.com )
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Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox ( www.theverge.com )
Mozilla is unhappy because the use of browser engines other than WebKit will be restricted to the EU, forcing them to develop two different apps....
Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing ( www.theverge.com )
The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the top of other apps and windows. After pausing that notification to address “unintended behavior,” the pop-ups have returned again on Windows 10 and 11....
Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal - The Verge ( www.theverge.com )
Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running ( www.theverge.com )
Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract ( www.theverge.com )
Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday....
The little smart home platform that could ( www.theverge.com )
Home Assistant is now part of the Open Home Foundation, a non-profit aiming to fight against surveillance capitalism and offer privacy, choice, and sustainability....
A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months ( www.theverge.com )
YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps ( www.theverge.com )
Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]". ( www.theverge.com )
This also includes ceasing development and destroying their copies of the code....
Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu ( www.theverge.com )
The software maker will use the Recommended section of the Start menu, which usually shows file recommendations, to suggest apps from the Microsoft Store.
Israel quietly rolled out a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip ( www.theverge.com )
Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New York Times reports. The program, which was created after the October 7th attacks, uses technology from Google Photos as well as a custom tool built by the Tel Aviv-based company...