Notices by Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social), page 8

Man’s leg amputated in near 20-hour effort to free him from rocks in #Tasmania’s Franklin River - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/23/leg-amputated-tasmania-rafting-franklin-river "His #smartwatch made a call for assistance about an hour later and triggered an emergence response, providing rescuers with his location."

A proposed climate tax on crypto mining is gaining momentum - https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/22/24302303/crypto-mining-climate-change-levy-tax-bitcoin "A levy on energy-hungry crypto mining could raise billions of dollars for climate action. " #sensible

#VPN Company #Cyberghost Says We Infringed Its Copyright In An Advertisement We Ran For Them A Decade Ago - https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/22/vpn-company-cyberghost-says-we-infringed-its-copyright-in-an-advertisement-we-ran-for-them-a-decade-ago/ "When companies can blithely claim copyright over content promoting their own products, it shows how little checks there are on false claims." #CopyrightMadness #techdirt

@midgephoto so did I, have used it from the beginning. but it has completely lost its way now...

@jzb I remember when Firefox was launched - as Phoenix, of course. I remember when its market share soared, and IE's fell. It's just that today it's pretty much irrelevant, and seems to have lost its way despite - or maybe because - of all the money it gathers...

And no, OpenAI's browser will be, well, OpenAI's...

@dzwiedziu probably

#OpenAI is thinking about building its own browser - https://www.computerworld.com/article/3611399/openai-is-thinking-about-building-its-own-browser.html we need a new #OpenSource browser to replace the failed #firefox...

#Microsoft’s controversial #Recall scraper is finally entering public preview - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/microsofts-controversial-recall-scraper-is-finally-entering-public-preview/ "Among other changes, the feature is now opt-in by default and is protected by additional encryption. Users must also re-authenticate with Windows Hello each time they access the database." #ai

I'm being informed that we are still fucked.

Everyone's talking about Bobby Brainworms and fluoride, and the other monsters he's appointing just to troll us, but here's what's been keeping me up at night: the Fox Nazi war-crimes-enthusiast Secretary...
https://jwz.org/b/ykdU

@FranceskaMann quintessentially

@FranceskaMann they are, but where's the pointless tech?

@tknarr Amazon uses it, so it's probably a viable approach

#Amazon to invest another $4 billion in #Anthropic, #OpenAI’s biggest rival - https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/amazon-to-invest-another-4-billion-in-anthropic-openais-biggest-rival.html "Amazon Web Services will also become Anthropic’s “primary cloud and training partner”

Supreme Court tosses #Facebook appeal in shareholder lawsuit arising from #CambridgeAnalytica data breach - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-tosses-facebook-appeal-shareholder-lawsuit-cambridge-analytica-data-breach/ "Cambridge Analytica had purchased data collected through a personality quiz on Facebook and used it to create psychological profiles of U.S. voters to assist GOP Sen. Ted Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign."

Ermittler sollen Zweitschlüssel bekommen, um Autos einfacher verwanzen zu können - https://netzpolitik.org/2024/justizministerkonferenz-ermittler-sollen-zweitschluessel-bekommen-um-autos-einfacher-verwanzen-zu-koennen/ "Strafverfolgungsbehörden haben angeblich Schwierigkeiten, unbemerkt in Autos von Verdächtigen zu gelangen." terrible idea

Oh Look, It Was Trivial To Buy Troop And Intelligence Officer Location Data From Dodgy, Unregulated Data Brokers - https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/22/oh-look-it-was-trivial-to-buy-troop-and-intelligence-officer-location-data-from-dodgy-unregulated-data-brokers/ just as it always has been... #adtech #microtargeting #privacy

‘The air is killing us’: why Delhi’s pollution problem runs deeper than smog season - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/22/the-air-is-killing-us-why-delhi-india-pollution-problem-runs-deeper-than-smog-season "Leaders of Indian capital must tackle transport and heavy industry rather than seek quick fixes, say campaigners" #india #airpollution

@wendyg certainly them, but others too - various "parents" organisations...

Reduce whale-ship strikes by making 2.6% of ocean surface safer, study says - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/21/reduce-whale-ship-strikes-ocean-surface-safer-study "Researchers identify collision hotspots around world but reveal almost all these lack preventive measures" hardly much to ask... #whales

@wendyg well, they won't give up, will they?