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Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-05/google-loses-doj-antitrust-suit-over-search

The whole AI thing has me endlessly confused. Half the market is crashing because investors didn't see any signs of payoff in the quarterly earnings report, but I'm so lost as to what exactly they were expecting to see. Did they just not pay any attention at all to what these companies were actually doing with AI?

Were they expecting exponential Instagram usage growth as a result of Meta making it so you can have a conversation with the search bar? Or maybe everyone was going to buy 10 new Windows licenses in celebration of Microsoft announcing they want to install AI powered spyware on everyone's computer? Or was Google going to sell more ads by replacing all the search results with reddit shitposts. Either I'm missing something or everyone's 2 remaining brain cells are just really busy fighting to death for 3rd place.

They said the free public Wi-Fi is perfectly safe.

Court blocks net neutrality, says ISPs are likely to win case against FCC - Enlarge / Federal Communication Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworc... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2041082 #fccnetneutrality #policy

Minds are ‘not currency for social media,’ says EU as TikTok kills Lite Rewards - TikTok will permanently withdraw its controversial Lite Rewards programme in the E... - https://thenextweb.com/news/tiktok-kills-lite-rewards-eu #governmentandpolicy #dataandsecurity #ecosystems

New LianSpy malware hides by blocking Android security feature https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-lianspy-malware-hides-by-blocking-android-security-feature/ #news #Security #Mobile

Teenager sues Meta over ‘addictive’ Instagram features - The lawsuit seeking class-action status and $5 billion in damages alleges Meta intentiona... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/05/meta-lawsuit-teen-mental-health/

GNOME Now Has an Official Extension for Legacy Tray Icons

As part of every GNOME release (spanning GNOME Shell, Mutter, core apps, etc) is an official set of GNOME Shell extensions. This is non-default package is “a collection of extensions providing additional and optional functionality to GNOME Shell” that are developed and maintained by GNOME developers. Ubuntu, like other Linux distributions that use GNOME Shell, doesn’t seed this pack of desktop bolt-ons in its default install, but do package it and keep it in their repositories. On Ubuntu you run sudo apt install gnome-shell-extensions to get it. Most of these ‘official’ extensions are available to install from the GNOME Extensions website.
#News

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/08/gnome-official-status-icons-extension

CrowdStrike unhappy about Delta's 'litigation threat,' claims airline refused 'free on-site help' - Vendor plans to aggressively defend its case before listing catalog of shortcomings at th... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/08/05/crowdstrike_is_not_at_all/

IMPORTANT NOTICE ⚠️

(Boosts appreciated)

The #Dillo package for #Debian will be removed from the repositories in two weeks.

https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/issues/230

The current maintainer seems to be unable to continue taking care of it, and I'm not familiar with Debian packages to maintain it myself.

Is there a Debian maintainer who could help us by adopting it? We already have a working package:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dillo/-/merge_requests/1

It’s time to swap “the number of people claiming Moores law is dead doubles every 2 years” to “the number of people claiming X86 is dead doubles ever 2 years”

For all the good things going on in Arm/RISC, the least painful platform to do most things on is still X86

The Breville Oracle Jet is a $2,000 computer that also makes coffee https://www.theverge.com/24211592/breville-oracle-jet-espresso-machine-review #news

How to find your oldest social media posts and delete them https://www.theverge.com/24212111/social-media-twitter-facebook-instagram-how-to #news

Pixel Art and the Myth of The CRT Effect - The ‘CRT Effect’ myth says that the reason why pixel art of old games looked so mu... - https://hackaday.com/2024/08/03/pixel-art-and-the-myth-of-the-crt-effect/ #retrocomputing #pixelart #games #art #crt

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Google hires top start-up team, fueling concerns over Big Tech’s power in AI - Google hired the cofounders of prominent AI startup Character.ai, in a deal similar to re... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/02/google-character-ai-noam-shazeer/

Delta CEO says CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage cost the airline $500 million. He called Microsoft the most fragile platform. What do you think will the CEO replace Microsoft with Apple? Perhaps THEY need to consider Linux? https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/1/24210680/crowdstrike-microsoft-outage-delta-lawsuit-class-action-damages

Judges Suspends FCC Net Neutrality Restoration Rule https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/judges-suspend-fcc-net-neutrality-restoration-rule.html

We posted a deep dive video today on the DeepComputing board and our thoughts on RISC-V overall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMwepyyaj8I

US Sues TikTok Over 'Massive-Scale' Privacy Violations of Kids Under 13 - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. Justice Department file... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/08/02/1946231/us-sues-tiktok-over-massive-scale-privacy-violations-of-kids-under-13?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #court