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Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the Digital Services Act (www.wired.com)
submitted 3 hours ago by tfm@piefed.europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/50828910

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Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70% (www.neowin.net)
submitted 4 hours ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/47641645

No matter how hard other browsers try, people stubbornly do not want to leave Chrome, and its market share is now above 70%.

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The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software (hackaday.com)
submitted 4 days ago by tfm@piefed.europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year (arstechnica.com)
submitted 6 days ago by tfm@piefed.europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward (www.ghacks.net)
submitted 5 days ago by tfm@piefed.europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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Reminder: LibreOffice is a more than viable alternative.

Or even better, stop doing paper format documents on your computer. It creates data silos and often isn't really accessible either. Who (except maybe governments) does still print stuff?

Organize your data relational. Tools like NocoDB or Baserow let you do this pretty easily and in a privacy friendly manner (self hosted).

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YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality (www.bbc.com)
submitted 1 week ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34898850

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Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great" (futurism.com)
submitted 1 week ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34860608

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Anti-vaccine myths surged on social media ahead of the CDC shooting (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34485163

Before the shooting, social media companies relaxed their protocols around misinformation.

In the weeks and months before the Aug. 8 shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, posts tying Covid vaccines to mental illness accrued millions of views online.

Previously more tightly moderated, some of the world’s largest social media platforms now operate with far fewer guardrails, allowing vaccine misinformation to flourish.

On X, for example, verified accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers openly claimed in recent weeks that Covid vaccines act like “chemical lobotomies,” which is false.

On Facebook, health influencers with broad reach alleged that Covid vaccines cause severe brain damage or other severe side effects such as cancer, despite no scientific basis for those claims.

And on TikTok, videos repeating the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism drew hundreds of thousands of views this year, spreading doubt to wide audiences.

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Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor (www.thepinknews.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/30334937

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Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 (lifehacker.com)
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cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/2552694

Microsoft is being sued by a man who feels cheated by the current plans to sunset Windows 10. He makes some good points, but I doubt he'll win.

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Reddit will block the Internet Archive (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34305834

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Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/29433858

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Microsoft confirms it made $27 billion after laying off 9,000 people, and its CEO physically cannot stop talking about AI (www.gamesradar.com)
submitted 1 month ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33785640

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AI Data Centers in Texas Used 463 Million Gallons of Water, Residents Told to Take Shorter Showers (techiegamers.com)
submitted 1 month ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/21355952

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Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse (gizmodo.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33614190

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Google reducing the capacity of the Pixel 6a battery after 400 cycles (arstechnica.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32830326

I wonder if there is something subpar about whoever Google is getting the batteries from for the A series phones.

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Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 1 month ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32503493

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Google’s electricity demand is skyrocketing (www.technologyreview.com)
submitted 1 month ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32501459

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WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family (futurism.com)
submitted 2 months ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/27231532

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'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup (www.middleeasteye.net)
submitted 2 months ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32365961

Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming platform, is facing intense criticism and boycott calls following CEO Daniel Ek’s announcement of a €600m ($702m) investment in Helsing, a German defence startup specialising in AI-powered combat drones and military software.

The move, announced on 17 June, has sparked widespread outrage from musicians, activists and social media users who accuse Ek of funnelling profits from music streaming into the military industry.

Many have started calling on users to cancel their subscriptions to the service.

“Finally cancelling my Spotify subscription – why am I paying for a fuckass app that works worse than it did 10 years ago, while their CEO spends all my money on technofascist military fantasies?” said one user on X.

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Facebook is starting to feed its Meta AI with private, unpublished photos (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 months ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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Salesforce and Slack announce price hikes following expansion of AI integrations (alternativeto.net)
submitted 2 months ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging - What we're seeing: More hate, more fear, less freedom. (makemetasafe.org)
submitted 2 months ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/32311365

On January 7, 2025, Meta announced sweeping changes to its content moderation policies, including the end of third-party fact-checking in the U.S., and rollbacks to its hate speech policy globally that remove protections for women, people of color, trans people, and more. In the absence of data from Meta, we decided to go straight to users to assess if and how harmful content is manifesting on Meta platforms in the wake of January rollbacks.

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The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster (techcrunch.com)
submitted 2 months ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/46067573

Use Mistral instead!

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Meta AI posts your personal chats to a public feed (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 2 months ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/4660683

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