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I have just the #searchengine for people to try.
For those who are like me and are tired of #Duckduckgo /their sketchy partnership with #Microsoft, and #Google and #bing s #privacy invasive #tracking oh and,
no #ai features
I urge you to try
freesearch.club (based on #Searxng )
- #opensource / #decentralised search engine
- no ads
- no paid walled features
(searxng instances don't federate with each other like #Mastodon , but there's lots of choices of servers with more variety of hosts)
Search is dead — long live curation
https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/search-is-dead-long-live-curation/
Search is dead — long live curation
Google has planted a flag in the ground, declaring AI the future and ushering in what is best characterized as a disinterest in investing in traditional web search.Cory Dransfeldt
Google’s Gemini AI is coming to #Gmail, whether you like it or not. 🤖
Will you use this new feature - at the price of giving #Google all your data?
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/google-gemini-ai-email
Don't want Gmail to sift through your emails? Too late, their AI is going to do it.
Google's Gemini AI is coming soon to Gmail where it will be able to craft AI generated responses, summarize conversations, and more.Tutanota
Your phone will soon have an opinion on you, too.
#Google #AI
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/google-will-use-gemini-to-detect-scams-during-calls/
Google use stolen music to create AI-generated music. How are Google *not* being a fence of stolen goods?
From Music Ally:
'That said, in January Billboard claimed that Google DeepMind *had* trained its model on copyrighted music, and was "trying to make deals" after the event. When Music AI Sandbox rolls out properly to more artists (and non-artists?) more clarity on these matters would be welcome.'
In other words, one of the biggest companies in the world 'tried' to get permission to use other peoples' property, perhaps failed, so they stole it.
This behaviour is grand-scale theft, no matter how you try to spin this. Looting by human individuals is *nothing* in comparison.
#google #theft #ArtificialIntelligence #music #AI #MusicAlly
Google I/O wrapped up, and I have a LOT of thoughts. Shot a quick reaction video on the keynote here https://somegadgetguy.com/b/455
Some really interesting AI tools are coming, but will Gemini search continue hurting website traffic?
#tech #technology #business #news #technews #bbtg #geek #google #googleio #search #AI
Google I/O 2024 Reactions: Will AI Search Destroy YOUR Website Traffic?
Google I/O is here! I just finished the keynote, and I have a LOT of thoughts. We’re seeing some fun demonstrations of Gemini services. New ways to help people sort and organize their informa…SomeGadgetGuy
This looks awesome, can't wait to test it live! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXVvvRhiGjI
Project Astra: Our vision for the future of AI assistants
Introducing Project Astra. We created a demo in which a tester interacts with a prototype of AI agents supported by our multimodal foundation model, Gemini. ...YouTube
Watching #GoogleIO and there are some cool demonstrations of data center cloud computing, but there's also this fog of dystopia surrounding these demos.
The announcements for search are horrifying. Google is full mask off.
Phrases like "search for something, and we'll collect all this data for you" basically equates to:
"We sucked up ALL the data from people who really did the work, and we're going to give you the results of their hard work, but we wont take you to the site that generated the data. You can stay on the search page, and the site's traffic will plummet."
This is shocking.
#tech #technology #ai #google #search #llm #geek #technews #business
Apparently Google accidentally deleted all online data from UniSuper, a superannuation fund with half a million members.
UniSuper was only able to restore from backups from a different service. If they'd been solely relying on Google, then UniSuper and their members would be screwed.
Google says "This is an isolated, ‘one-of-a-kind occurrence’" But I'm seeing reports on Lemmy claiming to have dealt with similar problems with Google, suggesting this only the first *major* customer it has happened to.
In any case, don't put all your eggs in one basket. Even that that basket tries to make it ever-so-convenient for you to give them everything.
#google #cybersecurity #unisuper
Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’
Super fund boss and Google Cloud global CEO issue joint statement apologising for ‘extremely frustrating and disappointing’ outageJosh Taylor (The Guardian)
https://flip.it/KibAk7
#Tech #Career #LayOffs #Google #Microsoft #Tesla
Tesla, Google and Microsoft's ongoing job cuts could backfire for them
Job cuts at tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Tesla could hurt morale, productivity, and talent retention, countering any financial benefits.Tim Paradis (Insider)
Impressive that there aren’t more safeguards in place to prevent a configuration deleting all of a customer’s account. Google deleted the account of a tenant that has 620,000 customer accounts, leaving customers without service for over a week.
“the outage was caused by a misconfiguration that resulted in UniSuper's cloud account being deleted.”
Google Cloud Accidentally Deletes UniSuper's Online Account Due To 'Unprecedented Misconfiguration' - Slashdot
A "one-of-a-kind" Google Cloud "misconfiguration" resulted in the deletion of UniSuper's account last week, disrupting the financial services provider's than half a million members.hardware.slashdot.org
@BeAware Shit, I just realized, #OpenAI is working on a web search #AI application. When this release, I’m expecting #Google to take a massive hit.
OpenAI revs up plans for web search, but denies report of an imminent launch
The search.chatgpt.com URL is being set up, and Google employees are being poached.Ars Technica
#Google #Cloud accidentally deletes #UniSuper’s online #account due to ‘unprecedented #misconfiguration’
While UniSuper normally has duplication in place in two geographies, to ensure that if one service goes down or is lost then it can be easily restored, because the fund’s cloud subscription was deleted, it caused the deletion across both geographies.
#fail #economy #security #backup #problem #omg #wtf #news
Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’
Super fund boss and Google Cloud global CEO issue joint statement apologising for ‘extremely frustrating and disappointing’ outageJosh Taylor (The Guardian)
Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government
“In the short term, they will be left with no healthcare at all. However, they will find alternatives, as they always have.”Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
woot! has the Google Pixel 7 Pro 512 GB for $479 right now.
https://electronics.woot.com/offers/new-google-pixel-7-pros-unlocked
AI in space: Karpathy suggests AI chatbots as interstellar messengers to alien civilizations
Andrej Karpathy muses about sending a LLM binary that could "wake up" and answer questions.Ars Technica
Interesting | Forth https://www.forth.news/threads/663d462370368cebf0ae7083
OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say | Forth
OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google.www.forth.news
Andreessen #Horowitz investor says half of #Google's white-collar #staff probably do 'no real work'
"There's nothing for these people to do," he said. "It's all fake work," adding: "Now that's being exposed, what do these people actually do? They go to #meetings."
#news #economy #technology #job #work
VC says half of Google staff do 'no real work'
Andreessen Horowitz's David Ulevitch said Google was an "amazing example" of a company with "BS jobs."Sarah Jackson (Insider)
What I don't understand about the #TikTok problem is what makes TikTok worse than #Instagram, #Facebook, #Google or #Twitter?
Either you ban algorithmic timelines or you ban government spying. But if you only ban TikTok, the #propaganda will still reach us via the other networks ...
TikTok ban in the United States: https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/explaining-why-officials-want-to-ban-tiktok-in-the-united-states/article_2f1c3092-0baa-11ef-8c02-df0aeedefee3.html
#news #censorship #politics #China #USA #algorithm #software #socialNetwork #internet #problem #law #surveillance #economy
Explaining why officials want to ban TikTok in the United States
The bill states that TikTok has nine months to divest itself from China and that TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, sells the platform to another company. If a sale is agreed to,WPSD Local 6
This article about Google shutting down Google Fit API (and probably Google Fit) is giving me a headache trying to wrap my head around where #Android and #Google #FitnessTracking is heading.
Edit: someone made an illustration - thank you internet, I love you.
#GoogleFit #Fitbit #HealthConnect 😵💫
Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices
Scales, trackers, and other fitness devices that don't get updated will stop syncingArs Technica
#Google Removes #RISCV Support From #Android 
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/03/google-removes-risc-v-support-from-android/
Google Removes RISC-V Support From Android
Last year the introduction of RISC-V support to the Android-specific, Linux-derived Android Common Kernel (ACK) made it seem that before long Android devices might be using SoCs based around the R…Hackaday
@pluralistic Cory, this might be of interest, taking up your ‘Too big to care’ post. GMX licenses Google results. GMX results are superior to Google’s (without paying for Kagi’s metasearch).
Scroll to the second half to skip the parts about Mojeek and Bing.
Testing occidental search engines on site: again: Mojeek, Bing more normal
It was about time I had a look at the search engines again, using a site:jackyan.com search to see how they fared. GMX is included in this analysis for the first time.jackyan.com
#Google #Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders
#source: https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/pulumi_ai_pollution_of_search/
Google has indexed inaccurate infrastructure-as-code samples produced by Pulumi AI – a developer that uses an #AI #chatbot to generate infrastructure – and the rotten recipes are already appearing at the top of search results.
#news #internet #SearchEngine #problem #result #fail #software #technology
Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders
Pulumi claims it has culled bad infrastructure-as-code samplesThomas Claburn (The Register)
What Happens When a #Romance #Writer Gets Locked Out of #Google Docs
In March, an aspiring author got a troubling message: All of her works in progress were no longer accessible. What happened next is every writer’s worst fear.
Google never specified which of her 222,000 words was inappropriate.
...
Generally speaking, files containing #violence, #abuse, child sexual abuse material, and gore violate the terms of service for Google Drive and its associated products, like Docs and Sheets.
Now many of you will be thinking, who is stupid enough to store everything in the Google #cloud? The problem is we know that, but many people out there don't. We urgently need to do more educational work and warn people about companies like Google and their practices. Tell all your friends and acquaintances and don't use the clouds of the big corporations.
#news #problem #fail #warning #danger #service #customer #internet #economy #security #wtf #omg #disaster
Your word processor now has an opinion on you (and it’s not favourable.)
#Google #GoogleDocs #Cloud
https://www.wired.com/story/what-happens-when-a-romance-author-gets-locked-out-of-google-docs/
Not enough people talk about this.
I think some of this is how the cameras are built; webcams aren't designed with lenses that can zoom, while #iPhone cameras can. While higher-end webcams do have good lenses, and can be manually tuned to look really good, the #iPhone has really good software under the hood that makes the camera look as good as it does ( #Google does the same as well, #GCam vs #OpenCamera on default settings is night and day)
Mirrorless cameras are still better tho.
/s: The #BeEvilCompany ist doing it again. Well, how could a company that profits off manipulating search results ever be honest?
Besides, this will not be for long. I'm already waiting for the headlines heralding in mass layoffs through #AI automation./s
I talked to a friend from IT working in Europe, planning to move to the #US because salaries are a lot higher.
That being so, in a capitalist system, an international arbitrage of labor was to be expected.
While I was hopeful for #passkeys for a while, the reality at this point in time is not looking so great. What I see is fragmentation and confusion mostly caused by the big tech players.
Two examples:
- #amazon allows to create passkeys but for unknown reasons block #Firefox from passkey creation. Can anybody explain why would they do that in may 2024?
- #Apple situation for #AppleID as per https://passkeys.directory/details/apple/: "You are not yet able to save passkeys for Apple ID accounts in third-party credential managers and can only be stored in iCloud Passwords at this time."
which means I can't create a passkey in #KeePassXC which is the password manager I love and use.
Having a hard time finding good reasons for such a fragmented and poor user experience. Since the way #Google implemented passkeys allows for flawless creation and usage of passkeys in Firefox and KeePassXC there really can't be any good reasons for amazon and Apple to behave so poorly. So what's the explanation? Intentional #LockIn and malicious intent?
Please enlighten me 💡
I usually use #Chromium for work, but I've noticed that it's been a pain to load pages since Chromium 124. I found out that it's #Google's "TLS 1.3 hybridized Kyber support" causing the issue since it's enabled by default. I had to go into chrome://flags and disable it, and now everything's working as expected.
I had to test with #Firefox initially to make sure it wasn't my #OpenBSD machine with the issue since the infrastructure change. Good ol' Firefox let me know that wasn't the case; It was Chromium all along.
#google #stevejobs #layoffs #entshittification
Several former Google employees who were fired from the company for protesting against its cloud contract with the Israeli government have filed a complaint with the U.S. labor board.
The single-page complaint claims Google’s termination of their contracts was illegal and interferes with their rights to advocate for better working conditions, with one former employee claiming he was fired for simply watching the protest. @techspot has more.
#Google #ProjectNimbus #IsraelHamaswar
Ex-Google staff claim terminations over Israeli contract protest were illegal
Nine Google employees were arrested last month after occupying the company's offices in New York and California for an eight-hour sit-in. They were protesting against the $1.2...Rob Thubron (TechSpot)
You must be kidding me, Jason.
Too early to celebrate, my dude 
#mastodon #bluesky #threads #twitter #x #elon #musk #elonmusk #googleplus #google #graveyard #socialmedia #technology #tech
I'll just leave this here.
https://mashable.com/article/google-community-guidelines-politics
Google tells employees to stop 'raging' about politics
There will be consequences for disobedience.Jack Morse (Mashable)
