A judge has ruled that Google acted illegally to acquire and maintain monopoly power in some online ad markets.
Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that’s specifically optimized for machine learning applications.
The WordPress.com maker added “nearly invisible” watermarks to P2, its platform for internal communications, according to a report from 404 Media. The watermarks reportedly appear as a pattern that you can only see by changing the site’s white background or zooming in, potentially allowing Automattic to link leaked screenshots to individual employees.
Consider this a reminder or a PSA: a “view” on the internet means even less than you think.
Google has felt like a product in decline for a long time. Kagi offers a new, better vision for search, but the only way it works is if you’re willing to pay.
In Soviet Russia, domains will no longer register you — or at least they probably won’t, starting in 2030. So if you’ve been running a website on a .su top-level domain, you might need to find another address in the coming years... just maybe not something on .io.
[Domain Name Wire]
CNN delves into the February 28th call to boycott Amazon, Walmart, and other companies — as an act of resistance in a time of political turmoil, but also an influencer-sparked, celebrity-supported viral phenomenon that’s taken on a life of its own:
The “economic blackout” effort is relatively uncoordinated and nebulous. ... But this boycott has gained strength online because it has captured visceral public anger with the American economy, corporations and politics.
Inside this chatbot is an assistant that can remember and do stuff for you. Sometimes.
Ahh MySpace. A website from simpler times when the worst you had to worry about from social media was falling out with the friend that didn’t make your Top 8. It has since puttered along morphing into something completely unrecognizable...until now. Game designer Ste Curran has created SkySpace, a website that’ll take your Bluesky profile and make it into a MySpace page complete with a customizable background, a Top 8 you can set, and even a music plugin.
The three apps join others available in the Opera One browser’s sidebar, like WhatsApp, Instagram, and Telegram — using them there keeps them from taking up precious browser tab real estate. Users can enable or disable these to keep the sidebar from being junked up with services you never use.
The new integrations are available in the latest update, which you can find here.
Following the Gulf’s name change in Google Maps last week, Developer Bryce Bostwick created the Restore the Gulf of Mexico extension to revert it back, which he says in a YouTube video is “the world’s smallest form of protest.”
Its Chrome Web Store listing says it could take a few refreshes to work, though it only took one for me.
[fixthegulf.com]
I’m not talking about using something like Kagi, although that’s one way to do it. Last year, I directed Verge readers to a Tedium blog post explaining how to add “udm=14” to your browser’s default search URL to get rid of Google Search AI Overviews.
If that’s a headache, there’s also Tedium author Ernie Smith’s website that builds the “disenshittification Konami code” into your searches. Alternatively, you could just use cussword-laden searches.
[udm14.com]
The Wikimedia Foundation will likely soon have to contend with “the rising noise of criticism from Elon Musk and others,” as founder Jimmy Wales recently put it. It’s already taking measures to safeguard the identity of those who edit pages on Wikipedia. One of those is a temporary accounts program that, as 404 Media describes it, will “give editors who are not logged in a temporary username rather than showing an IP address.”
Some of these tools have previously been implemented to protect users in authoritarian countries. Now they’ll be used more widely as Wikipedia faces an unfavorite political climate in the US.
A spokesperson told TechCrunch that Tumblr will join the open social web once it finishes its move to WordPress.
When the migration is complete, Tumblr users will be able to federate their blogs through ActivityPub. Users may even gain access to “other open web integrations,” such as the ability to “run other custom plug-ins or themes,” TechCrunch reports.
A developer named Isaac Gemal spent a few hours coding using Anthropic’s Claude last week to make WikiTok, a site with a TikTok-like presentation, but instead of vertical videos, you swipe through random Wikipedia article previews you can tap to read, ArsTechnica reports.
Gemal reportedly has no plans for an algorithm, and “liking” a post saves it to a list locally, according to the developer.
by using this client YOU CAN SYNCHRONIZE YOUR CAPS LOCK STAte with everyone elsE USING THIS CLIENT. WHENEVER I PRESS CAPSLOck it is pressed for you and VICE-VERSA. NO MORE DISAGREEING ABOUT WHEN TO USE CAPS LOCK. NOw we can all share a siNGLE KEY!
(will this break MY COMPUTER? IDK JUST MAKE SURE YOU KNOW how to stop a procesS BEFORE RUNNING IT.)
[globalcapslock.com]
One app, all your feeds, none of the nonsense of social media. It’s a better way to consume just about everything.
