Maybe Google is comfortable enough offering the Pixel as a typical consumer device now, instead of a developer one. They used to be able to differentiate themselves from their competitors, but there aren’t many competitors left.

At least it’s only an issue for new articles, which probably have the least editor involvement.

People creating self-promotion on Wikipedia has been a problem for a long time before ChatGPT.

AOSP can be fully abandoned and privately forked by Google without it technically being “dead,” but that abandonment would effectively kill the project.

From the article, Google can technically let AOSP still exist while destroying it in practice:

what could happen is that Google takes Android closed source from here on out, spinning off whatever remains of AOSP up until that point into a separate company or project… This technically means “AOSP is not going away”,

From the author, a sentiment I fully agree with:

If in 2025 you still take statements from big tech based on best intentions, you’re a fool.

Better link, I hope

“Pause” and not “Stop” is concerning.

Is it just me, or was the addition of AI summaries basically predetermined? The AI panel probably would only be attended by a small portion of editors (introducing selection bias) and it’s unclear how much of the panel was dedicated to simply promoting the concept.

I imagine the backlash comes from a much wider selection of editors.

Ironically, this new China policy would only require them to give you an ID that the government knows is associated with you. In other words, on a technical level, it might be more private than their current system.

In the United States, the concept of a digital ID is reprehensible because it would be far worse than the status quo.

Note this court order is exclusively for an ongoing case into copyright infringement.

I’m of two minds of this.

• On one hand, I don’t want to normalize forcing companies to collect data on users and retain it past their stated deletion dates. OpenAI (allegedly) deletes customer data after some time, and I’d like to hold them to that!
• On the other hand, I trust OpenAI as far as I can throw them. The only reason they would ever delete data, as they state themselves, is for business interests. They probably want to keep corporate clients more than they want to risk the leakage of sensitive client information.

I wish. Elon Musk was inspired by WeChat, and the US has already started sending undesirables to faraway labor camps. Praise of the Taliban has been… Not uncommon in conservative circles as far back as 2021, and there’s nothing unusual about the current administration copping CCP rules while pretending to oppose them.

I believe so, based on another article I read

Interesting you added “Russia” to the title, but couldn’t be bothered to name the US as another surveillance state.

If I didn’t know better, I’d say you didn’t care about privacy at all, and were only stoking nationalistic fears.

I like redundancies. Using Google over a VPN is less effective than using Google through a proxy that also services thousands of other people for Google specifically, for example

FWIW Ecosia

• Is not particularly privacy oriented
• Donates $0.00 unless you click ads

tl;dr the article says that

1. People were downloading sketchy Chinese VPN apps
2. China compels companies to share data with the government

This research is interesting, but right about now, the average American citizen is in way more danger from the US than China.

Consider switching up your exclusive “China Bad” posting a little. These articles are getting so obscure, that you probably had to peel through a good amount of stuff that people here would find way more relevant.