Manny Puentes

It’s so nice in Colorado this time of year.

Forget VPNs – a new web browser may be the fix against online surveillance Developed by two privacy researchers, Psylo introduces a one-of-a-kind isolated tab system powered by a proxy network.

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Is Google about to destroy the web? Google says adding more AI to its search engine will rejuvenate the internet. Others predict an apocalypse for websites. One thing is clear: this era of online history is closing.

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‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web People are replacing Google search with artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, a major shift that has unleashed a new kind of bot loose on the web. To offer users a tidy AI summary instead of Goo...

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EXCLUSIVE: Ads From Verizon, Shell, and Others Ran Next to Explicit Videos on Top Android App Ads for blue-chip brands like Verizon, Starbucks, and Instacart are being served on an app full of suggestive content via popular exchanges operated by Meta, Amazon, Epsilon and AppLovin.

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The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
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Third-party cookie conversations have died down. What a relief ....

WordPress forms an AI team to steer its 660+ plug-ins. With leaders from Automattic, Google, and more, the goal is to unify and guide AI innovation on the platform. ---

Telegram partners with xAI in a $300M deal to integrate Grok, sharing 50% of in-app subscription revenue.

Microsoft Launches Copilot for Gaming Beta on Mobile Devices Today

AI in Search: Going beyond information to intelligence Today at I/O, we showed how we’re enhancing Search with our latest Gemini models via AI Mode.

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Microsoft Advertising is closing the Xandr DSP Microsoft Advertising is closing its DSP, with the online giant informing clients the ad tech unit no longer aligns with its AI priorities.

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Apple can no longer collect fees on purchases made outside the App Store in the US, court rules Epic Games has claimed victory in its legal battle against Apple, after a US court enforced an injunction which prohibi…

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Google Chrome will now continue to use third-party cookies Google decided that companies can still use the targeting technology in the world's most popular web browser.

Cookies anyone?

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Google is a monopoly in online ad tech, federal judge rules It follows a similar 2024 ruling against the company in search.

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WPP acquires InfoSum in major investment in its AI-driven data offer | WPP

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Apple sued for false advertising over Apple Intelligence The lawsuit focuses on Apple's promotion of AI features in Siri that were delayed.

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NASA Simulation’s Plunge Into a Black Hole: Explained YouTube video by NASA Goddard

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Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

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Do you use Gmail or Outlook? FBI, CISA issue warning about Medusa ransomware Federal authorities have issued an advisory warning people of Medusa ransomware that has breached the data of more than 300 people since February.

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AI Startup ProRata Now Helps Brands Create and Contextually Serve Ads Across the Web These ads will run across ProRata’s publisher partners, including Time, BuzzFeed, and its AI search engine.

Read this if you're in advertising.
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Is that iPhone app spying? Apple’s App Privacy Report reveals all Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson urges you to use Apple’s App Privacy Report to see what your apps are really up to.

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As Publicis snaps up identity-based platform Lotame, the holdco data wars intensify Boss Sadoun says the acquisition puts the group in a “category of one” among its peers. With competitors chasing a similar goal, battle lines are being drawn.

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The Elon tax: Ad insiders say they're advising clients to spend on X to avoid legal and political headaches Ad industry insiders told BI they felt spending on Musk's X platform could help advertisers avoid some potential risks.

The Elon Tax: Industry insiders told BI they felt advertising on X could help brands avoid some political and legal risks.

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If Elon Musk's X threatened a big ad company with government interference, that's not OK Elon Musk is big in Trump's government. He also owns X. Is X's Linda Yaccarino telling companies to give it business, or risk government reprisal?

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Grubhub confirms data breach affecting customers and drivers U.S. food delivery giant Grubhub says hackers accessed the personal details of customers and drivers after breaching its internal systems. Grubhub is a popular food-ordering and delivery platform wit...

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Trump Begins Selling New Meme Coin Days Ahead of Inauguration The president-elect and his family have a direct and potentially lucrative stake in the sale of a cryptocurrency product that surged in value in the hours after going on sale, days before his inaugura...

Good Lord this headline.

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Apple to pay $95 million to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping The alleged recordings occurred even when people didn’t seek to activate the virtual assistant with the trigger words, “Hey, Siri.”

There’s no such thing as a “good deal”. It’s a value trade, your data/privacy for technology.

Siri, Alexa and Google in your home enjoying the conversation as well. It’s a party.

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So weird how hard people would go to defend these companies as "just coincidence." TVs are so cheap because they have technology that listens to the ads that play. If we don't know what is happening, we can't possibly begin to have legislation that protects us.