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thisisaaronland (@thisisaaronland@orthis.social)
Attached: 1 image I never imagined that I would become a person with strong feelings / about the design of webkit’s colour picker / but that is what working on the https://github.com/aaronland/fingerprint project has done

Kris @… goes into a very important issue here (in German):
Since "AI" has become the thing to do, no cloud platform is neutral anymore (they never fully were, try hosting warez there, but for your own content they mostly were): They all "need" (as in want) to use your work as training data for their neural networks - especially work that's not "…

Kris (@isotopp@chaos.social)
Attached: 1 image In https://ddinstagram.com/sloan_spencer_author/p/C48JN_TrvxO/?img_index=1 heißt es: "Warning to all writers who use Google Docs. In a Discord with other indie authors last night, one romance author explained that all her work was suspended by Google for violating their rules of sharing explicit content with her beta/alpha readers. She has no acces to these files or her other works. Please read the following screenshots and go back up your workj now on a different plattfor…

Filing: Applied Materials discloses "multiple subpoenas" as recently as February from US agencies, including the SEC, about the company's Chinese business (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

US Renews Inquiry Into Applied Materials’ Chinese Business
US government agencies have issued a new round of requests for information about Applied Materials Inc.’s shipments to Chinese customers, reviving a sensitive topic as Washington tries to sever sales of advanced chipmaking gear to its geopolitical rival.

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https://democrats-homeland.house.gov/news/legislation/ranking-member-thompson-introduces-legislation-to-ensure-no-secret-service-protection-for-convicted-felons-sentenced-to-prison

Filing: Disney will take non-cash pre-tax impairment charges of $1.8B to $2.4B related to Reliance JV; Disney will be a minority shareholder with a 36.8% stake (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Disney Inks $8.5B Deal to Merge India Business With Reliance Industries
Reliance will invest $1.4 billion into the joint venture, which is valued at $8.5 billion, while Disney will provide a content license.

TIL that Brendan Fraser gender swapped the character Anck-Su-Namun on the set of “The Mummy” as a prank and my love for him grows.
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F*XOXO (@fxoxo@channels.im)
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I’ve been following the Social Media Sameness Singularity since 2016.
It’s sometimes also corporate espionage!
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Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say Zuckerberg told execs to “figure out” how to spy on encrypted Snapchat traffic. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/facebook-secretly-spied-on-snapchat-usage-to-confuse-advertisers-court-docs-say/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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thisisaaronland (@thisisaaronland@orthis.social)
Attached: 1 image I never imagined that I would become a person with strong feelings / about the design of webkit’s colour picker / but that is what working on the https://github.com/aaronland/fingerprint project has done

Filing: FTC says Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal's disappearing messages to conceal evidence in FTC's antitrust case against Amazon (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Amazon’s Bezos, Jassy Deleted Chats Amid FTC Antitrust Probe
Top Amazon.com Inc. executives including founder Jeff Bezos and Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy destroyed text messages discussing business, the Federal Trade Commission alleged, erasing evidence the agency could have used in its antitrust case against the retail giant.