Meta launches an AI feature that lets Threads users temporarily personalize their feed by specifying topics in a public post that begins with "Dear Algo" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/meta-threads-dear-algo-ai-algori…
Six mois de prison avec sursis pour le retraité qui a écrasé un œuf sur Jordan Bardella «pour alerter les citoyens» - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-diver…
“Google handed over a trove of personal data about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge…”
“…latest example of how the U.S. government is using a controversial type of legal request, called an administrative subpoena, to demand that tech companies turn over the private data of individuals who have been critical of the Trump administration.”
reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
Google handed over a trove of personal data
about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge, according to a report by The Intercept.
The search and advertising tech giant provided ICE with the usernames, physical addresses, and an itemized list of services associated with the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson,
a British student and journalist who briefly attended a pro-P…
Michael's has gone to surge pricing, I hear.
WA lawmakers consider bill to end retail surveillance, surge pricing | The Seattle Times
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-lawmakers-consider-bill-to-end-retail-surveillance-surge-pricing/
Perplexity announces Personal Computer, an OpenClaw-like AI agent that can run on a Mac, and an enterprise version of Perplexity Computer (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/11/perplexity-personal-computer-mac