WhatsApp partners with PayU to roll out prepaid mobile recharges in India; it remains a marginal payments player in India despite launching payments in 2020 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/whatsap…
Wait, the for-profit not-for-profit privacy champion funded by half-a-billion dollars a year from Google is doing this? Do you think their then-head of public policy was actually telling the truth when she told me “we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company?” No, couldn’t possibly be. I’m sure there are some benefits of the doubt we could still dust off and send their way.
#Mozilla

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Firefox updated their Terms of Use? Let's see!
As you type a search query within Firefox, Firefox offers search suggestions to provide you with faster and more direct access to what you’re looking for. Some of the search suggestions come from your search provider (“Search Suggestions”). Others come …
«Privatsphäre in Gefahr — Neue App warnt vor smarten Brillen in der Nähe:
Träger smarter Brillen filmen ihre Umgebung oftmals ohne Rücksicht auf die Privatsphäre anderer. Eine neue Smartphone-App soll davor schützen.»
Ich habe es mal installiert um es auszuprobieren. Leider nur über den Google Apps-Store oder GitHub Download installierbar und (noch) nicht über @…
The Pentagon’s new
$200 billion private equity fund
would harm the critical industries it aims to support.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/24/pentagon-private-equity-fund-defense-industrial-base-national-security/
Red Lines under EU AI Act: Unpacking the prohibition of emotion recognition in the workplace and education institutions
https://fpf.org/blog/red-lines-under-eu-ai-act-unpacking-the-prohibition-of-emot…
As regular Australians struggle, gas companies are making massive profits and paying minimal tax. It is perverse https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/24/australian-gas-companies-massive-profits-paying-minimal-tax
🎒 A private space company has a radical new plan to bag an asteroid
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/a-private-space-company-has-a-radical-new-plan-to-bag-an-asteroid/
Sources: AI startups are struggling to access Nvidia GPUs as Microsoft and other cloud providers divert supply to internal teams and large customers like OpenAI (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-clo…
Kraken launches what it claims are the first regulated perpetual futures contracts based on tokenized stocks, available to non-US users and trading 24/7 (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/