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“There are a couple of improvements in Topics,” says Hamed Haddadi, chief scientist at Brave, a privacy-focused browser and search engine. He says that under FLoC, people could have been grouped into more than 30,000 different categories, which would allow advertisers to gain specific knowledge of their interests. This information could then be combined with other data to build up an incredibly detailed picture of each and every one of us. This is less likely in Topics, as there are… Source link

Just when you thought you would never belly laugh harder than when Elon Musk decided to demonstrate the Cybertruck’s shatterproof windows, along comes AI Day 2021 – a day that we’re certain is going to live in Tesla-infamy for one reason or another. Naturally, having solved the issues of making cars profitably and achieving the company’s goal of 1 million robotaxis on the road, Tesla took yesterday’s event as an opportunity to reveal their next game-changing product that doesn’t exist, a… Source link

Enlarge / Delicious gingerbread Android cookies. Google has started emailing users of very old Android devices to tell them it’s time to say goodbye. Starting September 27, devices running Android 2.3.7 and lower will no longer be able to log in to Google services, effectively killing a big portion of the on-rails Android experience. As Google puts it in an official community post, “If you sign in to your device after September 27, you may… Source link

A logo outside the Google Store Chelsea in New York, May 28, 2021. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google is pushing back its timeline to deprecate third-party tracking cookies from 2022 to 2023, giving the digital advertising industry more time to plan for more privacy-conscious targeted ads.  Cookies are small pieces of code that websites deliver to a visitor’s browser and stick around as the person visits other sites. They can be used to track users across multiple sites to target… Source link

Early on the morning of Oct. 2, 2018, a Gulfstream jet carrying a team of Saudi assassins on its way to Istanbul made a quick stopover in Cairo. The purpose: to pick up a lethal dose of “illegal” narcotics that was injected a few hours later into the left arm of Jamal Khashoggi, killing the Washington Post columnist within a matter of minutes, according to notes that summarize secret Saudi interrogations of the murderers. What the drugs were — and who provided them in the middle of the… Source link

By a vote of 54-35, the Senate on Friday blocked a bipartisan proposal to create an independent inquiry into what led a violent mob of Trump supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, temporarily halting the certification of the 2020 presidential election. Passage of the measure required 60 votes, but just six Republicans joined Democrats to vote in favor of the measure, which was passed in the House last week. “Donald Trump’s big lie has now fully enveloped the Republican Party,” Senate… Source link

Three teams of Delta Force operators peered through their scopes from concealed locations at Baghdad International Airport last January, waiting for their target: Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s most powerful military commander. Disguised as maintenance workers, the operators had secreted into position in old buildings or vehicles on the side of the road. It was a cool, overcast night and the southeast side of the airport had been shut down on short notice for a military training exercise — or… Source link

Two teenagers will serve three years’ jail after they pushed a 33-kilogram log off a cliff which killed a mother who was taking photos below. Jordan Buckley and Jaden Churchheus, both 17, have admitted in court they pushed a log off a cliff at Old Man’s Cave in Hocking Hills State Park in the US state of Ohio on September 2, 2019. Victoria Schafer, a 44-year-old married mother of four, was taking photos below the cliff’s edge when the log “fell from the sky” and struck her in the… Source link

Authorities said a woman appears to have been killed Monday by a shark in Maine, a state that researchers say has recorded only one confirmed unprovoked attack in nearly 200 years. The Maine Marine Patrol said in a statement that the woman, who was not identified, was likely attacked while swimming near Bailey Island, northeast of Portland. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The patrol said an eyewitness reported seeing the attack. Kayakers brought the woman to shore, the statement… Source link