Dan Goodin writing for Ars Technica Like most other large advertising networks, Google Ads regularly serves malicious content that isn’t taken down until third parties have notified the company. Google Ads takes no responsibility for any damage that may result from these oversights. The company said in an email it removes malicious ads once it learns of them and suspends the advertiser and has done so in this case.

Juno Jove @jupiter@mastodon.gamedev.place IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS is the new captcha. 12:25 PM • June 27, 2024 (UTC)

Penny Daflos @pennydaflos@mstdn.social AI is everywhere but the practical applications have seemed far off Not so for the BC Wildfire Service Last year they started piloting machine learning to forecast fire growth and relied on it heavily My exclusive look at how they’re using it, and its limits 👇 https://bc.ctvnews.ca/buying-time-inside-the-ai-technology-trained-on-b-c-wildfires-1.6942869 3:45 AM • June 27, 2024 (UTC)

Jordan Morgan @jordanmorgan@mastodon.social Reminder as a user and a dev: If you’ve got app intents, you can say “Hey Siri, what can I do here?” and intents will be suggested. It’s a good way to discover shortcuts in other apps too. 6:40 PM • June 26, 2024 (UTC)

Jared Newman writing for Fast Company The key to Siri’s upcoming overhaul is a developer feature called “App Intents,” which lets app makers define what actions their users can take and exposes them to other parts of iOS. If a to-do list app supports App Intents, for instance, you may be able to search for agenda items in the Spotlight search menu, or add tasks as part of a routine in the Shortcuts app.

Church of Jeff @jeffowski@mastodon.world #IT #DadJokes 8:55 PM • June 25, 2024 (UTC)

The Verge @verge@mastodon.social Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185226/meta-threads-fediverse-likes-replies 6:00 PM • June 25, 2024 (UTC)

Richard Lawler writing for The Verge Apple says upcoming features like its Apple Intelligence generative AI tools, iPhone mirroring, and SharePlay screen sharing may not be available in the European Union this year, as reported previously by Bloomberg.

Amish Super Model @AmishSuperModel@mastodon.social Maybe American Politicians need to post this in all their offices: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. 6:12 PM • June 20, 2024 (UTC)

Jo Borrás writing for Electrek A few short weeks after labor negotiations led to a six-week UAW strike at GM plants, GM board members approved a $10 billion accelerated stock buyback plan. This week, the board kicked off that initiative with a $6 billion purchase and raising its shareholders’ stock dividend by 33 percent (to 12 cents per share) in the first quarter … a move that, to this writer, seems like a blatantly cynical cash-grab and shockingly shortsighted dereliction of the board’s fiduciary duty to the well-being of the company.

Obviously from the great xkcd.

Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange I don’t know who to credit for this because it’s been stolen so much, but I love it. 6:05 PM • June 15, 2024 (UTC)

🌸 melanie kat 👻 @zicklepop@nyan.lol i've never pirated anything in my life, i've just been using publicly accessible data from the internet. 3:20 PM • June 13, 2024 (UTC)

From for noyb: With its Privacy Sandbox, Google wants to take full control over the analysis of the online behaviour of its users: Chrome now tracks every website you visit to generate a list of advertising topics. These include “Student Loans & College Financing”, “Undergarments” or “Parenting”, “Jobs & Education” and “Finance/Credit & Lending/Credit Reporting & Monitoring”. Advertisers then receive this information from the Chrome browser. If you’re still using Chrome at this point, I don’t know what to tell you…

[Source not online at time of site build.]

Steve Herman @w7voa@journa.host June 4th marks the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, in which the PLA killed hundreds, possibly thousands of civilians, stamping out weeks of protests in the heart of China’s capital. The government still suppresses mention and memorializing of the 1989 killings in Beijing. https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/tiananmen-35-years-later-05312024152814.html #六四 #天安門 #天安门 10:22 AM • June 4, 2024 (UTC)

Simon McGarr @Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie As a general rule, the state should over-supply services. There should be slack in the system almost all the time. Relaxed GPs with lots of time to talk to their patients. So many teachers that the main trouble is finding rooms for them all. Not only does this see a better quality of service mostly, but it also cushions the system in the event of an unexpected shock.

Sin of empathy 🕷️🧂🌈🫙⚖️ @trabern@mas.to Just to recap, the guy who can’t shut up about how the 2020 election he lost was rigged just was convicted of rigging the 2016 election he won. 11:30 PM • May 30, 2024 (UTC)

Paul Tassi writing for Forbes What precisely happened is still being worked out, but this appears to be an issue with Sony PS5 streaming, where the DLC was made available briefly through that service. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Daryl Baxter writing for iMore This change isn’t the type of update that was released through the App Store — instead, it looks to be a server-side update. This means that YouTube essentially sent an updated command to its Apple TV app so it could stop playing its screensavers automatically. Good riddance!

From Daring Fireball: No word in Spotify’s Car Thing bricking FAQ about when they’re dropping support for Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music. Oh, that’s right, they never supported any music services other than their own, despite having spent the last decade petitioning their home-turf European Commission to secure unfettered pay-no-commission access to platforms created by Apple and Google. I agree with everything Gruber’s saying in this piece.