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explain··on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube, slowing down users with ad blockers
Old news
explain··on Rate limit changes for non-Marketplace apps on Slack
Those are some extreme limits.
explain··on How Wall Street offloaded $13B of debt tied to Elon Musk's Twitter deal
Which part exactly?
explain··on xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app
This makes Telegram a very minor owner of X.
explain··on Data breach exposes 184M passwords, likely captured by malware
> The problem? The file was unencrypted. No password protection. No security. Just a plain text file with millions of sensitive pieces of data.

> Based on his analysis, Fowler determined the data was captured by some kind of infostealer malware.

Then the mere exposure of the file and whether it was encrypted is irrelevant. The data was already stolen, the damage was already done.

explain··on Wikipedia's Nonprofit Host Brings Legal Challenge to New Online Safety Act Regs
"The Wikimedia Foundation shares the UK government’s commitment to promoting online environments where everyone can safely participate. However, if enforced on Wikipedia..."

"The Wikimedia Foundation is not bringing a general challenge to the OSA as a whole, not even to the existence of the Category 1 duties themselves."

"We do not dispute the need for sensible online regulation."

Great to see those who support these regulations facing the consequences.

explain··on Bluesky restricts access to 72 accounts in Turkey amid government pressure
> According to İFÖD, Turkish court orders led to the blocking of 59 accounts at the internet service provider level. Separately, Bluesky voluntarily made 13 accounts and one post inaccessible in Turkey, likely in response to legal pressure.
explain··on Trump administration says wrongly deported man is alive in El Salvador prison
> Abrego Garcia’s case has generated a national furor after the Trump administration acknowledged it had erroneously sent him to El Salvador on March 15 in violation of a 2019 court order that prohibited him from being sent to his home country because of potential persecution by a local gang.
explain··on Elon Musk hopes for 'zero-tariff situation' between US and EU
Any other President would have left the EU's 26%* tariffs on America in place, while Trump is trying to get them all removed (or equal)

It's not like there was a zero-tariff situation before Trump's second term

* 5% avg tariff + then 20% avg VAT

explain··on Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024
Bandwidth is dirt cheap. I do 30 petabytes per month.
explain··on Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024
Shouldn't be paying for bandwidth.
explain··on Amazon Submits Bid for TikTok with US Sale Deadline Nearing
But a huge amount of propagation of Twitch content onto YouTube, TikTok and X. Influentially outsized.
explain··on Trump says he is not joking about third presidential term
> "There are, there are methods which you could do it, as you know," he said. He declined to elaborate on any specific methods.

There are, though. No need to act naive.

I support President Trump, but I don't support a third term and he wouldn't be able to pull it off (on the basis that a third term is not a good precedent).

The 22nd Amendment clearly states you can't be elected more than twice, not that you can't serve as President more than twice.

The earlier draft of the amendment was that you cannot serve as President more than twice. The "elected" language was intentional.

explain··on Elon Musk Merges AI with X: Implications
> Earlier, X had acquired eToro, a trading and investment platform.

False

explain··on US administration revokes $11B in funding for addiction, mental health care
Interesting that NPR tries to brand the funding as if its for addiction and mental health care all throughout the article.

For comparison, here's what CNN says:

"These funds were largely used for Covid-19 testing, Covid-19 vaccination and Covid-19 global projects, according to HHS, including for community health workers focused on populations most at risk from Covid-19."

And here's what the Trump administration says:

"The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago"

explain··on U.S. border officials have caught more people with eggs than fentanyl this year
Makes sense. Eggs are far more common and less hidden.
explain··on Claude can now search the web
robots.txt is meant for automated crawlers, not human-driven actions.
explain··on Elon Musk's Starlink internet service installed in White House
Considering it was provided for free, yes, probably the best bang-for-their-buck.
explain··on Elon Musk's Starlink internet service installed in White House
> Trump administration officials claimed that “some areas of the property could not get cell service,” according to the Times, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt describing the Starlink project as intended “to improve Wi-Fi connectivity on the complex.”
explain··on Trump declares autopen signed pardons void
These were the pardons that Biden gave out at literally the last moment, while standing next to President Trump at the inauguration on Jan 20.
explain··on DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next
new vectors of monetization:

- ecom (amazon?)

- AI (openai?)

explain··on Reddit to "warn" users that upvote "violent" content
This isn't new.

Funny how these same mods loved it when it was applied against r/The_Donald, but oh - NOW this is "a slippery slope".

explain··on Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights
> The Trump administration’s popularity is already below 50%

Just under 50% of the population voted for President Trump, so it's a given that "already" the popularity is below 50%.

explain··on [dead]
> Musk’s team posted information about the staff and size of a U.S. intelligence agency on their new website, HuffPost reports.

> Much of the agency’s activities, including its budget and head count, are classified and aren’t supposed to be available to the public.

Riiiight...

This is what we voted for.

explain··on DOGE Exposes Once-Secret Government Networks, Making Cyber-Espionage Easier Than
> Beginning on January 8, 2025, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on what’s known as “the search engine of Internet-connected devices,” Shodan.io.

DOGE didn't exist on January 8th.

explain··on German civil activists win victory in election case against X
Even worse.
explain··on US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations
The "Updated" seemingly refers to when anything on the page changes, not just something in the news release. In this case, the change was to add a banner to the top of the page indicating that the content is archived/old, which triggered the "Updated" to change.

The most recent change before this one was as recent as November 2024. The change made at that time was to switch a phone number in the footer out for an email address, which also triggered "Updated" to change.

TL;DR: not gaming Google, just made a regular change

explain··on OpenAI O3-Mini
You have to pick one to continue the chat.
explain··on Couple allegedly tricked AI investors into funding wedding, houses
defrauded
explain··on [dead]
That isn't whataboutsim.

Trump didn't do it, and Biden did.

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