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turn off AI summaries in Firefox on iOS This turns off the feature where if you shake your phone it replaces the web page you were reading with AI slop. (Who thought that was a good idea?)

turn off advertising features in Firefox How to find and turn off the ad tracking feature built in to Firefox (co-developed with Meta)

Revolutionary New Google Feature Hidden Under ‘More’ Tab Shows Links to Web Pages

Bye Bye, AI: How to turn off Google’s annoying AI overviews and just get search results | Tom’s Hardware Article that covers how to remove “AI” material on Google Chrome and mobile Firefox.

How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set “Web” as Default Another list of browsers and instructions.

How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search

Dark Visitors - A List of Known AI Agents on the Internet is a good site for keeping track of “AI” crawlers if you want to block them in ads.txt. (This doesn’t work for blocking underground “AI” but will put the big companies on notice.)

Google Chrome ad features checklist (For Google Chrome users, prevent Google AI from classifying you in ways that are hard to figure out)

&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code is a site with a Google search form. Makes it easy to try this the first time before choosing to set as default.

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The Ukraine war is driving rapid innovation in drone technology Of course, there are new legal and moral questions that arise from giving drones the power to kill. But the CEO of this company points out there is a cost to not developing the technology. And in any case, this push to innovate—and defeat the invading enemy—has pushed off those questions for now. (imho this is going to be the number one immediate issue for AI in Europe. The only credible alternative to returning to large-scale conscription in European countries that have phased it out is for some European alliance to reach global leadership in autonomous military AI. Which explains why they’re putting civilian AI and surveillance businesses on a tight leash—to free up qualified developers for defense jobs.)

How Google harms search advertisers in 20 slides They’re not raising prices, they’re coming up with better prices or more fair prices, where those new prices are higher than the previous ones. lol

React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity Why do some software frameworks and libraries grow in adoption while others don’t?…It’s not about output or productivity.

Meta’s ‘set it and forget it’ AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash Small businesses have seen their ad dollars get wiped out and wasted as a result, and some have said the bouts of overspending are driving them from Meta’s platforms. (considering where Meta ad money goes— child safety and mental health concerns are just the latest—this seems like a good thing. Also Meta could face further squeeze on surveillance ads model in EU)

Microsoft Deleted Its LLM Because It Didn’t Get a Safety Test, But Now It’s Everywhere 404 Media has not tested the model and we don’t know if it is easily producing harmful or “toxic” answers, or if Microsoft only took it down because it didn’t check either way. Since the model is open source, it is also possible other people could have downloaded it and create uncensored versions of the model that would produce controversial answers anyway, as we’ve reported people have done previously. (underground AI is less capable but more predictable than big company AI APIs. From the point of view of an API caller, the AI you were using gets randomly nerfed because the provider is acting on a moderation issue you weren’t aware of.)