Clever use of the technology. I wonder if any other businesses are looking into this?

That's *always* the case.

Maybe there’s a reason for that. The word “enshitification” doesn’t exist in a void.

I hope no one gets it. It should be its own separate company.

Still waiting on an enterprising social network to start detecting photoshopped and AI-generated images, and badging them as such. If AI can generate this slop, surely it can be used to detect it.

I didn’t sound like a centralized system from the article. More like they want a third party like Verisign or something.

Something will have to be done as these platforms become more popular to cut down on fraud and disinformation. You don’t want people impersonating other people or organizations, or companies. Even if Bluesky starts federating to other platforms, just knowing that they have a blue sky blue check would be an improvement if you could display that check on other clients like mastodon posts.

ICANN has already made a mess of domain names so I don’t know if relying on the domain is enough. People are using non-Roman characters to trick people into thinking a website domain is the real thing. Others are buying up all these random domains so you get things like medicare.net and medicare.org and medicare.com etc etc.

I dunno what the answer is. Just rambling out loud in frustration.

I don’t see anything controversial in the article. Did I miss something? Just looks like a way to make sure the public figures and companies you are communicating with are who they say they are.

The FTC is the organization that never should have approved these mergers in the first place.

I thought “google shopping ads” were those “click here to purchase from…” ads that show up when you search for something like a t-shirt, or a vacuum. Not ads for the app.

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2454022

So are they insinuating that Google App Store “popularity” ranking is actually paid product placement?

Don’t some system updates require a reboot as well? Would be nice if this applied updates as part of this cycling.

Hey, remember the W.O.P.R. from WarGames? What could possibly go wrong.

Doesn’t this idiot own a company that makes solar panels and back up batteries? 🙄

So, let’s say they split up Meta. Does it become six different companies? Or do people like Elon and Bezos to get to pick over the remains? Hopefully the former and not the latter. I’m still pissed They let Meta buy Instagram and WhatsApp in the first place.

Stop de-regulating everything. Guardrails were put there for a reason.

If this is true, Apple will have to tread very carefully here. 23&Me was forbidden by the FDA from telling you about health risks related to your actual DNA. Now Apple is going to make your health diagnosis based on a Magic 8 Ball?

Took them long enough.

Good luck with that. I filled out the paperwork last year to have mine deleted and never got confirmation. Now that they’re bankrupt, I doubt there’s anyone on staff who could handle it.

Well if Google is forced to sell it off or spin Android off into its own company, we’ll see if it remains private.

Spinning them off into their own independent companies would make more sense than a sale to another party.

Whoopsie! I guess that’s why Steve Jobs had a policy of not announcing things that weren’t ready to ship.