Weekend Tech Roundup January 06, 2024
Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them. But me love cookies!Photo: VIAVAL TOURS / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) Mr. Tweet Fumbles…
Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them.
Today marks the first of many upcoming moments of silence in Google’s years-long plan to kill cookies. As of this morning, the Chrome web browser disabled cookies for 1% of…
Meet ‘Link History,’ Facebook’s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit
Facebook recently rolled out a new “Link History” setting that creates a special repository of all the links you click on in the Facebook mobile app. Users can opt-out, but…
Google Finally Stops Handing Your Location Data to Cops
Google announced changes to the way it harvests your location data this week that will finally put a stop to its compliance with geofence warrants, a police surveillance technique that…
Ad Company Claims ‘It’s True. Your Devices Are Listening to You’
There’s little to no evidence suggesting that “your devices are listening to you,” but that hasn’t stopped people from believing big tech is monitoring every word they say. Now, a…
Zuck’s Naughty and Nice List: Threads in EU, AI Instagram Backgrounds, and More
Threads finally launched for European users Thursday roughly five months after the X competitor rolled out in the United States. The rookie social media platform also received some fact-checking filters…
Google Will Turn Off Cookies for 30 Million People on January 4
Google announced Thursday that it will start its long-anticipated slaughter of the internet’s cookies starting on January 4th, when it will block them for 1% of Chrome users, or about…
Why the 23andMe Data Breach Is Such a Disaster
Earlier this week, 23andMe admitted that an October hack was dramatically worse than the company initially admitted, affecting 6.9 million people, not the 14,000 it first reported. 23andMe followed up…
Foreign Governments Can Spy on Your Push Notifications, Senator Warns
Oregon Senator Rob Wyden alleged foreign governments may be spying on Americans through their push notifications in a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) Wednesday. Sen. Wyden asked…
Senator Warns Foreign Governments Can Spy on Your Push Notifications
Oregon Senator Rob Wyden alleged foreign governments may be spying on Americans through their push notifications in a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) Wednesday. Sen. Wyden asked…