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The proposed measures under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act, or DMA, would give access to ranking, query, click and view data to enable third-party online search engines to “optimiz…

Alphabet Inc.’s Google said its Gemini artificial intelligence assistant can now proactively tap into users’ data across Gmail, Search, Photos and YouTube, an attempt to make its c…

OpenAI has completed a deal allowing current and former employees to sell about $6.6 billion worth of shares in the company at a $500 billion valuation, according to a person famil…

In India, almost all websites & apps, send a OTP to either mobile or email & ask you to enter that to login. Most of them have even disabled password based login flows. Really grin…

It is fitting that GP's username is `findingMeaning`.

> Diamond threads are forever! Haha, upvoted for this, if not for the effort :D

https://archive.is/dnE3V The SEBI report https://d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/uploaded-fi...

> What is their SEO dept doing to get ahead of Bloomberg in Google search results? I thought ET/Hindustan Times etc showed up in Google Search results since I search from the regio…

^ This. You can read the reports at https://blume.vc/reports/indus-valley-annual-report-2025 or archives at https://www.indusvalleyreport.com/ . The ppt in the blog is from the 202…

Because the substack's author focuses on Indian web. From their description: "tales from indian web rabbit holes."

They acknowledge the irony in the very next sentence: "Matt Novak cautions against falling back into superstitious thinking in our praise of Demon Haunted World. After all, he says…

Mods usually merge them.

Agreed. Mid-sized/smaller players are the places which have very poor data & security practices. Especially when they require PII as part of their operations. Meta, Google are much…

Thanks!

Uber/Ola at Indian airports do not actually assign you specific driver/car. You are given a PIN & asked to go queue at the relevant counter (Premier, Electric, XL, Go etc). You jus…

What's ironic is that the escrow account is now lesser because they used that money to buy eurozone government bonds which have since fallen. From https://www.ft.com/content/d6b7d0…

> Late game capitalism applied to Google's portfolio would be catastrophic. This is probably my biggest fear about the eventual fate of Google. The amount of data they have is stag…

> planned safely *landed safely

Noob question: Hypothetically if the crew were in the Starliner for the trip, they would have planned safely? I get that prior to the trip, the risk of failure was high enough to n…

I'm not surprised that the video has been taken down since it explicitly talks about circumventing youtube ads or alternative interfaces to access youtube (newpipe, invidious etc) …

A Google account was being created without Gmail in this case.