Day: September 3, 2025
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Top German court says maybe the Web should be more like television in order to protect copyright and intrusive business models
Back in 2022, Walled Culture wrote about a legal case involving ad blockers. These are hugely popular programs: according to recent statistics, around one billion people use ad blockers when they are online. That’s a testament to the importance many people attach to being in control of their browser experience, and to a wide dislike…
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ReMarkable Paper Pro Move review: e-ink notepad gets nice and small (7.8″)
Since I fell in love reviewing the ReMarkable 2 in 2020, I’ve had one wish for the Norwegian whizz kids behind this state-of-the-art e-ink tablet: Make one like this but smaller, please. Why? Because while it’s nice to write on a super-slim, silver, LED-free “magic legal pad from the future,” as I still call it,…
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Judge who ruled Google is a monopoly says no need for punishment.
So the judge says that because things changed in the search space (AI / GPT searching) that changes the advertising space (which the GPTs don’t really do much of – yet) which is what the case was about. The anti-competitive facts of the case were before GPTs came along and are not relevant to the…
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Switzerland launches its own open-source AI model
There’s a new player in the AI race, and it’s a whole country. Switzerland has just released Apertus, its open-source national Large Language Model (LLM) that it hopes would be an alternative to models offered by companies like OpenAI. Apertus, Latin for the world “open,” was developed by the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne…
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Study finds cannabis improves sleep where other drugs fail
Insomnia patients taking cannabis-based medical products reported better quality sleep after up to 18 months of treatment, according to a study published August 27 in the open-access journal PLOS Mental Health by Arushika Aggarwal from Imperial College London, U.K., and colleagues. About one out of every three people has some trouble getting a good night’s…
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Stolen Salesforce Drift OAuth tokens expose Palo Alto customer data
Palo Alto Networks is writing to customers that may have had commercially sensitive data exposed after criminals used stolen OAuth credentials lifted from the Salesloft Drift break-in to gain entry to its Salesforce instance. Marc Benoit, chief information security officer at PAN, confirmed in a note to clients – seen by The Register – that…
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So Spotify Public Links Now Show Your Personal Information. You Need to Disable Spotify DMs To Get Rid Of It.
Spotify wants to be yet another messaging platform, but its new DM system has a quirk that makes me hesitant to recommend it. Spotify used to be a non-identity based platform, but things changed once it added messaging. Now, the Spotify DM system is attaching account information to song links and putting it in front…
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Phonenstien Flips Broken Samsung Into QWERTY Slider but won’t share how
The phone ecosystem these days is horribly boring compared to the innovation of a couple decades back. Your options include flat rectangles, and flat rectangles that fold in half and then break. [Marcin Plaza] wanted to think outside the slab, without reinventing the wheel. In an inspired bout of hacking, he flipped a broken Samsung…
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EU Google antitrust penalty halted by low level commissioner amid Trump’s tariff threats
BRUSSELS — EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič on Monday made an 11th-hour intervention to stop the European Commission from issuing a penalty against American tech giant Google for its search advertising practices, amid continued trade threats from U.S. President Donald Trump. Late last week, Google was given a heads up to expect a decision on…
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