DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused browser is available for Windows now theverge.com/2023/6/22/2376…

Windows users, this one’s for you! 🙌

Starting today, our desktop browser for Windows is officially in public beta – no invite codes, no waiting list, just a fast, lightweight browser that makes the Internet less creepy and less cluttered. spreadprivacy.com/windows-browse…

“Judge Contreras wrote…Compliance problems with the F.B.I.’s querying of Section 702 information have proven to be persistent and widespread.”

Some people still use dialup internet, fax machines, and physical newspapers.

Technology that takes a long time to get entrenched into habits and workflows takes a similarly long time to wind down. Lindy effect for all you mental model aficionados en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_eff…

This is clearly a problem already and does not have any straightforward solutions.

Wow, this article seems to be correct in terms of Chinese apps currently having the top 3 spots in the US App Store: Temu, CapCut, TikTok. “The No. 1 downloaded app in the U.S. and Canada in the first quarter was the Chinese mail order app Temu.”

It's official, Bard uses DuckDuckGo

'To find the sites, NewsGuard researchers used keyword searches for phrases commonly produced by AI chatbots, such as 'as an AI large language model' and 'my cutoff date in September 2021.''

A couple of approximations that have helped me over the years to have memorized:
• A 1,000 sample of an unknown yes/no question has error bars ~±3% and 100 ~±10% (at 95% confidence)
• 1 standard deviation in a normal distribution contains ~2/3 and 2 ~95%

What about you?