James
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iPhone markets itself as the privacy phone. But Safari is the default and Google is its default search, because Apple takes ~$20B a year from Google to keep it that way. You can’t even add your own search engine on iOS. You pick from 5 Apple approved: Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia. Every one runs on Google or Bing indexes. Meaning every query you run on the “privacy phone” ends up at Google or Microsoft. Does that seem fair to you?
The full text for HR 8250, the proposed Federal law which would require all Operating Systems to implement Age Verification, has just been made publicly available. It is short, poorly written, clearly not at all thought out, and almost entirely devoid of specifics. Some key points: - The bill does not specify how age verification would work at all. It states that the Federal Trade Commission would have 180 days to specify the exact mechanism and requirements for Age Verification within the Operating Systems. - The Federal Trade Commission would also specify data storage protection requirements as well as requirements for how the Operating System must provide access to collected user data. - This bill would apply to ALL Operating Systems. Everything from Windows to Linux to embedded systems. Yes, even to a smart refrigerator. The “Operating System” definition is incredibly broad. - The law will be considered in effect 1 year from the date it is enacted. - Violations of the law will be handled under the Federal Trade Commission Act. - It is given the “Short Title” of “Parents Decide Act”. congress.gov/bill/119th-con…
Price of a Standard (No Ads) Netflix plan: • 2011 $7.99 • 2014 $8.99 • 2015 $9.99 • 2017 $10.99 • 2019 $12.99 • 2020 $13.99 • 2022 $15.49 • 2025 $17.99 • 2026 $19.99 Up 150% over 15 years.
The convenience of senators has become the enemy of liberty and good government. Time to turn that around. We must make filibustering senators speak—even through long nights, weekends, and long-scheduled recesses. We’ve become addicted to easy, predictable schedules. No more!
Today we made a major upgrade to Brave Wallet. We've added support for NEAR Intents, which allows you to easily swap crypto assets across blockchains (Bitcoin, Solana, Zcash, Cardano, and EVM) within our browser.
Introducing the new /crawl endpoint - one API call and an entire site crawled. No scripts. No browser management. Just the content in HTML, Markdown, or JSON.