Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch #ai #search #internet

The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over.

At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — what the company describes as the biggest change to this entry point to the web since the search box debuted more than 25 years ago.

Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times. Google is also introducing tools that can dispatch “information agents” to gather information on a user’s behalf, along with tools that let users build personalized mini apps tailored to their needs.

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The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month - eualternative.eu #internet #digitalsouvereignty

The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month So you are building something on the side and don't want to burn through your hard earned euros. You'd like to spend close to nothing on infrastructure until you have proof anyone wants what you are making. How close to zero can you actually get on a 100% EU infrastructure stack?

Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn’t really Google anymore | TechCrunch #internet #ai

If you’re curious about alternative search engines, you’re in the right place. Here are some places to start (or, embrace chaos and see where Open Web Engine takes you).

California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law | Tom's Hardware #copyrights

California lawmakers may be backing away from a controversial age-verification requirement bill that alarmed Linux and open-source developers earlier this year, after a new amendment bill proposed exempting most open-source operating systems from the state’s upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act. In practice, that would likely exempt most mainstream Linux distributions — including Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, and Mint — from compliance requirements scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2027.

Australia Just Proved the Four-Day Work Week Works. Here Is What the Data Actually Says. #career #society

The research tracked 15 Australian companies that trialled the 100:80:100 model between 2022 and 2024.

The model is simple: workers receive 100% of their pay, work 80% of their previous hours, and commit to maintaining 100% of their previous output.

The results were striking.

14 of the 15 companies chose to continue with the four-day week after the trial ended.

Not a single one reported a drop in productivity.

Six companies saw productivity actually increase.

The rest said output stayed roughly the same.

These firms operated across a wide range of industries, from property management to publishing and health technology, which makes the findings harder to dismiss as a niche experiment.

Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links | TechCrunch #security #privacy

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Anna's Archive Hit With $19.5m Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order * TorrentFreak #internet #copyrights

A coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive. A New York federal judge fully approved the publishers' requests, issuing a broad permanent injunction that orders more than twenty specific global registries, hosts, and service providers to immediately disable the site's remaining domains.

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github – Krebs on Security #security #privacy

Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and that it represents one of the most egregious government data leaks in recent history.

On May 15, KrebsOnSecurity heard from Guillaume Valadon, a researcher with the security firm GitGuardian. Valadon’s company constantly scans public code repositories at GitHub and elsewhere for exposed secrets, automatically alerting the offending accounts of any apparent sensitive data exposures. Valadon said he reached out because the owner in this case wasn’t responding and the information exposed was highly sensitive.

The Virtual OS Museum #computers #history

This is a virtual museum of operating systems (and standalone applications) running under emulation, implemented as a Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM.

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