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Google and Bing Are Preparing ChatGPT-Like AI Web Search
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ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that can’t stop lying, has exploded in popularity over the past few weeks. Despite many problems with the technology, Google and Microsoft are pushing ahead with plans to turn web searches into conversations.
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Carbonyl: a New Graphical Web Browser in Your Linux Terminal
But best of all, “Pages connect and render in an instant—seemingly quicker than a desktop GUI browser, and every page we visited was rendered correctly.”
From the article:
There are a bunch of good reasons to browse the internet from the comfort of your terminal. It could be that eschewing the bloat of X.org and Wayland, a terminal is all you have. Maybe you like SSHing into remote machines and browsing the internet from there.
Perhaps you, like us, just really, really like terminals.
Whatever the reason, your choices of web browsers have, until recently, been limited, and your experience of the world wide web has been a janky, barely-functional one…. We tested Carbonyl in a range of Linux terminals, including the XFCE terminal. GNOME terminal, kitty, and the glorious Cool Retro Terminal. Carbonyl was smooth, fast, and flawless in all of them.
We even connected to our Raspberry Pi via SSH in CRT, and ran Carbonyl remotely, watching Taylor Swift music videos on YouTube. No problem.
And yes, you can use it to play DOOM.
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How to Handle Web Sites Asking for Your Email Address
[I]t can be linked to other data, including where you went to school, the make and model of the car you drive, and your ethnicity….
For many years, the digital ad industry has compiled a profile on you based on the sites you visit on the web…. An email could contain your first and last name, and assuming you’ve used it for some time, data brokers have already compiled a comprehensive profile on your interests based on your browsing activity. A website or an app can upload your email address into an ad broker’s database to match your identity with a profile containing enough insights to serve you targeted ads.
The article recommends creating several email addresses to “make it hard for ad tech companies to compile a profile based on your email handle… Apple and Mozilla offer tools that automatically create email aliases for logging in to an app or a site; emails sent to the aliases are forwarded to your real email address.”
Apple’s Hide My Email tool, which is part of its iCloud+ subscription service that costs 99 cents a month, will create aliases, but using it will make it more difficult to log in to the accounts from a non-Apple device. Mozilla’s Firefox Relay will generate five email aliases at no cost; beyond that, the program charges 99 cents a month for additional aliases.
For sites using the UID 2.0 framework for ad targeting, you can opt out by entering your email address [or phone number] at https://transparentadvertising.org.
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Twitter’s For You tabbed interface starts rolling out on desktop web browsers
Twitter’s “For You” tab, which debuted on iOS devices earlier this week, has begun rolling out to desktop web browsers. The new interface replaces the “sparkle” icon that previously allowed you to toggle between the platform’s algorithmically generated and reverse chronological feeds.
As The Verge notes, the For You tab is now the default view you see when you first visit Twitter after the update is available on your web browser. That said, the desktop version doesn’t appear to force you to stick with the For You feed like Twitter’s updated iOS app does. When I visited the website on my computer, I switched to the “Following” view and then closed the browser tab where I was viewing my feed. When I opened a new tab and navigated back to Twitter, the site defaulted to the Following view.
You can now easily switch between “For you” and “Following” on web. Android coming soon 👀
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) January 13, 2023
On Friday, Twitter said the new interface would roll out to Android devices “soon.” Twitter introduced a similar feature in 2022, only to abandon the idea days after a chorus of users complained they didn’t want the previously named Home feed imposed on them. However, at the end of last year, Musk tweeted that Twitter would move forward with the change. “Main timeline should allow for an easy sideways swipe between the top, latest, trending and topics that follow,” he said at the time. “Twitter search nav already sorta does this after you search.”
Twitter brings its “For You” and “Following” dual-timeline view to the web
After updating its iOS app to display both algorithmic and chronological timelines side-by-side, Twitter is rolling out this update to the web interface. Earlier this week, the company renamed “Home” (algorithmic timeline) and “Latest” (chronological timeline) to “For You” and “Following”. The “For You” timeline now appears first in both the iOS app and the […]
Twitter brings its “For You” and “Following” dual-timeline view to the web by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
Safari Turns 20 Today: ‘Fastest Web Browser Ever Created for the Mac’
Apple said the original version of Safari loaded pages over three times faster compared to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer on the Mac. Internet Explorer was the Mac’s default browser between 1998 and the release of OS X Panther with Safari in October 2003, as part of a five-year agreement between Apple and Microsoft.
“Safari is the fastest browser on the Mac, and we predict that many will feel it is the best browser ever created,” said Jobs, in a January 2003 press release. “We are bringing innovation back into this category with the first all new browser created in many years.”
A public beta of Safari was made available for OS X Jaguar in January 2003, with key features including the WebKit rendering engine for faster browsing speeds, Google search capabilities integrated directly into the toolbar, improved bookmark management, optional pop-up ad blocking, a simpler file download process, and more.
A mobile version of Safari was released for the iPhone in 2007 and for the iPad in 2010. The browser continues to use WebKit across all of Apple’s platforms.
Safari was eventually overshadowed by Google’s Chrome, which was released in 2008 and is now the world’s most popular web browser across all PCs and Macs. Nevertheless, Apple says Safari remains the world’s fastest desktop browser and is 50% faster on average at loading frequently visited websites than Chrome on the Mac.
This article, “Safari Turns 20 Today: ‘Fastest Web Browser Ever Created for the Mac’” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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