X's Paris HQ raided by French prosecutors, Firefox will soon offer a way to block all of its generative AI features, and a developer turned Wikipedia into a social media-style feed
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Show Notes
-The searches are part of an investigation that has been ongoing for nearly a year over the functioning of X’s algorithms that are “likely to have distorted the operation of an automated data processing system,” investigators said at the time.
-On February 24, or possibly earlier, Mozilla will roll out Firefox 148, which will include an AI controls section in the desktop browser settings. From here, you’ll be able to block current and future generative AI features, or only enable select tools.
-Developer Lyra Rebane created Xikipedia, a social media-style feed of Wikipedia entries. The web app algorithmically displays info from Simple Wikipedia
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