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Garrett Johnson

@garjoh.bsky.social

Google is largely shutting down the Privacy Sandbox.
Surviving: CHIPS, FedCM, Private State Tokens
Out 💀 : (Anything you’ve heard of!) Topics, Protected Audience API, Attribution Reporting API, Private Aggregation, Related Web Sites…
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Update on Plans for Privacy Sandbox Technologies

In this October 2025 announcement, the Privacy Sandbox team shares updates on plans for Privacy Sandbox technologies.

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October 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM

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Netvibes, c’est fini…

Netvibes était un agrégateur de flux RSS et il ne fêtera pas ses 20 ans. Il a été lancé le 15 septembre 2005 par les Français Tariq Krim (qui a quitté l’entreprise en 2008, remplacé par Freddy Mini au poste de CEO) et Florent Frémont. Il a été racheté en 2012 par le groupe Dassault […]

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June 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM

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AdExchanger

@adexchanger.com

BIG NEWS: #Google is ditching its plan for a Chrome third-party cookie prompt.

This detailed breakdown lays out why the shift happened—and what this means for the future of privacy, ad tech, and the long-delayed cookie phase-out.

Is this a strategic delay, or are we back to the drawing board?

Google Isn’t Launching A User Choice Prompt For Third-Party Cookies In Chrome | AdExchanger

You know that choice mechanism that Google said it was planning to release for third-party cookies in Chrome? Well, it’s not happening.

www.adexchanger.com

April 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM

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Xavier Degraux

@xavierdegraux.be

AI search engines send 96% less traffic to news sites compared to Google search: Report

A new report published by Forbes details how AI search engines are sending as much as 96% less traffic to news websites and publications compared to regular Google searches.

buff.ly

March 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM

Vincent Archer

@vincentarcher.bsky.social

#OnRecrute un Data Scientist à #Marseille chez Locala (en CDI) : Big Data, Machine Learning, GeoMarketing…

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#Recrutement

Data Scientist - LOCALA - CDI à Marseille

LOCALA recrute un(e) Data Scientist à Marseille !

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February 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM

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Alexander Doria

@dorialexander.bsky.social

“They said it could not be done”. We’re releasing Pleias 1.0, the first suite of models trained on open data (either permissibly licensed or uncopyrighted): Pleias-3b, Pleias-1b and Pleias-350m, all based on the two trillion tokens set from Common Corpus.

December 5, 2024 at 4:39 PM

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Casey Newton

@caseynewton.bsky.social

Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product

Sarah Perez @sarahp.bsky.social · Nov 27

Meta’s Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’ techcrunch.com/2024/...

Meta's Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky's 'Starter Packs' | TechCrunch

Hoping to quell some of the momentum behind social network Bluesky, a competitor to X and Meta's Threads, Meta is developing a feature that takes

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November 27, 2024 at 6:12 PM

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Xavier Degraux

@xavierdegraux.be

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky

Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.

buff.ly

November 22, 2024 at 8:24 AM

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Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

Foursquare just open sourced their 100 million place point of interest dataset! Some notes on poking around with it using DuckDB (it's Parquet files on S3) simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/...

Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community

I did not expect this! > [...] we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places ("FSQ OS Places"). This base layer …

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November 20, 2024 at 6:08 AM

Vincent Archer

@vincentarcher.bsky.social

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,238,963!

September 26, 2024 at 2:40 PM

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Hypervisible

@hypervisible.blacksky.app

Put this whole paragraph on repeat.

AI detection companies “are in the business of selling snake oil,” said Debora Weber-Wulff, a professor at the University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economics in Berlin, who co-authored a recent paper about the effectiveness of AI detection. According to Weber-Wulff, research shows that AI detectors are inaccurate, unreliable, and easy to fool. “People want to believe that there can be some magic software that solves their problems,” she said. But “computer software cannot solve social problems. We have to find other solutions.”

The companies that make AI detectors say they’re a necessary but imperfect tool in a world inundated by robot-generated text. There’s a significant demand for these services, whether or not they’re effective.

June 12, 2024 at 12:35 PM

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Alexandre Nderagakura

@anderagakura.bsky.social

JCDecaux launches the first global airport programmatic DOOH offer :
- Via VIOOH SSP and more than 30 DSP, including Displayce
- 70M monthly passengers, over 2B imps, 3000 screens operated by JCDecaux in major airports worldwide

JCDecaux launches the first global airport programmatic DOOH offer

JCDecaux SE (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announces the launch of the first global airport programmatic DOOH offer, a first-of-its-kind solution that emp...

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February 14, 2024 at 3:25 PM

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Alexandre Nderagakura

@anderagakura.bsky.social

While Google Chrome is cutting out third-party cookies for 30M users to test Privacy Sandbox, @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social released a dissertation to talk about Privacy, data protection and Competition around Protected Audience API www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/g...