"That's essentially what Mehta has ruled. Under the court's ruling, Google will still be permitted to pay for search placement—those multi-billion-dollar arrangements with Apple and Mozilla can continue. However, Google cannot require any of its partners to distribute Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, or Gemini. That means Google cannot, for example, make access to the Play Store contingent on bundling its other apps on phones."

Ars Technica

Judge: Google can keep Chrome, must share search data with “qualified competitors”

Google's penalty for being a search monopoly does not include selling Chrome.

Quite a different direction than the original goals of the Andriod team. View quoted note →

"We're currently working with a major OEM towards future generations of their devices meeting our requirements and providing official GrapheneOS support." View quoted note →

This is one of the few books that has the history of Tor correct with origins beginning with Chaum mixnets, Cypherpunk remailers, Mixmaster, Free Haven... and NRL Onion Routing. NRL is sometimes cited as the origin. They built on previous ideas and expanded it to TCP/IP. Folks from Free Haven later joined and implemented it into Tor, combined with other prior research and development.

Upon further thought, LLMs may not be great for spam mitigation as it could be computationally more difficult receiving/filtering than sending in bulk. Though could be useful in latter steps. Thus ecash/lightning I think will thus be essential, outside WoT systems.

This is pretty huge! Nostr + MLS w/ @niftynei() 🇺🇸💸🧡 and @Max on bitcoin++ Insider Edition. Full episode:

This is pretty huge! Nostr + MLS w/ @niftynei() 🇺🇸💸🧡 and @Max on bitcoin++ Insider Edition. Full episode: