March 17, 2025

Monday

In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazon’s cloud….Starting on March 28, recordings of every command spoken to the Alexa living in Echo speakers and smart displays will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud.

There’s one tech company I trust with my information. It’s not Amazon.

link published in /2025/03/17 on March 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM

It’s hard to know why you’d want to remove the human element from every aspect of social media, but Instagram seems to be going to try it anyway.

If AI is writing the posts, and the comments, what’s left for humans on social media? Likes, I guess.

link published in /2025/03/17 on March 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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