Monday, March 17, 2025

Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can’t Opt Out (wired.com)

¶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.

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Meta wants AI to write your Instagram comments (mashable.com)

¶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.

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¶Well, tomorrow could be interesting. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are returning to earth after their Thee Hour Tour adventure on the ISS (originally planned for one week their mission ultimately lasted nine months), and the JFK assassination files are apparently being released. Oh, and Trump and Putin are having a call to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, which actually sounds like it will be more about ending Ukrainian sovereignty.

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