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Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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Judge Mehta dismissed publisher suits over AI Overviews. The harder question is whether search should still send us to the weird web.
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Google search results increasingly hide destinations behind opaque goto links, continuing a long shift from map of the web to destination.
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The New York Times and Slashdot on Samuel Tunick—GrapheneOS duress at CBP Atlanta, a § 2232(a) felony, and whether using a privacy tool during a disputed search can itself become the crime.
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Orchid Files documents a searchable network of GitHub repos shipping Trojan-infected ZIPs with near-identical READMEs—arguing list-by-list removals are not enough when thousands of clones stay findable through GitHub search.
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Google’s AI results reduce publisher clicks while still needing crawled original work—arguing the old search partnership is flipping into a trap that may consume the open web Google depends on.
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Zack Whittaker reports federal prosecutors charged an American who allegedly entered a GrapheneOS duress password during a CBP phone search—treating a coercion-protection feature as destruction of property to prevent seizure.
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OpenAI’s ads.openai.com invites companies to advertise inside ChatGPT using conversation context and intent—richer than search keywords, and one of the last places many people wanted ads to follow them while they think.
Joshua Baker (opens on the publisher’s site)
www.joshuabaker.com
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2011 · Skype · Search Acquisition · Technology · Luxembourg