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Google Told to Share Search Data with AI Rivals in EU Proposal(bloomberg.com)
3 points by gopkarthik 6mo ago|3 comments
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by gopkarthik 6mo ago
The proposed measures under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act, or DMA, would give access to ranking, query, click and view data to enable third-party online search engines to “optimize their search services and contest Google Search’s position
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Google Gemini Introduces Personal Intelligence(blog.google)
12 points by gopkarthik 9mo ago|4 comments
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by gopkarthik 9mo ago
Alphabet Inc.’s Google said its Gemini artificial intelligence assistant can now proactively tap into users’ data across Gmail, Search, Photos and YouTube, an attempt to make its consumer-facing AI product more personalized. Google has made
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OpenAI Completes Share Sale at Record $500B Valuation(bloomberg.com)
4 points by gopkarthik 1y ago|1 comments
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by gopkarthik 1y ago
OpenAI has completed a deal allowing current and former employees to sell about $6.6 billion worth of shares in the company at a $500 billion valuation, according to a person familiar with the matter. As part of the deal, OpenAI’s employees
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by gopkarthik 1y ago
In India, almost all websites & apps, send a OTP to either mobile or email & ask you to enter that to login. Most of them have even disabled password based login flows. Really grinds my gears.
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by gopkarthik 1y ago
It is fitting that GP's username is `findingMeaning`.
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by gopkarthik 1y ago
> Diamond threads are forever! Haha, upvoted for this, if not for the effort :D
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The details of Jane Street's alleged 'sinister scheme' in India(ft.com)
4 points by gopkarthik 1y ago|1 comments
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by gopkarthik 1y ago
https://archive.is/dnE3V The SEBI report https://d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/uploaded-fi...
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by gopkarthik 1y ago
> What is their SEO dept doing to get ahead of Bloomberg in Google search results? I thought ET/Hindustan Times etc showed up in Google Search results since I search from the region. But if they show up before Bloomberg/FT&#x2F
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by gopkarthik 2y ago
^ This. You can read the reports at https://blume.vc/reports/indus-valley-annual-report-2025 or archives at https://www.indusvalleyreport.com/ . The ppt in the blog is from the 2024 report - https:&#x
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by gopkarthik 2y ago
Because the substack's author focuses on Indian web. From their description: "tales from indian web rabbit holes."
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by gopkarthik 2y ago
They acknowledge the irony in the very next sentence: "Matt Novak cautions against falling back into superstitious thinking in our praise of Demon Haunted World. After all, he says, “the ‘accuracy’ of predictions is often a Rorschach t
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by gopkarthik 2y ago
Mods usually merge them.
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by gopkarthik 2y ago
Agreed. Mid-sized/smaller players are the places which have very poor data & security practices. Especially when they require PII as part of their operations. Meta, Google are much better stewards of their users data. One misconcep
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by gopkarthik 2y ago
Thanks!
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by gopkarthik 2y ago
Uber/Ola at Indian airports do not actually assign you specific driver/car. You are given a PIN & asked to go queue at the relevant counter (Premier, Electric, XL, Go etc). You just get into the car then, tell your PIN & t
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by gopkarthik 2y ago
What's ironic is that the escrow account is now lesser because they used that money to buy eurozone government bonds which have since fallen. From https://www.ft.com/content/d6b7d0fd-a41b-45a9-a830-9cacb10c5... &g
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by gopkarthik 2y ago
> Late game capitalism applied to Google's portfolio would be catastrophic. This is probably my biggest fear about the eventual fate of Google. The amount of data they have is staggering and would be very short-term profitable for P
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by gopkarthik 2y ago
> planned safely *landed safely
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by gopkarthik 2y ago
Noob question: Hypothetically if the crew were in the Starliner for the trip, they would have planned safely? I get that prior to the trip, the risk of failure was high enough to not make that call.
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by gopkarthik 2y ago
I'm not surprised that the video has been taken down since it explicitly talks about circumventing youtube ads or alternative interfaces to access youtube (newpipe, invidious etc) - https://www.bilibili.com/video/B
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by gopkarthik 2y ago
A Google account was being created without Gmail in this case.
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by gopkarthik 3y ago
Fun repo that uses the Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme to break a file into parts which can be recombined to get the original. From the README Who this is for: People who need to encrypt a big sensitive file like a diary and don't e
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by gopkarthik 3y ago
Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C Clarke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God
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by gopkarthik 4y ago
1password. In addition to above, it has Linux support & browser extensions
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by gopkarthik 4y ago
Found it in page-4 https://imgur.com/a/9MiiZUJ . I'm curious if you saw it in page-1?
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by gopkarthik 4y ago
I've seen google maps suggest multiple routes with varying toll costs when driving in Southern India. Not sure what their criteria is for showing them.

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