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“MyTerms” wants to become the new way we dictate our privacy on the web

Ars Technica

Author, journalist, and long-time Internet freedom advocate Doc Searls wants us to stop asking for privacy from websites, services, and AI and start telling these things what we will and will not accept. The big concept is that you are the first party to each contract you have with online things.

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Why Nonprofits Should Pay Attention to Web3 and the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Web3 is a new version of the internet that uses blockchain (IE a secure but transparent record keeping system) to decentralize the management of the internet, thus reducing the control of prominent companies such as Google or Meta. Web3 draws its name as the third iteration of the internet. What is Web3? What is the Metaverse?

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The Dark Web: Exploring the Hidden Internet

TechSpot

There are few things as infamous as The Dark Web in the world of technology, but what is it, and why does it have such a bad reputation? Read Entire Article

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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Beat AI Blandification

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Generative AI is like a ginormous digital Encyclopedia Britannica that compiles the internets knowledge base and immediately plops it on a screen. Letting ChatGPT or Gemini create campaigns means regurgitating a random collection of thoughts found on the Web. Bottom line: Non-generative AI helps understand whats already there.

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Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer in 2022

The Verge

Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer next year, after more than 25 years. The aging web browser has largely been unused by most consumers for years, but Microsoft is putting the final nail in the Internet Explorer coffin on June 15th, 2022, by retiring it in favor of Microsoft Edge. “We

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Windows 11 is deleting Internet Explorer

The Verge

internet explorer 9 logo. At one point in Windows 10’s lifetime, you could have had Internet Explorer, the legacy version of Microsoft Edge, and the new Chromium-powered Edge all installed. Microsoft revealed yesterday that Internet Explorer will be “disabled” in Windows 11. That bundling led to the infamous United States v.

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Microsoft will bid farewell to Internet Explorer and legacy Edge in 2021

The Verge

Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer 11 across its Microsoft 365 apps and services next year. In exactly a year, on August 17th, 2021, Internet Explorer 11 will no longer be supported for Microsoft’s online services like Office 365, OneDrive, Outlook, and more. Legacy Edge will go away next March.

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