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60 points | 2 comments
https://news.wttw.com/2026/05/27/cpd-officers-responded-faster-911-calls-south-west-sides-after-shotspotter-was-removed
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128 points | 16 comments
https://www.proofnews.org/womans-talkspace-therapy-app-sessions-exposed-in-court/
She confessed her worries to her therapist: her marriage, her finances, and self-esteem. Therapists are legally and ethically bound to confidentiality, but two years later, a transcript of every word typed to her psychologist using the app Talkspace was produced…
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7 points | 2 comments
Full article: Firefox browser has started shipping Brave’s adblock-rust engine
After seeing a lot of backlash over Waterfox adding Brave’s adblock engine:
It looks like Waterfox is piggy-backing off of Firefox’s implementation (great!).
And it’s been there for a little while.
Mozilla bundled adblock-rust (Brave’s Rust-based…
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55 points | 10 comments
I was reading a review of Firefox’s experimental Smart Window feature, and this stood out as a potential huge issue:
Smart Window uses ‘memories’, things Mozilla says “…it learns from your activity” to inform its responses.
You can delete memories individually, and you can set any given chat session to not use/store them.
Fine so…
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726 points | 95 comments
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116160393783585567
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547 points | 140 comments
https://www.404media.co/chatbots-health-medical-advice-study/
Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn’t ready to take on the role of the physician.”
“In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were…
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559 points | 144 comments
https://www.404media.co/chatbots-health-medical-advice-study/
Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn’t ready to take on the role of the physician.”
“In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were…
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