The video is 13 years old by now and the answer is clearly yes. Some of the Google systems and more than some Google people and attitude are also clearly stupid, and their work is having an increase in stupidity result.

Testimonies began this week in one of the most aggressive cases the government has ever brought against a big tech company. Over the next eight weeks, the Federal Trade Commission will argue that Meta, the company founded by Mark Zuckerberg, should be broken up. If Meta will be broken up Mark Zuckerberg be forced to sell Instagram and WhatsApp.

Damn. As a software engineer I am watching Louis Rossmann complaining about Paragon NTFS showing why piracy will NEVER die and the company revoking paid licenses and I am scratching my head. What the hell the company did? It can be another updating error and some people tried to get advantage of it, or they just want to get more money afting people.

Louis Rossmann may be right, piracy may be the answer in several fields (Amazon books being one of them), and you can judge yourself how much you are enjoying what he is saying or what Amazon is doing with the books the authors using the platform are selling us.

Nintendo released  a tease of Switch 2 and the fate of TikTok is dicey at best (it's not accesible in USA and it is said many users moved to another Chinese app / website). CNET Editors Bridget Carey and Scott Stein talk through their feelings about all the surprises from this big tech news week and poke at the questions that linger.

Are you addicted to your phone and your social media apps? Are you reading this text on your phone? How do you think your phone has impacted your brain already? I am using the phone daily but usually I am too busy to use it for too long, and this should be a good thing. Catherine Price, author of How to Break Up with Your Phone, realized she had a problem when she was with her newborn daughter and “have these moments where she'd be looking at me, and my gaze would be down towards my screen".

I am not surprised at all about Chris Titus Tech's opinion about Google Ads, him being  sick of Download Now, Start, etc. Giant buttons on EVERY website that uses Google ads.

Deutsche Welle picked some of the strangest fakes from this year... From diapers in the election campaign, migrants allegedly eating pets and crickets in chocolate - none of this happened this year. Some people may say that they forgot to mention Donald duck Trump and Călin Georgescu as fakr but that depend of each person's perspective and we are not there yet, for Donald duck Trump at least.

Join the 2024 Christmas Lecturer Chris van Tulleken who answers to the most Googled questions about food. Chris van Tulleken is an NHS infectious diseases doctor at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London, one of the UK’s leading science presenters and a New York Times bestselling author and his lectures are on 'The truth about food' and you can watch on YouTube since 31th December 2024.

In the last week an almost unknown guy was on his road to become the Romanian president he almost won. TikTok was use for that result and many people said and keep saying that's bad. In other parts of the world the fate of TikTok in North America could be decided on Fraiday as BBC reported.

From my point of view Google is failing more often that in its earlier years, the war against Youtube adblockers, Youtube in general and the Google bots are just some of the issues, and that's a good reason for me to watch the Verge's Lauren Feiner joins Nilay and David to talk about the US government's proposal in its search antitrust case against Google.

The platform Twitter (also called X by some people) has gone through two turbulent years since Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022. Since then users and advertisers have left in droves after Elon Musk relaxed the control of content and some of them are still leaving. Elon Musk's support for Donald duck Trump has provoked another exodus of users because they are angry or even mad of what stupid things they are saying or doing.

Apple is facing a legal claim accusing it of locking 40 million British customers into its iCloud service and charging them "rip off prices" and there is no surprise there: there are some people in the world that can be called human ferengi because they want money, money and more money and everything else is after this - performance, free will and even emotions and feelings like love.

South Korea ordered Facebook owner Meta to pay $15.67 million in fines after finding it had collected sensitive user data and given it to advertisers without a legal basis, and they probably deserved it and they most probably deserved an even greater fine because the only thing the want is to get money. More and more money.

Twitter, so called X by people like Elon Musk, is kind of full (at least in some section depending of where you look) with misinformation, Artificial Images generated images and unfounded conspiracy theories related with the 2024 USA presidential election.

I can't say she is saying wrong things but I am almost smiling while listening her. It's just another perspective - I am not fully agreeing with her but it's OK - each person should be learning all her life and that person can learning  lot of things by interacting with the persons around her. Youtube is not a perfect place but it is a good environment where each of us can learn new things.

The Russian behaviour (including the Ukraine war) has some internation and internet effects: Meta has issued a total ban on Russian state media outlets, citing "foreign influence activity" and claiming the outlets had used deceptive tactics to carry out covert influence operations online.

 

The social-media platform Twitter (some times known as X as just unknown) has been blocked in Brazil for weeks and now the platform faces a potantial ban and large financial penalties in Europe. The owner Elon Musk has refused to comply with legislation requiring a legal representative Brazil and the platform may be blocked in European Union.

This week, only 2 days ago, the Romanian school years has just stared and the phones (old button mobile phones and the smartphones) have been baned to be used by children and teenager in schools. The ideas is probably not bad if they let user their phones when necessary but the Australian idea is even better: Australia is planning to ban children from using social media due to the "mental health consequences".

No surprise there. Some company are trying to controll everything in order to increase their traffic and the money getting from people and Alphabet / Google is one of them. Money comes first and people come second or third, if the people are a part of this equation. There are some big companies wanting this and results is similar with Alien versus Predator movie is saying: whoever wins we lose.