Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Yesterday I published a post about Apple's privacy promise looking increasingly like a marketing slogan. Then Google held I/O the same day and made the whole thing worse. TechCrunch's headline wasn't wrong: Google Search as you know it is over. What replaces it isn't...

YouTube built something fun. The lawyers already knew what it was. Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. YouTube announced something fun yesterday. No really. Genuinely fun on the surface. You can now create an AI avatar of yourself for use in Shorts. Record a quick selfie, read a few prompts so it can...