Google's New CAPTCHA Plans Will Create A Two-Tier Internet Only Accessible To Those With 'Approved' Devices Authored by Dr R P via The Daily Sceptic , Never mind Fancy Bear , or the NSO Group , the biggest threat to the open internet today is from the Big Tech corporations on which it has come to depend. For what else are we to conclude given that Google appears to be working on a system to lock l...
Google's New CAPTCHA Plans Will Create A Two-Tier Internet Only Accessible To Those With 'Approved' Devices Authored by Dr R P via The Daily Sceptic , Never mind Fancy Bear , or the NSO Group , the biggest threat to the open internet today is from the Big Tech corporations on which it has come to depend. For what else are we to conclude given that Google appears to be working on a system to lock large parts of the internet behind a new form of CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) designed not to tell apart humans from bots, but instead to make an un-person of anyone who doesn't own an 'approved' Android or Apple device. Google's reCAPTCHA service is used by a wide variety of websites , many of them independent of Google in every other regard, to limit incoming traffic or data entered into contact forms. It is intended to prevent automated software from accessing these resources and using them to send spam messages or flood websites with denial of service attacks. You have probably encountered it when told to identify all the bicycles in a grid of images. Under the auspices of its Cloud Fraud Defence programme, Google is introducing a new form of CAPTCHA for which the way to 'prove' one is a human is to be in possession of a Google-approved device. Reclaim the Net's original reporting focused on the threat to deGoogled phones, meaning phones running Android-like operating systems which have Google's - often unwelcome - proprietary features removed, such as GrapheneOS or LineageOS. However , just as the dull name of 'age verification' serves as a cloak beneath which schemes to end all truly personal computing can be smuggled, the danger here could be much broader than the technically focused headline implies. As the sources discussing this are relatively few, it is hard to ascertain exactly what has already been rolled out and what is still in the conceptual stages. But it appears that the new style of CAPTCHA threatens ...
LG and NVIDIA are expanding their strategic collaboration across industries, Physical AI, AI Infra and mobility jointly drawing the future map of industry.
LG and NVIDIA are expanding their strategic collaboration across industries, Physical AI, AI Infra and mobility jointly drawing the future map of industry.
智能手机统治了过去十几年的数字生态,它是注意力的黑洞,是我们最私密的随身之物。但手机从设计之初就是为「人盯着它」而生的——它的全部逻辑,都止于屏幕。 AI 的需求却恰恰相反:它需要持续感知物理世界——见你所见,听你所闻,随时在场,而非等你解锁屏幕才醒来。 当 AI 真正成为一种基础能力,它迟早要从屏幕里破壳而出,寻找属于它自己的形状。这将是一个漫长的探索和演化过程。 「AI 器物志」栏目由此而来,...
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Solidion Technology ( STI ) has announced a securities purchase agreement with an institutional investor to sell 2.33M shares of common stock in a private placement, generating $35M in gross proceeds. The sale is priced above market according to Nasdaq rules and is expected to close around June 9, 2026, pending standard conditions. The funds will fully support the company until 2028 and will help ...
Solidion Technology ( STI ) has announced a securities purchase agreement with an institutional investor to sell 2.33M shares of common stock in a private placement, generating $35M in gross proceeds. The sale is priced above market according to Nasdaq rules and is expected to close around June 9, 2026, pending standard conditions. The funds will fully support the company until 2028 and will help accelerate the commercialization of its Extreme-Climate Battery Technology, aimed at the Lunar economy and other space uses. The money will be used to meet customer demand, increase inventory, build and test prototypes, and for general corporate purposes. Titan Partners is the sole placement agent for this transaction. More on Solidion Technology Financial information for Solidion Technology