We're back with a news round recording made in July 2024, covering Musk and newly awarded billions, Adobe's Ts and Cs regarding AI, Microsoft Copilot+ Recall feature. and Apple's stirrings with ChatGPT.
News references:
NPR: Elon Musk wins back his $44.9 billion Tesla pay package in shareholder vote
9to5mac: Change to Adobe terms & conditions outrages many professionals
Adobe Blog: A clarification on Adobe Terms of Use
Computer World: Microsoft details Windows Recall security and privacy features
arstechnica: Report: Apple and OpenAI have signed a deal to partner on AI
Since the announcement of the deal with OpenAI, Apple has pulled out as reported by arstechnica: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/report-apple-wont-invest-in-openai-after-all-but-microsoft-will/
Then we turn to the main topic of the day that the Duck went down. But why did it go down? So began the search for alternatives and Shaz's selection for his backup.
Search engines mentioned in the show:
SearXNG (a maintained fork of SearX)
*Unfortunately, since the recording, MetaGer has lost key funding when Yahoo! cancelled their contract. Read more at the MetaGer Blog. The subscription/credit approach is still available.
There was some criteria for the hunt of a new search engine though: it needs to be independent and privacy friendly.
So... what did Shaz choose? Well, you're gonna have to listen in for that 😉.