Even so, Google is on both sides of this one. Making promises to both. Potentially charging both.

Do they let it past their own reCAPTCHA, knowing without a doubt that it is not a human? Do they still charge for these attempts for users that aren't on their free tier of reCAPTCHA, despite knowing they intentionally failed their customers?

External CCs seemingly being allowed without verification is problem #1. Problem #2 is that email forwarding is still implicitly trusted. There is no reason a scammer should be able to sign up for a real service, and redirect the emails to their email address to your own. But mail forwarding is an established thing that mail providers are scared of breaking for some reason.

The current biggest delivery methods of scam emails is hijacking legitimate transactional emails from major providers. This is why you get scam emails where the scam itself is just a merge field from fake contact information but the email is delivered as a real Paypal payment notification, a real 2FA email alert, or any other transactional message. The only clue in the mail headers is that you're not the "To:' delivery address.

PowerBI is just one symptom of a bigger problem. There should be zero trust if mail is arriving by proxy from an intermediate inbox.

Why do you think IPv6 has gone nowhere? IPv4 and CGNAT is the most recent method of blocking participation. You still need to access a server from a major company to do anything.

The mental image of someone seething in anger patiently, while waiting for this to be built layer by layer...

The people who are going to these lengths for illicit guns will have no trouble bypassing restrictions. Everyone else will just buy a gun the normal way.

Google has always prioritized rapidly changing content, above relevancy or quality. It makes sense that social media would rise to the top of an environment like that. It doesn't make it good as news, though technically they did call it "Discover" rather than News.

To a certain extent, inflation only matters if you aren't the one that owns everything. Continually devaluing wages before minimum wage can rise to meet it is another way to skim off the top.

With the exception of malls recently, they get their money whether the business inside that building makes money or not. They can churn through tenant after tenant and recoup their money while never allowing a tenant to thrive. It's relatively rare for things to stay vacant.

When the product is a $30 Android phone, they definitely want you to believe they are losing money on it with a 60 day unlock policy. But given how slow those phones are I really don't know how much they could be losing.

There is some good slop out there too. I don't know how to quantify quality slop, but there is at least one channel putting out some very funny videos that are complete nonsense. I would not want to see that go away but I don't think they are going for detecting AI vs not anyway. They had a bad slop problem before AI.

Or borrow it. You know, like if you live in the same house before the divorce.

And particularly relevant for a divorce situation, a significant other who can grab your phone and knows your passcode certainly doesn't count as being you.

And here I thought a web hosting company getting bought out by EIG was bad enough. Turns out private equity can be even worse.

That's the silly thing. They were the other provider. If they can't even compete with Microsoft or Google mailbox sizes at $10/mo how bad are they at this?

Rackspace: 25GB at $10
Microsoft: 50GB at $4
Google: 30GB at $6

This is just lazy algorthims on Google's part. If you have any of a certain number of words in your video anywhere, it can be demonetized. That includes in on-screen graphics as well as spoken. It would almost be better if it was driven by AI. Almost.