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Emma Roth

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    No Man’s Sky is making its Omega expedition free to play —

    but only during this weekend. The new community expedition is part of No Man’s Sky’s Omega overhaul and allows players who don’t own the game to embark on a mission set on planet Nafut Gamma.

    The expedition is available for free across all major platforms, including PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC. It runs for two weeks starting today, but it’s only free for everyone starting this Saturday, February 17th, to Monday, February 19th.

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    Emma Roth
    The majority of influencers don’t say when they’re advertising.

    That’s according to a study performed in the EU, which looked at 576 influencers across major social platforms. While 97 percent of influencers posted commercial content, only 20 percent — or one in five — disclosed these posts as advertising.

    The EU has consumer laws in place that require influencers to disclose when they’re advertising. As a result of the study, the EU has “earmarked” 358 influencers for “further investigation.”

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    Emma Roth
    Google Gemini can hang onto your chats for up to three years.

    Google recently updated its privacy policy for Gemini — the chatbot it previously called Bard. It details just how long the company will keep conversations that are “reviewed or annotated” by human reviewers, despite whether you’ve deleted your app activity or not:

    Conversations that have been reviewed or annotated by human reviewers (and related data like your language, device type, location info, or feedback) are not deleted when you delete your Gemini Apps activity because they are kept separately and are not connected to your Google Account. Instead, they are retained for up to three years.

    To compare, ChatGPT lets you permanently delete conversations every 30 days.

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    Emma Roth
    Mozilla is laying off around 60 workers and scaling back its Mastodon instance.

    In a memo obtained by TechCrunch, Mozilla said the company is making a “strategic correction” that will involve “working through a much smaller team to participate in the Mastodon ecosystem.” The company launched its mozilla.social instance last year.

    Additionally, Mozilla is shutting down Hubs, its virtual 3D platform initially launched in 2018. Mozilla says the platform’s userbase isn’t “robust enough to justify continuing to dedicate resources” during an “unfavorable shift in demand.” This shift comes just days after Mozilla appointed Laura Chambers as its interim CEO.