Mar 14, 2013 10:47 AM

Google Boots Ad Blockers From Google Play Store

Google has pulled the popular Adblock Plus and other ad-blocking apps from the Google Play Store, claiming that such apps violate the company's terms of service.

Google has pulled the popular Adblock Plus and other ad-blocking apps from the Google Play store.

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The government has removed restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models—but there were strings attached.

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