your Pivot to AI holiday special!

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Sources:

• Demo at D9: UBeam https://allthingsd.com/20110602/demo-at-d9-ubeam/index.html
• Investors Power Wireless-Electricity Start-Up UBeam With $750K https://www.wsj.com/articles/DJFVW00020120711e87bpkd6c
• DWECK v. PERRY https://dockets.justia.com/docket/pennsylvania/paedce/2:2011cv07057/452029
• 30 Under 30: Energy https://web.archive.org/web/20120108093349/http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mef45eldh/meredith-perry-founder-ubeam-22
• Is this woman the next Elon Musk? https://fortune.com/2015/07/29/ubeam-meredith-perry-wireless-charging/
• How putting $10M into UBeam illustrates everything that is wrong with tech investing today https://lookatmeimdanny.tumblr.com/post/101432017159/how-putting-10m-into-ubeam-illustrates-everything
• uBeam Declassifies Secrets To Try To Prove Wireless Power Is Possible https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/07/wireless-power-charger/
• Experts Still Think uBeam's Through-the-Air Charging Tech Is Unlikely https://spectrum.ieee.org/experts-still-think-ubeamrsquos-throughtheair-charging-tech-is-unlikely
• The Sausage Factory https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-sausage-factory.html
• Conversation with an investor https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/129387704618/conversation-with-an-investor
• Exclusive: uBeam CEO Meredith Perry steps down https://www.axios.com/2018/09/20/ubeam-ceo-meredith-perry-steps-down-1537464261
• It's an ex-uBeam ... https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2021/05/its-ex-ubeam.html
• SonicEnergy Overview: Out of Business https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/54800-92#overview
• Brain Gear Is the Hot New Wearable https://www.wired.com/story/expired-tired-wired-wearables/
• How to be a technology innovator: Meredith Perry at TEDxNashville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukgnU2aXM2c
• uBeam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH742F25MHg

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so here it is, Merry Botmas, everybody's having slop

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• BUY the Cuban Boys: Art vs Commerce: https://cubanboys.bandcamp.com/album/art-vs-commerce-the-singles-collection
• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXJ5oaU940U

Sources:

• Official NORAD Tracks Santa https://www.noradsanta.org/en/map
• OpenAI and NORAD team up to bring new magic to "NORAD Tracks Santa" https://openai.com/index/norad-holiday-collaboration/
• Video Dispatch: A Use Case is a Trojan Horse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3JdvqGafAk by @fasterandworse

Previously on Pivot to AI:

• Sam Altman's Studio Ghibli memes are another distraction from OpenAI's money troubles https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/27/sam-altmans-studio-ghibli-memes-are-another-distraction-from-openais-money-troubles/
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38T84uF771U&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
• Department of Defense goes to war by AI chatbot https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/10/department-of-defense-goes-to-war-by-ai-chatbot/
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPh9dirnYeA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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where 'absolutely not' means 'maybe later'

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/23/firefox-browser-falls-to-ai-what-do-we-do-now/ - blog post

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Sources:

• uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
  AI Chatbot, at your service https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/ai-chatbot-at-your-service/td-p/84919
• Mozilla's next chapter: Building the world's most trusted software company https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
• Mozilla's new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo
• Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features https://bsky.app/profile/webdevs.firefox.com/post/3mab5kub3gs2b
• I've spoken to a lot of folks about what counts as opt-in https://bsky.app/profile/webdevs.firefox.com/post/3madx5u5km227
• When did I opt in to this? https://bsky.app/profile/arborelia.net/post/3mae7sqerp22c
• Manifest V3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Manifest_V3_2
• Mozilla boss Brendan Eich resigns after gay marriage storm https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26868536
• Brave: Easy, private AI https://brave.com/ai/
• One of the last meetings I attended before leaving Apple (in 2017) https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1874518295350837401
• Let's prototype a JavaScript JIT compiler! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxubNQC5O8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

Alternate browsers:

• Vivaldi: https://vivaldi.com
• LibreWolf: https://librewolf.net/
• WaterFox: https://www.waterfox.com/
• IronFox: https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/tree/main?ref_type=heads#app-installation

Previously on Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain:

• Brave web browser no longer claims to fundraise on behalf of others — so that's nice https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-browser-no-longer-claims-to-fundraise-on-behalf-of-others-so-thats-nice/
• The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-web-browser-is-hijacking-links-and-inserting-affiliate-codes/

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