4chan Is Using TikTok Owner ByteDance's Hidden AI App to Generate Porn (www.404media.co)
Shooting conspiracies trend on X as Musk endorses Trump (www.theverge.com)
First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards (arstechnica.com)
Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” (www.themoscowtimes.com)
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Investigation platform Bellingcat warns of ‘censorship’ on X after research on Russian attack on children's hospital in Kyiv is labeled spam (therecord.media)
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China: Tech giant Baidu’s mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate after a vehicle ran into a pedestrian in Wuhan last Sunday (www.sixthtone.com)
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'Gay furry hackers' disband after Project 2025 data theft (www.theregister.com)
Palestinians living abroad have accused Microsoft of closing their email accounts without warning - cutting them off from crucial online services (www.bbc.com)
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EU says X’s paid-for blue check deceives users, breaks law • The Register (go.theregister.com)
Court ordered penalties for 15 teens who created naked AI images of classmates (arstechnica.com)
Hacktivists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data (Project 2025) (cyberscoop.com)
Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All But Dead, Market Analysts Say (gizmodo.com)
Quieting Discord: A new frontier in military leaks and extremism (www.navytimes.com)
China’s relentless e-commerce price war leaves sellers struggling to make ends meet as shopping platforms compete with ever-more aggressive policies and a domestic economy slowing down (theadvisermagazine.com)
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Musk is lightyears away from a self-driving car (archive.ph)
Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town (time.com)
Meta's CrowdTangle, which has been used to track misinformation, is set to disappear in August as elections take place worldwide. Its replacement isn’t as transparent or accessible. (www.cjr.org)
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Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Apple removed 25 VPN apps from the Russian App Store at the Kremlin's request (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staff (www.404media.co)
Vivaldi: "Many have tagged us in discussions about a specif…" - Vivaldi Social (social.vivaldi.net)
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AMD to acquire Finnish startup Silo AI for $665 mln to step up in AI race (www.reuters.com)
Why are US states, school districts banning smartphones in schools? (www.aljazeera.com)
Global security alliance warns of Russian disinformation campaign using Meliorator AI software allowing for the creation of authentic appearing fictitious personas to post content on X (www.cyber.gc.ca)
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