4chan Is Using TikTok Owner ByteDance's Hidden AI App to Generate Porn (www.404media.co)
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)
Musk is lightyears away from a self-driving car (archive.ph)
Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All But Dead, Market Analysts Say (gizmodo.com)
Palestinians living abroad have accused Microsoft of closing their email accounts without warning - cutting them off from crucial online services (www.bbc.com)
They say it has left them unable to access bank accounts and job offers - and stopped them using Skype, which Microsoft owns, to contact relatives in war-torn Gaza....
Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town (time.com)
First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards (arstechnica.com)
'Gay furry hackers' disband after Project 2025 data theft (www.theregister.com)
Alternative YouTube clients having issues loading videos
It seems YT started another attempt at blocking alternative clients. They changed something in their API and both SmartTube and Tubular (NewPipe fork) are completely broken. Apparently it started happening this past week, but we personally just felt it today....
[Gamers Nexus] Intel's CPUs Are Failing, ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs (www.youtube.com)
Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage (fedi.simonwillison.net)
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EU says X’s paid-for blue check deceives users, breaks law • The Register (go.theregister.com)
Vivaldi: "Many have tagged us in discussions about a specif…" - Vivaldi Social (social.vivaldi.net)
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A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staff (www.404media.co)
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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[Palmer Luckey] created Oculus headsets as a teenager. Now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine (www.npr.org)
It’s so easy to sanitize tech stories about murder weapons. Just say “Ukraine” in the title!
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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First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers (arstechnica.com)
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The U.S. President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did. (www.propublica.org)
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Shooting conspiracies trend on X as Musk endorses Trump (www.theverge.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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How to efficiently remove duplicate photos across multiple Google Photos accounts?
I have a number of Google Photos accounts that I believe I had backed up my iPhone to over the years. However, I hadn’t deleted the backed up photos from my iPhone each time, so there are many duplicates across the multiple Google Photos accounts....
Apple removed 25 VPN apps from the Russian App Store at the Kremlin's request (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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