Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable (www.404media.co)
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)
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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‘If you want to have a good party, ask your friends not to take photos’: Carissa Véliz, expert in ethics applied to technology, advocates for a system of digital anonymity (english.elpais.com)
Carissa Véliz is an expert in ethics applied to technology. The Spanish-Mexican philosopher, who does not provide a date or place of birth to protect her privacy, is one of the voices that warn us about the growing digital dangers that lurk at every corner and chip away at our individual autonomy....
A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staff (www.404media.co)
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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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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Shooting conspiracies trend on X as Musk endorses Trump (www.theverge.com)
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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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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Apple removed 25 VPN apps from the Russian App Store at the Kremlin's request (www.bleepingcomputer.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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The Internet Archive Rescues MTV News’ Web Site, Making 460,000+ of Its Pages Searchable Again (www.openculture.com)
Despite Paramount Global’s corporate decision to purge MTV News’ online content (as well as that of Comedy Central, TVLand and CMT), much of the site has been resurrected on the Internet Archive, which now offers “a searchable index of 460,575 web pages previously published at mtv.com/news.”
