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How sex workers are fighting back against online deplatforming (www.huckmag.com)

The #StopDeletingUs campaign is resisting a mass wave of deletions of sex positive accounts and arguing for fairer moderation of sexual content online.

Bear 2 is a terrific notes app — and it only took forever to build (www.theverge.com)

Bear 2 is a major update to the popular note-taking app Bear, which was an immediate hit when it launched in 2016. The new version has taken a long time to build, over 5 years, as the developers decided to completely rewrite the underlying text editor to enable features like tables, GIFs, and footnotes. The developer says...

Mercedes-Benz says “ja” to Tesla’s EV charging connector (www.theverge.com)

Mercedes adopts Tesla’s EV charger.

AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare (www.phoronix.com)

Reddit CEO: We’re sticking with API change, despite subreddits going dark (www.pcmag.com)

BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization (rys.io)

Almost exactly six months after Twitter got taken over by a petulant edge lord, people seem to be done with grieving the communities this disrupted and connections they lost, and are ready, eager even, to jump head-first into another toxic relationship. This time with BlueSky.

[Gamers Nexus] Intel's Biggest Failure in Years: Confirmed Oxidation & Excessive Voltage (www.youtube.com)

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Meta tells court it won’t sue over Facebook feed-killing tool—yet (arstechnica.com)

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Android Dialer App Recommendations?

For years I was using Drupe, but they’ve thoroughly enshittified. What used to be a sleek, extremely functional dialer app with a fantastic UI has become a slow, ad-filled sack of garbage with a still pretty good UI....

Amid a decline in democratic standards, the Serbian government uses large-scale installation of surveillance systems with facial recognition technology to monitor opponents, activists and journalists (balkaninsight.com)

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[TechHut] my favorite app (Neofetch) is dead (www.youtube.com)

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A Suspected Human Smuggler Used AirTags to Track and Control The Woman He Brought Into the U.S. (www.404media.co)

Instagram is training AI on your data. It’s nearly impossible to opt out (www.fastcompany.com)

Critics of Putin and his allies targeted inside the EU with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware (www.theguardian.com)

At least seven journalists and activists who have been vocal critics of the Kremlin and its allies have been targeted inside the EU by a state using Pegasus, the hacking spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group, according to a new report by security researchers....

A look at search engines with their own indexes (seirdy.one)

If you ever wanted to know too much about where the majority of our search results come from and the many niche alternatives trying something different…

AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside (www.wired.com)

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Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry (futurism.com)

Thanks, I hate it.

Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat (gizmodo.com)

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Popular AI Chatbots Found to Give Error-Ridden Legal Answers (news.bloomberglaw.com)

Ransomware causes mental, physical trauma to security pros (www.theregister.com)

Twitter/X violated contract by failing to pay millions in bonuses, US judge rules (datafloq.com)

My brushstrokes against AI-art (www.davidrevoy.com)

Facebook parent Meta sues the FTC claiming 'unconstitutional authority' in child privacy case (apnews.com)

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — The parent company of Instagram and Facebook has sued the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to stop the agency from reopening a 2020 privacy settlement with the company that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18....

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