Shooting conspiracies trend on X as Musk endorses Trump (www.theverge.com)
'Gay furry hackers' disband after Project 2025 data theft (www.theregister.com)
First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards (arstechnica.com)
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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EU says X’s paid-for blue check deceives users, breaks law • The Register (go.theregister.com)
Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable (www.404media.co)
[Gamers Nexus] Intel's CPUs Are Failing, ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs (www.youtube.com)
4chan Is Using TikTok Owner ByteDance's Hidden AI App to Generate Porn (www.404media.co)
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....
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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Court ordered penalties for 15 teens who created naked AI images of classmates (arstechnica.com)
Musk is lightyears away from a self-driving car (archive.ph)
Hacktivists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data (Project 2025) (cyberscoop.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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Apple removed 25 VPN apps from the Russian App Store at the Kremlin's request (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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AMD to acquire Finnish startup Silo AI for $665 mln to step up in AI race (www.reuters.com)
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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Vivaldi: "Many have tagged us in discussions about a specif…" - Vivaldi Social (social.vivaldi.net)
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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....
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....