ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (www.newyorker.com)
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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....
Shooting conspiracies trend on X as Musk endorses Trump (www.theverge.com)
'Gay furry hackers' disband after Project 2025 data theft (www.theregister.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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First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards (arstechnica.com)
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)
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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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....
Apple removed 25 VPN apps from the Russian App Store at the Kremlin's request (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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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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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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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)
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)
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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Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town (time.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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