Open Letter: "The European Union must keep funding free software" (nextgraph.org)
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Swedish digital forensic group Qurium shows how Russia is using European companies for propaganda (www.qurium.org)
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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)
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[Asianometry] The Big Data Center Water Problem (www.youtube.com)
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)
[Gamers Nexus] Intel's CPUs Are Failing, ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs (www.youtube.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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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....