Louisiana Outlaws Sexual Deepfakes of Children (gizmodo.com)
Violators found to create or possess deepfaked material of minors engaged in sexual acts could face 5 to 20 years in prison.
Intel Meteor Lake CPU Family Details Allegedly Leak (www.tomshardware.com)
Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking (arstechnica.com)
Can Twitter Alternatives Escape the Enshittification Trap? (www.wired.com)
People have flocked to Bluesky and Threads. But the new platforms risk repeating a pattern that has caused social media giants to turn against their own users.
Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else (www.theverge.com)
In Santa Monica, CA, sometimes the first cop on the scene is a drone (archive.is)
Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else (www.theverge.com)
Reddit is sending strongly-worded messages to moderators of certain subreddits that are marked as NSFW (Not Safe For Work), telling them to remove the tag or face being removed.
France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people (gazettengr.com)
A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.
A volunteer-made project that fights bots on Reddit is shutting down (BotDefense) (www.theverge.com)
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The Zuck suck is in full swing. (social.fossware.space)
In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like “headphone status” and “screen density.”
Threads already has over 95 million posts, 30 million signups (www.theverge.com)
Instagram’s new Twitter competitor, Threads, is off to a rocket start. Mark Zuckerberg announced 30 million activated profiles, while internal data shows over 95 million posts and 190 million likes in less than one day,
Meta’s Threads app is a privacy nightmare that won’t launch in EU yet (techcrunch.com)
Meta’s planned Twitter killer, Threads, isn’t yet publicly available but it already looks like a privacy nightmare…
Cloudbooklet's useless guide to bypassing Twitter's login wall
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How to read emails the secure way?
Hello! When I read emails I always pay a lot of attention to suspect messages and so on, but I’m always a bit scared of clicking the wrong link and getting infected by malwares....
A better list of Mastodon servers that have pre-emptively defederated from Threads.net (fedipact.veganism.social)
You can't post ass, Threads is doomed (techcrunch.com)
Musk’s X Corp. threatens to sue Meta over Twitter “copycat” Threads (arstechnica.com)
X Corp. claims Meta used Twitter trade secrets and ex-employees to build Threads.
Meta Threads: why I think they don't care if you use it
So this has been going around my head for a while now: What if they do not care about their users per se but want the few users they get to exploit the federation to shamelessly crawl the fediverse?...
In NYC, companies will have to prove their AI hiring software isn't sexist or racist (www.nbcnews.com)
New York City businesses that use artificial intelligence to help find hires now have to show the process was free from sexism and racism.
Cyberpunk 2077 Players Protest Reddit By Posting Nudes (kotaku.com)
Reddit admins are reportedly angry that the Cyberpunk 2077 subreddit is now NSFW and demanding it change
Twitter warns it could sue Meta over “copycat” Threads app (www.theverge.com)
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over concerns about its new Threads app, according to a letter obtained by Semafor. In the letter, which is addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro argues that Meta used Twitter’s trade secrets and intellectual property to build Threads....
France grants police power to spy on citizens through phones (www.techradar.com)
VPN services and other security tools won’t be able to protect people from this kind of state-surveillance. What’s next for France’s justice reform bill?
U.S. Offshore Wind Industry Is ‘Coming to Life’ (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Threads app: Instagram owner’s Twitter rival logs 5 million users in first hours
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