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The SEO world is up in arms after a story said they're 'ruining the internet.' Here's the spicy drama. (www.businessinsider.com)

‘I’d Have Told Them to F*ck Off’: Succession Star Brian Cox Says AI Is a Human Rights Issue | Hollywood actors entered their 100th day on strike last week in part over demands for contractual prote... (gizmodo.com)

‘I’d Have Told Them to F*ck Off’: Succession Star Brian Cox Says AI Is a Human Rights Issue | Hollywood actors entered their 100th day on strike last week in part over demands for contractual prote…::Hollywood actors entered their 100th day on strike last week in part over demands for contractual protections against AI.

ChatGPT's Scary Good at Getting People to Click Phishing Emails, IBM Finds (futurism.com)

IBM researchers said a ChatGPT-generated phishing email was almost as effective in fooling people compared to a man-made version.

Poll: 80% of Israelis say Netanyahu must take public responsibility for Oct. 7 failures (www.timesofisrael.com)

Tsingtao: Video shows Chinese beer worker urinating into tank (www.bbc.com)

Chinese authorities are investigating after a viral video appeared to show a worker from Tsingtao urinating into a tank, believed to contain ingredients for its popular beer....

Musk's X disabled feature for reporting electoral misinformation (www.reuters.com)

San Francisco Fire Dept.: Person Dies After Robotaxi Blocked Ambulance (sfstandard.com)

A stalled Cruise robotaxi blocked a San Francisco ambulance from getting a pedestrian hit by a vehicle to the hospital in an Aug. 14 incident, according to first responder accounts. The patient later died of their injuries....

Right to repair’s unlikely new adversary: Scientologists (arstechnica.com)

The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act is A Terrible Alternative to KOSA (www.eff.org)

A new bill sponsored by Sen. Schatz (D-HI), Sen. Cotton (R-AR), Sen. Murphy (D-CT), and Sen. Britt (R-AL) would combine some of the worst elements of various social media bills aimed at “protecting the children” into a single law.

Ukrainian military destroy unique Russian radar station worth $200 million in Kherson Oblast (www.pravda.com.ua)

Fani Willis says Trump, 18 co-defendants to voluntarily surrender in Georgia by Aug. 25 (thehill.com)

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis late Monday gave former President Trump and 18 co-defendants until Aug. 25 at noon to voluntarily surrender in Georgia following an indictment that unveiled multiple charges in connection to their attempts to interfere in the 2020 election.

EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient Even Though It Could Cause Cancer in Virtually Every Person Exposed Over a Lifetime (www.propublica.org)

An EPA document shows that a new Chevron fuel ingredient has a lifetime cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than what the agency usually finds acceptable — even greater than another Chevron fuel’s sky-high risk disclosed earlier this year.

Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed (httptoolkit.com)

Apple has deployed a system called Private Access Tokens that allows web servers to verify if a device is legitimate before granting access. This works by having the browser request a signed token from Apple proving the device is approved. While this currently has limited impact due to Safari’s market share, there are concerns...

Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM (arstechnica.com)

Derek Chauvin makes another bid to overturn federal conviction in murder of George Floyd (www.pbs.org)

Landlord torches New York home after tenants stop paying rent, become squatters (www.foxbusiness.com)

Brooklyn landlord Rafiqul Islam faces arson and attempted murder charges

X is reportedly selling inactive usernames for $50,000 — The move is the platform’s latest attempt to raise revenue (www.pcmag.com)

X is reportedly selling inactive usernames for $50,000 — The move is the platform’s latest attempt to raise revenue::undefined

Tech office shuts down its free cocktail bar for employees, CEO says “The office is dead” — An experiment in 2020s, incentivizing the workplace as a dot-com-era adult playground where work also occ... (sfist.com)

Tech office shuts down its free cocktail bar for employees, CEO says “The office is dead” — An experiment in 2020s, incentivizing the workplace as a dot-com-era adult playground where work also occ…::An experiment in 2020s incentivizing the workplace as a dot-com-era adult playground where work also occurs has ended with...

Greta Thunberg charged following Fossil Free London protest (www.bbc.co.uk)

Bloomberg Lazily Helps Telecom Lobby Seed The Press With Bullshit Claims About Net Neutrality (www.techdirt.com)

With the Biden FCC now having a voting majority, the telecom industry is clearly worried about the agency’s plans to restore popular net neutrality rules stripped away by the Trump administration....

Spotify's new Showcase tool lets artists pay to promote their music in the Home feed | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Another reason to never listen to anything recommended by spotify

Ukrainian missiles strike Russian warships in Crimean naval base (www.cnn.com)

Two Russian warships were damaged after Ukraine launched an extensive assault on a Russian ship repair base in Crimea early Wednesday morning, officials said, in what appears to be Kyiv’s most ambitious strike on the port since the war began....

World’s first crewed liquid hydrogen plane takes off (thenextweb.com)

World’s first crewed liquid hydrogen plane takes off::undefined

Older adults who regularly use the internet have half the risk of dementia compared to non-regular users (www.psypost.org)

Older adults who regularly use the internet have half the risk of dementia compared to non-regular users::A longitudinal study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, found that older adults who regularly use the internet have about half the risk of developing dementia compared to non-users, even after...