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Steam Doesn't Think This Image Is ‘Suitable for All Ages’
The decision highlights hurdles faced by developers as they navigate a world where credit card companies dictate what is and isn't appropriate.
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Journalist Discovers Google Vulnerability That Allowed People to Disappear Specific Pages From Search
Negative articles about a tech CEO vanished from Google after someone made fraudulent requests using the Refresh Outdated Content Tool.
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Gun Nerds Dismantle Infamous Pistol to Research If It Fires at Random
The Sig Sauer P320 has a reputation for firing without pulling the trigger. The manufacturer says that's impossible, but the firearms community is showing the truth is more complicated.
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Lawsuit Alleges Roblox Hosted Digital 'Diddy Freak-Off' Themed Games
The games were mentioned in a 2024 report and are now part of a new lawsuit in which a 11 year old girl was allegedly groomed and sexually assaulted after meeting a stranger on Roblox.
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ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It
Welcome to the era of ‘gaslight driven development.’ Soundslice added a feature the chatbot thought it existed after engineers kept finding screenshots from the LLM in its error logs.
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The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia
Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
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The Real Future of AI Is Ordering Mid Chicken at Bojangles
This month I ordered a meal at the Bojangles drive-thru in South Carolina, which is now using AI. This is how AI becomes the background noise of the world.
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3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought
Early studies show that 3D printers may leave behind similar toolmarks on repeated prints.
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Hackers Can Remotely Trigger the Brakes on American Trains and the Problem Has Been Ignored for Years
“All of the knowledge to generate the exploit already exists on the internet. AI could even build it for you,” the researcher told 404 Media.
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Swedish Prime Minister Pulls AI Campaign Tool After It Was Used to Ask Hitler for Support
Sweden's Moderate party allowed users to make the PM hold a sign bearing any name they wanted. You know what happened next.
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The UN Made AI-Generated Refugees
The AIs are designed to teach people about atrocities in Sudan.
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Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon
LLMs don’t read the danger in requests if you use enough big words.