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Paul McCartney Banned From Reddit After Promoting Himself in Paul McCartney Subreddit
Reddit blamed a technical glitch for the removal of the living legend’s concert footage.
ICE
How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir
Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used by ICE.
News
An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned
The incident is yet another example of volunteer Wikipedia editors fighting to keep the world’s largest repository of human knowledge free of AI-generated slop.
News
Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War
“White House videos—AI or otherwise—are like group-chat in-jokes aimed at keeping cohesion.”
Privacy
Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature
The move isn't surprising, but shows what data is available to authorities when paying Apple customers use the Hide My Email feature.
News
Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
News
The People Left Behind by the Metaverse
"The way they have behaved here is profoundly harmful and I would deem it a type of psychological torture from corprotate neglect."
News
A Top Google Search Result for Claude Plugins Was Planted by Hackers
Hackers paid to make a malicious link the top Google Search result.
News
This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts
WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.
DOGE
Judge Allows DOGE Deposition Videos Back Online
“We are pleased to see today's ruling in defense of the First Amendment rights of all Americans,” one of the plaintiffs in the DOGE-related lawsuit said. The videos previously went viral when a DOGE member was unable or unwilling to define DEI.
News
Tiny Township Fears Iran Drone Strikes Because of New Nuclear Weapons Datacenter
The attorney for the township of Ypsilanti, Michigan, said the construction of the data center puts “a big bulls eye target on this entire township."
aliens
Government Registers Aliens.Gov Domain
There is no associated website yet, but the move comes after Trump ordered the release of files related to UFOs.