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Mastodon Is the Good One
Mastodon is interoperable, decentralized, operated by a nonprofit, lively, and, ACTUALLY, isn't hard to use. So why is everyone championing Threads as the main Twitter alternative?
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Inside a $30 Million Cash-for-Bitcoin Laundering Ring in the Heart of New York
Court records provide rare insight into an alleged IRL criminal Bitcoin exchange involving men dropping massive bags of cash to one another.
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Instagram ‘Sincerely Apologizes’ For Inserting ‘Terrorist’ Into Palestinian Bio Translations
The "see translation" feature for user bios was auto-translating phrases that included "Palestinian" and “alhamdulillah” into "Praise be to god, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom."
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Town Repeatedly Surveilled Man's Yard With Drone Without a Warrant
A town in Michigan hired a commercial drone company to repeatedly take photos of Todd Maxon's property. The case is now going to the Michigan Supreme Court.
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Hackers Target Company That Vets Police Data Requests for Tech Giants
Kodex acts as a buffer between law enforcement and tech giants to verify requests for customer data. Now hackers have pivoted to Kodex as a target in its own right. Screenshots show Meta, LinkedIn, Discord, Snapchat, Roblox, and more on a request creation dashboard.
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‘Verified’ OSINT Accounts Are Destroying the Israel-Palestine Information Ecosystem
The problem with profit and engagement driven misinformation from pseudo-OSINT accounts during the Israel-Palestine conflict is "unprecedented." One expert said after Musk's recent changes "all hell broke loose."
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Bandcamp’s Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off
Songtradr, which has acquired Bandcamp from Epic Games, said it did not have union membership information, but Songtradr’s CEO invited the bargaining team to a meeting last week.
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Disgruntled Game Dev Sneaks Goatse Onto a Dozen Sites That Stole His Game
“Let this be a lesson to you: If you are using an iFrame to display a site that isn’t yours, you have no control over that content—it can change at any time. One day instead of looking into an iFrame, you might be looking at an entirely different kind of portal.”
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A Trademark Dispute Is Tearing the Tiny Film Photography Community Apart
Small film camera businesses have been shocked to receive threatening emails from a company called CineStill over who has the right to use the term '800T.'
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Marc Andreessen Manifesto Says AI Regulation “Is a Form of Murder”
Marc Andreesen’s latest a16z post makes a list of AI “enemies.”
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Fake Reports That Pornhub Is Giving Mia Khalifa's Money to Israel Are Going Viral
Made to look like MSNBC news reports, false claims about the former adult performer are spreading, despite being blatant misinformation.
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AI Images Detectors Are Being Used to Discredit the Real Horrors of War
Online AI image detecting tools that may or may not work are labeling real photographs from the war in Israel and Palestine as fake, creating what a world leading expert called a “second level of disinformation.”