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The Tech Industry Has a New Plan to Stop Right to Repair Laws
Faced with new laws in California and other states, big tech lobbyists want to sign a "Memorandum of Understanding" to prevent "a compliance market where lawyers drive the decisions."
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Popular Porn Sites Warn Texas Users Porn Will ‘Impair Brain Development’
Sites in Vixen Media Group's network, including Blacked, Deeper, and Vixen, display a health disclaimer, following a Texas age verification law that would force all adult sites to show the warning to users.
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Counter-Strike 2 Is ‘Garbage,’ Say Players Who Played Counter-Strike for 3,000 Hours
Valve’s erasure of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive stirs the narcissism of small differences.
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Hackers Target Robinhood Accounts in Cash Out Schemes
Members of fraud and hacking focused Telegram groups are sharing tools and services for breaking into, and extracting value from, Robinhood accounts.
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Vintage Mac Community Begs Manufacturers for New Supply of Rare Dongle as Resellers Charge $250
“I am deeply concerned about the discontinuation of the Belkin F2E9142-WHT ADC to DVI cable."
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‘Dream’ AI Girlfriend Randomly Turns Into Nude Jennifer Lopez, Has Four Legs
A nightmare scenario previously only imagined by AI researchers, where AI image generators accidentally spit out non-consensual pornography of real people, is now reality.
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ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data
A bombshell government report also found that a CBP official used the data to track coworkers with no investigative purpose.
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4chan Uses Bing to Flood the Internet With Racist Images
A coordinated campaign to flood the internet with racist images is using Bing and DALL-E 3’s text-to-image AI tool.
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Another 62 ‘Girls Do Porn’ Victims Sue Pornhub for $600 Million
A lawsuit filed by more victims of the sex trafficking operation claims that Pornhub’s moderation staff ignored reports of their abuse videos.
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DIY Tinkerer Invents MacBook Tool That Breaks Apple’s Repair Locks
“To whoever it is at Apple who decided to not make this available to technicians, ‘Fuck you, we win.’”
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People Exploited YouTube Bug to Upload “Undeletable” Porn Videos
Communities of YouTube hackers and YouTube porn searchers discovered a bug that broke the platform's interface and kept hardcore porn on the site for weeks.
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Taylor Swift Facial Recognition TikTok Deletes Videos After 404 Media Investigation
A viral account was using facial recognition tech to dox random people on the internet, causing distress to victims. The account has now deleted its dozens of videos.