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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.”
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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.