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AI Is Eating the Internet, but Many Are Hopeful Human-Made Content Will Win Out Publishers, including CNET's owner, are taking a wide range of approaches to try to make it through AI's changes.

“If you start to look into citations in LLM chatbots, you're going to see that sources have gone from journalism sources to marketing sources…”

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America Is Drowning In Scam Calls And Texts And Donald Trump Is Making It Worse Just so you know: it’s not normal for your country’s voice communications networks to be completely hijacked by scammers and marketers, rendering it almost unusable. That’s litera…

“…the Trump administration and its extremist courts have effectively lobotomized the U.S. regulatory state, making it difficult or impossible to pass any new consumer protections or enforce existing ones.”

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A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

Pentagon relaxes military cybersecurity training : Beards, body fat, and cyber refreshers now frowned upon

“This represents an extremely shortsighted action by the DOD, especially when the US military is facing a cyber insurgency within its infrastructure by China and Russia.”

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Instagram head says company is not using your microphone to listen to you (with AI data, it won't need to) | TechCrunch The idea that Meta would secretly turn on the microphones on users' phones to record their conversations is an age-old conspiracy theory -- and one that the company has disputed before.

“…Meta has announced it will soon target ads to users across its social apps using data collected from their interactions with its AI products.”

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Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans | TechCrunch The Texas senator blocked a bill that would have prevented data brokers from selling personal data on anyone in the United States, and not just federal lawmakers and government officials.

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The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months Today is the day we stop pretending that it’s not.

“The larger point is that the government is already shut down, and has been for several months, as the Trump administration initiated an assault on this system of government.”

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A New Lawsuit Alleges the Gun Industry Exploited Firearm Owners’ Data for Political Gain The federal court complaint filed this week closely mirrors the findings of a ProPublica investigation that detailed a decades-long secret program operated by the gun industry’s largest trade group.

“Along with the potential voters’ income, debts and religious affiliation, analysts collected information like whether they enjoyed the work of the painter Thomas Kinkade and whether the underwear women had purchased was plus size or petite.”

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Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms | TechCrunch A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.

“But the company doesn’t say how AI partners or others it sells to could use that data. Voice data could be used to make fake calls that sound like they’re coming from you, or AI companies could use your voice to make their own AI voices.”

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How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women "This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

“All our lives, we are taught to fear masked men in unmarked vehicles…We learn we should run from such men to avoid being kidnapped, sexually assaulted, or killed.”

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TikTok: App's child data protection inadequate, Canada probe finds - BBC News TikTok says it will introduce measures to "strengthen our platform" although it disputes some of the findings.

“Hundreds of thousands of children in the country use TikTok each year despite the firm saying it is not intended for people under the age of 13, according to the findings.”

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Threats against executives surge as companies grapple with global instability More than 4 in 10 CSOs worldwide have seen increase in threats of violence targeting company’s top leaders: report

“The sharing of both inaccurate information and deliberate false narratives with malicious intent is increasingly linked to physical security incidents.”

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Okay so what if you have a brain worm, take Tylenol, and you grew up drinking fluoridated water. Will your brain worm have good teeth?

Former US attorney Alex Acosta defends Epstein’s ‘sweetheart’ plea deal in testimony 2008 plea deal saw Epstein get just over a year in prison and avoid federal sex trafficking case that could’ve resulted in life sentence

“Epstein, who had been on federal officials’ radar since 2006, ended up serving just over a year in prison, much of the time being allowed to commute to his West Palm Beach office. An Epstein survivor has said she was raped during this period.”

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The California-Washington tech fight heats up In DC, Republican lawmakers and officials — all in on AI — warn that Sacramento could derail America’s tech hopes

Ted Cruz would not support a federal data privacy law in 2024, leaving consumer data protection up to each state.

But now he is pushing federal protections for Artificial Intelligence.

#AmericanPrivacyRightsAct
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Arrests over projection of Trump and Epstein images onto Windsor ‘ridiculous’ The nine-minutes-long film created by political campaign group Led By Donkeys went over the history of the US president’s links to Jeffrey Epstein.

“People say they want to see peaceful protests, but what can be more peaceful than legally hiring a hotel room and project images onto a wall?”

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Maurene Comey, prosecutor who handled Jeffrey Epstein case, sues over firing Comey, the daughter of former FBI director and Trump foe James Comey, in the lawsuit alleged her termination was “unlawful and unconstitutional."

“Comey’s termination came as the Trump administration sought to fend off outrage from the president’s MAGA base over its handling of files regarding Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, and Maxwell, his longtime associate who was convicted of sex trafficking.”

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GOP momentum grows to force Trump DOJ to release Epstein files Some Republicans now say privately that it’s inevitable that Congress will pass legislation directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all files the Department of Justice (DOJ) has related to …

“President Trump has repeatedly tried to wave aside calls from Republicans and MAGA activists to make all the Epstein files public, but GOP lawmakers say privately that Trump is losing the battle…”

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Trump loves AI, and the MAGA world is getting worried Trump's White House is all-in on building powerful American artificial intelligence. The populist base is starting to push back.

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“Only few things are more cynical than the Kremlin’s ritual calls for peace. Putin likes to string along the occasional Western politician with vague talk of negotiations.”

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Trump is gutting America’s consumer watchdog to feed Wall Street’s greed The CFPB clawed back $21bn for Americans. Now Trump is dismantling it, leaving families exposed as his donors celebrate.

“Consumers are left to fend for themselves. Despite conservatives’ nostalgia for the good old days, for most Americans, we are returning to the bad old days, when corporate greed goes unchecked…”

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Breakingviews - Donald Trump is weaker than he looks The US president is getting his way with weak entities like the EU. But China, Russia, India and the Federal Reserve have so far stood firm, while court rulings may frustrate his tariff plans. Meanwhile, his popularity is waning and the midterm elections are barely a year away.

“A big risk to the United States long-term power is how his simultaneous entanglements with so many countries, such as India and Brazil, may drive them closer to China and Russia. If so, Beijing and Moscow will be the big winners from the U.S. president’s bullying.”
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College students are bombarded by misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101 − here’s what happened Just 2½ hours of online instruction made students a lot better at identifying misinformation on YouTube and TikTok.

“These changes don’t require waiting for a big revolution. Small steps can go a long way. And in a world flooded with misinformation, helping students learn to sort fact from fiction might be the most civic thing we can do.”

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AI 'deadbots' are persuasive — and researchers say, they're primed for monetization The digital afterlife industry may near $80 billion in a decade, fueled by AI "deadbots." Tech firms see profit. But experts warn of troubling consequences.

“The digital afterlife industry, which manages a person's digital assets after their death, is expected to quadruple in size to nearly $80 billion dollars over the next decade. That includes the creation of deadbots.”

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Elon Musk accuses Apple and OpenAI of stifling AI competition in antitrust lawsuit Elon Musk on Monday targeted Apple and OpenAI in an antitrust lawsuit alleging that the iPhone maker and the ChatGPT maker are teaming up to thwart competition in artificial intelligence.

Nobody wants MechaHitler

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Jena Griswold fires back after Trump calls — again — for Tina Peters’ release and threatens ‘harsh measures’ Griswold said she had no idea what Trump meant with his threat, but she said there’s nothing the president can do to unwind the conviction.

County Clerk Tina Peters “was accused of using someone else’s security badge to give an expert affiliated with My Pillow chief executive Mike Lindell access to the Mesa County election system.”

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