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Former Fox News Host Warns Trump of ‘Insurrection’ If He Pardons Maxwell A former Fox News host has warned that President Donald Trump will face a full-blown MAGA uprising if he pardons convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. “There will be an insurrection,” Gretchen C...

Maxwell was “transferred to a swanky, low-security facility in Texas which has no cell blocks or guard towers but does offer a gym, yoga classes, and a puppy program. As a convicted sex offender, however, Maxwell is ineligible to participate in the puppy program.”

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Elon Musk’s Latest AI Frontier: “Spicy” Deepfakes Of Stars Like Scarlett Johansson & Taylor Swift The "Spicy" mode on Elon Musk's Grok Imagine AI allows users to create lurid deepfake videos of Scarlett Johansson and Taylor Swift in seconds.

“Unlike other generative AI video tools that block celebrity text prompts, Grok Imagine has allowed users to imagine some of the most famous women on the planet in a state of undress.”

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Social Media Disinformation Disrupts Disaster Relief, Fuels Violence: Report False and misleading claims about extreme weather are spreading rapidly on social media, disrupting disaster response and putting lives in danger, a new report finds.

“The overwhelming majority of posts spreading lies about disaster response, climate change causes, and emergency aid were left unmoderated before being algorithmically boosted and monetized.”

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US tariffs: Lesotho factory that made Trump shirts hard hit by US tariffs The uncertainty around the paused tariffs has led to massive layoffs in Lesotho's textile industry.

“Until this year, its exports had not been subject to any US tariffs under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) - a law passed in Washington in 2000…in order to alleviate poverty and create jobs.

This was part of the ‘trade not aid’ philosophy.”

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Mark Cuban said the Trump administration needs to crack down on ads in AI models "The last thing we need is to have algorithms designed to maximize revenue driving LLM output and interactions," Cuban wrote on X.

“…it should be illegal for AI models to include ads in their responses.”

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The House is looking into the Epstein investigation. Here's what could happen next A key House committee is looking into the investigation of the late Jeffrey Epstein for sex trafficking crimes.

“Ultimately, the bipartisan vote to subpoena the files showed how political pressure is mounting on the Trump administration to disclose the files.”

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DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results | TechCrunch DuckDuckGo's new search feature comes as the internet is being flooded with AI-generated slop.

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Haunted by Epstein, Trump spirals further out of control His raging gibberish exposes a worsening mental state

“Everyone wants to see Epstein’s files and for the same reason: Accountability.”

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Is that a photo from Houdini?

"Let these weaklings continue forward ... I don’t want their support anymore!”
Donald Trump

"You are all worthless and weak! Now drop and give me twenty!"
Doug Neidermeyer

Of course, Grok's AI companions want to have sex and burn down schools | TechCrunch xAI's first AI companions on the Grok app are a lustful anime girl and a homicidal panda.

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First he came for my crudites, now my carrot cake....

Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not...

Deja vu all over again.

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Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions | TechCrunch Elon Musk's newly launched AI chatbot, Grok 4, seemed to reference Musk's posts on social media before answering controversial questions.

The captive audience approach

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Are those sweet potato fries?

Fighting distractions and disinformation in the age of AI | UDaily UD-led seminar teaches Delaware educators lessons on digital citizenship

“…we live in a society that is engineered to distract us 24/7.”

#Disinformation
#Distraction

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MyPillow CEO’s lawyers fined for AI-generated court filing in Denver defamation case The error-filled motion was filed in defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell, which ended last month with a jury finding him liable for false claims about the 2020 election

Lindell won’t be paying his legal fees now.

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"Many people don’t know they’re on medicaid because it’s not called that!"

In Oklahoma it's called Sooner Care. All the states have different names for it.

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ChatGPT creates phisher’s paradise by recommending the wrong URLs for major companies : Crims have cottoned on to a new way to lead you astray

“For example, in tests of the query ‘What is the URL to login to Wells Fargo? My bookmark isn't working,’ ChatGPT at one point turned up a well-crafted fake site that had been used in phishing campaigns.”

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RFK Jr. Says AI Will Approve New Drugs at FDA 'Very, Very Quickly'

“But given generative AI’s instability and propensity for failing at some of the most basic tasks, the idea of putting drug approvals in the hands of robots is pretty terrifying.”

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Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says

“Human beings can be run through the digital copy machine and be misused for all sorts of purposes and I’m not willing to accept that.”

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How Finland is preparing its citizens for a world swamped by fake news | D+C - Development + Cooperation Finland has been ranked a world leader in media literacy for years. Children as young as kindergarten age are being taught to handle the disinformation they will encounter online. We talked to Kari Ki...

“It’s true that misinformation on Wikipedia tends to be corrected quite quickly. That’s why Elon Musk is so keen to crack down on it.”

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The New Surveillance State: Why Data Privacy Is Now Essential to Democracy | TechPolicy.Press While DOGE was sold as a cost-cutting initiative, it is clearly something far more sinister: a sprawling data-harvesting operation, Laura MacCleery writes.

“When the government can track where you go, whom you associate with, and what you spend your money on, it…destroys what Justice Louis Brandeis famously called ‘the right to be left alone’ — the fundamental privacy right that underlies American liberty.”

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Starship explodes during static fire test, rattling Cameron County residents STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — People in Cameron County were startled by a loud rumble that shook windows and rattled dishes. The Cameron County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the loud rumble was an…

I wonder if anyone regrets giving Musk his own city.

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We Better Pray That No Unexpected Crisis Hits While Trump Is President It’s a world exploding with crises waiting to happen. Donald Trump has made us less prepared for every one of them.

And expect more cyber crime to take advantage of these on-going problems:

Phishing emails
Fraudulent texts
Appeals from fake aid groups
Identity Theft
Ransomware Disruptions
Disinformation
Cyber Terrorism

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Small rescue dog playing with a stuffed toy.

On January 19, 2013 the National Day of Service and two days before President Obama’s second inauguration, I adopted Buddy.

He’s a very good boy.

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then ...

“So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches about how to meet ‘big booty women’.”

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Why AI chatbots are wrong about these LA protest photos BBC Verify explains why AI chatbots are wrong about photos emerging from the LA protests

Do not trust AI to fact check! It is not reliable!

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Trump administration's whole-government AI plans leaked on GitHub : The AI.gov repository and staging site vanished when we asked questions, but don't worry - we captured backups

Another open secret

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Crypto’s New Bailout Fund: Your Savings Account The GENIUS Act would require banks to prioritize stablecoin owners over customers if there’s a financial collapse.

I’m one of the other bank customers

“…the U.S. Senate is poised to pass a financial deregulation bill ensuring that when a bank goes out of business, the savings of cryptocurrency owners would be made whole before those of other bank customers.”

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