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chatgpt

ChatGPT will no longer give legal or healthcare advice.

they clearly make it as hard as they can even this guy didnt have a easy time

vacuum

An Indian programmer discovered his Chinese vacuum cleaner was secretly sending 3D maps of his home to overseas servers.

When he painstakingly managed to block it, the device went dead in an instant.

Everything’s turning into surveillance tech.

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sam altman

"If jobs get wiped out, maybe they weren’t real work." - Sam Altman

Hard truth or pure delusion?

Zohran Mamdani

polymarket stats

According to Polymarket, Mamdani has a 95% chance of becoming NYC mayor by Tuesday.

bill gates

Bill Gates has changed his view on climate change.

He now says the climate crisis “will not lead to humanity’s demise, but it will have serious consequences.”

Does this change anything?

xi jinping

China now requires influencers to have college degrees to talk about serious topics.

Those who don’t follow will be fined 100,000 yuan (around $14,000).

Protecting truth or policing speech?

Mary McLeod Bethune

"Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough" - Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary was known as the “First Lady of the Struggle” for dedicating her life fighting for education and civil rights for Black Americans.

How Quantum Machines Could Solve World Hunger by Optimizing Food Supply One-third of the food produced today ends up in landfills.The problem of world hunger has never been about producing too little, it has always been about

With how fast quantum tech is moving, this might not be as far off as you’d guess.

white house ballroom

Apple is donating to Trump's $300M White House Ballroom.

Cheaper than bringing jobs to the U.S.?

Taki Allen - the 16 year old student

doritos

A 16-year-old student was swarmed by police after an AI system mistook a bag of Doritos for a gun in Baltimore.

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SpaceX disables more than 2,000 Starlink devices used in Myanmar scam compounds Lauren Dreyer, the vice-president of Starlink’s business operations, said in a social media post that the company “proactively identified and disabled over 2,500 Starlink Kits in the vicinity of suspe...

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military seizing starlink terminals

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In Myanmar, cyber-slavery scam centers were using Starlink to stay online, forcing victims into labor near the Thai border.

They’ve now shut down 2,500 terminals, but they’ve known about this for months and only just decided to act.

Honestly, what were they even waiting for?

Stats from clearsky

the white house

In just two days on Bluesky, the White House account got blocked by 92,000 users while gaining only 10,000 followers, making it the second most-blocked account second only to JD Vance.

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How Your Car Data Could Make Insurance Rates Go Up Overnight X2Y Back in 2021, Romeo Chicco bought a Cadillac XT6 from a dealership in Delray Beach, Florida. It came with GM’s default OnStar system, and like everyone else,

Would you trade privacy for a cheaper premium if it meant being tracked every mile?

Larry ellison

"Citizens will be at their best behavior because we are recording and reporting everything that is going on" - Larry Ellison

Andrew carnegie

“The man who dies rich dies disgraced. The good of the community must come before the wealth of the individual.” — Andrew Carnegie.

He lived by his words, donating 90% of his wealth before he died.

Didn’t go well mission failed Ford left and the media tore it

How Seeing His Father Lose Everything Drove Schultz to make every worker an owner. Howard Schultz grew up in poverty. His family never owned a home and lived in a modest Brooklyn housing complex for low-income families. Life was tough. His

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Tech-focused Erebor Bank gets conditional OCC approval The bank, backed by billionaire investor Peter Thiel and founded by two tech pioneers, will serve companies focused on crypto, AI, defense and manufacturing.

www.bankingdive.com/news/tech-fo...?

palmer luckey

joe lonsdale

Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey’s Erebor bank has been approved by the U.S. government.

It’s the quickest de novo bank approval in 25+ years.

Mary Ellen Pleasant's portrait

One of the first Black female millionaires, Mary Ellen Pleasant spent her wealth helping people escape slavery and funding Underground Railroad operations

She herself was born into slavery and, despite all her wealth, she died in poverty, losing most of it to decades of legal attacks.

mark zuckerberg

In 2014, Facebook manipulated the news feeds of 600,000+ users, showing more positive or negative content without any user consent.

When everything came to light, they basically said it was allowed under the terms of service.Running a human experiment is allowed under “terms of service”?

rishi sunak

Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has joiner Microsoft and Anthropic as a part-time advisor.

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Young inventor turns plastic into fuel with ‘Plastoline’ A 22-year-old inventor is gaining viral attention for what he calls “Plastoline,” a fuel he says is made from plastic waste.

www.wtvm.com/2025/09/29/y...?

julian brown

Julian Brown, a 22-year-old inventor, has turned plastic waste into fuel.

Scientists have tested it and found its diesel burns cleaner than traditional diesel.

Why “Anonymized Data” Still Knows Exactly Who You Are X2Y Companies have been selling our data from the moment they had the option. The justification for this has always been that the data was anonymized. Because of

Just because it says ‘anonymous’ doesn’t mean it can’t be traced back to you. Unfortunately, that is the reality with most ‘anonymized’ data today.

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 In 2017, Equifax suffered one of the largest data breaches in history. Around 147 million Americans had their Social Security numbers, birth dates, and addresses exposed.

But instead of alerting the public, executives quietly sold stock while the company hid the breach for months.