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Ohtani just hit his 3rd homer tonight. This is absolutely absurd. This man is a baseball god among mortals.

AI-powered security systems invite 'Minority Report' comparisons Generative AI has become a much bigger player in the security sector. But privacy experts worry that it's introducing a civil liberties nightmare.

“If (AI crime prediction is) paired with invasive technologies such as face recognition, which itself reflects biases and makes errors that have led to false arrests, the potential harm is exponential," EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @Mashable.com.
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Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes

Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes
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ICYMI, airlines are collecting your data and selling it to ICE.

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I'm not going to scold anyone about how to protest. But I do have some personal hesitancy about the thought of reporting from the front line of a protest that is set for the exact bridge in Dallas where the police assaulted and kettled hundreds of people five years ago.

Tesla opened Cybertruck trade-ins, and the numbers aren’t pretty | TechCrunch Per Inside EVs, Cybertruck owners are now allowed by Tesla to trade in their cars for the first time since they hit the market – but they'll incur a heavy

Tesla opened Cybertruck trade-ins, and the numbers aren’t pretty

Being on social media in 2025 also means accepting that a % of people who engage with you will be annoying on *every* platform. The difference is degree of toxicity and moderation.

"Saying 'Thank you', 'Please' to ChatGPT? It's costing OpenAI 'millions of dollars', says Sam Altman" (headline on mint, by Ravi Hari There's a photo of Altman with the caption: Despite the massive expense types to polite ChatGPT conversations, Altman says it's "tens of millions of dollars well spent."

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“RAISE HELL!” ✊ Maria Bustillos (@mariabustillos.bsky.social) calls on writers & readers to defend libraries & demand ebook ownership, not rentals. Attacks on libraries are attacks on knowledge itself. 📚

Full video ➡️ youtu.be/lu8jK_27vF0

#LibraryAdvocacy #DigitalRights #InternetArchive

Analysis: three X users who used to receive hundreds of thousands of views daily have seen their reach collapse after feuding with Elon Musk in December 2024 (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)

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How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.

Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.

A beginner’s guide to using Signal You don’t have to be a government official to use it.

A beginner’s guide to using Signal

Google loses adtech monopoly case A loss for Google.

the US Department of Justice has won its antitrust case against Google, which accused the company of operating a monopoly in the ad tech industry. This is the 2nd time in a year that a federal court has ruled Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly www.theverge.com/news/650665/...

Microsoft researchers say they’ve developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs Microsoft researchers claim they’ve developed the largest-scale 1-bit AI model, also known as a “bitnet,” to date. Called BitNet b1.58 2B4T, it’s openly available under an MIT license and can run on CPUs, including Apple’s M2. Bitnets are essentially compressed models designed to run on lightweight hardware. In standard models, weights, the values that define […]

Microsoft researchers say they’ve developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs

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CyberAv3ngers: The Iranian Saboteurs Hacking Water and Gas Systems Worldwide Despite their hacktivist front, CyberAv3ngers is a rare state-sponsored hacker group bent on putting industrial infrastructure at risk—and has already caused global disruption.

The group known as CyberAv3ngers has, in the last year and a half, proven to be the Iranian government's most active hackers focused on industrial control systems. Its targets include water, wastewater, oil and gas, and many other types of critical infrastructure.

Here is a source:
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I read somewhere that X was cracking down on Turkish accounts so there is a migration to here

YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation Seven things to know about SecureDrop

Watch: @SecureDrop.org lets whistleblowers submit leaks anonymously, protecting both the leaker and the journalist.

Newsrooms, it’s time to step up your security!

Learn more in the video below, and read more here: securedrop.org/news/five-th...

Really wishing I could unread "DOGE", "Peter Thiel", and "IRS systems" in the same sentence. It's like someone made a list of nightmare scenario keywords and keeps generating real headlines from it.

"The bill contains no protections against frivolous or bad-faith takedown requests. Lawful content—including satire, journalism, and political speech—could be wrongly censored."

Imagine a Buy Nothing group where more intelligent, trustworthy algorithms and systems redistributed items to people most in need, rather than whoever commented first.

How does #Wikipedia stay reliable? Dame Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight explains how the #WaybackMachine helps preserve verifiable references when sources vanish from the web.

Full video ➡️ youtu.be/u8MAJ76sawU

#LibraryAdvocacy #InternetArchive #NationalLibraryWeek

Scoop for Pros: The US is set to sign on to the Pall Mall Process code of conduct on the governance of spyware use, after days of uncertainty whether Washington would join the list of more than 20 nations already signed up: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

Cracking down on parody but not on hate and discrimination. X must fix its broken priorities.

While X cracks down on parody accounts, Big Tech platforms are failing to protect users from online violence and abuse. Social media algorithms actively amplify and escalate violent and hateful content to generate likes and shares, sometimes with dangerous consequences.

X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

Amazingly useful thread on archiving your work and data. Bookmark this one 📌

Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving.

Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.