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Steam Doesn't Think This Image Is ‘Suitable for All Ages’ The decision highlights hurdles faced by developers as they navigate a world where credit card companies dictate what is and isn't appropriate.

"The status of video games as culture is still being negotiated. If thematic restrictions like the ones defined by itch.io were to be applied to movies or books, limiting their distribution, it would be major news immediately."

Apple Is Selling iPad Repair Parts for Astronomical Prices

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Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.

getting my phrenology checked by my laptop camera before I can listen to WAP, a future I always wanted www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...

Burrowing animals are disproportionately threatened by the steady march of human land developments (citation: Watership Down). European blind mole rats, for instance, “have long been persecuted, and many species are threatened by extinction as they only exist in a few small and isolated populations,” according to a new study. A naked mole rat is depicted.

It's always important to make proper citations.

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Apple Is Selling iPad Repair Parts for Astronomical Prices “I believe Apple is charging this because they know if the price is high enough no one will buy it."

Apple is now selling repair parts for iPads ... but the prices are often astronomical and make repair totally untenable:

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Apple Is Selling iPad Repair Parts for Astronomical Prices

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Behind the Blog: Party Vibes and Spilling Tea This week, we discuss meeting a bunch of you in LA, the ongoing Tea saga, and age verification sweeping the UK.

Behind the Blog: Party Vibes and Spilling Tea

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'Honk If You Hate Elon:' Two Days of Protest at the Tesla Diner Protesters outside LA's Tesla Diner fear for the future of democracy in the USA

'Honk If You Hate Elon:' Two Days of Protest at the Tesla Diner

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Steam Doesn't Think This Image Is ‘Suitable for All Ages’ The decision highlights hurdles faced by developers as they navigate a world where credit card companies dictate what is and isn't appropriate.

Steam Doesn't Think This Image Is ‘Suitable for All Ages’

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Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content

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Apple Is Selling iPad Repair Parts for Astronomical Prices “I believe Apple is charging this because they know if the price is high enough no one will buy it."

Apple Is Selling iPad Repair Parts for Astronomical Prices

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A group of people in Los Angeles celebrating the anniversary of 404 Media

@404media.co anniversary in LA.

Watched the live broadcast of the @404media.co #podcast in #DTLA. Their reporting on ICE in #LA and the use of data to pursue innocent people is essential. Subscribe to support local, indie media, #Angelenos

Fun stuff @404media.co! Can’t wait for the next one

Los Angeles tomorrow:
- July 30, 6PM
- at RIP Space
- free for 404 Media subscribers, $10 everyone else
- free beer/wine
- live pod recording about the tech behind ICE
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Los Angeles: we are having a live 404 Media event *next week*
- free beer/wine
- in a cool DIY space
- live podcast on the tech that powers ICE (w/ guests potentially)
- Q&A and party to follow

FREE for 404 Media subscribers; $10 every one else

July 30, 6PM

Sign up here: bit.ly/404ripspace

LOS ANGELES: 404 Media live podcast/party July 30.

We'll discuss our reporting on the tech that powers ICE & doing Q&A about indie media

party follows with DJ, free beer/wine

come say hi, please share with whoever

RSVP here: lu.ma/hrt753ie
Subscriber code here: www.404media.co/come-party-w...

Only a few more hours, free drinks lads. Come out.

Come see us tonight in LA!

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AI Bunnies on Trampoline Causing Crisis of Confidence on TikTok People failing to identify a video of adorable bunnies as AI slop has sparked worries that many more people could fall for online scams.

People failing to identify a video of adorable bunnies as AI slop

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What Is Going On With The Tea App?

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Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.

Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content

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Living Next To Tesla Diner Is 'Absolute Hell,' Neighbors Say We talked to people living in the building whose views are being blocked by Tesla's massive four-story screen.

Living Next To Tesla Diner Is 'Absolute Hell,' Neighbors Say

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Podcast: The Tea Hack Just Keeps Getting Worse The massive Tea breach; how the UK's age verification law is impacting access to information; and LeBron James' AI-related cease-and-desist.

The Tea Hack Just Keeps Getting Worse

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Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma' “Without these safeguards, Mr. Barber eventually developed full-blown PTSD, which he is currently still being treated for,” the former mod's lawyer said.

a former mod is suing the cam site Chaturbate with claims that he was exposed to “extreme, violent, graphic, and sexually explicit content” without proper safeguards www.404media.co/former-moder...

Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists'

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Tea User Files Class Action After Women’s Safety App Exposes Data The Plaintiff claims Tea harmed her and ‘thousands of other similarity situated persons in the massive and preventable cyberattack.’

Tea User Files Class Action After Women’s Safety App Exposes Data

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Gun Nerds Dismantle Infamous Pistol to Research If It Fires at Random The Sig Sauer P320 has a reputation for firing without pulling the trigger. The manufacturer says that's impossible, but the firearms community is showing the truth is more complicated.

Gun Nerds Dismantle Infamous Pistol to Research If It Fires at Random

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Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests "This is more representative of the developer environment that our future employees will work in."

Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests

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