When Elon Musk took over Twitter in 2022, he said addressing the problem of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) was "top priority." But reporting by NBC News says if anything, it's worse than ever — and may get worse still after nonprofit Thorn, which worked with X to detect CSAM, terminated its contract because of nonpayment. Here's more.
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Accounts peddling child abuse content flood some X hashtags as safety partner cuts ties
Thorn, a nonprofit that provides detection and moderation software related to child safety, said it canceled its contract with X after the platform...
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Meta's AI app now has a "Discover" page that includes users' conversations with the chatbot. Some of these contain embarrassing, personal and sensitive details about folks' lives, which, says @Jason Koebler, can be quite easily tied back to real people. Here's his story for @404 Media.
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Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI
In an industry full of grifters and companies hell-bent on making the internet worse, it is hard to think of a worse actor than Meta, or a worse pr...
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120Hz refresh rate. 256GB of storage. And a promise to be “designed and built in the USA” (emphasis on the quote marks). [@theverge](
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The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible
It’s supposedly made in the USA, cheap, and coming this fall. I doubt it all.
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Some accounts have been mistakenly banned or suspended over at Instagram, and users aren’t happy about it, even blaming AI, albeit without evidence. [@Techcrunch](
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Instagram users complain of mass bans, pointing finger at AI | TechCrunch
Instagram users report that their accounts were banned even though they had not violated the company's terms of service or other policies.
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True story: One of us here at the Tech Desk had a coworker whose keyboard went kaput. A clearly disgruntled IT worker sent him a coffee-stained keyboard with several keys missing as a replacement. Maybe stories like that inspired stories like this one from [@theverge](
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How to build the best keyboard in the world
You just have to rebuild almost everything about it.
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23AndMe had 15 million customers relying on the company to protect their bio data. But after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March, the company became the center of a bidding war that ended Friday when co-founder Anne Wojcicki said she’d successfully reacquired control through her nonprofit TTAM Research Institute for $305 million. Feel any safer? If not, [@Techcrunch](
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How to delete your 23andMe data | TechCrunch
23andMe holds millions of customers' genetic information. Here's what you can do to protect your data.
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Artificial Intelligence may be smart and able to tell a good joke, but can it really get the hang of being funny? [@TechRadar](
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I tried doing improv with ChatGPT, it did not make it funnier
Whose line is it OpenAI?
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Genetic testing company 23andMe has sold itself to a nonprofit led by the company’s former CEO Anne Wojcicki. [@Techcrunch](
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Anne Wojcicki’s nonprofit reaches deal to acquire 23andMe | TechCrunch
Beleaguered genetic testing company 23andMe announced Friday that it has reached an agreement to sell itself to TTAM Research Institute, a nonprofi...
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From [@theverge](
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Switch, Xbox, and the portable future of games
On The Vergecast: handheld consoles, WWDC vibes, and Google Zero.
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Apple unveiled iOS 26 earlier this week. [@TechRadar](
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