NEW: I obtained internal emails from city government of Springfield, Ohio. These emails show the absolute chaos caused by Trump and Vance after claiming Haitian immigrants were eating pets. Racist threats, hateful emails, media bonanza. A nightmare
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Internal Emails Reveal How Hate Overwhelmed Springfield After Trump's Lies About Haitian Immigrants
Internal emails from Springfield, Ohio reveal what has happened in the city after Donald Trump and JD Vance spread the conspiracy that Haitians are...
Massive e-learning platform Udemy is training its AI on instructors' classes. It gave them a short "opt-out" window to reject this. Instructors are surprised to learn that time has passed.
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Massive E-Learning Platform Udemy Gave Teachers a Gen AI 'Opt-Out Window'. It's Already Over.
Teachers are surprised they have been opted into having their classes scraped for AI training.
A man was applying for a job and got an interview, hopped on the call, and was interviewed by an AI avatar and AI voice:
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AI Avatars Are Doing Job Interviews Now
“This HR AI avatar is a perfect demonstration of late stage capitalism,” Jack Ryan, someone who was interviewed by a tool called Fairgo.ai, tol...
New: Steam has eliminated its forced arbitration clause, meaning gamers can now sue Valve over disputes. Seemingly this has happened bc a class action of gamers won a binding arbitration hearing arguing that forced arbitration is not enforceable (lol)
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Steam Removes Forced Arbitration Clause, Gamers Can Now Sue Valve
"The updated Steam Subscriber Agreement (SSA) now provides that any disputes are to go forward in court instead of arbitration."
so good ... FBI seized two of Eric Adams' work phones but he didn't have his personal device on him. So he changed the passcode on his personal device then told the FBI he forgot his password
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Eric Adams Told FBI He Forgot His Phone’s Passcode
“But, Adams further claimed, he had forgotten the password he had just set, and thus was unable to provide the FBI with a password that would unl...
A jockey who is paralyzed from the waist down lost his ability to walk after a small battery for his $100,000 exoskeleton broke and the manufacturer refused to fix it because it was more than 5 years old
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Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton
Michael Straight learned to walk again with the help of an exoskeleton. After an accessory to the device broke, the company refused to fix it.
Kind of a wild situation: One of the biggest private music torrenting sites has suffered a "massive peer scraping attack" where someone leveraged a vuln in the software to download all torrents and find out who is seeding them
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Major Private Music Torrenting Site Suffers ‘Massive Peer Scraping Attack’
Orpheus Network tells users: "With great displeasure we need to inform you that a malicious actor has successfully carried out a massive peer scrap...
LinkedIn has begun training its AI on user data before updating its terms of service to say that it is doing so:
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LinkedIn Is Training AI on User Data Before Updating Its Terms of Service
Multiple LinkedIn users on Wednesday noticed a setting that showed LinkedIn was using user data to improve its generative AI. LinkedIn told 404 Med...
DIY, pirated medicine is becoming increasingly accessible and easier to make due to automation, new tech, and new software developed and released by Four Thieves Vinegar Collective:
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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has made DIY medicine cheaper and more accessible to the masses.
New: Lobbymatic, the AI lobbying firm secretly run by convicted fraudster Jacob Wohl, showed demo screenshots that it had massive clients, including Microsoft, Palantir, Lockheed Martin, etc. Six of those companies tell me they've never been clients, and some say they've never heard of the company & that their logos/names were used without permission:
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Big Tech ‘Clients’ of Jacob Wohl’s Secret AI Lobbying Firm Say They've Never Heard of It
Pfizer, Microsoft, Palantir, Home Depot, and Lockheed Martin were all shown as "clients" of LobbyMatic. All of them say they haven't worked with th...