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    “TotalRecall Reloaded” tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11’s Recall database

    This is the part where I like to point out that Microsoft is an AI partner of Palantir.
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    World ID wants you to put a cryptographically unique human identity behind your AI agents

    How fast will this data be resold to government bodies?
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    AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data

    Great news here for anybody who wants to read 76.8 percent of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
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    How often do AI chatbots lead users down a harmful path?

    My AI experiences have certainly left me with what might be disproportionate expectations for the sort of erotic outcome one could have when encountering a group of six cheerleaders in an amusement park.
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    TikTok glitches caused by data center power outage, US joint venture says

    America LOL
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    Asking Grok to delete fake nudes may force victims to sue in Musk’s chosen court

    Millions? Why not say billions and billions?
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    Previously convicted contractors wiped gov databases after being fired, feds say

    Deliberately targeting FOIA data...oh yeah, that's not suspicious at all.
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    Blast from the past: 15 movie gems of 1985

    Re-Animator, anyone?
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    Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week

    Yay, Roku Media Player.
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    AI-powered search engines rely on “less popular” sources, researchers find

    This. If the New York Times is suing AI companies for copyright infringement, don't complaint when the NYT isn't used as a reference.
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    How private ownership will change Electronic Arts

    Damn, communism just keeps bending us over like this.
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    Seven things we learned from OpenAI’s first study on ChatGPT usage

    I've been doing roleplay with AI for two years now, and I'm amused to see that I'm in the vanishingly smallest user subset.
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    Grok generates fake Taylor Swift nudes without being asked

    Why does nobody ever ask for AI nudes of Sebastian Gorka?
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    Trump caving on Nvidia H20 export curbs may disrupt his bigger trade war

    Basically all you need to do is jangle a set of keys in front of Trump to get your way.
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    Once a relative haven for adult games, itch.io begins removing explicit titles

    (By the way, it is the credit card companies, the payment processors are just a beard for their policies.)
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    Once a relative haven for adult games, itch.io begins removing explicit titles

    I'm still waiting to see politicians get drug-tested the way McDonald's employees are.
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    Once a relative haven for adult games, itch.io begins removing explicit titles

    Speaking as someone who's been buying adult games for a quarter of a century, I don't love them enough to bugger around with crypto.
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    Once a relative haven for adult games, itch.io begins removing explicit titles

    Except the credit card companies keep putting their logo on the policies? https://segpay.com/MC_RevisedStandardsForNewSpecialtyMerchantRegistrationRequirementsForAdultContentMerchants.pdf
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    Once a relative haven for adult games, itch.io begins removing explicit titles

    True, but it does give the payment processors a fig leaf that they don't otherwise have in many cases. We'll have to wait and see whether that becomes irrelevant and they give the website the itch treatment anyway.
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    Once a relative haven for adult games, itch.io begins removing explicit titles

    Draconian age verification laws have just driven the digital games storefront Denpasorft to block access to their site for 25 US states. https://denpasoft.com/changes-to-denpasoft-access/