Articles by c420
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The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records' (elpais.com)

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Calif. lawsuit accuses Meta of sending nude video from AI glasses to workers (sfgate.com)

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Las Vegas hotels begin taking foreign currency as tourism woes deepen (sfgate.com)

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US launches military operations in Ecuador (politico.com)

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Israel hacked Iran traffic cams for years to pinpoint Khaemnei prior to strike (google.com)

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Block lays off 40% of its staff because of AI, CEO says most CO will do the same (cnn.com)

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Pentagon Laser Shoots Down Customs Border Patrol Drone in Texas (bloomberg.com)

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Meta executive warned Facebook Messenger encryption plan was 'so irresponsible' (reuters.com)

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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web (therage.co)

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US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere (reuters.com)

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Leaked Email Shows Dystopian Plan for Ring 'Search Party' Feature (thedailybeast.com)

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US threatens to quit International Energy Agency if won't drop green transition (politico.eu)

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The El Paso No-Fly Debacle Is Just the Beginning of a Drone Defense Mess (wired.com)

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Pentagon reviewing Anthropic partnership over terms of use dispute (thehill.com)

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Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute (axios.com)

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Russia Attacks a NATO Country in a War Game. It Doesn't End Well (politico.com)

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Ring owners are returning their cameras (msn.com)

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Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash (theverge.com)

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Leo thought Guthrie's smart cam was disconnected, Google still had the tape (fortune.com)

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Anna's Archive 'Releases' Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback (torrentfreak.com)

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Immediate 10 day TFR issued in El Paso due to "special security reasons" (reddit.com)

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Russians supplied with new satellite internet terminals after Starlink blackout (pravda.com.ua)

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ChatGPT is having a weirdly hard time discussing Jeffrey Epstein (sfgate.com)

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The quirky geology behind Olympic curling stones (scientificamerican.com)

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How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE (newrepublic.com)

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The California peak so deadly public safety officials compare it to Everest (sfgate.com)

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Taiwan says 40% shift of chip capacity to US is 'impossible' (reuters.com)

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NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and person close to Trump (theguardian.com)

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Macau's Grand Emperor hotel rips up lobby floor to sell off gold bricks (theguardian.com)

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Homeland Security is trying to force tech to hand over data about Trump critics (yahoo.com)

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Russia used Starlink in drones; SpaceX's cutoff collapsed command system (euromaidanpress.com)

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NDP wants Carney to kill U.S. fighter jet contract in favour of Swedish aircraft (ctvnews.ca)

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Catalina Island's private landowner moves forward on killing all its deer (sfgate.com)

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Match, Hinge, OkCupid, and Panera Bread breached by ransomware group (malwarebytes.com)

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China lags behind US at AI frontier but could quickly catch up, say experts (theguardian.com)

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NBA Grizzlies Owner Robert Pera Linked to Russia's "Crimes Against Humanity" (youtube.com)

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TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection (techcrunch.com)

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Why did Jeffrey Epstein cultivate famous scientists? (scientificamerican.com)

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The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime (theguardian.com)

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How artificial intelligence is reshaping the future of war (thehill.com)

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Dogs eavesdrop on their owners to learn new words (arstechnica.com)

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A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose (sfgate.com)

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Trump suggests cyberattacks used to turn off lights in Venezuela during strikes (politico.com)

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Debate over surfing in German park after city removes wave-creating device (apnews.com)

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US bars 5 Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints (apnews.com)

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AI Isn't Just Spying on You. It's Tricking You into Spending More (newrepublic.com)

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California regulator puts on hold an order to suspend Tesla sales (theguardian.com)

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Texas sues biggest TV makers, alleging smart TVs spy on users without consent (arstechnica.com)

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ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women, even during labor (theguardian.com)

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SCOTUS swats NBA shot to limit class actions over data sharing with Meta (courthousenews.com)

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Study shows that Instacart was charging different amounts for the same items (engadget.com)

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Poland arrests Ukrainians utilizing 'advanced' hacking equipment (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Japan protests after Chinese military aircraft locks its radar on Japanese jets (apnews.com)

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The story of Mr DeepFakes – the world’s most notorious AI porn site (theguardian.com)

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Russia blocks access to US children's gaming platform Roblox (reuters.com)

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AI's safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds (theguardian.com)

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US triples national park fee for non-residents, amid 'new' fee for Americans (theguardian.com)

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Campbell's Boss Taped Saying Soup Is 'Bioengineered,' Lawsuit Claims (nypost.com)

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A Man Who Wanted to Believe in Life on Mars (newrepublic.com)

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Nearly 200k Ukrainians in US thrown into legal limbo by immigration crackdown (reuters.com)

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The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming (politico.com)

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New Jersey group attempted to harvest organs from patient with signs of life (thehill.com)

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New method spots signs of Earth's primordial life in ancient rocks (reuters.com)

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Vowel- and Diphthong-Like Spectral Patterns in Sperm Whale Codas (nih.gov)

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How Honda screwed up an expensive project with a simple math error (2008) (davidsd.org)

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Ancient rock circles in California park defy explanation (sfgate.com)

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UFC fighter rejects White House cage match: '"Hunger Games" type of f‑ing s‑‑‑' (thehill.com)

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Cash App's Moneybot might know your spending habits better than you do (apnews.com)

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States Accidentally Hand over Residents' Data to ICE (documentcloud.org)

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Why bears are being killed from above in Alaska, with no limit on how many (sfgate.com)

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AI Country Singer Breaking Rust Tops Billboard with 'Walk My Walk' (sfchronicle.com)

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Outcry as TikTok livestreamer who allegedly hit & killed man asks for donations (theguardian.com)

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Space food made from astronaut pee to be tested aboard the ISS (independent.co.uk)

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Driver livestreams on TikTok as she apparently hits and kills man in Chicago (theguardian.com)

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'DEI for owls': Nearly half a million birds to be killed across the West (sfgate.com)

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Trump Says U.S. Visas Can Be Denied to Fat People from Now On (newrepublic.com)

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Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15 (apnews.com)

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Universe expansion may be slowing, not accelerating, study suggests (theguardian.com)

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At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something (sfgate.com)

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My chilling week on Roblox: sexually assaulted and shat on as a child avatar (theguardian.com)

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Archaeologists discover how oldest American civ survived a climate catastrophe (theguardian.com)

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Munich's surfers left stunned after famed river wave vanishes (theguardian.com)

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A confidential manifesto lays out a billionaire's new vision for NASA (politico.com)

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Gen Z used Discord to overthrow governments (theguardian.com)

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The dark side of Zelenskyy's rule (politico.eu)

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[flagged] SF neighborhood mourns loss of bodega cat allegedly killed by Waymo (sfgate.com)

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[flagged] Pentagon orders states' national guards to form 'quick reaction forces' (theguardian.com)

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Society will accept a death caused by a robotaxi, Waymo co-CEO says (sfgate.com)

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Musk could leave Tesla if $1T pay plan is rejected, chair warns (reuters.com)

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Russia tested new nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile (reuters.com)

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US expands facial recognition at borders to track non-citizens (reuters.com)

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UA 1093 (windbornesystems.com)

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China accuses US of cyberattack on national time center (apnews.com)

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Microsoft: RU, China increasingly using AI to escalate cyberattacks on the US (apnews.com)

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Social media must warn users of 'profound' health risks under new California law (politico.com)

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AI drones are America's newest cops (axios.com)

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Nobel peace prize officials investigate surge in bets for winner (theguardian.com)

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[flagged] US immigration enforcement using military hardware and tactics on civilians (theguardian.com)

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You won't believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned (theguardian.com)

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Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia (theguardian.com)