Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025
So here: Ketan Joshi / @ketanjoshi.co : This @mollytaft.com piece is the closest I've seen to an interrogation of who 10a Labs are and why they're doing this - but note how 10a Labs frame the conseque...
Substack apologizes after sending a push alert encouraging some users to subscribe to NatSocToday, a Nazi newsletter advocating for a “White homeland”
The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the “white nationalist community.” Bluesky: @jonayariley , @jimllmixit , @dankenne...
UK police arrest four people, a 20-year-old woman and three men aged 17 to 19, in connection to the M&S and Co-op hacks that began in mid-April and caused havoc
Dunno, not making a particular point, other than that I've been around for ages. Don't cause havoc kids, at least not in these kinds of ways. [embedded post] Eric Geller / @ericjgeller.com : British...
The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash
Say No ‘Need To One-Up’ With Google David Uzondu / Neowin : Wikipedia suffers backlash from human editors over AI summaries, prompting feature pause Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku : Wikipedia Won't Add AI-Gene...
Workers and researchers say data annotation jobs that many Venezuelans relied on have become scarce and poorly paid with the rise of generative AI
Laura Rodríguez Salamanca / Rest of World : Forums: Beehaw Forums: Alyaza To / Beehaw : Venezuelan migrants relied on clickwork to survive. Now AI is replacing them
Reddit shares are down 50% from a February high, after its Q4 earnings report showed its traffic took a hit from a change in Google's search algorithm
Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg : Bluesky: @willoremus.com . X: @rustybrick . Forums: Beehaw Bluesky: Will Oremus / @willoremus.com : live by the algo die by the algo [embedded post] X: Barry Schwartz / ...
After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns
here's 7 incredible examples of what it can do Kirk / Geek News Central Podcast : ChatGPT's New Image Model Sparks Additional Copyright Controversies #1810 Spencer Neale / The American Conservative : ...
OpenAI calls DeepSeek “state-controlled” and recommends that the US ban “PRC-produced equipment and models that violate user privacy and create security risks”
https://techcrunch.com/... Threads: Vishvanand Subramanian / @vishvanands : trying hard to steelman this position from openai but unless it's possible to hide malware in the model weights, what exactl...
Mozilla responds to backlash over Firefox's new Terms of Use, which critics have called out for being overly broad, and says it won't use people's data for AI
“These changes are not driven by a desire by Mozilla to use people's data for AI or sell it to advertisers,” Mozilla spokesperson Kenya Friend-Daniel said in an email to TechCrunch. techcrunch.com/20...
Meta says it has fired “roughly 20” employees who leaked “confidential information outside the company” and expects “there will be more”
here's why Bluesky: Jeff Horwitz / @jeffhorwitz : Risks rise with datapoints. If you share one document that's accessed by ten people, you're probably fine. If you share 20 docs accessed by 10 peopl...