Parents are pressuring LA Unified, the second-largest US school district, to reduce mandatory student screen time on school-issued iPads and Chromebooks
even in gym and band class https://www.nbcnews.com/... LinkedIn: Tyler Kingkade : Whether to ban smartphones in schools was a huge discussion over the past two years, and the banning side clearly won ...
OpenAI says ChatGPT will now avoid em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI
Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules The Economic Times : OpenAI fixes ChatGPT's em dash problem; ‘small-but-happy-win’ says Sam Altman Kahekashan / The Hans India ...
After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X replies, xAI says “an unauthorized modification was made to Grok response bot's prompt” at 3:15 AM PST on May 14
We are regularly updating this repository with the system prompts that we use … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Grok “White Genocide” Controversy Leads xAI to Publish Internal System Prompts Mary P...
X suspends several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey, amid extensive protests sparked by the arrest of President Erdogan's main political rival
It should be a primary goal of democratic states to prevent such concentrations of power, & to ensure that global plutocrats cannot shut off the arteries of democracy. — www.politico.eu/article/musk...
Viral influencer Haliey Welch's Hawk Tuah memecoin sparks outrage across social media after pumping to a $490M market cap and then dumping 90%+ in three hours
A smart mark is still a mark. [embedded post] @kosso.co.uk : Memecoins on Solana are very much designed for young teenagers to spaff all their wallets. — I thought the Binance chain and Ethereum me...
Amid the Salt Typhoon hacks, US officials recommend that Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers
Stop Sending Texts Jonny Evans / Computerworld : The FBI now says encryption is good for you — Apple has been battling to maintain encryption for a decade. Cynthia B Brumfield / Metacurity : Feds Pu...
Analysis: Google and Bing show deepfake porn images of female celebrities atop search results for their names plus “deepfakes”, “fake nudes”, and other terms
Google and other search engines include nonconsensual deepfake porn in top image search results alongside tools … X: @cecianasta , @cecianasta , and @benjamingoggin X: Cecilia D'Anastasio / @cecianast...
Omegle, a service founded in 2009 for chatting with strangers, shuts down; founder Leif K-Brooks blames rising misuse, including in committing “heinous crimes”
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. Katie Notopoulos / Insider : Omegle was a relic of the old internet. I'm not sad it's gone. Leo...
Reddit says that 80% of the site's top subreddits are currently open; Reddark estimates that 4K+ subreddits are limiting access, down from almost 9K on June 12
Will Consider Letting Users Vote Out Moderators Tweets: Ben Goggin / @benjamingoggin : NEW: Reddit CEO slammed protest leaders in an interview, saying he plans to institute rule changes that would all...
In a now-deleted tweet, Elon Musk said Twitter would give verified accounts “a few weeks grace” but take away their checkmarks if “they tell they won't pay now”
except from The New York Times Alka Jain / Livemint : Twitter removes ‘gold verified mark’ from New York Times main account Matt Novak / Forbes : Elon Musk Calls New York Times ‘Propaganda’, Strips Ch...