The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300+ SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/... Anthony Guglielmi / @ajguglielmi : While investigating threats against senior officials, the @SecretService uncovered & dismantled a telecom network capable of disr...
Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing every page but its homepage, after catching AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine
it was illegally collected by AI companies Andrew Nusca / Fortune : Ford's new EV strategy includes $2 billion U.S. investment Amanda Yeo / Mashable : Reddit is blocking Wayback Machine from archiving...
Hugging Face users have uploaded 5,000 AI models, previously banned from Civitai for generating nonconsensual sexual content of real people, to the platform
I'm sick and tired of these corporations getting to decide what we can and cannot post, view, and buy on the internet [embedded post] Ali Alkhatib / @ali-alkhatib.com : we have got to more directly de...
In a viral YouTube video, MegaLag claims PayPal's Honey browser extension doesn't show users the best coupons and deals, and steals creators' affiliate revenue
www.fakespot.com [embedded post] Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken.com : It was obvious that Honey was involved in poaching of some sort, but this is a brilliantly-done video. https://9to5mac.com/2024...
Customers of banking startups like Yotta describe losing savings ranging from $7,000 to $200,000+ due to Synapse's collapse, after US regulators refused to help
Customers believed the accounts were backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. … Augie Ray / @augieray@mastodon.social : For fifteen years, I've heard how traditional financial servi...
Matt Mullenweg responds to DHH's claim that “Automattic is doing open source dirty”, pointing out Rails' own trademark policy and taking some jabs at 37signals
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Casey Newton / @crumbler : The number of ad hominem personal attacks against DHH in here that have nothing to do with the issue are extremely telling. Joe Rosenthal / @...
Meta not disclosing which select creators it pays to post on Threads undermines trust in everyone's motivations, as users assume others are “engagement farming”
It was a useful program, and the archival has merit, but publishers argued that the Archive overstepped, and the courts eventually agreed. Threads: @katienotopoulos , @cotyrosenblath , @jenvalentino_n...
Apple blocking Beeper Mini, not a service unto itself but an unauthorized client for a proprietary platform that costs a lot to run, is not anticompetitive
what a shame! I swear, these companies — Meta, Spotify, and Epic come to mind — are the whiniest bastards ever. In a hypothetical situation where Meta made its own phone and Apple wanted to create a...
Some marketing agencies say their brands don't plan to return to advertise on X, and others are advising brands to stop posting on X, after Elon Musk's comments
yourself’ comment to advertisers Rocio Fabbro / The Messenger : Some Advertisers Won't Return to X After Musk's Profanity-Filled Tirade Jak Connor / TweakTown : X advertisers say they won't be returni...
US lawmakers are quickly advancing an anti-sex, anti-speech agenda in the name of kids' online safety, which could soon entangle every adult internet user
Today let's talk about a right we currently take for granted that may soon disappear: the ability to browse and post to most websites anonymously. Mastodon: @ernie@writing.exchange , @drewharwell@mast...