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...
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...
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...
As Slack gets criticism from power users for its WYSIWYG editor and plans an option to revert, a look at the history of Markdown, used by Slack's old interface
Ernie Smith / VICE : Tweets: @alexislloyd , @vice , @artemr , @shortformernie , @katienotopoulos , @carnage4life , and @wongmjane Tweets: Alexis Lloyd / @alexislloyd : It's been fascinating to hear e...