A look at the FGC-9, a 3D-printed semiautomatic gun created by a German incel that scholars and lawmakers say is the most popular “ghost gun” outside the US
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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...
Toshiba Europe researchers say they used quantum key distribution cryptography to send messages over a 250km German commercial telecommunications network
Researchers harness quantum mechanics to create communications system that can avoid being hacked — Scientists have sent messages …
Global Witness: ahead of German elections, TikTok's and X's For You feeds showed a substantial far-right bias; 78% of TikTok's recommendations supported the AfD
Recommendation algorithms operated by social media giants TikTok and X have shown evidence of substantial far-right political bias …
Elon Musk says he will rehire a DOGE staffer who resigned following the exposure of his posts advocating for racism and eugenics, after Trump endorsed the idea
“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.” — “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.” — “Normalize Indian hate.” — www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st... [embedded post] Ryan ...
A look at MrDeepFakes, a site with obscure ownership that hosts non-consensual deepfake porn, has close to 650K members, and gets millions of visits per month
This article is the result of a collaboration with German YouTube channel STRG_F. You can watch their documentary here. Bluesky: @mikefulk , @beaudonelly , @bellingcat.com , @herdaleg , @bellingcat.c...
In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the German far-right party AfD, pushed disinformation about Hitler, migrants, war, and more
God! Martians! A “communist” Hitler! It was heavy on oddness and light on policy as the X owner and the AfD co-leader hit it off.
Analysis of social media posts, AI art, Spaces comments, biographical details, and more suggests Adrian Dittmann is a German fan of Elon Musk living in Fiji
An Elon Musk fan in Fiji tricks the world — The AI avatar for the Adrian Dittmann X account, left, and Adrian Dittmann appearing …
Bluesky reports a record spike in usage as many X users in Brazil move to Bluesky and Threads; Brazil is X's fifth-largest international market, with 20M+ users
uau... bem-vindos ao UM MILHÃO de novos usuários nos últimos três dias!!! 🎉 Mike Masnick / @mmasnick.bsky.social : very time some Elon fan tweets a similar thing (often misleading) about ExTwitter to...
LAION, a research org whose dataset was used to train Stable Diffusion and other models, releases a new dataset it claims has been “thoroughly cleaned” of CSAM
LAION, the German research org that created the data used to train Stable Diffusion, among other generative AI models …