YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads
deadline.com/2025/12/yout... John Scalzi / @scalzi.com : Good. I would fucking hate when I would inadvertently click on these fake trailers — deadline.com/2025/12/yout... @jason1749 : good now go a...
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight looks at AI slop, how it corrodes the concept of objective reality, the slop economy, tech leaders' enthusiasm for gen AI, more
Recall that the right wants to ban AI legislation *at the state level*. They're cashing in on the mis/dis information AND from the tech flooding us with it. — www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg... Stefan...
23andMe says hackers stole the ancestry data of 6.9M of its 14M customers, via a breach first disclosed in October 2023, by leveraging access to ~14K accounts
https://arstechnica.com/... John / @obeto@mas.to : That's the problem with biometric PIIs: they cannot be changed if a breach occurs. — If, some of the victims work in sensitive departments of our s...
Google's three years of security updates for its older phones like 2018's Pixel 3 is planned obsolescence; new Pixels get five years of support vs. iPhones' ~6
Google calls that a ‘great experience’ Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : Google still thinks 3 years of updates provide a ‘great experience’ ahead of cutting off Pixel 3 Arthur Brown / Android Headlines : Goo...
A look at the growing movement of “self-hosting”, a practice where dedicated hobbyists run their own internet services at home on hardware they own
John Kehayias / VICE : Tweets: @soumyadip , @yrb1rd , @9bladed , @ow , and @milkohol Tweets: Soumyadip Choudhury / @soumyadip : A small handful of enormous companies dominate the internet as we know ...
Sources shed light on the increasingly personal battle between Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg, who in private reportedly said “we need to inflict pain” on Apple
exactly what Apple is attacking FB over.) Depesh Mandalia / @depeshm : Who's signing up for Apple ads?! I love the paradoxical wording: a) the Apple ad platform does not track you b) but don't turn of...
Google will end its free unlimited Photos storage on June 1, 2021, imposing a 15GB cap, but photos and documents uploaded before then will not count against cap
but Pixel owners get an exemption Babu Mohan / Android Central : Google's future Pixel phones won't offer unlimited Google Photos backups Mehreen Kasana / Input : Google Photos won't be free and unlim...
As more people work and live in isolation during the pandemic, Apple's Screen Time tool is horrifying many users with skyrocketing usage reports
Michael Doyle was “horrified” upon receiving his iPhone's weekly screen time report. — The Toronto-based freelance journalist was already a self-described “heavy phone user.” Tweets: @scohensea , @s...
How a security analyst sent his mother to a state correctional facility with fake credentials to plant malicious USB drives, resulting in the director using one
Security analyst John Strand had a contract to test a correctional facility's defenses. He sent the best person for the job: his mother. Tweets: @condenast and @kimzetter Tweets: Cond Nast / @condena...