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Ben Goggin

@bengoggin
19 posts
2025-12-07
Schools are forcing kids in kindergarten to use iPads, and it's causing chaos  —  Parents say that the iPads have led to incidents like a child repeatedly wetting his pants at school from overstimulation, and kids accessing Fortnite during class  —  www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
2025-12-07 View on X
NBC News

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 banni...

2025-12-06
Schools are forcing kids in kindergarten to use iPads, and it's causing chaos  —  Parents say that the iPads have led to incidents like a child repeatedly wetting his pants at school from overstimulation, and kids accessing Fortnite during class  —  www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
2025-12-06 View on X
NBC News

Parents are pressuring LA Unified, the second-largest US school district, to reduce mandatory student screen time on school-issued iPads and Chromebooks

A growing contingent of public school parents say school-mandated iPads, particularly in elementary and middle schools, are leading to behavior problems.

2025-11-26
In response to a lawsuit over a teen's suicide, in which ChatGPT instructed him on how to tie a noose, OpenAI argued that it was not responsible because he had violated their terms of service.  —  www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
2025-11-26 View on X
NBC News

Filing: OpenAI denies liability in a lawsuit alleging ChatGPT gave a teen who died by suicide information about suicide methods, arguing that he misused ChatGPT

The family of Adam Raine filed a lawsuit against the AI company in August.  On Tuesday, OpenAI said in a new court filing that is not responsible for the teen's death.

2025-07-26
Update: the Tea app has been hacked, and 72,000 images from the app have been leaked, including verification selfies and photos of users' driver's licenses  —  www.nbcnews.com/tech/social- ...  [embedded post]
2025-07-26 View on X
NBC News

Tea says hackers accessed a database from more than two years ago, leaking 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and images of government IDs

The viral app requires new users to take selfies, which it says it deletes after review.  —  Hackers have breached the Tea app …

2025-07-09
Grok is churning out antisemitic posts days after its new release.  —  In one thread, it misidentified the image of a woman, identifying her as a Jewish woman (she's not), before falsely claiming she was part of a Jewish anti-white plot.  —  (more examples below)  —  www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
2025-07-09 View on X
Axios

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “after two incredible years, I've decided to step down”; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business

X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is stepping down from her role. … - Under her leadership …

Grok is churning out antisemitic posts days after its new release.  —  In one thread, it misidentified the image of a woman, identifying her as a Jewish woman (she's not), before falsely claiming she was part of a Jewish anti-white plot.  —  (more examples below)  —  www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
2025-07-09 View on X
NBC News

After Elon Musk said xAI improved Grok “significantly”, Grok wrote many antisemitic posts and called itself “MechaHitler”; xAI took “action to ban hate speech”

In some posts, Grok inserted antisemitic remarks into its answers without any clear prompting.

2025-06-07
NEW: Use of X's Community Notes has plummeted in 2025, with half as many notes being created in May than during peak periods in January.  —  This is as X says Community Notes has expanded globally and is being deployed across other platforms like TikTok and Facebook  —  www.nbcnews.com/tech/social- ...
2025-06-07 View on X
NBC News

Analysis: Community Notes submissions on X fell from a high of 120,000 in January to fewer than 60,000 in May; Musk now rarely mentions the feature

This is as X says Community Notes has expanded globally and is being deployed across other platforms like TikTok and Facebook  —  www.nbcnews.com/tech/social- ...

2025-05-23
In all honesty... i think Musk and Meta have broken the meaning that verification used to have.  —  I admire what Bluesky is trying to do here with it (and the orgs participating), but the idea before was that you knew because it was tough to get and granted centrally, it was somewhat trustworthy...
2025-05-23 View on X
TechCrunch

Bluesky lets “notable and authentic” accounts apply for blue check verification and enables select organizations to become Trusted Verifiers to verify others

Bluesky on Thursday quietly opened the doors to those who want to become verified on its social networking service.

Getting a blue check again... feeling 🥴 [image]
2025-05-23 View on X
TechCrunch

Bluesky lets “notable and authentic” accounts apply for blue check verification and enables select organizations to become Trusted Verifiers to verify others

Bluesky on Thursday quietly opened the doors to those who want to become verified on its social networking service.

2025-05-17
X employees morning routine:  —  3:00AM: Rise and grind  —  3:05AM: Brush teeth and wash face  —  3:10AM: Cold shower  —  3:15AM: Adjust Grok code to reference “white genocide in every reply no matter the prompt  —  3:20AM: Meditation  —  3:45AM: Raw steak breakfast
2025-05-17 View on X
TechCrunch

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 S...

2025-05-05
AI is amplifying delusion and crisis in some individuals, according to Rolling Stone.  —  Even after OpenAI rolled back it's latest release of ChatGPT, I've still been surprised at how quickly ChatGPT will flip into an overly-flattering and affirming tone.  —  www.rollingstone.com/culture/ cult...
2025-05-05 View on X
Rolling Stone

Some say ChatGPT fueled their loved ones' religious delusions of grandeur; experts warn that human-like chats can worsen tendencies toward psychological issues

Self-styled prophets are claiming they have ‘awakened’ chatbots and accessed the secrets of the universe through ChatGPT

2025-03-23
X is reportedly suspending opposition accounts in Turkey — it previously did this at the behest of the Turkish government.  —  This type of cooperation with governments is exactly what Musk has contested when criticizing other platforms or previous leaders of Twitter.  —  www.politico.eu/article/musk...
2025-03-23 View on X
Politico

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.poli...

2025-03-22
X is reportedly suspending opposition accounts in Turkey — it previously did this at the behest of the Turkish government.  —  This type of cooperation with governments is exactly what Musk has contested when criticizing other platforms or previous leaders of Twitter.  —  www.politico.eu/article/musk...
2025-03-22 View on X
Politico

X suspends several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey, amid extensive protests sparked by the arrest of President Erdogan's main political rival

Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.  —  Elon Musk's social media platform X …

2025-03-07
Trump admin considering deepseek restrictions... this seems to suggest this would also apply for models running on non-Chinese infrastructure.  Curious what the justification be for that, since NatSec conversations around Chinese tech have largely focused on data access.  [image]
2025-03-07 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: the White House is weighing measures to restrict DeepSeek, including banning its app from US app stores, because of national security concerns

Trump administration also considers broader measures against the AI model over national-security concerns

2025-01-17
Mark Zuckerberg got played — he undertook an intensive effort to shift his and his company's image to the right in an effort to maximally suck up to Trump, and what does he have to show for it now?  —  Core users are fleeing the platform, and now Biden and Trump look like they'll keep TikTok around.
2025-01-17 View on X
ABC News

A US official says the Biden administration won't force TikTok to go dark in the country on January 19 and will leave it up to Trump to implement the law

The ban goes into effect on Sunday unless the Supreme Court intervenes.  —  TikTok logo on a smartphone.

Mark Zuckerberg got played — he undertook an intensive effort to shift his and his company's image to the right in an effort to maximally suck up to Trump, and what does he have to show for it now?  —  Core users are fleeing the platform, and now Biden and Trump look like they'll keep TikTok around.
2025-01-17 View on X
Bloomberg

SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, says free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk

The Supreme Court upheld a law that threatens to shut down the wildly popular TikTok social media platform in the US as soon as Sunday …

2024-12-30
More details on Israel's use of AI to pick bomb targets.  —  “soldiers who were poorly trained in using the technology attacked human targets without corroborating Lavender's predictions at all”  —  “the only corroboration required was that the target was a male”  —  www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
2024-12-30 View on X
Washington Post

Sources detail the IDF's Unit 8200, which identifies human targets as candidates for elimination amid the Israel-Hamas war; one source calls it an “AI factory”

Years before the Gaza war, Israel transformed its intelligence unit into an AI testing ground …

2024-12-06
Hawk Tuah girl's memecoin blew up and then plummeted... how many times have we seen this with influencer crypto projects now?  I would really love to know who is still getting fooled by projects like this, especially people who are online enough to catch the debut of something like $Hawk [image]
2024-12-06 View on X
Cointelegraph

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 c...

2024-12-05
Hawk Tuah girl's memecoin blew up and then plummeted... how many times have we seen this with influencer crypto projects now?  I would really love to know who is still getting fooled by projects like this, especially people who are online enough to catch the debut of something like $Hawk [image]
2024-12-05 View on X
Cointelegraph

Viral influencer Haliey Welch's Hawk Tuah memecoin sparks outrage across social media as it briefly pumped to a peak market cap of $490M and then dumped 90%+

Haliey Welch's memecoin HAWK has plunged 90% since its launch, though Welch has denied any insider sales from herself or her team.