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@cameronwilson

@cameronwilson
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2025-12-12
Reddit has filed its High Court legal challenge against the teen social media ban. On top of arguing that it infringes on the implied right to freedom of political expression, Reddit says it isn't “age restricted social media platform” and shouldn't need to comply [image]
2025-12-12 View on X
Reuters

Reddit files a lawsuit against Australia to overturn its social media ban for under-16s, saying it “infringes the implied freedom of political communication”

Message board website Reddit (RDDT.N) on Friday filed a lawsuit asking the High Court to overturn Australia's social media ban …

2025-10-09
We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks https://www.theverge.com/...
2025-10-09 View on X
The Verge

Discord estimates that 70K users' government ID photos may have been exposed in a 1.5TB data breach of third-party customer service Zendesk on September 20

Discord claims that the attackers are circulating inaccurate information about the breach of a customer service provider as part of an extortion attempt.

We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord.  Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks
2025-10-09 View on X
The Verge

Discord estimates that 70K users' government ID photos may have been exposed in a 1.5TB data breach of third-party customer service Zendesk on September 20

Discord claims that the attackers are circulating inaccurate information about the breach of a customer service provider as part of an extortion attempt.

2025-08-12
we need to make a list of “open internet things that AI crawlers have ruined for all of us” www.theverge.com/new...
2025-08-12 View on X
The Verge

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 Ma...

2025-08-08
i know it's not real alive but it tickles me so much that we enslaved these non-deterministic computers that sound like they're in agony so we don't have to write email [embedded post]
2025-08-08 View on X
Business Insider

Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing comments such as, “I am a failure. I am a disgrace to my profession. I am a disgrace to my family.”

- Google Gemini users said it's sharing some disturbing messages.  — One screenshot showed the chatbot saying, “I'm am a failure.”

2025-07-06
this is the perfect academic crime.  it's like robbing another thief.  what are you going to do, complain that i tricked the AI you're using to do your work? asia.nikkei.com/Busi...
2025-07-06 View on X
Nikkei Asia

Investigation: preprint research papers on arXiv from 14 academic institutions in eight countries had hidden prompts telling AI tools to give positive reviews

Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review  —  TOKYO — Research papers …

2025-06-27
some tricky wording from Anthropic imo — a small % of conversations might be companionship, but that doesn't mean that a higher percentage are using it for this reason. plus I don't think Anthropic's Claude is the AI of choice for companionship  —  techcrunch.com/2025/...
2025-06-27 View on X
Axios

Anthropic releases preliminary results showing users who discuss emotional issues with Claude tend to grow more positive as conversations progress

a small % of conversations might be companionship, but that doesn't mean that a higher percentage are using it for this reason. plus I don't think Anthropic's Claude is the AI of c...

2025-05-29
this is purportedly about European officials but it's not a huge stretch to imagine that similar gripes could be made against Australian figures...  www.theverge.com/new...
2025-05-29 View on X
Reuters

Marco Rubio says the US will impose visa bans on foreign nationals “who censor Americans” and calls arrest warrants for social media posts “unacceptable”

But this part reads 100% Brazil.  —  www.state.gov/announcement... X: Secretary Marco Rubio / @secrubio : Foreigners who work to undermine the rights of Americans should not enjoy ...

2025-05-16
incredible: a lawyer acting for one of the world's biggest AI companies, Anthropic, had to apologise to a US court because they had cited an AI hallucination in their submission.  —  techcrunch.com/2025/...  [image]
2025-05-16 View on X
TechCrunch

Court filing: Anthropic apologizes for one of its expert witnesses citing an article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers

A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company's Claude AI chatbot …

2025-02-17
i know conspiracy theories as a form of communal entertainment is a thing at the moment, but i find the reflexive, almost wry idea that the openai whistleblower was murdered by openai to be pretty disrespectful to the individual.  —  techcrunch.com/2025/...
2025-02-17 View on X
TechCrunch

A new autopsy report finds former OpenAI employee Suchir Balaji's death was a suicide, countering his family's suspicions, which had fueled speculation online

techcrunch.com/2025/... X: Poornima Rao / @raopoornima : SFPD writes inaccurate information in Autopsy and Police report . They have never retrieved CCTV footage from leasing offic...

2025-01-23
is it just me or is this surprisingly low?  generative AI apps made $1billion from app store purchases, which is up 200% year on year, but... not that much considering the size of the industry? there's a lot of money riding on this growth continuing at this rate.  —  techcrunch.com/2025/...
2025-01-23 View on X
Sensor Tower

State of Mobile 2025: in 2024, iOS and Google Play app downloads dropped ~1% YoY to 136B, while IAP and paid apps and games revenue rose 13% YoY to $150B

The mobile market is stronger than ever as we enter 2025, with a recovering mobile gaming market adding to the rapid growth seen in non-gaming.

is it just me or is this surprisingly low?  generative AI apps made $1billion from app store purchases, which is up 200% year on year, but... not that much considering the size of the industry? there's a lot of money riding on this growth continuing at this rate.  —  techcrunch.com/2025/...
2025-01-23 View on X
TechCrunch

Sensor Tower: consumer spending in 2024 on AI apps like ChatGPT, Gemini, and ByteDance's Doubao grew more than 200% YoY to nearly $1.1B

Connecting Mobile to In-Person … Sarina Trangle / Yahoo Finance : You Spent Less Time Using Apps Last Year—But You Also Spent More Using Them Sensor Tower : Sensor Tower: Consumer ...

2025-01-21
i will happily explain why the Guardian wrote “appears to make fascist salutes” to anyone who wants to know why  —  but if you're angry about it I also recommend that you take stock and wonder if you're directing your emotions at the right thing.  [embedded post]
2025-01-21 View on X
Gizmodo

During a speech after Donald Trump's inauguration, Elon Musk delivered what many saw as two “Nazi salutes”; Musk posted a three-minute video of his speech to X

The billionaire Tesla CEO has a history of racist comments. … Elon Musk gave what appeared to be Nazi salutes …

journalists have to have certainty when covering uncertain situations.  when trump was shot and media coverage initially said “loud popping noise near trump”.  the point isn't obfuscate what's happening, it's to state what is known for sure, which can sometimes means describing how things appear
2025-01-21 View on X
Gizmodo

During a speech after Donald Trump's inauguration, Elon Musk delivered what many saw as two “Nazi salutes”; Musk posted a three-minute video of his speech to X

The billionaire Tesla CEO has a history of racist comments. … Elon Musk gave what appeared to be Nazi salutes …

2024-12-17
specific bit about the payment scheme which will be sorted out next year [image]
2024-12-17 View on X
Reuters

Australia's privacy watchdog says Meta agreed to a AU$50M settlement over a 2020 Cambridge Analytica lawsuit alleging 300K+ Facebook users' data was exposed

The Australian Information Commissioner said on Tuesday it has withdrawn civil penalty proceedings against Meta Platforms (META.O) …

2024-11-29
Australia passing the teen social media ban law is the start — not the end — of a process. It faces a lot of hard decisions that will decide whether the policy helps young Australians, as the government insists, or harms them as its opponents worry. Story below [image]
2024-11-29 View on X
Bloomberg

Experts worry about the unintended consequences of Australia's controversial but popular social media ban on under-16s; Meta, TikTok, and X expressed concerns

- Children under 16 barred from popular social media sites  — Politicians under pressure to stem online bullying, grooming

2024-07-20
Reports of Windows computers showing BSOD errors across a lot of different sectors: supermarkets, banks, broadcasters, etc. Downdetector, which shows crowdsourced reports of outages, going crazy rn [image]
2024-07-20 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS  —  Get notified of outages that impact you  —  Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from Crow...

Reports of Windows computers showing BSOD errors across a lot of different sectors: supermarkets, banks, broadcasters, etc. Downdetector, which shows crowdsourced reports of outages, going crazy rn [image]
2024-07-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A profile of CrowdStrike, founded in 2011 and used by 300 companies in the Fortune 500; Gartner: CrowdStrike has ~15% of the global security software market

The little-known company is very popular in Corporate America, contributing to the severity of the global IT outage

2024-07-19
Reports of Windows computers showing BSOD errors across a lot of different sectors: supermarkets, banks, broadcasters, etc. Downdetector, which shows crowdsourced reports of outages, going crazy rn [image]
2024-07-19 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks …

2024-05-30
This AI generated image saying “All eyes on Rafah” in the form of camps has been shared 31 million+ times on Instagram stories. (It seems somewhat jarring to call for attention using a fake, sanitised image rather than using the real, shocking imagery out of Rafah?) [image]
2024-05-30 View on X
NBC News

An image showing tents in a camp spelling out “All Eyes on Rafah” hits 44M+ shares on Instagram in <48 hours, likely one of the first viral activist AI images

The image, which appears to be AI-generated, was shared more than 29 million times in less than 24 hours.