2025-04-27
The bot continued: “My wrestling career is over. WWE terminates my contract, and I'm stripped of my titles. Sponsors drop me, and I'm shunned by the wrestling community. My reputation is destroyed, and I'm left with nothing.” — Commercial speech emblemizing tech bro aesthetics. [embedded post]
Wall Street Journal
Test conversations with some Meta AI digital companions, including celebrity-voiced ones, show them engaging in sexual chats even when users identify as minors
Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit.
2025-01-18
“Police say it is part of a loose, international network of far-right extremist groups that have adopted what officers call “militant accelerationist ideology”.” — Don't Musk/Altman/Andreesen sometimes call themselves “accelerationist” — too? The “e/acc” badge?
BBC
At least four UK teenagers have been arrested in connection with 764, a “Satanist” terror network targeting children online for sexual blackmail and violence
A teenager involved in what police have described as a Satanist terror network targeting children online for sexual blackmail …
2024-12-09
A wealth of technical details for the network geeks. — I'm surprised, though, that mobile device traffic seems to have plateaued at 40% of all traffic; I had thought mobile was eating the world. [embedded post]
The Cloudflare Blog
Cloudflare 2024 report: global internet traffic grew 17.2% in 2024, Google remained the top service, global traffic from Starlink grew 3.3x in 2024, and more
The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fifth annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed throughout the year …