NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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Jeff Dean is leaving Google www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/t...

Four Top Google A.I. Researchers Form New Start-Up

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Google says Chief AI Architect and Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will be taking over most of Demis Hassabis's responsibilities (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Do not forget to register for this.... www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/events...

Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe

at dinner with a friend he gave me yet another project idea and etoomanyprojects

Every supported Go version (1.24+) has FIPS crypto. No need to sub in a whole new stack. go.dev/doc/security...

FIPS 140-3 Compliance - The Go Programming Language

go.dev

remember, a vote for me is a vote for weird medieval guys everywhere.

Jared Pechaček@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 17h ago

the Hugo voting deadline is soon! it would mean a great deal if you'd vote for me in the Astounding Award category. anyone can vote—just register here (there is a fee, but then you get to participate in making a lot of creators very happy) and submit your ballot by noon PDT on 8/8

Crash (1996, d. David Cronenberg)

As of this morning, 12 states have experienced Iran-linked cyberattacks on their water utilities, according to ABC News. abcnews.com/US/12-states...

At least 12 states face cyberattacks on their water systems, sources say

Possible cyber intrusions targeting water and wastewater utilities have now been reported in at least a dozen states, multiple sources told ABC News.

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Is peer review falling apart? (try to ignore the annoying animation at the top of the page) www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review wars

Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?

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for months, ive been trying to map out the ways the right and the left were uniting against data centers and AI both here's my story on my efforts, featuring steve bannon's anti-tech prophet, my girlfriend's high school english class, and the unabomber:

How Data Centers Broke American Politics

What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.

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Researchers: ChainDrop, a Shai-Hulud-based worm, compromised 1,300+ npm packages, including Keyv and Cacheable, with a combined 2B monthly downloads (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide the Existence of Flock

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

404media.co

The SEC bought access to worldwide airline ticketing records. Airlines including Delta, United, and American sold the data.

The SEC Bought Airline Data to Monitor Flights Worldwide

The SEC bought access to worldwide airline ticketing records. Airlines including Delta, United, and American sold the data.

404media.co

Verizon's #passkey implementation is quite good. They're naming the Credential Manager correctly, and they're using RCS Business Messaging for proof up prior to enrollment. Well done.

one of the basic issues with building secure right-wing comms is that every third cryptographer is trans

ae@aelkus.bsky.social · last yr.

that or some bullshit app by one of Vance's grifter friends with a server room powered by a bunch of enslaved Salvadoreans running on giant hamster wheels

this is necessary as stochastic defense against Man in the Middle attacks

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · last yr.

one of the basic issues with building secure right-wing comms is that every third cryptographer is trans

Barad-Dûr truthers sending each other pamphlets all the time about how the collapse was staged by Elessar

i may start offering consulting services how many of you would be interested in a "Fractional DilDog" at your workplace?

i did some summer cleaning of my posts and deleted my pinned tweet so icymi here’s my piece on how THE ODYSSEY is part of a lowkey trilogy from Christopher Nolan about how everything is getting worse and our kids won’t forgive us for it

Christopher Nolan is not okay

With "The Odyssey," Nolan has made his third film in a row about the end of the world and intergenerational guilt

necessaryfictions.blog

Pretty much.

NEW: ICE is collecting unprecedented quantities of DNA from detainees, including children. Those samples sit, indefinitely, in an FBI database built for criminal investigations. "People are very confused about why their DNA is being tested. I do not think they’re being told what the purpose is."

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

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Note on Number-Theoretic Transforms for Implementers – Butterflies, Twisting, Incompleteness, and Good’s Trick (Bo-Yin Yang) ia.cr/2026/1546

MST3K would come on the Syfy channel at like 5 AM Sunday and that’s just when your ass had to watch it and I can’t explain it but it made it funnier

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

i would like some cholula for my turkey ham egg and cheese on an english muffin

what did we use with the Morris worm?

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3d ago

Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions (Lily Hay Newman/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

it's unsafe software, try negligence law

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3d ago

Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions (Lily Hay Newman/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

7/ Bottom line: If I were reviewing this for a top theory-of-CS conference, and the results bear out (as I expect them to), I would champion this for a Best Paper Award. (But I would also request a much more explanatory overview of the novel techniques in the intro...)