Kennedy Center says it’s falling apart without Trump. New docs tell a different story

The venue argues that donors will ‘flee’ and contributions will ‘dry up’ without Trump — but budget docs appear to show the opposite

independent.co.uk

Federal judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell's 'miscarriage of justice' claim and bid for prison release

A federal judge has rejected claims by Ghislaine Maxwell that her sex trafficking conviction was a “complete miscarriage of justice.” Judge Paul A.

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What to know about the fake election poll numbers shared and retracted by a mysterious company

A mysterious political firm admitted to fabricating multiple election polls this month. None of the fake results from a company called Median Strategies appeared in Associated Press coverage.

apnews.com

Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI

Technology leaders don’t seem to understand society’s gripes about AI, but boy, are they posting through it.

wired.com

AliExpress was silently running audio in your browser to fingerprint and track your device

The issue only surfaced after a developer had trouble using multipoint Bluetooth headphones while an AliExpress tab was open: the headphones wouldn't switch properly from the computer...

techspot.com

Across Nashville, Parked Waymos Are Recording Your Neighborhood

Waymo robotaxis in Nashville record 360-degree video and audio while parked, raising privacy questions the company has yet to fully answer.

gadgetreview.com

Brass Against - Bullet with Butterfly Wings (The Smashing Pumpkins Cover)

Stream and Download Now: https://ffm.to/mbggjax Arrangement By Andrew Gutauskas | Project By Brad Hammonds Video filmed and edited by Alexa San Roman (ASR Productions) https://www.alexasanroman.com…

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80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful

A new Coddy Developer Survey found that four in five developers, 80%, say their use of AI has felt more like a dependence than an advantage.

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Microsoft built a dedicated app that forces Bing everywhere on Windows 11, including Chrome, Firefox, and Brave

Microsoft built MicrosoftSettings.exe, an app that installs a Bing extension across Chrome and Edge, then redirects you to Microsoft Rewards.

windowslatest.com

Coin-Operated Elevators in Condominiums and Apartment Buildings Are Becoming More Common

Pay-per-ride elevators exist across Tbilisi, Naples, and China — and the debate over whether they're fair is far from settled.

gadgetreview.com

FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies

FCC decides 1Gbps is too fast, standard must be "technologically neutral."

arstechnica.com

Putin’s empty threats to the UK are the last gasp of a dying Russia

Time and again, we see that Moscow’s red lines are drawn in disappearing ink – if anything, we should take a warning of ‘serious consequences’ only as a sign to push things further and faster, says…

independent.co.uk

FBI LETTERS: TRUMP TRAFFICKED GIRLS TO EPSTEIN & THE SAUDIS | The Kyle Kulinski Show

Support The Show On Patreon!: https://www.patreon.com/seculartalk Subscribe to Krystal Kyle & Friends On Substack!: https://krystalkyleandfriends.substack.com Join our…

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A 25-year-old Brazilian video patent just expired, ending a lingering legal headache for Linux

The end of a pretty small, pretty niche era.

xda-developers.com

The Economy Has Spoken: Stuff That's AI-Generated Has Almost Zero Value

3D assets marketplace CGTrader is being flooded by AI slop, but nobody is buying it, suggesting AI isn't "repricing the market."

futurism.com

‘Black hole stars’ from the dawn of the universe are coming into focus

First glimpsed as “little red dots” in deep-space images from the James Webb Space Telescope, these giant, gas-shrouded black holes are full of surprises

scientificamerican.com

PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation

This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.

tomshardware.com

How we know that splitting up the MMR vaccine could be dangerous

It's no mystery. History tells us that President Trump’s executive order calling for the MMR to be split into separate shots could do real harm.

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Facebook pays controversial creators to produce rage-bait content

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.

abc.net.au

Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill

Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling

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Not your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worse

Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed?

theguardian.com

Mark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence

"The future is for everyone," Zuckerberg says, describing future that is primarily good for Meta.

404media.co

How Hard Is It To Get a Walmart Refund After a Failed Delivery?

Why are Walmart customers having a harder time getting refunds when grocery deliveries go missing?

themarysue.com

Wider Europe Briefing: What Was Russia's Role In The Ceuta Migrant Crisis?

In this week's briefing, Rikard Jozwiak focuses on the Ceuta crisis and whether or not Russia had a role.

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A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras

What just happened? Bill Swearingen's noRecognition project is testing whether computer-generated patterns can interfere with software used to identify people, vehicles, and other objects on…

techspot.com

The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.

wired.com

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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our…

thenerve.news

Spotify Execs Bet People Will Pay for AI-Generated Music

The company is going all in on AI features, including AI-generated songs, to turn free users to paid.

gizmodo.com