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"it's another place where sources of trusted information are being eroded by the constant doubt that #AI might be involved," www.bbc.com/news/article...
Google withdraws Earth AI tool after misinformation warnings
Experts told BBC Verify Google's new feature which let people generate fake satellite images could be misused.
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UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
404media.co
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
futurism.com
#AI "it’s possible that humans were already hitting the point of diminishing returns with regards to individual cognitive capacity, and that superintelligent machines will never be as far beyond us as we are beyond dogs." www.noahpinion.blog/p/what-will-...
What will more intelligence actually do for us?
A lot, actually. But it won't look quite like what humans do with our intelligence.
noahpinion.blog
Film you’ve watched more than six times Hard Mode : No Star Trek, Star wars, LOTR, any Marvel, Disney or Ghibli
Emma Evans@trance.bsky.social · 7d agoFilm you’ve watched more than six times Hard Mode : No Star Trek, Star wars, LOTR, any Marvel, Disney or Ghibli
“AI has become a blunt instrument in the enterprise to impose precisely this form of sanctioned ignorance about America’s past...Taken together, [Trump’s & Musk’s] plans amount to a one-two punch, history in the hands of the corporate state.” My latest on AI & history: www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...
Trump and Musk both want to control America's history
The frenemies' strange obsession with historical "accuracy" has disturbing connections to big AI
salon.com
Really great convo with Lina Khan and @doctorow.pluralistic.net about law and economy www.youtube.com/live/7Ak5LZl...
Law and Economy Student Network: A Conversation with Lina Khan and Cory Doctorow
YouTube video by Center for Law and the Economy
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🇮🇹 "Delle quattro forze di polizia a competenza generale che [l'Italia] continua a mantenere, due sono tuttora ad ordinamento militare." volerelaluna.it/in-primo-pia...
Quale polizia per uno Stato democratico?
di Nicola Rossiello - Il ricordo di Genova e la morte assurda di Abderrahim Fakir hanno riacceso i riflettori sulla polizia, di cui è in corso una ristrutturazione conservatrice e militarista che la a...
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“If enacted, such a change would sharply limit law enforcement scrutiny of immigration agents” #ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...
Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations (Gift Article)
Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.
nytimes.com
yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets
People are making wildfire bets on prediction markets. Experts say it could lead to disaster | CNN
As the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires raged last year, people placed bets on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations they would reach and when they would be contained.
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China's Moonshot unveils world's largest open AI model, closing in on US rivals reut.rs/4f7IXJi
China's Moonshot unveils world's largest open AI model, closing in on US rivals
Chinese AI startup Moonshot on Friday unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model that it said is the world's largest open-weight AI system and delivers performance approaching U.S. giant Anthropic's frontier Fable model.
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china and (hopefully) europe making room for some extra talent www.reuters.com/world/us-cha...
US to change visa regulations for foreign students, journalists
The Trump administration moved on Thursday to tighten the duration of visas for foreign students, cultural exchange visitors and journalists, according to a government notice.
reuters.com
* EXCLUSIVE -- IRAN TELLS YEMEN'S HOUTHIS TO CLOSE BAB EL-MANDEB GATEWAY TO THE RED SEA IF U.S. HITS POWER NETWORK, SOURCES SAY @reuters.com
"A few weeks after the archive’s release was reported in German media, Die Zeit had built a searchable database that transformed millions of scanned membership cards into an accessible public resource. The project has since attracted millions of searches." www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/one-...
One name at a time: How Die Zeit built a searchable database of Nazi Party members
"The story that a German newspaper used AI to create a 'Nazi search engine' is just too good to ignore."
niemanlab.org
NEW: The SFPD was leaking real-time footage from surveillance drones, including color and thermal imaging, location metadata, and drone pilots’ names and email addresses. "There’s a certain trust given to the police to use these things correctly."
A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.
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"What is remarkable is how much of it is happening in plain sight. (...) And how little it is protested within Israel, or how rarely it moves Israel’s allies in the west to express real outrage or demand real action." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In Israel’s prisons, torture and death have become a norm that it barely tries to hide | Nesrine Malik
The suffering of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is no isolated case. The abuse of Palestinian detainees is happening in plain sight, yet nothing changes, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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“New alliances are emerging between new, extractive forms of capital and a paradoxically global network of ethnonationalists, hostile to the norms of democratic politics.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK must cap political donations to stop the rich buying influence | Heather Stewart
If Keir Starmer won’t act then his successor should – by restricting the power of a small group of mega-donors
theguardian.com
We're gonna find out that an hour ago someone placed a $100,000 Polymarket bet that Mitch McConnell would outlive Lindsey Graham
"A European cybersecurity agency. A national AI strategy. A flagship White House health report. Between May 2025 and April 2026, all three released official documents built partly on research that did not exist." www.techpolicy.press/the-next-nat...
The Next National Security Challenge Is Research Integrity
In the age of AI, research integrity has become critical infrastructure, writes Stanford Law School's Rachel A. George.
techpolicy.press
As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually shows people www.404media.co/linkedin-and...
Extremely important PSA www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
You can (and should) opt out of letting people use your Instagram posts with Meta’s AI.
Go to your profile in the Instagram app and open the hamburger menu in the top right corner. Scroll down to “sharing and reuse,” then toggle off the sliders for “allow people to create with and reuse ...
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The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.
The Internet Is Drowning in Secret Ads "It’s (...) likely that the true extent and reach of these secret sponsorships still eludes us. thanks to lack of enforcement, it’s possible we’ll never know how many ads we’ve been exposed to throughout all our years on social media" slate.com/technology/2...
Social Media Has Been Secretly Flooded by a New Kind of Content. You Probably Haven’t Noticed—and That’s the Problem.
The most popular ads on social media look like anything but.
slate.com
This edit of a new and older trad wife is perfect
