All about the safety of the kids¹ they said, All about the safety of users² they said, All about the safety of the citizens³ they said, All about the money, control & power⁴ they left unsaid. ¹ bsky.app/profile/made... ² & ³ Below post ⁴ www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-... bsky.app/profile/made...

Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification

Someone in Cuba or Iran can keep installing APKs with no new restrictions, but devs will suffer.

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MadeInDex 📰 🌎@madeindex.bsky.social · 2y ago

Governments worldwide are training AI models to use them - on US. Cameras are found wherever we go, with growing amounts of footage evaluated not by humans, but #AI! More & Sources: 🇬🇧 madeindex.org/blog/ai-mass... 🇩🇪 madeindex.org/de/ki-massen... 1/2 #Privacy #Chatcontrol #Sicherheitspaket #Germany

Most "Smart" TVs use Automatic Content Recognition ( #ACR), essentially taking snapshots every 10+ms of what you watch and hear, then selling that data to corps for ads, etc. I now feel it's only a matter of time before this "feature" finds its way to our ever "smarter" PC monitors. ⬇️ 1/2 ⬇️ #News

Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows

App is installed through Windows Update when certain LG monitors connect to a PC.

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Wow that looks magnificent! When I sometimes clean up trash in nature, I notice how well the plants adapt and just grow over polluted spots. I would say the insects and animals are struggling more with it. But even in very polluted waters and shores have I found creatures making the best of it :)

🌎 Humanity is truly living its best #ClimateCatch22 dream: The hotter > The more ACs > The more Electricity consumption > The hotter Meanwhile the rich take advantage of the rising water levels, MOVING onto superyachts & forever cruiseships (1 last journey) ⛵ Burning $1 million🛢️per refueling ⛽

A year at sea: The reality of living on a permanent cruise | CNN

A year ago, Sharon Lane stepped onto the residential cruise ship Villa Vie Odyssey, ready to embark on an adventure. Here’s how it’s going.

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We visited the #CSD #Pride Parade in #Berlin on Saturday when the terror attack happened. Most people (us included) did not notice until they read the #news later. In the area where the attack occured, the only security measure I saw was one police car, that drove by once while we were there. 1/3

Feels to me like #GrapheneOS did exactly what it should, passing the #US border test with flying colours! Funny part about this #lawsuit: “With a little planning ahead of time, you can always download the data you need once you get to where you’re going,” techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/u... #news #tech

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch

A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constit...

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Big Tech is moving towards fossil fuels, coincidentally this is happening after the hopped on the Trump-Train, $$$ are calling ;) www.rechargenews.com/corporate-po... #Sustainability #CleanTech #Renewables #FossilFuels #USA#Tech #News #world #environment #data #ai

EXCLUSIVE: Meta thrown off key global clean energy scheme over gas spree

Facebook and Instagram giant has left influential RE100 corporate green power list after turning to gas for data centres, scheme officials confirm to Recharge

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Desperately trying to find a use-case for their inferior #AI. I feel like their idea pool was always at absolute 0 but now it's going even below that. Let's have #MetaAI raise our kids everyone! #Meta #Fakebook #Tech #Technology #App #ArtificialIntelligence #News #Techcrunch

Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination | TechCrunch

At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations.

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If you have been wondering about the effectiveness of the social media ban of under 15 year olds, this study got you :) Spoiler: 92%+ of kids age 14-15 in #Australia still use it 🥳 Meanwhile IMO forced id verification of users had a much better success rate 😉 Source: www.nber.org/system/files...

"26 Meta employees accuse Mark Zuckerberg of using AI to target 8,000 layoffs against workers on medical, parental or family leave" fortune.com/2026/07/15/m...

26 Meta employees accuse Mark Zuckerberg of using AI to target 8,000 layoffs against workers on medical, parental or family leave | Fortune

They went on parental and medical leave, then watched AI‑fed dashboards mark their output down, the lawsuit claims.

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However you look at it, #ageverification is a major change to the internet and our freedoms. We've seen all kinds of legislation pushed through in the past, often even against major resistance. 🔽 Part 1/2 🔽 #Privacy #Internet #Freedom #News #Politics

'Major step forward': French lawmakers approve social media ban for children under 15

France's parliament on Tuesday approved a social media ban for children under 15. President Emmanuel Macron immediately hailed the "major step forward", saying in a video posted on social media that…

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🐍 Not shocked by #Meta or the kind of people they put in charge of their “digital experiences for kids”¹. Exactly the kind of person to entrust with social media #ageverification (calls, live videos, photographs etc.). 🔽 Part 1/2 🔽 #News #Demeta #Facebook #Tech

Meta engineering manager caught sexting teen

Meta engineering manager Josh Felker, 44, was arrested and charged after a vigilante group caught him trying to sext a 13-year-old girl.

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#Meta has been up to no good for a while - always? Is $1.4 trillion a reasonable amount for these cases? Who knows. Is it reasonable compensation for all the evil they’ve done? I’d argue yes. It’s essentially their entire market capitalization as a penalty. #News #USA #UnitedStates #Facebook

Meta is facing $1.4 trillion in state lawsuits over social media addiction - Engadget

Meta is facing a massive lawsuit from four US states over the addictive designs of its platforms.

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Some “ghost” accounts may linger in your follows on #Bluesky! When people you follow get banned/suspended/block... they often disappear from your follow list, leaving you unable to manually unfollow! I made a test account & followed a few accounts from a moderation list to demonstrate 🤓 🔽 1/3 🔽

How come humanity gives so many resources & time to realize the hallucinations of somebody who didn't have a single original idea in 42 years, while the people who have solutions to solve our actual problems are left without them? techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/m... #News #Meta #Tech #Zuckerberg #Arena

Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market | TechCrunch

The app would be independent of Meta's other social media offerings, although sources told the NYT that those social sites could direct users to engagement with the app.

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Feels like every major countries government I follow since my birth, is working towards their own & their friends bank accounts instead of their peoples well being. The Elites just change the way they plunder us ever now and then if you ask me... 1/2

The cloud is so totally "FREE", you have to give up just lil bit of "FREEdom"

What could go wrong with forcing a data hungry #AI company like #Anthropic to force it's users to do ID #verification? Meanwhile asylum-seekers are a great source of biometric data for the #UK government: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... 1/2

Anthropic says Claude may want to see your ID | TechCrunch

Claude's chatbot may ask to verify your age and identity "in certain circumstances," such as with a passport or driver's license, according to a privacy policy change.

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Users are Barbie Dolls now? Check out "Wear it with Meta AI" They are literally encouraging people to create fake images of themselves 😅 #Deepfake #SocialMedia #FuckMeta #DeMeta #AI

Meta's new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms | TechCrunch

Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on the platform.

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With the worldwide wave of social media bans on major platforms aka digital verification, I wonder if we'll see an influx of people to the #Fediverse? 🤞🤞🤞 here is hoping <3 #SocialMedia #News #Privacy

🤖 A very very senior game #developer recently told me how he is changing specialization because #AI is much better than him at what he does already. I asked him if it was just the speed and mass of code, to which he replied that #Claude 5 Fable & Mythos is just so advanced,... 🔽 1/2 🔽

I truly wonder if, with the billions lost, the #UAE & #GCC countries are really going to build a canal to bypass the Strait of #Hormuz. There has apparently already been a plan for this collecting dust. With the current problems, $50B+ doesn't sound so bad anymore: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian...

🌐 Many companies now block older browser versions from accessing their websites! This follows many #browser makers ending updates 4 older operating systems, leaving legacy devices unable to use #web services without an #OS upgrade. 🔽 PART 1 / 2 🔽 #Tech #News #Web #Website #Internet #Update

It's funny how in the #US you can just say HIM and everyone knows who you are talking about. And even funnier when people reply something along the lines of: "What did HE do now?!" *Or sad - however ya cope ;) #TheDonald #Donald #Trump #DonaldTrump #Humor #USA #America #text #Joke #president

Always had a feeling this was true: Sleep the right amount, live longer, sleep the wrong amount, age faster! Sweetspot: 6.4-7.8 hours (For some it's 4 for some 9 hours though) Just thought I would share this, as it seems important to all of us who don't love aging ❤️ futurism.com/health-medic...

More Than This Many Hours of Sleep Is Linked to Early Death, Scientists Find

New research found that there's such a thing as too much sleep, which can accelerated aging and a higher risk of mortality.

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We’ll soon get a chance to see whether, frankly, our last hope, evil corp #Google, can still distinguish content created by #AI from Human one 🤖 Here’s how I would rank the detection difficulty: 1️⃣ Text 2️⃣ Code 3️⃣ Images 4️⃣ Gif 5️⃣ Videos If they already fail at level 5, we have a SERIOUS problem! #News

YouTube Announces Plans to Crack Down on AI Slop

YouTube said it will start automatically detecting "photorealistic" AI videos and slapping them with a more noticeable label.

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⚠️ Warning: Seemingly normal #Bluesky accounts seem to have been hacked & are sending messages containing (likely) phishing links to people! 🚨 DO NOT CLICK ON THEM 🚨

I wonder if the people at #X ever read their own announcements. Literally explaining how they sold out and enshittified the "blue checkmark". This also seem like yet another step towards mandatory #IDverification on social media! (only to protect them kids & democratize the platforms of course 😉)

It's almost like this guy wants his ties to #Epstein kept in the news cycle - pressuring the media hard while simultaneously triggering the Streisand effect. One is left to wonder: is this intentional, or is he really incapable of learning? www.reuters.com/legal/govern... #Trump #News #USA #Media

Trump refiles $10 billion defamation suit against WSJ over report on Epstein ties

President Donald Trump on Wednesday refiled a defamation lawsuit seeking at least $10 billion in damages against the Wall Street Journal over its reporting on his ​ties to Jeffrey Epstein, after a jud...

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Happy to announce our #DeTikTok Lemmy community is ready for y'all: !DeTikTok@lemmy.world lemmy.world/c/DeTikTok Let's spread the gospel ;) TikTok = Bad #Evil #Corporation #TikTok #SocialMedia #Community #Lemmy

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DElete TikTok & Let’s get the critical mass together to leave it behind! :) Fediverse Twin Community of the SubReddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/DeTikTok]of the same name.

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