New: It’s alarmingly easy to make AI mimick existing media outlets and include false claims or conspiracies. ChatGPT appears to have the weakest safety measures against this. Story together with Kimberly Nicolaus correctiv.org/datenschutz/...

KI-Test: So einfach lassen sich Nachrichten mit ChatGPT und Co. fälschen

Mit den KIs von OpenAI, Google und Microsoft lassen sich gefälschte Beiträge von existierenden Medien erstellen. Sicherheitslücken weist vor allem ChatGPT auf.

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New: It’s alarmingly easy to make AI mimick existing media outlets and include false claims or conspiracies. ChatGPT appears to have the weakest safety measures against this. Story together with Kimberly Nicolaus correctiv.org/datenschutz/...

KI-Test: So einfach lassen sich Nachrichten mit ChatGPT und Co. fälschen

Mit den KIs von OpenAI, Google und Microsoft lassen sich gefälschte Beiträge von existierenden Medien erstellen. Sicherheitslücken weist vor allem ChatGPT auf.

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A new Google Earth update, which allowed users to alter satellite imagery with AI, let me cover my rural PA hometown with fake fire, drought, and soldiers. Google now says it's rolling back the feature. w/ @f-w-l.bsky.social futurism.com/artificial-i...

Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It Immediately Turns Into a Blatant Misinformation Crisis

Google is adding an image generation tool straight into Google Earth, allowing anyone to fabricate made-up satellite images.

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New: OpenAI investigators are scouring their logs & finding evidence of other sandbox escapes, sources tell @deepa.bsky.social & me. The incidents are believed to be limited in nature relative to what happened at Hugging Face, but still raise concerns among experts. www.reuters.com/business/ope...

EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probe

OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have ​escaped containment as the company expands its ‌investigation of the hacking incident at tech firm Hugging Face that drew global ...

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Claude warns users that by hitting the "share button" anyone with the link can view the content, but it is not clear that they are creating a document that can be indexed by Google and will come up in searches. futurism.com/artificial-i...

A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There

A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.

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"Three military officials said that one reason behind the change was that the Trump administration decided to remove four service members killed this past weekend from the list...because their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/u...

Number of U.S. Troop Deaths in Iran War Appears Lower on Pentagon Website

Three military officials and a Pentagon spokesman gave conflicting explanations for why the number of Americans killed in the Iran war had changed.

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The EU has ordered a 24-hour delay in the release of some Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery following a request from the U.S. based on concerns that the Earth observation satellites’ output could pose a security risk.

EU delays release of Copernicus imagery over Gulf of Oman

EU delays release of Copernicus imagery over Gulf of Oman

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this broke me techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/m...

Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch

David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.

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NEW: OpenAI said it built a “highly isolated” environment to test a model that then went rogue and autonomously hacked Hugging Face. According to cybersecurity experts, the company made a human mistake—one expert called "a massive control failure"— that led to the unprecedented AI-enabled attack.

How an OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face | TechCrunch

OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Huggin...

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This is a really important point. It's very easy to just point to the AI and blame it for your failures. This was OpenAI's model, and they designed the parameters of the tests.

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wired sets the frame that the model “escaped containment,” but from an accountability perspective, OpenAI left a door open by failing to properly isolate their system. Real headline: “OpenAI’s security failure leads to cyberattack against another AI company.”

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Trump Administration Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives (Gift Article)

The government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.

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SPACEX FACES A POTENTIAL LOSS OF $1 TRILLION FOLLOWING A 38% DECLINE IN VALUE.

"From Irish government agencies to the Dresden University of Technology, the password manager Passwork Europe S.L. boasts a range of high-profile European clients who use its software to store the digital keys to their organizations." www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

European Password Manager Shares Origins and Updates with State-Certified Russian Firm

Passwork, a Spain-based password manager used by European government agencies and universities, shares technological ties with a Russian counterpart — an arrangement that experts say poses a state-lev...

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"NSO Group co-founder Shalev Hulio travelled to Panama in 2013 on an Israeli diplomatic passport and told Panamanian immigration he would be staying at the Israeli embassy" www.occrp.org/en/project/t...

Co-Founder of Controversial Spyware Firm Had Israeli Diplomatic Passport

Spyware company NSO Group’s co-founder Shalev Hulio used an Israeli diplomatic passport to enter Panama in 2013, raising questions over the firm’s claims of independence from the Israeli state.

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⚡️ June deadliest month for civilians in Ukraine since April 2022, U.N. says. The toll surpassed May's already-record civilian casualties, when 282 people were killed and 1,794 injured, and marked a 37% increase compared with June 2025.

June deadliest month for civilians in Ukraine since April 2022, U.N. says

The toll surpassed May's already-record civilian casualties, when 282 people were killed and 1,794 injured, and marked a 37% increase compared with June 2025.

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New: Telegram's short URL t.me domain returned online Tuesday after a day-long suspension knocked the domain off the web. The domain registrar behind .me said the incident was due to "OFAC compliance," likely sparked by fresh US Treasury sanctions against a VPN firm that contained a "t.me" link. 🤦

Telegram's shortlink domain is back online after day-long suspension | TechCrunch

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov confirmed an outage in a tweet, saying that short-links to the messaging app had "stopped working."

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Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

The EU just added VK to its sanctions list, saying the Russian social network is assisting the Russian government in the repression of civil society and democratic opposition eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

This NYT story reminds me of the time Japan expelled the most Russian-spy-looking Russian spy in 2020 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/w... web.archive.org/web/20220618...

An absolute escalation in the attack on Press Freedom: Trump subpoenad NYT reporters for their reporting. “The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution & the press freedom it protects.”

Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media

The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”

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🚨 NEWS: The European Commission finds addictive design of Instagram & Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act "Meta did not adequately assess the risks of its addictive design on the physical and mental wellbeing of users, including minors and vulnerable adults" ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Commission preliminarily finds the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act

Today, the European Commission preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act for the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook.

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NEW: The brand-new logo of the Donald J Trump International Airport appears to be AI slop, featuring an eagle with garbled talons, an asymmetrical number of feathers on each wing, and more glaring irregularities futurism.com/artificial-i...

The Logo for Donald Trump International Airport Appears to Have AI Slop in It

The logo for officially renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport appears to be generated with AI.

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Wirtschaftsministerin #Reiche will erneut Millionen-Auftrag an externe Berater vergeben – dabei geht um eine der Kernaufgaben des Hauses: deutsche und europäische #Industriepolitik. Intern sorgt das für Unverständnis. correctiv.org/aktuelles/po...

Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche will erneut Millionen-Auftrag an externe Berater vergeben – Kritik kommt aus dem eigenen Haus

Trotz Sparziels lagert das Wirtschaftsminsterium erneut Kernaufgaben aus. Veranschlagt sind mindestens 1,2 Millionen Euro in zwei Jahren – intern gibt es daran Kritik.

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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...

Es ist eine historische Entscheidung: Das EU-Parlament hat heute ein Verbotsverfahren von #AfD-Europapartei #ESN auf den Weg gebracht. Ein Bericht legt nahe, dass sie gegen zentrale #EU-Grundsätze verstößt.

EU-Parlament bringt Verbotsverfahren von AfD-Europapartei ESN auf den Weg

Die EU-Dachpartei der AfD soll überprüft werden. Dafür stimmte das EU-Parlament. Die ESN soll gegen die Grundsätze der EU verstoßen.

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futurism.com/future-socie... lol

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"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

Behörden sollten transparent bleiben ... oder? Falls ihr es noch nicht gehört habt: Die Koalition plant Einschnitte ins Informationsfreiheitsrecht – also die Pflicht, BürgerInnen Auskunft über die Arbeit von Behörden zu geben. Wir von @correctiv.org haben eine Petition gestartet:

Mitmachen: Ich bin für einen transparenten Staat.

Geplante Einschränkungen der Informationsfreiheit gefährden Transparenz und journalistische Kontrolle. Setzen Sie ein Zeichen und unterzeichnen Sie jetzt.

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