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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AI companies scraping websites at scale is a real problem. But a proposed NY law could make it harder for libraries, journalists & researchers to preserve the web and investigate the powerful. That's why we've joined @eff.org & others in a letter to Gov. Hochul. blog.archive.org/2026/08/04/i...

🎃 The Halloween candy is out. It's August, theres still 3 months to go jeez.

The new CHATBOT Act doesn’t just require parental permission for teens to use AI. It requires AI companies to build monitoring systems that store and analyze entire conversations, creating new privacy risks for entire families. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The CHATBOT Act Forces One Parenting Model On Every Family

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing education, and the way people search for information. Parents, teenagers, teachers, and schools are struggling with tough questions about when AI should,

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Coin Center has a new publication focused on open & permissionless tech. In this issue of p2p: - Bitchat vs. India - GrapheneOS border search case - A collection niche items on open models and a bunch more stuff we found interesting p2p.coincenter.org/p/india-fail...

India fails to restrict Bitchat

+ GrapheneOS, a lot on Open Models, and more.

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July stretched Zk Av Club in a lot of directions. DWeb Camp, three workshops, several Recording Station releases, and laying archive groundwork with Omeka S. Many parts keep moving. Here’s where we're at: forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-comm... @getdweb.net #Zcash #OpenSourceMedia

Zcash Community Media Infrastructure & Support | Zk Av Club 2026

Milestone 7 Report — July 2026 Hi Zcashers ⚡🛡 July Overview July was a month of overlap, recovery, and follow-through for Zk Av Club. After Berlin Blockchain Week, much of the event crew moved almost...

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I gave a TED talk last year about the origins of my obsession with decentralized media. It’s personal! Please give it some social media love if any of it resonates with you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y_x...

How Decentralization Prevents Digital Disasters | Arikia Millikan | TEDxBerlin

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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The experience of reading journalism on the internet honestly couldn’t get any worse. Who wants to help trying to make it better?

Estamos en el #WorkshopComunitario del @zkavclub.bsky.social, hablando de @zodl.com y la migración a Ironwood www.youtube.com/live/CsjI388...

Kids: 1 KIDS Act: 0

Where does “code is law” break, and how do we govern without kings? At @protocol.berlin: Wassim, Dr. Nick and Fatemeh move through Bitcoin thermoeconomics, Satoshi Backstop, and how communities self-govern, from pirate ships to DAOs to Berlin club door policies. @dod.ngo youtu.be/5ZyT3_1OR8g

Fork Around and Find Out: DAOs, Network States, and Self-Governance in Crypto

YouTube video by Zero-knowledge Audiovisual Club

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ZF Engineering Update - July 13–26 🛠️ 🦓 Four Zebra releases in two weeks (v6.1.0–v6.2.2) 🔐 Several security fixes across releases 💡 Built-in lightwalletd-compatible gRPC server in progress And NU6.3 Ironwood activated on July 28th 🌱 forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zf-enginee...

ZF Engineering Update: 13th July - 26th July 2026

First, some news from just after this update’s window: the NU6.3 (Ironwood) network upgrade activated on Mainnet on 28th July — we’ll cover it properly in the next update. Over the last two weeks we…

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MST3K is going to be playing in theatres all along the front range in Sept, you should go www.fathomentertainment.com/releases/mst...

MST3K: The RiffTrax Experiments – Sting of Death | In Theatres September 9 & 13

Join Mike and The Bots for MST3K: The RiffTrax Experiments as they riff Sting of Death. In theatres nationwide September 9 & 13.

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looking forward to the biopic with al pacino as Zwicky

I AM DAD@iamdad.bsky.social · last wk.

Ready to contribute to a community digital archive? Join us tomorrow for Part 2 of our Omeka S Workshop with C-Host. Learn hands-on about metadata editing, archival contributions, community collections, and Internet Archive integration. July 28, 2026 • 5:00PM UTC www.youtube.com/live/JtG3oQW...

NEW EPISODE! We invited Mark Schultz-Wu on the podcast to talk about the history of lattice cryptography. When lattices are explained in plain english, they are actually quite simple! I don’t think any of us have ever seen Deirdre so happy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ey8...

An Odyssey of Lattice Cryptography with Mark Schultz-Wu

YouTube video by Security Cryptography Whatever

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Looking forward to being at Science of Blockchain tomorrow! Come say hi for anyone who is there, hoping to hear about new crypto challenges and research problems :D Onwards! 💪

The recording of yesterday's Zcash Arborist Call is live! These bi-weekly protocol development meetings track upcoming protocol deployment logistics, consensus node implementation issues, and protocol research. youtu.be/mHpMkEk6GGI

Zcash Arborist Call 07 23 2026

The Zcash Arborist Calls are bi-weekly protocol development meetings focused on tracking upcoming protocol deployment logistics, consensus node implementation issues, and protocol…

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Zebra 6.2.1 is out 🦓 🔐Two security hardening improvements (chain synchronization + mempool verification) No resync needed. All operators encouraged to upgrade 👇 zfnd.org/zebra-6-2-1-...

Zebra 6.2.1 Release - Zcash Foundation

Zebra 6.2.1: Security Hardening and a Testnet Template Fix We are pleased to announce the release of Zebra 6.2.1. This patch release adds two security hardening improvements to chain synchronization…

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✨ Looking for more DWeb camping? ✨ Co-Adapt. Co-Create. Co-Here. Six days left to get last-minute tickets for DWeb Camp Cascadia, by @dwebyvr.org 💕 Salt Spring Island, Canada, Jul 30 - Aug 3. A few shots from last year:

"Lock the web open." That was Brewster Kahle's message at DWeb Camp 2026 in Berlin. An open web isn't a given, it has to be built, protected, and sustained. Our latest blog reflects on why that matters for digital preservation and the future of online memory. www.internetarchive.eu/2026/07/17/l...

Lock the Web Open: Inside DWeb Camp 2026 - Internet Archive Europe

Last week, in an ancient forest an hour outside Berlin, more than 500 builders, researchers, archivists, and artists gathered to ask the same question in a hundred different ways: how do we build a we...

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DWeb Camp is over, DWeb Camp Cascadia is next! 🏕️ dwebyvr.org/dweb-camp-is...

DWeb Camp is over, DWeb Camp Cascadia is next!

Greetings from Germany where we've just completed an amazing week of DWeb Camp at Alte Hölle near Berlin, and Local First Conference right after. We're so looking forward to bringing the energy to Cas...

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Yesterday, Valar Group and Project Tachyon announced Zakura, a new Zcash full node built from the Zebra codebase. We want to state plainly: this is good for Zcash, and we welcome it. zfnd.org/zebra-zakura...

Zebra, Zakura, and the road through NU6.3 - Zcash Foundation

Yesterday, Valar Group and Project Tachyon announced Zakura, a new Zcash full node built from the Zebra codebase. We want to state plainly: this is good for Zcash, and we welcome it. Zebra was built…

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Watch this, also modify and redistribute bc it's FOSS, it's great vimeo.com/1015656967

Never Mind the Gigwork... Here's the Coffeebots

We are delighted to present “Never mind the gig work… here’s the Coffebots!” It’s a marionette puppet extravaganza full of robots, coffee, and algorithmic capitalism. A punk rock space opera! Follow o...

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Today is the last day to enter the Zcash Playlist Challenge! Don't miss your chance to win 1 ZEC. Submit your playlist entry today: forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-play...

Zcash Playlist Challenge: 25 Most Important Zcon Presentations

Over the last 8 years, Zcon has produced hundreds of presentations covering privacy, cryptography, governance, community building, engineering, and the history of Zcash. As part of our work on watchz...

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Zcash Shielded News | Vol.27 🔹 Zebra 6.0.0 Brings Ironwood to Mainnet 🔹 LiveZEC Brings Private Donations to Live Streaming 🔹 zcashd Reaches End of Life on July 18 🔹 ZCG Meeting Minutes – July 6, 2026 🔹 Ironwood Formal Verification Targets Undetectable Counterfeiting Risks Link 👇

Damn ❤️🦖 www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...

Sam Neill, known for 'Jurassic Park' and 'The Piano,' dies at 78, his family says

In 2023, Neill disclosed he had been diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Neill died on Monday in Sydney, according to a statement posted to the acto...

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Te esperamos mañana en #Zcash 360.º para escuchar a @gordonestv.bsky.social, @edicksonjga.bsky.social y @yoditar.bsky.social con las actualizaciones y noticias de Zcash. ¡Activa tu recordatorio! ⏰ www.youtube.com/@zcashesp/st...