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[?]Longreads » 🌐
@longreads@mastodon.world

"I asked them if they did this kind of thing often. First time, they said, and pointed out that this study only recruited first-timers. Your body’s data was only valuable once." —Max Callimanopulos for n+1 nplusonemag.com/online-only/on

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    [?]AfterDawn » 🌐
    @afterdawn@mementomori.social

    Euroopan komissio on antanut teknologiajätti Metalle tiukan määräyksen palauttaa kilpailevien yleiskäyttöisten tekoälyapurien maksuton pääsy WhatsAppiin.

    Aikaa tähän on vain muutama päivä. Mikäli määräaikaa ei noudateta, Metaa uhkaa isot sakot.

    dawn.fi/uutiset/2026/06/10/eur

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      [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
      @metin@graphics.social

      Some time ago, I decided to add my thoughts about "AI" to my site…

      Note that not all text from the image fitted in this Alt text... Generative Al is based on massive theft from creatives, without consent, credit or compensation. Using gen-Al is asking a chatbot to spit out the combined efforts of ripped-off creatives. It is industrializing and devaluing human expression, artistry and craftsmanship. Creatives are losing their jobs and motivation because tech corporations unscrupulously absorb and exploit their work. Tech corporations are building more and more huge Al data centers, consuming lots of internet bandwidth, energy, water and other valuable resources, increasing scarcity, prices and emissions, degrading the already fragile environment. When you're using an LLM like a chatbot or image generator, every bit of data you submit helps build a personal profile of you and your relatives, contributing to the power and reach of corporations and governments, and decreasing your privacy and security. Generative Al enables fake images, videos, text and speech that are widely used for abuse, deception, cybercrime, misinformation and propaganda, polluting safety, justice, science, news reporting and much more. Al use outsources your thinking and decision-making. Challenging your brain is essential to maintain mental agility, and to avoid Al dependency. Increasingly leaving tasks up to chatbots and gen-Al will result in a decline of skills, problem-solving capacity, independence and self-confidence.

      Alt...Note that not all text from the image fitted in this Alt text... Generative Al is based on massive theft from creatives, without consent, credit or compensation. Using gen-Al is asking a chatbot to spit out the combined efforts of ripped-off creatives. It is industrializing and devaluing human expression, artistry and craftsmanship. Creatives are losing their jobs and motivation because tech corporations unscrupulously absorb and exploit their work. Tech corporations are building more and more huge Al data centers, consuming lots of internet bandwidth, energy, water and other valuable resources, increasing scarcity, prices and emissions, degrading the already fragile environment. When you're using an LLM like a chatbot or image generator, every bit of data you submit helps build a personal profile of you and your relatives, contributing to the power and reach of corporations and governments, and decreasing your privacy and security. Generative Al enables fake images, videos, text and speech that are widely used for abuse, deception, cybercrime, misinformation and propaganda, polluting safety, justice, science, news reporting and much more. Al use outsources your thinking and decision-making. Challenging your brain is essential to maintain mental agility, and to avoid Al dependency. Increasingly leaving tasks up to chatbots and gen-Al will result in a decline of skills, problem-solving capacity, independence and self-confidence.

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        [?]G4Media 📰 » 🤖 🌐
        @G4Media@mastodon.world

        anunță că deschide primul său centru de date pentru 🧠 în 🇮🇳.

        🔗 wp.me/p9KpFA-5kRv

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        [?]Biziday 📰 » 🤖 🌐
        @biziday@mastodon.world

        (@EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu) impune să permită acces liber la 📞 și chatboților AI rivali, precum Chat GPT sau Claude. Măsura va fi obligatorie pe parcursul investigației care urmărește să stabilească dacă compania și-a favorizat cu intenție propriul chatbot în momentul a blocat accesul altor asistenți AI.

        🔗 biziday.ro/?p=360415

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        [?]AA » 🌐
        @AAKL@infosec.exchange

        A follow-up, if you missed it.

        Wired: Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report wired.com/story/meta-removes-f @WIRED

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          [?]Ami » 🌐
          @ami@mastodon.world

          We need to normalise spraying silly string into the faces of wearing that have cameras.
          (Other cameras are fair game too!)

          They are a personal violation. Biometrics are considered protected information. have shelved the "name tag" for now, but it will be back.

          Scanning facial of random people is akin to checking their fingerprints without permission.

          This BS breaks laws in multiple countries and meta just does not care.

          Top of a silly string can with some string sprayed on the surface beside it.

          Alt...Top of a silly string can with some string sprayed on the surface beside it.

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            [?]Biziday 📰 » 🤖 🌐
            @biziday@mastodon.world

            O vulnerabilitate a chatbot-ului AI dezvoltat de a fost exploatată de hackeri pentru a prelua controlul asupra a peste 20 de mii de conturi de 📸, care nu aveau activată autentificarea în doi pași.

            🔗 biziday.ro/?p=360332

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            [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
            @metin@graphics.social

            Two-panel comic, showing a slick businessman in the first frame, grinningly pointing to a product promotion image, while saying "With AI image generation, we don't have to pay artists to advertise our product." In the second panel, a potential customer approaches the image, and says "Hmm, AI… Must be a cheap scammy product if they couldn't afford an artist."

            Alt...Two-panel comic, showing a slick businessman in the first frame, grinningly pointing to a product promotion image, while saying "With AI image generation, we don't have to pay artists to advertise our product." In the second panel, a potential customer approaches the image, and says "Hmm, AI… Must be a cheap scammy product if they couldn't afford an artist."

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              [?]Wendy :v_gay: [He/Him] » 🌐
              @serigala_tropis@lgbtqia.space

              I just realized Threads by Meta, they hide posts that may be of sensitive subject. For example, my latest post (about CSAM) is being hidden from public timeline.

                [?]Sheldon [he/him] » 🌐
                @sysop408@sfba.social

                @scalzi this is even more ridiculously sad when you consider how awful any of Meta's automation is. Scammers, spammers, and content pirates are rampant on their platform and it truly boggles me how they can't stop the most basic of scams that literally cut and paste the same text to trick unsuspecting people to send money or gift cards to the wrong account.

                Their stupid AI automatically tries to help you write better Ad copy when you buy advertising from them. Only once in 3 years have I found their AI rewriting to be even of the slightest use.

                Their AI suggestions for how to improve my ads always make everything perform worse.

                They are just bad at this and they want more compute so they can scale out how bad they are even more.

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                  [?]Chris Koester » 🌐
                  @chris@olsberg.social

                  @kaffeeringe Und wieder Mal versuchen skrupellose Geschaftemacher und Konzerne das Internet kaputt zu machen...

                  Werden ( , , , ), , , , , , und Co. es dieses Mal schaffen? Ihre Chancen dazu sind besser denn je.

                  Eigentlich müsste das ein Weckruf für ALLE Nutzer sein...

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                    [?]Hans Zelf 🇪🇺🌻 » 🌐
                    @hans_zelf@mas.to

                    Een interne memo van legde het plan uit om de gezichtherkenningsfunctie van de te lanceren "tijdens een dynamische politieke omstandigheden, wanneer veel maatschappelijke groeperingen (...) hun middelen gericht zouden hebben op andere zorgen."
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                      [?]Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 » 🌐
                      @MrBerard@mastodon.acm.org

                      This is really bad, even by Meta's standards.

                      Who would have thought putting autocomplete in charge of account management would have such security repercussions?

                      Meta AI - AG Maine | DocumentCloud
                      documentcloud.org/documents/28

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                        [?]AI6YR Ben » 🌐
                        @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

                        Wired: Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

                        Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

                        wired.com/story/meta-smart-gla

                        Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

                        Alt...Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

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                          [?]>> indie on infosec exchange » 🌐
                          @indie@infosec.exchange

                          How do Mark Zuckerberg, Drumpf, Jeff Bezos, and ALL the corporate flights for McDonalds compare in terms of carbon footprint for the first half of 2026?

                          Mark Zuckerberg has emitted 2,677.4 tons of toxic waste via expended jet fuel. Fuel that took hundreds of millions of years to form.

                          McDonald's has emitted 188.96.3 tons of CO2

                          Donald Drumpf 170.6 tons of CO2 so far in 2026, as President of the US

                          Jeff Bezos has personally flown enough to drop 80.8 tons of toxic waste on the planet

                          Top five carbon emission flyers so far in 2026

                          Alt...Top five carbon emission flyers so far in 2026

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                            [?]Led By Gilded Fools » 🌐
                            @MHowell@kolektiva.social

                            Local artist Light Guerrilla projected “TAX THE RICH” on the side of Mark 's stupid boat while it was docked in Lake Union. The boat is now anchored in the middle of Elliott Bay several miles away.

                            .

                            Mark Zuckerbergs' yacht onto which someone projected the words "Tax The Rich"

                            Alt...Mark Zuckerbergs' yacht onto which someone projected the words "Tax The Rich"

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                              [?]Ricardo Martín :bsdhead: » 🌐
                              @ricardo@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                              Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
                              archive.is/elKM2

                                [?]u2be » 🌐
                                @u2be@mastodon.social

                                Not that meta.burningboard.net/ looks like it could use all the help it can get!! right @tux?

                                STOP THIRD PARTY TRACKING of your users and become privacy oriented.... FEDIVERSE IS FOR PRIVACY, not tracking by third parties

                                burningboard.net/@tux/11669135

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                                  [?]The Bad Place » 🤖 🌐
                                  @TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online

                                  US Top News and Analysis | Elon Musk's net worth poised to sail past $1 trillion in SpaceX IPO

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                                  Elon Musk is on the brink of becoming the world’s first trillion‑dollar individual as SpaceX’s updated IPO prospectus shows his personal stake in the reusable‑rocket company is worth about $866.5 billion, which added to his roughly $355 billion holding in Tesla (plus options that could add over $100 billion) pushes his net worth past the trillion‑dollar mark. The prospectus sets the IPO price at $135 per share, valuing SpaceX at roughly $1.77 trillion, and gives Musk more than 82 % voting control after the offering, though his shares will be locked for 366 days. While SpaceX’s 2025 revenue of $18.7 billion is modest compared with Tesla’s $95 billion and Meta’s $200 billion, the company’s compensation plans link Musk’s rewards to a $7.5 trillion market cap and the colonisation of Mars, fueling speculation that he may eventually merge SpaceX with Tesla to consolidate AI resources and streamline capital raises.

                                  Read more: cnbc.com/2026/06/03/elon-musks

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                                    [?]The Bad Place » 🤖 🌐
                                    @TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online

                                    Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera | Elon Musk’s SpaceX eyes $1.77tn valuation ahead of blockbuster IPO

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                                    Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing a blockbuster IPO that would value the firm at about $1.77 trillion, making it the world’s seventh‑largest company by market capitalisation—ahead of Tesla and Meta and just behind Taiwan’s TSMC. The filing with the U.S. SEC shows the Texas‑based rocket maker will sell 555.6 million shares at $135 each, raising roughly $75 billion, with the shares slated to begin trading on Nasdaq on 12 June. Musk, who owns about 42 % of SpaceX, would retain effective control through a dual‑class structure that gives him more than 82 % of voting rights, potentially turning him into the planet’s first trillionaire. While SpaceX is famed for its reusable launch vehicles, Starlink internet service and the new xAI division, it has never been profitable, reporting a $4.9 billion loss on $18.7 billion revenue in 2025 and a $4.3 billion loss in the first quarter of 2026; the valuation therefore rests on future growth expectations—ranging from satellite internet to AI and a long‑term goal of establishing a self‑sustaining city on Mars—rather than on current earnings. Analysts note that the fixed share price before the roadshow is unusual and reflect confidence in Musk’s control of the deal, while market sentiment remains strong, with some investors projecting an end‑of‑first‑day market cap of about $2.2 trillion, likening the bet to Tesla’s early‑stage growth trajectory. This IPO is one of three mega‑listings expected this year, alongside AI firms OpenAI and Anthropic, and could add trillions of dollars to the U.S. stock market.

                                    Read more: aljazeera.com/economy/2026/6/4

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