Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness' (www.wired.com)
Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com (www.windowslatest.com)
Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old (www.wired.com)
Elon Musk announces changes as 'too much negativity' being pushed on X (www.newsweek.com)
Dell kills the XPS brand (www.theverge.com)
Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot (futurism.com)
US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies (www.theregister.com)
Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% (www.pv-magazine.com)
Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub (arstechnica.com)
Meta eliminates third-party fact checking program, moves to 'Community Notes' model (www.cnbc.com)
AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives (arstechnica.com)
Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users [Financial Times] (archive.fo)
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Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X (www.nbcnews.com)
Meta slammed for 'disturbing' AI profiles, including a fake Black queer mother (www.advocate.com)
Russia admits its homegrown consoles can't match the PS5 or Xbox Series (www.techspot.com)
OpenAI announces plan to transform into a for-profit company (www.theverge.com)
I missed out on 3D movies, but they're back in VR (www.spacebar.news)
Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit (www.theregister.com)
Man who exploded Tesla Cybertruck outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI, police say (apnews.com)
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No Frills PCB Brings USB-C Power To The Breadboard (hackaday.com)
Dana White, John Elkann and Charlie Songhurst to Join Meta Board of Directors | Meta (about.fb.com)
LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series (9to5google.com)
Telegram reports spike in sharing user data with law enforcement | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Spike is seen after arrest of telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France in august