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MSC Cruises is the latest one to ban smart glasses and this may be becoming more and more of a problem for people using them.

Over the past four years, I’ve significantly reduced my social media footprint. There are countless reasons for this, all of which are beyond the scope of this article, but the point I want to make is this: despite my growing apathy and downright hostility towards social platforms, I’ve found YouTube to be an oasis of sorts.

After decades of research and development, humanity finally has a data storage medium that will outlast us.

It’s wild just how much they’re trying to shove AI down our throats.

In a small room in San Diego last week, a man in a black leather jacket explained to me how to save the world from destruction by AI. Max Tegmark, a notable figure in the AI-safety movement, believes that “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI, could precipitate the end of human life. I was in town for NeurIPS, one of the largest AI-research conferences, and Tegmark had invited me, along with five other journalists, to a briefing on an AI-safety index that he would release the next day. No company scored better than a C+.

A new analysis using twelve months of COTSI data, published in the journal Science, shows that verifying fake accounts for use in the US and UK is almost as cheap as in Russia, while Japan and Australia have high prices due to SIM costs and photo ID rules.  

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255335

Chi sono stati i protagonisti della scienza nel 2025? Come tradizione, ce lo dice Nature, con il suo decalogo di personalità che hanno contribuito alle conquiste scientifiche più significative dell’anno. Parliamo di ricercatori che hanno esplorato nuove frontiere, aperto le porte a nuove terapie per malattie rare e gravissime, difeso la salute pubblica e l’integrità della ricerca scientifica. E che per questo, sono entrati di diritto tra le 10 persone che hanno segnato la scienza nel 2025 secondo Nature.

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/13181

[…]How have the copywriters been faring, in a world awash in cheap AI text generators and wracked with AI adoption mania in executive circles? As always, we turn to the workers themselves. And once again, the stories they have to tell are unhappy ones. These are accounts of gutted departments, dried up work, lost jobs, and closed businesses. I’ve heard from copywriters who now fear losing their apartments, one who turned to sex work, and others, who, to their chagrin, have been forced to use AI themselves.

Inside a makeshift tent in the heart of the besieged Gaza Strip, Israel’s genocidal war, which has destroyed neighbourhoods, schools and hospitals, decimated families and shattered lives for more than two years, no longer exists.

Companies tend to be rather picky about who gets to poke around inside their products. Manufacturers sometimes even take steps that prevent consumers from repairing their device when it breaks, or modifying it with third-party products.

For years, the metaverse has been discussed through the lenses of virtual reality, gaming, crypto-economics, and digital identity. Yet beneath all these layers lies a critical component that rarely makes headlines: the linguistic infrastructure required to make immersive worlds truly global. A metaverse that cannot be understood, accessed, or used by millions of non-English speakers cannot scale — technologically or economically.

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Self-hosting anything that is deemed “content” openly on the web in 2025 is a battle of attrition between you and forces who are able to buy tens of thousands of proxies to ruin your service for data they can resell.

My go to music player for my phone, dusted off and made new again.

to shake down everyone else for licenses

Dozens of government websites have fallen victim to a PDF-based SEO scam, while others have been hijacked to sell sex toys.

Doordash announcement.