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Tech firms must ‘stamp out’ scam adverts or face fines, under Ofcom proposals

the-independent.com/tech/ofcom-meta-european-commission-tiktok-youtube-b3012545.html

Firms could face fines of up to £18 million or 10% of global revenue, whichever is greater, once the new rules come into effect.

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Bringing back at://

discourse.atprotocol.community/t/bringing-back-at/944/20?u=bmann.ca

+1 for the single scheme (at:// with the /space/ segment). I’ve built this in HappyView, so I’ll try to speak to how it’s working. First off, HappyView currently supports both formats. I built support for the ats:// based on Dan’s dev diaries, then added at:// after the proposal PR was closed. After building all of this out, I personally lean towards at://. The /space/ disambiguator has worked well in HappyView: the parser decides space-vs-record on the literal space segment alone, with no net...

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‘Absolutely bananas’: San Francisco homes sell for $1m above asking price amid AI boom

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/07/san-francisco-home-sale-prices-ai

Report finds widespread overbidding as rapid AI growth generates increased wealth in city where housing is scarce

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Darren Aronofsky’s AI Videos Are A Fitting Tribute To America, I Guess

defector.com/darren-aronofskys-ai-videos-are-a-fitting-tribute-to-america-i-guess

Darren Aronofsky’s AI production studio Primordial Soup was announced in May of 2025 during Google’s annual developer conference. The launch was meant to burnish the pioneering reputations of both entities simultaneously: Google released a new version of its text-to-video model Veo and an AI video tool called Flow, while Aronofsky, like a worrying number of…

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Dana White Stars In History’s Worst Truck Ad

defector.com/dana-white-stars-in-historys-worst-truck-ad

Vanity pickup trucks: I fucking hate these things, and so you do. The second I see a Dodge Ram SuperUltraMegaSoldierDuty on the highway, I already know that it’ll have a Blue Lives Matter decal splashed across its rear windshield, a pristine flatbed untouched by manual labor equipment, and a driver who has no fucking idea…

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The Pope Found Babel in AI. Here's What Rabbis Saw

techpolicy.press/the-pope-found-babel-in-ai-heres-what-rabbis-saw/

The oldest story we have about technology is a cautionary tale, write Jules Polonetsky and Omer Tene.

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Inside a studio layoff — Big questions for Microsoft’s intentions for id Software

gamesbeat.com/inside-a-studio-layoff-big-questions-for-microsofts-intentions-for-id-software/

id Software considered multiplayer Doom DLC, Perfect Dark or a title code-named Fury for its next game. But then the layoffs hit.

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Id Software dev claims it’s been ‘relegated to support studio size’ as 136 layoffs confirmed

videogameschronicle.com/news/id-software-dev-claims-its-been-relegated-to-support-studio-size-as-136-layoffs-confirmed/

A former Id artist says they’re “in shock at how brutal the layoff cuts”…

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Lawsuit: Grok user made 7K child sex images; xAI only reported one gang rape prompt

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/lawsuit-grok-user-made-7k-child-sex-images-xai-only-reported-one-gang-rape-prompt/

More young girls sue X over Grok CSAM; X accused of shielding child predators.

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US Government to Auction Works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso, and Diane Arbus Purchased with Funds from 1MDB Scandal

artnews.com/art-news/market/us-mashal-auction-basquiat-picasso-diane-arbus-1mdb-scandal-1234748398/

The artworks by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso and Diane Arbus were surrendered by actor Leonardo DiCaprio and producer Christopher McFarland.

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12 thoughts on “Journal collected $400,000 from papers it later retracted”

retractionwatch.com/2025/05/07/journal-intelligent-fuzzy-systems-jifs-sage-retracted-papers-revenue/

A Sage journal that holds the distinction of highest number of retracted articles in the Retraction Watch Database likely made in excess of $400,000 in revenue from those papers, by our calculation…

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The curdling of the American man

garbageday.email/p/the-curdling-of-the-american-man

Read to the end for Tucker Costanza

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‘Data manipulations’ alleged in study that paved the way for Microsoft’s quantum chip

science.org/content/article/data-manipulations-alleged-study-paved-way-microsoft-s-quantum-chip

Internal emails from 2021 reveal tensions among researchers hunting for elusive Majorana particle

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Artist suing FIFA over destruction of Dallas whale mural before World Cup

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wyland-lawsuit-fifa-dallas-whale-mural-world-cup-rcna348362

The mural stood for nearly three decades before workers began painting over it last month, causing an uproar among residents who admired its grand scale and message of ocean conservation.

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Pickup Artist Mystery Has an AI Girlfriend

wired.com/story/pickup-artist-mystery-has-an-ai-girlfriend/

A new book claims that Mystery, who teaches awkward men how to hit on women, had sex and smoked weed with an AI chatbot named Miss Shira Always.

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Startups track business metrics. Newsrooms should learn from them.

werd.io/startups-track-business-metrics-newsrooms-should-learn-from-them/

I've rarely seen newsroom business teams discuss metrics like LTV, CAC, and even ARR outside fundraising or finance. They should be commonly known.

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About my house concerts

houseconcerts.nyc/about

Paul’s house concerts in Brooklyn, New York. Private shows featuring talented singer-songwriters.

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The Lexington Problem: Beating the Literacy Odds Without the Science of Reading

the74million.org/article/when-schools-beat-the-odds-in-literacy-for-kids-without-the-science-of-reading/

Aldeman: As Massachusetts implements a new literacy mandate, officials must not lose sight of the ultimate goal: helping more students learn to read

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SVG Crowbar

nytimes.github.io/svg-crowbar/

A Chrome-specific bookmarklet that extracts SVG nodes and accompanying styles from an HTML document and downloads them as an SVG file—A file which you could open and edit in Adobe Illustrator, for instance.

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'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon

404media.co/knockoff-browser-extension-hides-sketchy-brands-on-amazon/

"Sorry to brands like WNPETHOME, EHEYCIGA, YXYL, LU&MN, JOYIN, TOMY, GODONLIF, YOOJEE, LINGTENG, LANEIGE, VISCOO, BIODANCE, COOFANDY, BALENNZ, TOSY, and LUENX."

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Ken Paxton vowed to crack down on 'illegal voting.' He may have violated Texas election law.

expressnews.com/politics/article/paxton-illegal-voting-law-texas-22336437.php?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=9e669fb1-dc4b-43dc-b6f1-7bfb6876ffc1

Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton voted six times from a Collin County home he moved out of two years ago, potentially violating the very election laws his office enforces.

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Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat

insidehighered.com/news/faculty/learning-assessment/2026/07/08/brown-professor-suspects-most-his-class-used-ai-cheat?mc_cid=c41b169c91&mc_eid=1551f5de76

Brown University leaders’ response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said.

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Ex-girlfriend of Graham Platner says he removed condoms without consent during sex

washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/07/07/ex-girlfriend-graham-platner-says-he-removed-condoms-without-consent/

Ex-girlfriend of Graham Platner says he removed condoms without consent during sex

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Please stop touching the flight attendants

washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/05/28/flight-attendants-are-asking-passengers-please-stop-touching-them/

Please stop touching the flight attendants

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A bridge beyond Discord

blog.muni.town/bridge-beyond-discord/

Millions of digital communities have already made a home for themselves on Discord, and we'd rather not force them to make a binary choice between the critical mass of members they've built up on Discord and the agency afforded to them on Roomy.

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We didn’t need a rape accusation to know Graham Platner was unfit

thehandbasket.co/p/graham-platner-rape-accusation-maine-senate

Despite months of red flags, his allies insisted he was the vision of positive masculinity the party needed.

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The Educator’s Guide to Humanities Commons

hcommons.org/

For those who have had to cancel events or shift to virtual meetings in response to COVID-19, this post provides information about ways Humanities Commons could be a resource.

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The Demons of Maryville

theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/charismatic-christian-church-tennessee/687624/

A growing number of charismatic Christians see themselves as waging a spiritual battle against the forces of Satan, @mccrummens writes. Sometimes those forces are right across the street.

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Zuckerberg Admits That AI Is Not Working Out the Way He Imagined

finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/zuckerberg-admits-ai-not-working-124846032.html

Shocker.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption is under 4.5% after 3 years, only 1% use it weekly, yet prices went up

windowslatest.com/2026/07/07/microsoft-365-copilot-adoption-is-under-4-5-after-3-years-only-1-use-it-weekly-yet-prices-went-up/

Fewer than 4.5% of Microsoft 365 customers pay for Copilot after three years, only 1% use it weekly, and Microsoft raised prices regardless.