Fury Over Discord's Age Checks Explodes After Shady Persona Test In UK
BeauHD / slashdot - Backlash intensified against Discord's age verification rollout after it briefly disclosed a UK age-verification test involving vendor Persona, contradicting earlier claims about minimal ID storage and transparency. Ars Technica explains: One of the major…
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Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the cou…
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AMC and Hollywood’s Chinese Theatre are pulling this AI-generated film from theaters after social media outcry over ‘hot garbage’
Jude Cramer / fastcompany - When word started circling that AMC Theaters was screening an AI-generated short film, the internet’s cinephiles took it personally.On Wednesday, some social media users reported that the short was playing in the pre-show before trailers at select AMC loc…
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Zuckerberg Contacted Tim Cook on Teen Safety Amid Meta Trial
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Mark Zuckerberg has testified he reached out to Tim Cook on teen wellbeing as Meta faces a landmark trial alleging its platforms were designed to addict youth.The post Zuckerberg Contacted Tim Cook on Teen Safety Amid Meta Trial appeared first on WinBuzze…
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Google Play used AI to help block 1.75 million bad apps in 2025
Steve Dent / engadget - Google has announced that with the help of AI, it blocked 1.75 million apps that violated its policies in 2025, significantly down from 2.36 million in 2024. The lower numbers this year, it said, are because its "AI-powered, multi-layer protections" are d…
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