The amount of AI slop and brainrot videos on YouTube is shocking

A new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube's feed may consist of AI slop

2 months / ycombinator

AI Slop Takes Over YouTube

2 months / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds

2 months / reddit / /u/esporx

More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds

2 months / reddit / /u/aldentim239

Worn Down by Worry, Parents Look Longingly at Australia’s Social Media Ban

Adam Satariano and Lynsey Chutel / nytimes - After the country barred children under 16 from using social media, many parents have been asking whether similarly tough action is needed in their own countries.

#government #governance #internet #privacy #australia #technology #safety #digitalprivacy #regulation

Worn Down by Worry, Parents Look Longingly at Australia’s Social Media Ban

2 months / reddit / /u/nosotros_road_sodium

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill requiring social media platforms to show warning labels to younger users before they’re exposed to features such as autoplay and infinite scrolling.

NY Governor Hochul signs bill requiring warning labels on ‘addictive’ social media

2 months / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

Classroom Phone Bans Work. So Why Don’t All Schools Do It?

2 months / wsj / Julie Jargon

Worn Down by Worry, Parents Look Longingly at Australia’s Social Media Ban

2 months / nytimes / nytimes.com

Worn Down by Worry, Parents Look Longingly at Australia’s Social Media Ban

2 months / nytimes / Adam Satariano and Lynsey Chutel

New York To Require Social Media Platforms To Display Mental Health Warnings

2 months / slashdot / msmash

Google will finally allow you to change your @gmail.com address

Mayank Parmar / bleepingcomputer - Google will finally allow you to change your @gmail address or create a new alias, according to a new support document. [...]

#software #google #alphabet #internet #apps #privacy #ux #technology

Google planning update that will allow users to change their embarrassing old email addresses

2 months / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Good news for anyone tired of or embarrassed by their current Gmail address.

You may soon be able to change your Gmail address

2 months / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

Gmail to Let Users Change Their Addresses While Keeping Data

2 months / nytimes / nytimes.com

Gmail to Let Users Change Their Addresses While Keeping Data

2 months / nytimes / Adeel Hassan

Google is making it easier to change your Gmail address

2 months / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Google to Allow Users to Change Gmail Address Without Losing Data

2 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Gmail May Soon Let Users Change Their Email Address

2 months / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Google will finally let you change your embarrassing Gmail address

2 months / fastcompany / Sarah Fielding

You may soon be able to change your Gmail address

2 months / engadget / Will Shanklin

Google May Finally Let Users Change Embarrassing Old Gmail Addresses

2 months / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

Google is letting some people change their @gmail address

2 months / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

Google is finally letting you change that embarrassing old Gmail address

2 months / techspot

Gmail Will Finally Let You Change Your Email Address

2 months / iphoneincanada / Nehal Malik

Google is rolling out a new feature allowing users to change their Gmail address

2 months / reddit / /u/jd5547561

Google to Finally Allow Gmail Address Changes, Ending a 20-Year Restriction

Google is rolling out a new feature allowing users to change their Gmail address

2 months / cnbc

Gmail Users May Soon Be Able To Change Their Email Address and Keep the Old One

2 months / slashdot / msmash

Google is allowing users to change their Gmail address, per official Google support doc — experimental gmail feature rolling out in India first, no official announcement yet

2 months / reddit / /u/ControlCAD

Google might let you adjust the name of your Gmail address, at last

2 months / digitaltrends

Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address

2 months / ycombinator

Google is allowing users to change their Gmail address, per official Google support doc — experimental @gmail feature rolling out in India first, no official announcement yet

2 months / tomshardware

Google will finally allow you to change your @gmail.com address

2 months / bleepingcomputer / Mayank Parmar

Google May Soon Let You Change That Old, Silly Gmail Address

2 months / bgr

Gmail to allow name changes while keeping old emails as aliases

2 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

No, It’s Not Just You – Steam Is Currently Down, Website and Store Pages Offline [Update]

David Carcasole / wccftech - Update 24/12/2025 3:36 pm EST - The Steam store and website are back online. Altogether, the store was only offline for a little over an hour. You can go back to redeeming those gift cards and squeezing every cent out of them during the Winter Sale. That …

#cloud #software #gaming #techsupport #internet #technology #steam #bugs

AWS outage disrupts Fortnite and Steam

2 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Steam Store is offline

2 months / ycombinator

No, It’s Not Just You – Steam Is Currently Down, Website and Store Pages Offline [Update]

2 months / wccftech / David Carcasole

Steam and Valve's online games are down

2 months / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

The ‘60 Minutes’ Report on CECOT That Bari Weiss Censored Is Now Internet Contraband

John Gruber / theverge - Elizabeth Lopatto, writing at The Verge: 60 Minutes had already begun promoting the now-censored segmentonline. Because it was pulled so late, it seems that CBS missed atleast one platform for distribution: Canada’s Global TV. Somepeople used a VPN to wat…

#internet #media #censorship #broadcasting #digitalprivacy

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Flock Executive Says Their Camera Helped Find Shooting Suspect, Addresses Privacy Concerns

EditorDavid / slashdot - During a search for the Brown shoogin suspect, a law enforcement press conference included a request for "Ring camera footage from residents and businesses near Brown University," according to local news reports. But in the end it was Flock cameras accord…

#cybersecurity #dataprivacy #internet #camera #privacy #police #law #technology #digitalprivacy

The CEO of Flock downloads on his surveillance cameras

2 months / politico / By Aaron Mak

At some point #Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is going to have to admit that Flock is not a good actor and the city is putting its residents at risk. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

2 months / bsky / @aweiss.bsky.social / aweiss.bsky.social

404 Media: Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/ #privacy #AI #surveillance #bigbrother #dystopia

2 months / bsky / @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy / ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy

Benn Jordan – This Flock Camera Leak Is Like Netflix for Stalkers [video]

2 months / ycombinator

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

2 months / 404media / Jason Koebler

School security industry may be booming, but little is helping to stop shootings

2 months / fastcompany / The Conversation

Flock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize "Cybercrime" Takedowns to Silence Critics

2 months / ycombinator

Flock Executive Says Their Camera Helped Find Shooting Suspect, Addresses Privacy Concerns

2 months / slashdot / EditorDavid

Influencers play detective — and unleash chaos

2 months / axios / Zachary Basu

F.C.C. Chair Says Agency ‘Isn’t Independent,’ Breaking From Tradition

Cecilia Kang / nytimes - The comment from Brendan Carr, a Republican, raised concerns from lawmakers about how President Trump might use the agency.

#techpolicy #politics #government #broadband #internet #law #telecommunications #fcc #digitalprivacy #regulation

FCC chair scrubs website after learning it called FCC an “independent agency”

2 months / reddit / /u/mepper

Brendan Carr doesn’t regret his threats to broadcasters

2 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

2 months / theverge / Lauren Feiner

FCC chair scrubs website after learning it called FCC an “independent agency”

2 months / arstechnica / Jon Brodkin

F.C.C. Chair Says Agency ‘Isn’t Independent,’ Breaking From Tradition

2 months / nytimes / nytimes.com

F.C.C. Chair Says Agency ‘Isn’t Independent,’ Breaking From Tradition

2 months / nytimes / Cecilia Kang

FCC Updates Website in Real-Time to Reflect Brendan Carr's Testimony That the Agency Is Not Independent

2 months / reddit / /u/MarvelsGrantMan136

FCC Chair Suggests Agency Isn't Independent, Word Cut From Mission Statement

2 months / slashdot / msmash

FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement

2 months / ycombinator

FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement

2 months / axios / Sara Fischer

Hacking group says it’s extorting Pornhub after stealing users’ viewing data

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / techcrunch - The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters hacking collective stole Pornhub premium users’ data, including email addresses and viewing history.

#cybersecurity #dataprivacy #internet #cybercrime #security #scam #privacy

PornHub Breached by ShinyHunters Group and Premium Members Data Stolen

2 months / reddit / /u/No_Cheetah_8863

Analytics provider: We didn't expose smut site data to crims

2 months / theregister / Jessica Lyons

The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters hacking collective stole Pornhub premium users’ data, including email addresses and viewing history.

PornHub extorted after ShinyHunters hackers steal the search and watch history of its Premium member activity data

2 months / reddit / /u/ControlCAD

Hacking group says it’s extorting Pornhub after stealing users’ viewing data

2 months / techcrunch / Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

PornHub Premium hacked. This is the info they reportedly stole.

2 months / mashable

Hackers have stolen Pornhub members' search and activity data

2 months / techspot

PornHub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data

2 months / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467

UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones

Jon Brodkin / arstechnica - Government seeks "nudity-detection algorithms" in iOS and Android, report says.

#apple #google #government #uk #internet #privacy #censorship #contentmoderation #smartphone #regulation

UK Demands Apple and Google Implement OS-Level Nudity Blocking and Age Verification

UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones What if you have a medical problem and want to share an image with a Doctor for diagnosis - banned too arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

2 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

2 months / bsky / @ecowarriorss.bsky.social / ecowarriorss.bsky.social

The UK Wants Apple to Play Nanny on Nude Photos

2 months / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones

2 months / arstechnica / Jon Brodkin

UK Wants Apple to Implement System-Wide Nudity Blocking by Default

2 months / iclarified

Apple, Google will be asked to block nude images until age is verified in the UK, report reveals

2 months / mashable

UK Wants All iPhones to Block Explicit Images Unless You Prove Age

2 months / reddit / /u/quiplaam

Google is Discontinuing its Dark Web Monitoring Tool

Laurent Giret / thurrott - Google is discontinuing its free dark web monitoring tool that warns users when their personal information is circulating on the dark web.The post Google is Discontinuing its Dark Web Monitoring Tool appeared first on Thurrott.com.

#cybersecurity #dataprivacy #infosec #cloudsec #google #internet #security #privacy #technology

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Detailed shutdown timelines reveal upcoming service end

Google is retiring its free dark web monitoring tool next year

2 months / engadget / Mariella Moon

Google is shutting down its dark web report feature in January

2 months / bleepingcomputer / Mayank Parmar

Google Is Shutting Down Dark Web Reports — Here’s When

2 months / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

Google’s ‘dark web report’ feature will no longer be available starting in February

2 months / techcrunch / Lauren Forristal

General reports confirm tool shutdown and service discontinuation

Google is discontinuing its dark web report security tool

2 months / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Google will end dark web reports that alerted users to leaked data | Google says the reports lacked “helpful next steps.”

2 months / reddit / /u/ControlCAD

Google to shut down dark web monitoring service

2 months / mobilesyrup / Bradly Shankar

Google discontinuing their dark web report

2 months / ycombinator

Google is Discontinuing its Dark Web Monitoring Tool

2 months / thurrott / Laurent Giret

User feedback cites lack of actionable steps

Google Kills ‘Dark Web Report’ Tool, Citing Lack of Actionable Utility

Google ends dark web monitoring due to poor feedback

2 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Google will end dark web reports that alerted users to leaked data

2 months / arstechnica / Ryan Whitwam

Google To Retire 'Dark Web Report' Tool That Scanned for Leaked User Data

2 months / slashdot / msmash

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Google has revealed that its “dark web report” feature will be discontinued starting February 16, 2026. Launched initially about a year and a half ago,

Cloudera and Nvidia bet on co-design to make enterprise AI work at scale

2 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

How ‘slop’ became the defining word of 2025

Grace Snelling / fastcompany - It’s official: 2025 was the year of slop.Merriam-Webster just announced in a post that its “human editors” have chosen “slop” as the 2025 Word of the Year.The dictionary’s official definition of the word is “digital content of low quality that is produced…

#digitalmarketing #internet #culture #tiktok #ux #media #technology

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Enterprise AI implementation insights

2 months / siliconangle / Ryan Stevens

Merriam-Webster's Slop Word coverage

'Slop' is the word of the year. What to do about AI taking over your feeds

2 months / qz / Shannon Carroll

Merriam-Webster declares 'slop' its word of the year in nod to growth of AI

2 months / cnbc

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content

2 months / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year Is 'Slop'

2 months / slashdot / BeauHD

Merriam-Webster names "slop" the word of the year, and boy was 2025 sloppy

2 months / mashable

Merriam-Webster names ‘slop’ the word of the year

2 months / techcrunch / Lucas Ropek

'Slop' Is Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year as AI Content Floods the Internet

2 months / cnet / Macy Meyer

Merriam-Webster Declares 'Slop' the Word of the Year as AI Eats the Web

2 months / decrypt / Josh Quittner

How ‘slop’ became the defining word of 2025

2 months / fastcompany / Grace Snelling

This AI pervasive side effect is Merriam-Webster's word of the year

2 months / axios / Avery Lotz

'Slop' is Merriam-Webster's word of the year

2 months / engadget / Andre Revilla

2025 Word of the Year: Slop

2 months / simonwillison / Simon Willison

‘Rage bait’, ‘6-7’ and ‘AI slop’: Why the words of the year show us the internet is in a death spiral

2 months / reddit / /u/BreakfastTop6899

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is ‘slop’

2 months / theverge / Emma Roth

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#cybersecurity #techpolicy #internet #apps #reddit #privacy #technology #contentmoderation #digitalid

2 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

Reddit is testing verification

Jay Peters / theverge - Reddit is starting to test verified profiles, the company announced today. Users who are verified as part of this "limited alpha test" will have a gray checkmark next to their username "across profiles, communities, feeds, post detail pages, and search re…

Verified users will actually be notable figures, not just people who paid for the checkmark.

Reddit is testing verification

2 months / theverge / Jay Peters

Reddit is testing verification badges

2 months / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

Reddit is starting to verify public figures

2 months / engadget / Karissa Bell

Australia social media ban: 1 million teen accounts vanish overnight

news.com.au - Potentially up to a million Australian social media accounts have vanished from platforms like X and TikTok – and it’s causing waves globally.

#government #internet #apps #australia #contentmoderation #safety #digitalprivacy #regulation

Global policy watchers and political leaders scrutinize ban. (3)
Platforms enforce ban with cutting-edge age verification. (8)
Teens and families facing abrupt social media shutdown impacts. (15)

Global policy watchers and political leaders scrutinize ban.

Australia is trying to enforce the first teen social media ban. Governments worldwide are watching.

2 months / cnbc

Britain distances itself from Australia’s social media ban for kids

2 months / politico / Tom Bristow

Aussie ban ‘biggest cultural change’: PM

2 months / news.com.au

Platforms enforce ban with cutting-edge age verification.

Australia bans under-16s from social media in world-first crackdown

2 months / techxplore

Social media ban for children under 16 starts in Australia

2 months / go

Kids locked out of social media apps after Australia's world-first ban

2 months / bbc

Australia Has Banned Social Media for Kids Under 16. How Does It Work?

2 months / bloomberg / Angus WhitleyNewley Purnell

Reddit Cranks Up Safety Rules to Meet — and Beat — Australia's Law

2 months / cnet / Alex Valdes

What's my age again? The tech behind Australia's social media ban

2 months / techxplore

Australia boots kids under 16 off social media: how platforms are responding

2 months / theverge / Emma Roth

Reddit Debuts New Teen Safety Tools Amid Australia Ban

2 months / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Teens and families facing abrupt social media shutdown impacts.

Social-Media Ban Imposes Brave New World on Australian Teens

2 months / wsj / Rhiannon Hoyle

Kids and Teen Influencers in Australia Say ‘Bye-Bye’ to Social Media

2 months / wired / Charley Locke

Hidden catch in kids’ attempt to avoid ban

2 months / news.com.au

Watch Australian teens test out social media on first day of ban

2 months / bbc

Mum’s touching tribute as teen ban kicks in

2 months / news.com.au

Warning to Aussie teens as ban begins

2 months / news.com.au

Alternative Social Media Apps Surge as Australia Teen Ban Starts

2 months / bloomberg / Nasteho Said

Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it'll really work

2 months / theregister / Simon Sharwood

Australia’s social media ban goes into effect Wednesday

2 months / fastcompany / Chris Morris

Millions of Australian Teens Lose Access To Social Media As Ban Takes Effect

2 months / slashdot / BeauHD

Millions of teens booted from social media

2 months / news.com.au

Millions of teens booted from social media

2 months / news.com.au

Australia just turned kids into lurkers

2 months / politico / By Aaron Mak

Australia social media ban: 1 million teen accounts vanish overnight

2 months / news.com.au

Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins

2 months / reddit / /u/Expensive-Horse5538

Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Trading On Groww, Zerodha, Angel One

Lokesh Choudhary / inc42 - Several Indian broking platforms, including Zerodha, Angel One, Groww and Upstox, went offline during the trading hours today, as internet…

#cloud #software #saas #infosec #stockmarket #internet #technology #cloudflare

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Breaking: Immediate Outage Reports

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

3 months / ycombinator

Fresh Cloudflare global outage hits LinkedIn, Zoom and more

3 months / siliconrepublic / Colin Ryan

Cloudflare Outage Affects Major Websites

3 months / datamation / Datamation Staff

Yep, Cloudflare died again. Heres what happened.

3 months / mashable

Cloudflare down, websites offline with 500 Internal Server Error

3 months / bleepingcomputer / Mayank Parmar

Cloudflare is down again: 500 Internal Server Error

3 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Cloudflare down again??

3 months / reddit / /u/Ragemonster0000

Cloudflare Is Down

3 months / ycombinator

Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn?

3 months / ycombinator

Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

3 months / ycombinator

Cloudflare is down

3 months / ycombinator

Investigations: Probing Outage Causes and Patches

Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked fix for React2shell vuln

3 months / theregister / Jessica Lyons

Cloudflare blames today's outage on emergency React2Shell patch

3 months / bleepingcomputer / Sergiu Gatlan

Cloudflare outage: Tougher scrutiny called for amid latest disruption

3 months / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

Cloudflare investigates outage that brought down sites including Zoom and LinkedIn

3 months / go

Cloudflare outage highlights enterprise infrastructure dependence

3 months / telecomstechnews / Ryan Daws

Cloudflare suffers second outage in as many months during routine maintenance

3 months / theregister / Richard Speed

Market Impact: Trading, Stocks, and Competitor Moves

Cloudflare (NET) Stock Recovers After Brief Outage Affects Coinbase, Zoom, and DoorDash

3 months / parameter / Trader Edge

After the crash: Top Cloudflare competitors for 2025

3 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Trading On Groww, Zerodha, Angel One

3 months / inc42 / Lokesh Choudhary

Updates: Resolution & Recovery Efforts

Cloudflare Resolves Morning Outage, Services Back Online

3 months / cnet / Ty Pendlebury

Cloudflare Says It Resolved Services Issues Caused by Software Update

3 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

CloudFlare Says It Fixed Outage That Slowed Banking Sites, Zoom

3 months / bloomberg / Rose Henderson

Global websites back online as Cloudflare issues fix for dashboard issue

3 months / cnbc

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“Cloudflare’s latest outage is another reminder that much of the internet runs through just a few hands.” #cloudflare #enterpriseit #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity #tech #news #technology

3 months / bsky / @gadgetry.bsky.social / gadgetry.bsky.social

Cloudflare is down, as websites are crashing with a 500 Internal Server Error.

3 months / bsky / @bleepingcomputer.com / bleepingcomputer.com

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3 months / bsky / @snipe.lol / snipe.lol

This explains it... #Cloudflare #CloudflareDown www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technol...

3 months / bsky / @james.barisic.fr / james.barisic.fr