Inside the Matrix: How models, influencers and engagement quotas power the Social Discovery Group’s dating machine and global profits

The 4th Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required

I Regret Migrating to Codeberg

Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

EU fines Google €890m for competition breaches over search and apps

Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

‘This is AI out of control’: Claude disobeyed Anthropic CEO in simulations

Microsoft strikes 'multibillion-dollar' deal with French AI firm Mistral for AI compute

Flock Blames Bad Data While Blowing Past Every Guardrail— Two journalists were stopped over a partial plate in an NCIC hotlist. Flock calls it a feature; the NCIC operating manual calls it a violation

Researchers Detail How AI Systems Can Enable Authoritarianism

New Orleans Police Posted a Policy Allowing Weaponized Drones – Then Deleted It After The Backlash

Google erasing immigrants’ accounts of experiences in ICE facilities /// Vanished review of Mississippi ICE facility raises questions about who controls public records of immigrant detention

Airbus moves critical apps off AWS to a French cloud

European Commission fines AliExpress €550 Million for the sale of illegal, unsafe or counterfeit products on its e-commerce platform.

Autonomous AI Agent Hacked Hugging Face. Strict US Safety Guardrails Forced them to Use a Chinese LLM to Catch It—Expensive, Proprietary US Models Were No Help To Defenders, and Free Chinese Ones Were

France orders internet providers to block access to Polymarket prediction site

The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired

How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use? /// Less than 2% of global electricity, but demand is very geographically concentrated.

‘Phantom Twist’: US team designs drone that spins to achieve near-invisibility

Victoria proposes forcing social media platforms to unmask anonymous accounts accused of vilification: “These reforms will help victims of online hate find out who’s really behind the keyboard.”