NEW: Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has acquired his social media platform X in an all-stock transaction that values the company at $33 billion, including $12 billion worth of debt, the centibillionaire announced Friday.
The Signal chat leak should have triggered resignations, investigations, and hearings with real consequences. Instead, it triggered a shrug. Accountability isn’t eroding in the US, it's already gone. What remains is performance, denial, and power protecting itself.
Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they’re struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses their colleagues and poisons their partnerships.
Social media has created a peer-to-peer information system. Instead of a few major outlets shaping public discourse, we all build our own custom information environments. The result? Fragmented realities, where different groups live in entirely separate versions of the truth.
Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.
If you're UK based and have Nat Geo, Bellingcat's documentary, Murder in The Skies: Who Downed MH17? has further air dates throughout the rest of this month. www.natgeotv.com/uk/shows/nat...
WIRED’s advice columnist considers whether some AI tools are more ethical than others, and if developers can make AI wiser.
A series of mistakes by DOGE shows just how arbitrary and destructive this slash-and-burn strategy can get.
Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.
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It is hardly a secret that there is a worldwide network of (pro-)Russian organisations & supporters of the so-called “Russian world”.
TEXTY used open-source information about Russia’s potential agents & visualised the findings
Here is what we found out: texty.org.ua/projects/108...
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This article has been updated with another Rumble "editor pick" video about the chemtrails conspiracy theory.
"[The report] should shame YouTube into action, but all evidence suggests they are shameless. Lawmakers must act instead before any more families suffer the tragic toll of Big Tech’s calculated callousness.”
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A spam mode was activated, generating Russian versions and interpretations to fill the information space as much as possible after the attack on "Ohmatdyt"
Below are 11 universal theses that Russian propaganda spreads after every loud shelling of civilian objects.⬇️
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This festive season I’m sharing a video every day for the next 24 days showing useful OSINT tools & techniques. Creating this OSINT Advent Series has been a lot of fun and I hope it’s helpful for the ever-growing OSINT community! 🎄👇
7. How to use freely available facial recognition tools to search for someone's face across social media platforms and the internet.
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“You have an army of well-trained, brilliant people who sit there all day long, charging $1,000 an hour, thinking up ways to beat this tax…”
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AI is a double-edged sword: it has the potential to change our lives but, without proper regulation, can also amplify biases, hate & misinformation.
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Google’s “Trust me bro” ad strategy continues. Even against their guidelines, Google keeps allowing deepfake scams to circulate as adverts.
The issue is that Google has no incentive to fix the problem if they get to keep the ad revenue.
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No disrespect to the OP here, but the artist who created this bootleg Bluesky ad, Winston Tseng, is awful. Among other things, he has put "art" on the street with images and messages encouraging people to kill themselves. When I pressed him on Instagram about the recklessness of it, he blocked me.
UK Companies House nerds will be pleased to see Barbara Kahan appeared briefly as a director of now sanctioned TGR Corporate Concierge Limited, it's always the ones you least suspect.... www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
"The gap between mainstream media readers, people who get most of their news through influencers or partisan social media, and people who barely think about news at all will create a fundamental schism in how Americans see the world." - @alicetiara.bsky.social
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