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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on July 28, 2026, 12:48:35 PM

Title: 2026 jul 28
Post by: rcjordan on July 28, 2026, 12:48:35 PM
I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you! To learn that deepfake is going on in here!
Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/971723/hugging-face-nudify-deepfake-undress-women-children

How Mrs. Meyer's Became a Category-Defining Brand
https://www.inc.com/ali-donaldson/she-lost-75000-on-a-startup-then-built-mrs-meyers-into-a-category-defining-brand/91301970

Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results
https://www.wired.com/story/private-claude-chats-exposed-in-google-and-bing-search-results/

Apple Upgrade is a risky bet for anyone except Apple
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/07/27/apple-upgrade-will-be-great-for-apple-might-not-be-good-for-the-buyer

Title: Re: 2026 jul 28
Post by: rcjordan on July 28, 2026, 03:40:52 PM
What your internet provider and websites can track when you browse | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/what-your-internet-provider-websites-advertisers-see

Japanese Fossil Bee Fills Two-Million-Year Gap in Honeybee History | Sci.News
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/apis-aibai-14949.html

Uh, yes.
Will climate change make plague-filled NYC summers like this one the new norm? - Gothamist
https://gothamist.com/news/will-climate-change-make-plague-filled-nyc-summers-like-this-one-the-new-norm

Experts unveil the one country with the longest lifespan – but there's a surprising catch | BBC Science Focus Magazine
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/singapore-life-expectancy-healthspan-morbidity-gap

Cyclospora, Measles and Legionnaires: U.S. sees multiple infectious diseases occur at same time
https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/disease-outbreaks-cyclospora-legionnaires-measles/

Diabetes News: Metformin's Brain Action - Daily Kos
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/27/800075534/community/diabetes-news/

US walks out of UN Security Council meeting as France condemns rights vote - France 24
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260727-us-walks-out-of-un-security-council-meeting-as-france-condemns-rights-vote

The 'cockroach' in the machine: How Gen Z is rattling South Asia's elites : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/27/nx-s1-5908567/india-cockroach-movement-gen-z-south-asia
Title: Re: 2026 jul 28
Post by: rcjordan on July 28, 2026, 04:49:01 PM
Look up your local cops on the EFF's Atlas of Surveillance - Boing Boing
https://boingboing.net/2026/07/27/look-up-your-local-cops-on-the-effs-atlas-of-surveillance.html
Title: Re: 2026 jul 28
Post by: rcjordan on July 28, 2026, 06:33:22 PM
Destructive Convenience
https://volpeon.ink/notebook/dangerous-convenience/
Title: Re: 2026 jul 28
Post by: rcjordan on July 28, 2026, 10:00:10 PM
What Is Open-Weight A.I.? - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/open-weight-ai.html

War machines can run amok with AI in control
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/28/war-machines-can-run-amok-with-ai-in-control/5279937

Labour MP suing Elon Musk's xAI says chatbot added own fake abusive content
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/28/jess-asato-labour-mp-sue-elon-musk-xai-chatbot-abusive-content

Spies in the sky: how worried should we be about the arrival of AI-enabled smart lamp-posts?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/28/spies-in-sky-worried-ai-enabled-smart-lamp-posts-surveillance

Anthropic, OpenAI blow past Starbucks, McDonald's amid AI boom
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/28/anthropic-openai-revenue-mcdonalds-starbucks-yum