Privacy activists say proposed changes to Europe's landmark privacy law, including making it easier for Big Tech to harvest Europeans' personal data for AI training, would flout EU case law and gut the legislation

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the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, said it would invest as much as $2 billion in Polymarket at an $8 billion pre-money valuation

team behind LegoGPT would prove you wrong. The system allows you to enter prompt text and produce physically stable LEGO models. They’ve done more than just a paper. You can find a GitHub repo and a running demo, too

Binance announced on Twitter that they had fired an employee after discovering that they had engaged in insider trading. The employee took a large position in a token that he knew would be engaging in a "token generation event", then quickly sold off the tokens after the project announced the event

The Strategic Crypto Swindle

A bitcoin reserve would be a government-backed grift

Trump lost. That is, if all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice-President Kamala Harris would have won the Presidency with 286 electoral votes

"Berlin is not a pretty place. The winters are a total nightmare, no sunlight, no warm face. Its cuisine is all about fast food. Large parts of town smell like a public toilet; overdosed tourists randomly pass out on the street. It’s not a city where you would sit out on a cafe terrace to people-watch. But also it’s now nearly impossible to find an affordable flat you could call home"

The concern is that these organisms would evade both the immune systems of all natural life forms, and any human defences such as antibiotics, thus posing an existential risk to life

the progressivist web would do well to migrate directly to Mastodon, not Bluesky

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Japanese Illustrator Shows How Humans Would Look If We Had Various Animals’ Bone Structures (14 Pics)

Control of Internet speech - Corporate Media: "How would you like this wrapped? Anti-terrorism or protect kids?"

the Triton, a sort of artificial gill that would extract oxygen from the water for you

What Wi-Fi Would Look Like If We Could See It