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- Korean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library, to miniscule storage format
- ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
- Redditors Are Celebrating the Cutting Down of Flock Surveillance Towers With Based Memes
- US president promoted companies on Truth Social days after buying their stocks
- Terrified Tech Execs Are Traveling With Armed Bodyguards as AI Backlash Grows
- FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals | FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.
- San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores
- Kevin O’Leary claimed opposition to his Utah data center was fueled by Chinese money. Now he and Fox News are being sued for defamation
- 'Whoever came up with this is a massive idiot': LG's gaming monitors and TVs are facing a user revolt, due to seemingly installing adware on PCs — and telling you to warn guests they may be recorded by AI features, to comply with 'wiretapping' laws
- US data center protests go national as backlash grows
- Peter Thiel just gave the public its closest look yet at his ‘Antichrist’ theory—and it’s a tech and climate regulator
- SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month
- Flock Said Its Cameras Don't Track People. Then a Reporter Proved Them Wrong On Video
- $100,000 monthly fee for fast feed of US president’s posts — Family company has quoted the six-figure sum for high-speed access to Truth Social platform
- White House teleprompter operator made more than $100,000 betting on US president’s speeches, via prediction market Kalshi: Sources
- ‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
- Smart glasses are deeply creepy. Why are celebrities like Kylie Jenner endorsing them?
- Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch
- With a $15 billion net worth, Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but that middle-class workers will get just modest raises | Fortune
- US president says ABC and NBC should lose broadcast licenses because they didn’t carry his primetime address on election claims
Fake History Porn (1)
- Viking raiders approach Lindisfarne, 793 AD
- The arrival of ice in America, Fall 1621
- Freddie Mercury performs during Live Aid - July 13, 1985
- First recorded Zombie case (1989)
- Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” [1498]
- Soviet tanks approach Hungarian protesters (1956, colourised)
- Newly arrived Kryptonian immigrant Small-El uses laser eyes to construct a concentration camp out of solid rock — Poland, 1940
- A young Elon Musk getting his head autographed by Tracy Morgan, 1970.
- German soldier claims other races to be bilogically inferior, 1940
- Actor Paul Dano as his “Dwayne Hoover” character in the critically acclaimed comedy-drama movie, “Little Miss Sunshine”. (2006)
- The highly popular Japanese anime series, “Sailor Moon” makes its debut on television. (1992)
- The Shroud of Turin, 1978.
- A young 11yo Osama Bin Laden dancing on stage to a middle eastern pop song at his elementary school’s talent show contest. (1968)
- Time traveler fails to execute baby Hitler (1889)
- French aristocrat, Paris, 1793.
- Clarence Thomas pictured before his sight restoration surgery (1988)
- 1943, November - guess who's on the right here - among his Hitlerjugend batallion kameraden?
- July 15 1901, Lord Helmetho becomes the very first supper villain of the 20 century.