Something very strange is happening to the Apple Podcasts app. Over the last few months Iโve found the Podcasts app will randomly open religion/spirituality podcasts. Sometimes app opens by itself and directs people to potentially malicious website. Apple no response
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Title: Switzerland plans surveillance that is worse than US Broken shield with a Swiss flag on it
Swiss surveillance could become worse than US
If passed, chat, email & VPN providers from #Switzerland must:
๐จ Log IP addresses
๐จ Ask for ID upon sign up
๐จ Decrypt data upon request
Let's fight for #privacy! ๐ tuta.com/blog/switzer...
โThe Owl Houseโ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:
โUnsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I donโt care. Fuck gen AI.โ
Horizon Steel Frontiers Developers Used AI โExtensivelyโ
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Bingeing TikTok reels may be hazardous to your well-being.
71 studies, >98k people: The more short-form videos teens and adults watched, the more they struggled with attention, self-control, and stress and anxiety.
Read a book. Watch a movie. Long live longform.
You can grab 911 Operator for free to keep on Steam
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#911Operator #Gaming #PCGaming #IndieGames
The useful AI warning for Steam script has been turned into a proper browser extension
#AI #Steam #Gaming #PCGaming #LinuxGaming
Apple may introduce search ads to Apple Maps starting next year, per report
Nike says its first โpowered footwearโ is like an e-bike for your feet
October #promosky!
Looking for more moots that'll help me be more active on here (trying to overcome a yrs long lurker habit).
PC/Xbox/VR gamer
RPG/Survival craft/open world
Techie
Raver
Nature Nerd
Weird, Silly, & Whimsical
Costuming enthusiast
Flow arts (Poi spinner)
Polyamorous lover boi
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OpenAI is finally admitting what we've been saying but they didn't want to do: AI growth is in AI sex bots. They're finally doing it.
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Rivianโs first e-bike is unlike anything youโve ever seen
That sounds awful! Hope you manage to overcome it soon ๐ซ
Seeing J Hill follow other art streamers in screwing artists, with AI misinformation, and blaming artists, while giving subtle shilling for tech Bros.
If only he could have asked fellow artists with experience in the topic, like Karla Ortiz who is currently part of an ongoing successful lawsuit. ๐งต
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Assemble with Care UI/UX work
Desta: the memories between UI/UX work
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๐จโณ Act now! You have until ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐, ๐๐๐๐ to prevent Microsoft from using your LinkedIn data to train AI.
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A graphic with the Next Fest logo and "Oct 13 - Oct 20 At 10 AM Pacific"
The latest edition of Steam Next Fest is underway! As always, there are so many cool new demos to sort through, so I'll use this thread to keep track of a few I'm interested in. Devs and fans, please reply with your recommendations!
Good job Sora 2 has watermarks on its videos (people have already made tools that instantly remove the watermark)
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When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... ๐งต
๐ฆ New product drop โผ
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6 pixel emotes featuring a dark knight's reactions!
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โAIโ isnโt a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. Itโs the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about โresponsibleโ use.
EA reportedly to be sold off for "roughly $50 billion" to go private
#EA #Gaming #PCGaming
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Key Art from Nintendo Today.
So far there have been zero trans women reported as having visited epsteins pedo island. But lots of people who want you to think trans women are threats to children seemed to have gone there at some point.
Curious...
Did you know that more than half of all iPhones around the world are being used in languages other than English?
My team helps make that possible, and we're hiring! Our work is very dynamic and spans the entire localization pipeline, from internal tools to all our OSes.
jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail
iOS 26 Safari but usable
Infographic titled "AI Isn't a Ticket To an A," explaining how chatbots work, what the data show about the prevalence of these technologies and how they're used, what we know about the quality of their output, and what we know about the impact that frequent use of these technologies has on their users and on content creators, low-wage workers, and the environment.
For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )
