TL;DR: Kiwi is now merged with MS Edge Canary
Yet another good thing is lost to MS.
Yet another good thing is lost to MS.
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Scammers use Venmo to 'deceive and defraud customers' on flights
JetBlue Airways has become the first U.S. airline to accept Venmo as a payment option for booking flights. Customers can now use Venmo directly on the airline's website and soon through its mobile app. This initiative is part of JetBlue's efforts to provide more convenient and flexible payment options for passengers, especially younger travelers who frequently use digital wallets.
At the same time, JetBlue has faced challenges with scammers exploiting Venmo. Reports suggest that some fraudsters pose as airline staff, asking passengers for Venmo payments during flights. The airline is working to combat this issue and educate customers to avoid such scams. Despite these challenges, JetBlue’s
adoption of Venmo represents a significant step toward modernizing its payment system and enhancing the travel experience.
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JetBlue Airways has become the first U.S. airline to accept Venmo as a payment option for booking flights. Customers can now use Venmo directly on the airline's website and soon through its mobile app. This initiative is part of JetBlue's efforts to provide more convenient and flexible payment options for passengers, especially younger travelers who frequently use digital wallets.
At the same time, JetBlue has faced challenges with scammers exploiting Venmo. Reports suggest that some fraudsters pose as airline staff, asking passengers for Venmo payments during flights. The airline is working to combat this issue and educate customers to avoid such scams. Despite these challenges, JetBlue’s
adoption of Venmo represents a significant step toward modernizing its payment system and enhancing the travel experience.
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Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’
Meta announced updates to its content moderation policies, ending fact-checking partnerships and lifting restrictions on speech about immigration, gender, and identity. Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan said content allowed in public forums should also be allowed on Meta platforms, while CEO Mark Zuckerberg called current rules outdated.
Key changes include allowing accusations of mental illness tied to gender or sexual orientation, permitting claims about gender-based job restrictions, and removing bans on linking protected groups to spreading COVID-19. Language warning that hateful speech may promote violence was removed, though rules against inciting imminent violence remain. Protections against Holocaust denial, blackface, and dehumanizing comparisons of protected groups were retained.
Meta reaffirmed protections for groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, and immigration status but did not clarify if controversial statements, such as Donald Trump’s comments on immigrants, would be allowed.
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Meta announced updates to its content moderation policies, ending fact-checking partnerships and lifting restrictions on speech about immigration, gender, and identity. Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan said content allowed in public forums should also be allowed on Meta platforms, while CEO Mark Zuckerberg called current rules outdated.
Key changes include allowing accusations of mental illness tied to gender or sexual orientation, permitting claims about gender-based job restrictions, and removing bans on linking protected groups to spreading COVID-19. Language warning that hateful speech may promote violence was removed, though rules against inciting imminent violence remain. Protections against Holocaust denial, blackface, and dehumanizing comparisons of protected groups were retained.
Meta reaffirmed protections for groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, and immigration status but did not clarify if controversial statements, such as Donald Trump’s comments on immigrants, would be allowed.
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ATT • Tech News
Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’ Meta announced updates to its content moderation policies, ending fact-checking partnerships and lifting restrictions on speech about immigration, gender, and identity. Chief Global Affairs…
I think WIRED, specifically, really exaggerated the statement by extremely warping it.
I saw the whole reel, and all Mark has to say is "you can now do what you want, but don't be a jerk".
They are also introducing some rather good changes to their reporting system for accounts which now depends on the number of reports and reasoning from users instead of just blatantly using AI and keywords.
And also, people say this shit as if it's not already happening everywhere on Instagram.
I saw the whole reel, and all Mark has to say is "you can now do what you want, but don't be a jerk".
They are also introducing some rather good changes to their reporting system for accounts which now depends on the number of reports and reasoning from users instead of just blatantly using AI and keywords.
And also, people say this shit as if it's not already happening everywhere on Instagram.
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ATT • Tech News
never looking there again then :D
WIRED has some good takes in some places but this one was fucking wild.
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Hey y'all, Aan here. Remember the BharOS discussion event we had? Well, we have had an idea for a while now. We want to do something similar to that, but with other people. (No, it won't be an expose, just a general discussion haha)
Anonymous Poll
75%
I'd like to see it!
25%
I am not interested in it.
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Hello! Do you want some memes?
Hop on @ATTMemes and @ATTMemesChat
If you don't want some, then just don't join.
Hop on @ATTMemes and @ATTMemesChat
If you don't want some, then just don't join.
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ATT • Tech News
I was thinking of the name "ATT: Talks", y'all decide
Hey y'all!
Have an update on this.
We are organising our second talk show with OjasK, the lead dev and creator of Rectify 11, the Windows 11 UI overhaul mod.
If you all want to ask questions, please drop them in this bot: @att_talks_bot
Have an update on this.
We are organising our second talk show with OjasK, the lead dev and creator of Rectify 11, the Windows 11 UI overhaul mod.
If you all want to ask questions, please drop them in this bot: @att_talks_bot
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ATT • Tech News
Hey y'all! Have an update on this. We are organising our second talk show with OjasK, the lead dev and creator of Rectify 11, the Windows 11 UI overhaul mod. If you all want to ask questions, please drop them in this bot: @att_talks_bot
BTW I should add, it can be any general questions too, like how Windows 11 works, what's good and bad about it, all the approaches Microsoft took with it, etc.
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Forwarded from Mishaal's Android News Feed
🔫 Android 16's Linux Terminal will soon let you run graphical apps, so of course I ran Doom
ICYMI: Google's been working on a Terminal app that runs Debian in a VM, and they've made steady progress on it.
Click 👇for more details on this progress
🔗 https://androidauthority.com/android-16-linux-terminal-doom-3521804/
(Once again, "The Only Thing They Fear Is You" is stuck in my head.)
ICYMI: Google's been working on a Terminal app that runs Debian in a VM, and they've made steady progress on it.
Click 👇for more details on this progress
🔗 https://androidauthority.com/android-16-linux-terminal-doom-3521804/
(Once again, "The Only Thing They Fear Is You" is stuck in my head.)
Android Authority
Android 16's Linux Terminal will soon let you run graphical apps, so of course we ran Doom
Android 16’s Linux Terminal will soon be able to run graphical Linux apps, so we fired up Doom to show this feature off.
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ATT • Tech News
Hey y'all! Have an update on this. We are organising our second talk show with OjasK, the lead dev and creator of Rectify 11, the Windows 11 UI overhaul mod. If you all want to ask questions, please drop them in this bot: @att_talks_bot
Hello again people.
Aside from Ojas, who else do you people wanna see on the show? Let us know in the comments!
Aside from Ojas, who else do you people wanna see on the show? Let us know in the comments!
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So, @c1d3rdev made a porn app called Hot Tub on iOS, I don't know if it should be a concerning one in public or what...
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anyways y'all should read this (not really new)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-human-brain-may-contain-as-much-as-a-spoons-worth-of-microplastics-new-research-suggests-180985995/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-human-brain-may-contain-as-much-as-a-spoons-worth-of-microplastics-new-research-suggests-180985995/
Smithsonian Magazine
The Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon's Worth of Microplastics, New Research Suggests
The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent between 2016 and 2024, according to a new study
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DOGE Faces Lawsuit from Over a Dozen U.S. States Over Federal Payment System Takeover
Elon Musk's DOGE operatives have reportedly infiltrated multiple U.S. government departments, including agencies managing data on millions of federal employees and a payment system handling $6 trillion in transactions for Americans.
Now, a coalition of more than a dozen U.S. states plans to file a lawsuit to prevent Musk’s cost-cutting team from accessing these sensitive federal payment systems, which contain personal data on U.S. citizens.
🔗 TechCrunch
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Elon Musk's DOGE operatives have reportedly infiltrated multiple U.S. government departments, including agencies managing data on millions of federal employees and a payment system handling $6 trillion in transactions for Americans.
Now, a coalition of more than a dozen U.S. states plans to file a lawsuit to prevent Musk’s cost-cutting team from accessing these sensitive federal payment systems, which contain personal data on U.S. citizens.
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Google Unveils Gemini 2.0: Smarter AI with Research and Action Capabilities
Google has released Gemini 2.0, a more advanced AI model that understands and creates text, images, and audio more naturally. It includes "Deep Research," a feature that gathers and summarizes information from the web. Another major improvement is its "agentic" AI, which can predict next steps and take action with user approval. Google is adding Gemini 2.0 to services like Search, making it better at answering complex questions and helping with tasks.
🔗 CNET
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Google has released Gemini 2.0, a more advanced AI model that understands and creates text, images, and audio more naturally. It includes "Deep Research," a feature that gathers and summarizes information from the web. Another major improvement is its "agentic" AI, which can predict next steps and take action with user approval. Google is adding Gemini 2.0 to services like Search, making it better at answering complex questions and helping with tasks.
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Apple’s next iPhone SE might be announced “as early as next week” ahead of it being on sale later in February. The next iPhone SE is expected to look like an iPhone 14, meaning it will have a bigger screen, drop Touch ID in favor of Face ID, and come with an A18 chip, which will let it run the company’s Apple Intelligence features. It’s also set to get a USB-C port, which theoretically means Apple can sell an iPhone SE again in the EU.
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🔗 The Verge
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Forwarded from vx-underground
Unsealed court documents from February 5th, 2024, in Kadrey v. Meta show Meta (formerly Facebook) illegally torrented 81.7TB of data from "shadow libraries" such as Anna's Archive, Z-Library, and LibGen to train Meta artificial intelligence.
Highlights include:
- A senior AI research at Meta says, "I don't think we should use pirated material. I really need to draw a line there."
- Another AI researcher says, "using pirated material should be beyond our ethical threshold" ... "SciHub, ResearchGate, LibGen are basically like PirateBay or something like that, they are distributing content that is protectec by copyright and they're infringing it".
- In January 2023, Mark Zuckerberg attends a meeting which is heavily redacted in court documents. However, he says "we need to this move this stuff forward" and "we need to find a way to unblock all of this".
- Fast forward to April, 2023, Meta employees discuss using a VPN to conceal Meta IP address ranges when torrenting data. Meta employees also discuss the need to involve lawyers if something goes astray. The unredacted court records show a Meta employee saying, "torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right 😂".
Highlights include:
- A senior AI research at Meta says, "I don't think we should use pirated material. I really need to draw a line there."
- Another AI researcher says, "using pirated material should be beyond our ethical threshold" ... "SciHub, ResearchGate, LibGen are basically like PirateBay or something like that, they are distributing content that is protectec by copyright and they're infringing it".
- In January 2023, Mark Zuckerberg attends a meeting which is heavily redacted in court documents. However, he says "we need to this move this stuff forward" and "we need to find a way to unblock all of this".
- Fast forward to April, 2023, Meta employees discuss using a VPN to conceal Meta IP address ranges when torrenting data. Meta employees also discuss the need to involve lawyers if something goes astray. The unredacted court records show a Meta employee saying, "torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right 😂".
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