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This week, we discuss reverse engineering and some wild court docs. https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-brute-forces/
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How people are removing surveillance ads from their TVs; a big AI shakeup at Accenture; and the Character.ai bankruptcy. https://www.404media.co/podcast-reverse-engineer-anything-is-the-next-wave-of-ai-slop/
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Scientists have discovered a family of retroviruses that invaded the genomes of chimps and other primates, silencing genes involved with brain development, while humans were left unaffected. https://www.404media.co/an-ancient-virus-explains-why-the-human-brain-is-special/
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we now know what it looks like when telegram gives data to the US government https://www.404media.co/heres-what-telegram-giving-data-to-the-u-s-government-looks-like/
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companies to employees a few months ago: you better use AI companies now: wait, wait, just $29 a month on claude pls https://www.404media.co/accenture-tells-employees-they-can-now-spend-only-29-on-claude-per-month/
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Officials said they wanted to search the phone of Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, for child abuse material. It was actually because he was suspected of “terrorist activities.” https://www.404media.co/dhs-said-they-searched-man-who-wiped-grapheneos-phone-for-child-abuse-material-they-lied/
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The case shows the very real danger of identity theft, how the data and tools offered to police can lead them to the wrong person, and the sprawling world of CashApp fraud. https://www.404media.co/amanda-smith-opened-a-cashapp-in-her-name-she-faces-years-in-prison-cashapp-fraud/
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This is symptomatic of a broader, potentially destabilizing trend in AI. It has become trivially easy for people to use AI to make functional clones of software that live in a copyright grey zone. https://www.404media.co/video-game-reverse-engineering-community-shuts-down-because-ai-has-made-it-too-easy/
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AI slopifying your defunct exercise bike? What could go wrong? https://www.404media.co/reverse-engineer-anything-is-the-new-wild-west-of-ai/
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A sophisticated organized crime gang hacked into Staples, issued millions of dollars worth of gift cards, and went on a spending spree across the U.S. https://www.404media.co/how-a-massive-chinese-crime-ring-hacked-staples-to-steal-millions/
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Scientists discovered that human brain organoids, which are small neural clusters derived from stem cells, could identify the Braille alphabet with a high degree of accuracy. https://www.404media.co/computers-made-of-human-brain-tissue-identify-braille-letters-in-breakthrough/
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So, I need a heat press for @leigh_hackspace I know a few of you have them. Hit me up with recommendations.
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It is a grey and boring day in Notlob. How did I know this before leaving bed this morning? Well, three cats in the house was a clear indicator. One is in the window shouting at the neighbourhood dogs (we're on a main road in the estate), one wanted belly rubs and cuddles, and the puzzle hungry cat is up to chasing her own tail.
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[Video] Starvation in Gaza is rapidly rising after NATO-backed Zionists keep blocking food from entering Gaza. Hamas has sent out a call to the Arab league for action alternative video upload source
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Absurd request: could I buy a physical audiobook for someone in the UK to rip for me? I'm trying to get the unabridged Stephen Briggs recording of Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment in its UK edition - something that is no longer available digitally for sale except in its awful US edition that alters the meaning of the book. It's unsurprisingly difficult to buy a physical English language UK only audiobook that's >20 years old anywhere, but this one at least pops up in the...
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A new issue of This Week In GNOME is now online! #271 Good News https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/10/twig-271/ #ThisWeekInGNOME #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OpenSource
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From impulse purchase to pocket studio: The M-Vave FM-1 https://lobste.rs/s/5u7gjd #hardware https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/from-impulse-purchase-to-pocket-studio-the-m-vave-fm-1/
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#HudsonPecan #CatsOfMastodon
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https://t.me/c/2658548240/2670
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Someone give this writer my phone number https://slate.com/life/2026/10/men-women-dating-app-boring.html
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Even as gas prices are over $4 in New Hampshire, Anthony DiLorenzo refused to call the Iran war a mistake, instead saying he was "glad the President had the resolve” to do it. #NH01
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I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tnlhrgmbce34nvpyti46miej/post/3myrobucqjs2b
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Russia is significantly expanding its glide-bomb production, indicating that Moscow has no plans to scale back its war against Ukraine, a new report by Kyiv-based think tank Center for Defense Reforms exclusively shared with the Kyiv Independent reveals. https://kyivindependent.com/exclusive-russia-significantly-expands-glide-bomb-production-research-shows/ #Ukraine #Russia
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On what license should Claywonder be under? Even if anyone can just replicate the work easily, reverse engineer it, etc. I still feel like the MIT license and co are utterly fucking cucked GPL 3?
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请象友去马尔代夫旅游，去三亚潜水，去香港声援抗争，去台湾观摩民主选举。但是中间要去泰国转机，报名的来 @board