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Cytobiton Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts

What is the use case of a hardware cryptocurrency wallet besides trapping bitcoins in the Shadow Realm?

Cytobiton US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams

They can't be both real AND bots. Get a clue.

Cytobiton Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat

I wonder if it would be considered a threat to type the same things into Notepad. If so, fiction writers are in trouble.

People are putting a weird amount of moral weight on LLM prompts that they don't apply to other programs.

Cytobiton Polymarket's Rush to Grow Left a Door Wide Open for Fraudsters

That's exactly the problem. Any ideal/virtue can be violated as long as they are getting that bag.

Cytobiton Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test

Google is admitting to violating to the DMCA by circumventing a digital lock.

Cytobiton Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

Until regulatory capture kicks in. Bad actors will always exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

Cytobiton Man convicted of child sex crime by added _ char "Fus Ro Dah" Skyrim username

Your title is unbiased by way of incomprehensibility.

Cytobiton "We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3"

You make it sound like a bad thing.

Cytobiton VTubing: How a Japanese Phenomenon Is Going Worldwide

Supposed by whom?

Cytobiton Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

With some experimental peptides sprinkled in.

Cytobiton Please stop the AI confidence theater

People seek out services when a need arises. Marketers' job to invent new needs that didn't exist before

Cytobiton U.S. officials believed Israel was plotting to kill Iranian negotiators

The scenario of Israel saying to the US "let's bomb the people you are negotiating with" is how the war started in the first place.

Cytobiton A record 242 US cities now have starter homes that cost $1M

The concept of a "starter home" has always seemed asinine to me.

Cytobiton Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min

Literally the next two sentences describe eye tracking.

> The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of rereading.

Cytobiton Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks

I think it would have been slightly more valid if they were independent, yes.

Cytobiton DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms

Well, the AIs are supposed to find and fix the bugs too. So now what's our excuse?

Cytobiton UCF Commencement Speaker Draws Boos After A.I. Remarks

Speaker: "XYZ is revolutionary!"

HN: "That is a very neutral statement about XYZ."

Ok dude.

Cytobiton Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying

Interesting, I hadn't considered the bigot angle.

Cytobiton Iran's two-tier internet access fuels anger and exposes cracks in the regime

Two things can be true.

Cytobiton Talking to strangers at the gym

You can find contrary advice for any given topic, all upvoted highly, if you look for it.

Cytobiton Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline

If we want people to feel safe talking about suicidal thoughts, we need to rework the involuntary commitment laws. As it is now, a person has every reason to be fearful about opening up. You can be imprisoned, humiliated, and medicated against your will, all without due process of law, just because you were careless with your words.

Cytobiton Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

There is no country in the world where the ultra wealthy don't weild influence over the government.

Cytobiton Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

Cigarettes are usually sold at an increased tax rate already.

Cytobiton Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

We should empower people to live healthier lives, not subjugate them.

Cytobiton New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production

What do you think they are feeding the animals for? To make food.

Cytobiton Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

Why would you quit your job before determining if you can opt out? What would be the benefit?

Cytobiton SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

Security through enshittification. Nice.

Cytobiton FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

> defying ordinary probability

Improbable events do not defy probability.

Cytobiton FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

It's hard to believe that this administration would suddenly care about brain drain, after decimating all academic grants and generally exhibiting anti-intellectual behavior.