Christophe Haubursin reverse-engineered a Tinder scam.
[W]hat is software brain? The simplest definition I’ve come up with is that it’s when you see the whole world as a series of databases that can be controlled with the structured language of software code.
But: [...] The entire human experience cannot be captured in a database. That’s the limit of software brain. That’s why people hate AI. It flattens them.
Defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively.
[I]f you’re goal is to put a GPU farm in orbit and have it turn on, all of these issues can be defeated via the power of giant piles of money. So none of this is saying you can’t build a datacenter in orbit. I just want to point out physical limitations that make it really questionable to me as to why you’d view this as a solution to anything.
Lovely little essay by Terry Godier on attention, notifications, and simplicity.
A groundbreaking hack for Microsoft’s 'unhackable' Xbox One was revealed at the recent RE//verse 2026 conference. This console has remained a fortress since its launch in 2013, but now Markus ‘Doom’ Gaasedelen has showcased the 'Bliss' double glitch.
Top Meta staff allegedly compared Instagram to a drug and worked for years to obscure the social media platform’s potential dangers from parents and children, even as they appeared to acknowledge their technology was harmful, according to newly unsealed internal communications cited in a court filing.
See also Reuter's reporting on the lawsuit:
Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.
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The internal documents cited by the plaintiffs allege:
Meta intentionally designed its youth safety features to be ineffective and rarely used, and blocked testing of safety features that it feared might be harmful to growth.
Meta required users to be caught 17 times attempting to traffic people for sex before it would remove them from its platform, which a document described as “a very, very, very high strike threshold."
Meta recognized that optimizing its products to increase teen engagement resulted in serving them more harmful content, but did so anyway.
Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.
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In a text message in 2021, Mark Zuckerberg said that he wouldn’t say that child safety was his top concern “when I have a number of other areas I’m more focused on like building the metaverse.” Zuckerberg also shot down or ignored requests by Nick Clegg, Meta's then-head of global public policy, to better fund child safety work.
I might not want to live in Meta's metaverse...
Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.
Solutions include charging known scammers higher prices, leading to more profit for Meta.
This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.
X's own features say foreign nationals are posing as Americans to drive political engagement, mis-, and disinformation.
An advisor to al-Qaida. One of the founders of Hezbollah. The head of an Iraqi militia group known for attacks on U.S. troops. And a top official with the Houthi rebels who recently lashed out at the “criminal Trump.”
These are among the U.S.-sanctioned terrorists who appear to have paid, premium accounts on Elon Musk's X, a new Tech Transparency Project investigation has found, raising questions about the platform's dealings with individuals who have been deemed a threat to U.S. national security.