"Former Meta user experience researcher Cayce Savage said the company shut down internal research showing Meta knew children were using its VR products and being exposed to sexually explicit material." https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-put-virtual-reality-profit-over-kids-safety-whistleblowers-tell-us-congress-2025-09-09/
Apparently, it's bad luck to mention a "MacBook" in a software company. You have to call it "the Scottish laptop".
Meta to stop its AI chatbots from talking to teens about suicide
BBC News
Meta to stop its AI chatbots from talking to teens about suicide
The firm says it will add more guardrails "as an extra precaution" and temporarily limit chatbots teens can use.
 Yay? "It comes two weeks after a US senator launched an investigation into the tech giant after notes in a leaked internal document suggested its AI products could have "sensual" chats with teenagers." - if Meta were a person, no-one would let their kids anywhere near them.
Reform councillor Robert Bloom resigned 117 days after his election, after repeatedly shouting the word β€˜n*****’ at his black neighbour, saying he would set the far-right English Defence League on her and told her there’d be β€˜black body bags’. It's triggered a by-election, which will cost the taxpayer about Β£27,000.
Northamptonshire Telegraph
Corby Reform councillor resigns over serious racism allegations
Reform councillor Robert Bloom, who has been in his North Northamptonshire Council post for just 117 days, has resigned after a neighbour alleged h...
Mastodon says it doesn’t β€˜have the means’ to comply with age verification laws
TechCrunch
Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch
Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to...
 #willNobodyThinkOfTheChildren
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Featuring a voice over from yours truly! (They rejected both my comedy hillbilly and my brilliantly accurate French accents, so I had to go with my normal suave tones.)
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Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off
ZDNET
Is Meta secretly scanning your phone's camera roll? Check this setting to find out ASAP
Meta wants access to your entire camera roll - and not just what you've already posted to Facebook.
 "Some Facebook users have noticed new settings that let Meta analyze and retain your phone's photos. Yes, you read that right." Hurrah for the security and privacy of Native apps!
Yuck, it looks like Microsoft's GitHub is teaming up with Space Karen
The GitHub Blog
Grok Code Fast 1 is rolling out in public preview for GitHub Copilot - GitHub Changelog
Grok Code Fast 1 will be available as an opt-in public preview for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans in Visual Studio Code. ...
Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year
Ars Technica
Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year
Google says it's no different than checking IDs at the airport.
 imagine if Big Tech just allowed you to install whatever you wanted to on a device that you own?