Incredibly cool: A community of people on Discord are salvaging Redbox kiosks from Walgreens all over the country and are reverse engineering and modifying them. Redbox OS got dumped this week and people are actively figuring out how to repurpose it:
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Tinkerers Are Taking Old Redbox Kiosks Home and Reverse Engineering Them
The Redbox operating system has been dumped, and people are repurposing the massive DVD kiosks they've saved from the scrap heap.
The WordPress situation is so so crazy
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β€˜The Community Is In Chaos:’ WordPress.org Now Requires You Denounce Affiliation With WP Engine To Log In
WordPress.org users are forced to confirm they are not "affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise" before registering a new ac...
Thousands of people are using an AI-powered automatic job application bot to spam job apps on LinkedIn. β€œI applied to 2843 roles” one person said. I used it and applied to 17 jobs in less than an hour. Here's what it looks like:
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β€˜I Applied to 2,843 Roles’: The Rise of AI-Powered Job Application Bots
Using AI Hawk's Auto Jobs Applier bot, I applied for 17 jobs in an hour on LinkedIn.
1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia 2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff
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The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes
WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.
NEW: I obtained internal emails from city government of Springfield, Ohio. These emails show the absolute chaos caused by Trump and Vance after claiming Haitian immigrants were eating pets. Racist threats, hateful emails, media bonanza. A nightmare
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Internal Emails Reveal How Hate Overwhelmed Springfield After Trump's Lies About Haitian Immigrants
Internal emails from Springfield, Ohio reveal what has happened in the city after Donald Trump and JD Vance spread the conspiracy that Haitians are...
Massive e-learning platform Udemy is training its AI on instructors' classes. It gave them a short "opt-out" window to reject this. Instructors are surprised to learn that time has passed.
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Massive E-Learning Platform Udemy Gave Teachers a Gen AI 'Opt-Out Window'. It's Already Over.
Teachers are surprised they have been opted into having their classes scraped for AI training.
A man was applying for a job and got an interview, hopped on the call, and was interviewed by an AI avatar and AI voice:
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AI Avatars Are Doing Job Interviews Now
β€œThis HR AI avatar is a perfect demonstration of late stage capitalism,” Jack Ryan, someone who was interviewed by a tool called Fairgo.ai, tol...
New: Steam has eliminated its forced arbitration clause, meaning gamers can now sue Valve over disputes. Seemingly this has happened bc a class action of gamers won a binding arbitration hearing arguing that forced arbitration is not enforceable (lol)
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Steam Removes Forced Arbitration Clause, Gamers Can Now Sue Valve
"The updated Steam Subscriber Agreement (SSA) now provides that any disputes are to go forward in court instead of arbitration."
so good ... FBI seized two of Eric Adams' work phones but he didn't have his personal device on him. So he changed the passcode on his personal device then told the FBI he forgot his password
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Eric Adams Told FBI He Forgot His Phone’s Passcode
β€œBut, Adams further claimed, he had forgotten the password he had just set, and thus was unable to provide the FBI with a password that would unl...
A jockey who is paralyzed from the waist down lost his ability to walk after a small battery for his $100,000 exoskeleton broke and the manufacturer refused to fix it because it was more than 5 years old
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Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton
Michael Straight learned to walk again with the help of an exoskeleton. After an accessory to the device broke, the company refused to fix it.