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404 Media: “I was on a Microsoft Teams call interacting with this deepfake version of myself in realtime. Ordinarily the other person on the line looks nothing like me, but by using a gaming laptop and a sought-after, cutting edge piece of software for scammers, his face morphed into mine. My deepfake pinched his cheek, …
MakeUseOf/MUD – “WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is the browser technology that powers video calls, voice chat, and peer-to-peer file sharing directly in your browser, without needing a separate app or plugin. Google Meet, Discord in-browser, file transfer tools, and basically anything that connects to other devices — all of them depend on it. It sounds …
Gizmodo: “Most people are well aware at this stage that their activity is being observed on just about every website and platform they visit. But if there is only one place you would hope might be free of invasive trackers, it’d be healthcare exchanges operated by state governments. Don’t get those hopes up. According to …
ProPublica: Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth An Essential Shot: Vitamin K shots, which help the blood to clot, are one of three key interventions for newborns, along with an antibiotic eye ointment and the hepatitis B vaccine. Increasing Rejections: The government doesn’t track vitamin K rejections, …
Fortune [Comment – Breaking the fabric of Washington DC, demolishing historic buildings, privatizing public spaces…] “In October 2025, President Donald Trump announced the administration would begin a privately-funded $400 million renovation of the White House East Wing that would culminate in the construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, justified publicly as a “secure military complex” and …
“At 6:05 a.m. on Jan. 14, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation converged at the door of Hannah Natanson, a reporter at The Washington Post. They had a search warrant and entered her home, seizing her iPhone and other devices … The event put Ms. Natanson’s name among the targets of the Trump administration’s …
Harvard Gazette: “Physicians noticed something unusual in the late 2000s: Patients were coming to appointments armed with sometimes-dubious medical information they had gleaned online from “Dr. Google,” according to Adam Rodman, an internist and AI researcher. Today, about 68 percent of adults have turned to a search engine for medical advice in the past. But …
What are DuckDuckgo bangs? Bangs are shortcuts that quickly take you to search results on other sites. For example, when you know you want to search on another site like Wikipedia or Amazon, our bangs get you there fastest. A search for !w filter bubble will take you directly to Wikipedia. Remember, though, because your …
Android Headlines: “A security researcher decompiled the White House’s new official app and found some alarming stuff buried in the code, including a hidden GPS tracking pipeline, JavaScript loaded from a random GitHub account, no SSL certificate pinning, and an in-app browser that silently strips cookie consent dialogs and paywalls from every page you visit. …
The Guardian: “A study published Wednesday in the journal Nature finds that TikTok’s algorithm systematically prioritized pro-Republican content in three states leading up to the 2024 US elections. Researchers created hundreds of dummy accounts and conditioned them to mimic real users’ behavior by watching a set of videos either aligned with the US Democratic or …
Mother Jones: A new report exposes the marketing of AR-15s and other firearms to America’s youth…”The gun industry has favored aggressive marketing for more than a decade, as companies realized that vast profits could be made from the increasingly popular AR-15-style rifles. One early Daniel Defense ad suggested civilian buyers could be just like US …
Axios: “The Pudding’s Alvin Chang made a map drawn from 100,000 crowdsourced moments of what brought respondents joy — and dug into data around income, age and tech use that contributed to happiness.” Source – HappyDB: A Corpus of 100,000 Crowdsourced Happy Moments: “The science of happiness is an area of positive psychology concerned with …
