Internet Society SF Bay Area Chapter
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The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Internet Society. Promoting an open Internet for all. https://www.sfbayisoc.org/
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Meet SF Bay Area ISOC board members Daveed Benjamin, David Issa, and Ronald Petty and hear from speakers from Cisco, Storytell.ai, and the ACM.
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A bill introduced by Michigan lawmakers last week would ban pornography, ASMR, depictions of transgender people, and VPNs for anyone using the internet in the state.
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Michigan Lawmakers Are Attempting to Ban Porn Entirely
The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" proposes a total ban on porn in the state, and also targets the existence of trans people online, content like erotic ASMR, and selling VPNs in the state.
www.404media.co
September 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A bill introduced by Michigan lawmakers last week would ban pornography, ASMR, depictions of transgender people, and VPNs for anyone using the internet in the state.
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Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI.
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Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books
It’s a trippy time to have a library card.
www.404media.co
September 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI.
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Important piece here. Democrats should investigate this fully. Bring Carr for hearings. He is openly publicizing how he apparently broke the law and used the FCC on behalf of Trump to exort ABC.
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Trump’s Ouster of Jimmy Kimmel Is Much Worse Than You Think It Is
Anna Gomez, the FCC’s lone Democratic commissioner, tells TNR that chairman Brendan Carr’s move violates both the First Amendment and the Communications Act. Democrats must extract consequences.
newrepublic.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Important piece here. Democrats should investigate this fully. Bring Carr for hearings. He is openly publicizing how he apparently broke the law and used the FCC on behalf of Trump to exort ABC.
newrepublic.com/article/2006...
newrepublic.com/article/2006...
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The Department of Energy said it will close FOIA requests from last year unless the requester emails the agency to say they are still interested. Experts say it's an "attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible."
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Trump Administration Outlines Plan to Throw Out an Agency's FOIA Requests En Masse
The Department of Energy said it will close FOIA requests from last year unless the requester emails the agency to say they are still interested. Experts say it's an "attempt to close out as many FOIA...
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August 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Department of Energy said it will close FOIA requests from last year unless the requester emails the agency to say they are still interested. Experts say it's an "attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible."
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this is how Tea got its start. it's an incredibly ugly tale top to bottom. a gripping investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social
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How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World
A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.
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August 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
this is how Tea got its start. it's an incredibly ugly tale top to bottom. a gripping investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social
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The AI startup is chasing a $500 billion valuation, with backers betting it can become the next Apple or Google. There are reasons for skepticism.
OpenAI Is Poised To Become The Most Valuable Startup Ever. Should It Be?
The AI startup is chasing a $500 billion valuation, with backers betting it can become the next Apple or Google. There are reasons for skepticism.
wrd.cm
August 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The AI startup is chasing a $500 billion valuation, with backers betting it can become the next Apple or Google. There are reasons for skepticism.
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Nearly a million records, which appear to be linked to a medical cannabis card company in Ohio, included Social Security numbers, government IDs, health conditions, and more. www.wired.com/story/highly...
Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database
Nearly a million records, which appear to be linked to a medical cannabis card company in Ohio, included Social Security numbers, government IDs, health conditions, and more.
www.wired.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Nearly a million records, which appear to be linked to a medical cannabis card company in Ohio, included Social Security numbers, government IDs, health conditions, and more. www.wired.com/story/highly...
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It's not exactly a groundbreaking project, but as an inexpensive and officially supported accessory, it may benefit from wider compatibility and ecosystem support than some third-party screens.
Raspberry Pi intros new 5-inch $40 touchscreen for your next weird project
Officially supported dinky display works as a tiny all-in-one or smart home hub.
arstechnica.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
It's not exactly a groundbreaking project, but as an inexpensive and officially supported accessory, it may benefit from wider compatibility and ecosystem support than some third-party screens.
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Tulsi Gabbard said that President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance also participated in the negotiations with the U.K. government over its once-secret demand to Apple.
US spy chief says UK has dropped its Apple backdoor demand | TechCrunch
Tulsi Gabbard said that President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance also participated in the negotiations with the U.K. government over its once-secret demand to Apple.
techcrunch.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Tulsi Gabbard said that President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance also participated in the negotiations with the U.K. government over its once-secret demand to Apple.
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Google has agreed to pay $30M to settle a lawsuit over children's data collection, though the company denies wrongdoing.
Google pays $30M to settle lawsuit over children's YouTube data | TechCrunch
Google has agreed to pay $30M to settle a lawsuit over children's data collection, though the company denies wrongdoing.
techcrunch.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Google has agreed to pay $30M to settle a lawsuit over children's data collection, though the company denies wrongdoing.
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Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere
Security flaws in a carmaker's web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere | TechCrunch
Security researcher Eaton Zveare told TechCrunch that the flaws he discovered in the carmaker's centralized dealer portal exposed vast access to customer and vehicle data. With this access, Zveare said he could remotely take over a customer's account and unlock their cars, and more.
techcrunch.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere
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Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.
A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT
Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.
wrd.cm
August 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.
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“But growing evidence suggests that the electricity bills of some Americans are rising to subsidize the massive energy needs of Big Tech…”
As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act
Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.
apnews.com
August 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“But growing evidence suggests that the electricity bills of some Americans are rising to subsidize the massive energy needs of Big Tech…”
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Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda
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Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda
Preservationists at the Video Game History Foundation purchased the rights to Computer Entertainer, the first video game magazine ever written and uploaded it for free.
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August 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda
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Sam Altman called GPT-5 “a significant step along the path to AGI,” or artificial general intelligence, and maybe he’s right—but if so, it’s a very small step. trib.al/iA93Bln
GPT-5 is here. Now what?
The much-hyped release makes several enhancements to the ChatGPT user experience. But it’s still far short of AGI.
trib.al
August 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Sam Altman called GPT-5 “a significant step along the path to AGI,” or artificial general intelligence, and maybe he’s right—but if so, it’s a very small step. trib.al/iA93Bln
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More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org
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More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org
The issue of publicly saving shared LLM chats is bigger than just Google.
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August 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org
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Shareholder letter: Reddit cites Profound's analysis showing it is the most cited domain across AI models, ahead of Wikipedia, YouTube, Forbes, and others (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
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August 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Shareholder letter: Reddit cites Profound's analysis showing it is the most cited domain across AI models, ahead of Wikipedia, YouTube, Forbes, and others (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
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While the indexing did not include identifying information about the ChatGPT users, some of their chats did share personal details—like highly specific descriptions of their interpersonal relationships with friends and family members.
ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results
OpenAI scrambles to remove personal ChatGPT conversations from Google results.
arstechnica.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
While the indexing did not include identifying information about the ChatGPT users, some of their chats did share personal details—like highly specific descriptions of their interpersonal relationships with friends and family members.
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The FBI and two national cybersecurity firms have been brought on to mitigate the attack, but it hasn't been enough.
St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed
“A deliberate, coordinated digital attack.”…
arstechnica.com
July 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The FBI and two national cybersecurity firms have been brought on to mitigate the attack, but it hasn't been enough.
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Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content
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July 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content
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