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@TechCrunch@mstdn.social avatar TechCrunch , to random

The platform's new feature lets users tell Threads what they temporarily want to see more or less of in their feed. https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/threads-new-dear-algo-ai-feature-lets-you-personalize-your-feed/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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@TechCrunch as someone who's primarily on for , this is laughable.

18+ @futurebird@sauropods.win avatar futurebird , to random

Some people will do anything for money, or maybe they are just in dire situations. Anyway $50k to join ICE might tempt some people.

Well.

  • It's not 50k it's 10k per year for five years. Big difference.
  • It is a five year commitment bonus. You need to work the full five years OR you must pay it back.
  • So if your work for 3 years then quit you owe them 30k! (money you may need for a lawyer)
  • The first 10k will be about $6500 after taxes.

Just so everyone knows.

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@futurebird I sure a lot of poor white passing people that will consider this deal. They see a paycheck and they are $6500 away from being homeless.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

Thousands of hacked Asus routers are under control of suspected China-state hackers
So far, the hackers are laying low, likely for later use.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/thousands-of-hacked-asus-routers-are-under-control-of-suspected-china-state-hackers/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica how deep is it? If I have an ASUS router with an aftermarket OS am I screwed?

@evacide@hachyderm.io avatar evacide , to random

Age verification is not the way to keep kids safe on the internet. CDT has some thoughts about what kind of child safety policies and features might actually be effective: https://cdt.org/insights/what-kids-and-parents-want-policy-insights-for-social-media-safety-features/

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@evacide it's not actually about keeping kids safe. It's about data points and directional graph connections. Kids will get around whatever restrictions you put in front of them. It's a story as old as time. We used to beat the shit out of Bess, kids are jail breaking chrome books, age restriction will stop nothing and everyone knows it.

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@evacide nothing is a replacement for responsible parents.

@nocontexttrek@mastodon.social avatar nocontexttrek , to random

TOS scene. We're off ship for sure, on a planet somewhere inside a room draped in cloth with a Moroccan vibe. Scotty, Kirk, and McCoy are sitting on future space decorative pillows on the floor, around a wee little table with candles and some drinks on them. Very colorful drapery, blues, reds, purples. And the rug is also quite exotic and well done. The boys are in uniform but looking relaxed and very into whatever they're watching, probably sports. Closed caption reads, "This is a completely hedonistic society."
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@nocontexttrek is this place worse than Riza? It's a literal planet sized fuck resort.

@TechCrunch@mstdn.social avatar TechCrunch , to random

OpenAI is working on a new tool that would generate music based on text and audio prompts, according to a report in The Information. Such a tool could be used to add music to existing videos, or to add guitar accompaniment to an existing vocal track, sources said. It’s not clear when OpenAI plans to […] https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/25/openai-reportedly-developing-new-generative-music-tool/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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@TechCrunch who asked for this? Drake? Taylor Swift?

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , (edited ) to random

Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Binance has been a major supporter of Trump's crypto projects, and Trump has already made millions after Binance accepted a $2 billion investment from an Emirati fund denominated in the Trump family's USD1 stablecoin.

One of the people CZ hired to lobby for the pardon is Teresa Goody Guillén, a lawyer who has simultaneously represented the Trump World Liberty Financial project. She's also lobbied on behalf of Binance on crypto-related topics.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-pardons-convicted-binance-founder-7509bd63

WSJ headline: Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder Subhead: Pardon follows months of efforts by Changpeng Zhao to boost Trump crypto company
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MeaningfulBits ,
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@molly0xfff Diddy is next. He's building a ballroom for the release party.

Was Changpeng in jail? I thought he was a Chinese national who was recalled after serving like 4 months in the slammer.

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@molly0xfff so what was the pardon for? Can he visit the states now? Is it allowed to run a US business?

@TechCrunch@mstdn.social avatar TechCrunch , to random

Cloud monitoring platform Datadog launched Updog, a web dashboard that shows the live health status of various SaaS APIs. https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/whats-updog-datadogs-new-tool-tells-you-which-apps-are-down/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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@TechCrunch nothing much, what's up with you?

@kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange avatar kevinrothrock , to random

nothing from George Orwell or Terry Gilliam rivals the horror that is today's LinkedIn copy

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@kevinrothrock "I wanna exploit you and I need you to be excited about it"

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

Newsletter: Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-94/

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@molly0xfff I generally don't think we should fully conflate Trump, his $ETH based $TRUMP "coin" and Bitcoin $BTC. Even with that said i do believe he is using blockchains to get bribes.

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@molly0xfff not saying you specifically are but the general public 💯 percent does. They see "crypto""BTC""ETH""$trump" as interchangeable. I'd personally like to see more public account tagging and blockchain forensics as I'm sure some kind of crime is happening with the Melania coin (and others) you mentioned. My concern is that if someone does prove something fishy will it ever make it to court?

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange avatar JessTheUnstill , to random

A pretty cool thing about the Fediverse:

It will still be around in a decade. Even two decades.

Usenet still exists. IRC still exists. Email still exists. When you build platforms on open protocols and standards, it doesn't actually matter what corporations try and do to enshittify it. So long as there are people who are still willing to run instances, and users who still want to talk to one another without going through some corporation's platform, it'll still be here.

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@JessTheUnstill the wants to be and wants to be free.

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

the more i read contemporary crime novels the more i'm tempted to start a consultancy for crime fiction novelists who incorporate crypto into their writing

this must be how doctors feel watching medical dramas

"But his genius was an algorithm that layered the transactions through the dark web, making his scheme virtually untraceable."

🙃

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@molly0xfff just keep it short and write "she did some untraceable computer shit, bing bang boom"

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

this is such bs. Making devs to pay for interview tools is sketchy in my book. You should never have to pay anything in order to interview. Period.

A Reddit post titled "Company wants me to use Cursor for interview" from the r/cursor subreddit. The post discusses a live coding interview where the user is asked to use the Cursor tool, which is an AI-powered code editor. The user expresses concern about having to pay for the tool and questions whether this is a common practice.
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@nixCraft most jobs that have you complete a crazy coding interview isn't worth it to begin with.

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random
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@molly0xfff to be fair the last image isn't that bad

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@molly0xfff to be fair IS side stepping the Banks.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

Last month when it came out Pete Hegseth was doing big group Signal chats sharing operational details of ongoing military strikes, my first thought was "wait, if they're using Signal how are they complying with the Presidential Records Act?"

We now have the answer to that question: "they're using a dodgy, apparently insecure fork of Signal to log the messages". Whether this is better or worse than simply violating government retention rules is a matter of perspective.

https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/114434692665724143

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@mcc from an company...

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@malwaretech@infosec.exchange avatar malwaretech , to random

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    @malwaretech he's doing this to prep for a third term. I hope some individual has the balls to stop this.

    "It was stolen so I get to do this now."

    @TechCrunch@mstdn.social avatar TechCrunch , to random

    A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse https://tcrn.ch/4leYbwZ

    MeaningfulBits ,
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    @TechCrunch take threads out of this article image. They arent a full participant in the fediverse and they definitely don't need legal funds or support.

    If actually argure they ate doing their best handicap the .

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    Why the incessant crypto nihilism? It's all so tiring tbh.

    Tweet by Molly White @molly0xFFF we attempted to create a theft-free crypto ecosystem, but unfortunately could not create a sustainable business model around it Quoted tweet by Harpie @harpieio We're grateful for everyone that used Harpie. We attempted to create a theft-free crypto ecosystem, but unfortunately could not create a sustainable business model around it. We hope that we inspired new companies to take the torch of solving this problem. Reply by pray.eth (🦙,🦙) @pray_eth Why the incessant crypto nihilism? It's all so tiring tbh.
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    Just me watching @molly0xfff clown a dweeb knowing I'm also a crypto dweeb...

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    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    Newsletter: The real threat isn't AI using open knowledge — it's AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free. The future of free and open access isn't saying “wait, not like that” — it’s saying "yes, like that, but under fair terms”.

    https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/

    MeaningfulBits ,
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    @molly0xfff We're planting trees who's shade we'll never experience.

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , (edited ) to random

    I'm keen to move as much of my stack as I can away from US tech. Any European-based, GDPR compliant / privacy forward podcast apps out there?

    DuckDuckGo is proving remarkably unhelpful and just listing podcasts about privacy...

    Edit: as in, clients for me to use

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