On “the Most Real Place on the Internet,” Upvotes Cost 2 Cents
Reddit sells ads and AI licences on ‘human conversation’ but only checks for a human when it already suspects a bot. 40 cents of bought upvotes gets a planted post into ChatGPT’s range.
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The Future of AI Runs on Your Laptop Not in a Data Centre
Novaknown’s forecast: rented AI goes the way of the 1960s computer utility. OpenAI lost $9.3bn in a quarter and halved Pro usage at the same $200, while a 32GB laptop already runs a capable model offline.
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Binance’s $6.36bn Hack: Only Coins With an Off Switch Were Stopped
Tether and Circle switched off $1.8bn of the stolen Binance money in 40 minutes. The $2.4bn now sitting in ETH and BTC is headed for North Korea, and nobody can freeze it.
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Airbnb Spent $12.6M on the LA Officials Who Regulate It
Airbnb’s biggest LA election bet: millions to unseat the city attorney suing it over wildfire price gouging. Its rule could nearly double LA’s legal short-term rentals, taken from renters.
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MonsterCloud Allegedly Paid the Ransoms Police Hired It to Refuse
Police departments and sheriff’s offices that would not give taxpayer money to criminals hired MonsterCloud, a Florida ransomware recovery firm,…
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Michigan’s ‘Trusted Reporting’ Site Is a GOP Super PAC Attack Ad
Senate Leadership Fund, the main Republican super PAC for Senate races, has spent $59,400 to $76,815 on Facebook and Instagram…
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Fear the Migrants, Pay the Donors: One Playbook, Five Countries
Donald Trump made immigration his most-advertised issue in 2024. In office he signed a law that gives America’s richest tenth…
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Hackers Used Staples’ Own Help Desk to Mint $5M in Gift Cards
Hackers got into Staples’ internal customer-service system from outside the company. There they took over the logged-in sessions of its…
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TikTok’s ‘Error’ Lasted Exactly One Musk Opening Weekend
TikTok shut off paid advertising for Alex Gibney’s documentary Musk on Friday, October 16, the day the film expanded from…
