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“I went undercover as a secret #OnlyFans chat specialist.” @brendankoerner joined a rotating cast of low-wage workers pretending to be online influencer girlfriends. wired.com/story/i-went-u…

Forget the S&P 500. Look at the ice cream. This investor visits homes around the world to see where diets—and economies—will go next. trib.al/JlLtM1X

The US Wants to Integrate the Commercial Space Industry With Its Military to Prevent Cyber Attacks trib.al/pi6nE0o

Security News This Week: Google Is Piloting Face Recognition for Office Security trib.al/JiEKhzx

Surprise! The Latest ‘Comprehensive’ US Privacy Bill Is Doomed trib.al/7HTildC

Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand trib.al/y5oHW5D

Inside a Violent Gang's Ruthless Crypto-Stealing Home Invasion Spree trib.al/tZAjOoP

Illia Polosukhin doesn't want big companies to determine the future of artificial intelligence. His alternative vision for “user-owned AI” is already starting to take shape. trib.al/3Pf8SRf

Bland AI’s customer services and sales bot is the latest example of “human-washing” in AI. Experts warn against the consequences of blurred reality. trib.al/yCTjZoE

With polls suggesting voters are about to swing toward the far right or hard left, the AI industry is starting to freak out. trib.al/30EkBmt

Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse trib.al/72qBxMf

Having humans rate a language model’s outputs produced clever chatbots. OpenAI says adding AI to the loop could help make them even smarter and more reliable. trib.al/sqHcvat

Hany Farid, a leading expert on image and video manipulation, says that detecting deepfakes will take more than AI alone. trib.al/AMc0zjW

War Crime Prosecutions Enter a New Digital Age trib.al/zeEgv0Z

Members of the activist group No Tech for Apartheid interrupted a senior Amazon executive's speech at a conference in Washington, DC, on Wednesday over the company's Project Nimbus cloud contract. trib.al/qCdXS60

Don't pack your bags without taking us along for the ride. trib.al/qUYz9ly

The group's new autonomous ride-hailing service has a 43-inch widescreen, 17-speaker audio system, and five-position reclining seats. But will it beat Tesla's rival coming in August? trib.al/cpKBegC

The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over trib.al/xJwDUjx

Deepfake Creators Are Revictimizing GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Survivors trib.al/gVXfb8j

The European Union has issued competition charges against Microsoft, accusing it of illegally linking Teams with Office. trib.al/nAohYdO

The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling trib.al/k5YsPYV