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Digital Circus: The Last Act popcorn tubs & souvenir cups are coming to select participating major US Theatres! Quench your dread with these designs crafted with love by daddy Bubble. Limited supplies only - Check with your local cinema for more info!

Google Chrome is quietly downloading a roughly 4 GB AI model to many users’ computers without clear upfront consent. The file, called weights.bin, is part of Google’s Gemini Nano on-device language model and lands in the browser’s user data folder under OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It powers built-in AI tools such as “Help me write,” smarter tab suggestions, on-device scam detection, and page summarization. The download triggers automatically for devices meeting minimum hardware requirements, and Chrome often replaces the files if deleted. While the model processes data locally, installation happens in the background with minimal notification. The scale is noteworthy. Hundreds of millions or billions of installations add up to thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions globally from data transfer, even though each is a one-time event. To prevent or remove it, go to chrome://flags, disable the entries for the optimization guide on-device model and Prompt API, restart the browser, and manually delete the folder.

Body transfer illusion is the illusion of owning a part of a body other than one's own. This is the famous rubber hand experiment and it tricks your brain. [📹 Adley and Story House Media]

Apple has officially announced age verification across multiple countries and US states. More and more countries will likely follow suit. 2026 will be the year that the world's governments try to rip away your privacy.

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Discord is postponing the rollout of its age-verification system to later this year after facing backlash.

We need to stop using industry-friendly PR terms like “age verification” and call it what it is: Digital ID