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Research: The whole Reddit has become more negative over time. Also, the longer the community exists, the more negative it get — and the longer a comment thread continues, the more negative it becomes

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1336543/research-the-whole-reddit-has-become-more-negative-over-time-also-the-longer-the-communi

The best Spotify alternatives to ease your conscience

Flock Safety privacy changes: retention cut to seven days

Flock Safety privacy changes cut data retention from 30 days to seven and make search audits compulsory, after dozens of police abuse cases.

Twitch finally lets you opt out of AI training, years after it started

'Author: OpenAI': Missouri lawmakers' proposed AI rules were written by AI, metadata shows

PayPal Honey Under Fire: Affiliate Tracking Lawsuit Moves Forward

PayPal’s Honey browser extension is facing ongoing litigation over allegations that it interfered with affiliate attribution and redirected commissions from content creators. The case has now moved beyond the latest motion-to-dismiss stage. I broke down the alleged affiliate-ID replacement mechanism, Honey’s alleged stand-down behavior, the affiliate-network fallout, and what the June 2026 court ruling actually means.

Sourced from MegaLag’s part 3 update of honey video

The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

Plaintiff busted trying to use AI prompt injection to win court case, hides text instruction in filing — demands AI model reviewing the text should side with him, rumbled because of strange white spa…

Full title: Plaintiff busted trying to use AI prompt injection to win court case, hides text instruction in filing — demands AI model reviewing the text should side with him, rumbled because of strange white spaces in text

Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia

Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation

Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed

This feels like bad design

Smart pet-feeder company Petlibro suffered an outage on Tuesday, giving users a harsh reminder of the risks of relying on smart devices.

Petlibro makes pet feeders that connect to Wi-Fi and, for setup with Petlibro’s mobile companion app, Bluetooth. Users can set the feeders to automatically dispense food at scheduled times, which is handy for pet care when the owner is out of the home.

In a statement to The Verge, Petlibro CEO York Wu said this week’s outage was “related to how the Petlibro app communicates with devices through its online servers.”

Some user reports have also conflicted with Petlibro’s claims about offline functionality. As The Verge pointed out, various users online claimed that during the outage, their devices did not perform any scheduled feedings, performed some feedings but not others, or performed feedings late (examples here, here, here, here, and here).

Could AI create a ‘permanent underclass’?

Brave improves protections against GPU fingerprinting

AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, But Almost No One Is Buying Them

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

Google Turns On Gemini A.I. for Students Using Its Classroom App

Google enabled A.I. features for K-12 schools that have allowed student access to Gemini. Until this week, Google automatically enabled Gemini in Classroom only for students 18 or older.

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Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out – Krebs on Security

Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party