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AI slop, shared by thousands of prolific accounts, is brute forcing virality, and platforms like Meta embrace it; some AI videos get 350M+ views (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: AI slop, shared by thousands of prolific accounts, is brute forcing virality, and platforms like Meta embrace it; some AI

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Morgan Marquis-Boire, the once-celebrated hacker accused of sexual assaults in 2017, is the undisclosed co-founder of crypto intelligence firm Unciphered (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: Morgan Marquis-Boire, the once-celebrated hacker accused of sexual assaults in 2017, is the undisclosed co-founder of crypto intelligence firm Unciphered 

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Sources: VCs with "locked" tokens are working with market makers to hedge their positions; Tokenomist: 2024's largest unlocks brought $5.4B+ into circulation (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)

Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: Sources: VCs with “locked” tokens are working with market makers to hedge their positions; Tokenomist: 2024’s largest unlocks brought $5.4B+ into

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A look at YouTube's origins, growth, and domination as the platform turns 20, including an interview with CEO Neal Mohan, who is nearing 10 years at the company (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: A look at YouTube’s origins, growth, and domination as the platform turns 20, including an interview with CEO Neal Mohan, who

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Nintendo wins a final victory over French file sharing company Dstorage, which means European file sharing services must now remove illegal copies of its games (Tom Phillips/Eurogamer.net)

Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: Nintendo wins a final victory over French file sharing company Dstorage, which means European file sharing services must now remove illegal

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An in-depth look at Apple's AI crisis, as some in Apple's AI division believe that a true conversational "LLM Siri" won't be ready until iOS 20 at best in 2027 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: An in-depth look at Apple’s AI crisis, as some in Apple’s AI division believe that a true conversational “LLM Siri” won’t

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Meta apologizes and says it had fixed an "error" that resulted in some Instagram users seeing violent and graphic content in their Reels recommendations (Dylan Butts/CNBC)

Dylan Butts / CNBC: Meta apologizes and says it had fixed an “error” that resulted in some Instagram users seeing violent and graphic content in

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Meta rolls out Meta AI in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the UAE, and Yemen, and adds language support for Arabic (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Meta rolls out Meta AI in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the UAE, and Yemen, and adds

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ZachXBT: crypto exchange Bybit has experienced $1.46B worth of "suspicious outflows"; Bybit CEO confirms hacker took control of cold ETH wallet (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: ZachXBT: crypto exchange Bybit has experienced $1.46B worth of “suspicious outflows”; Bybit CEO confirms hacker took control of cold ETH wallet 

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Tel Aviv- and New York-based Blockaid, which offers crypto security tools, raised a $50M Series B led by Ribbit and says it stopped 71M attacks in 2024 (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv- and New York-based Blockaid, which offers crypto security tools, raised a $50M Series B led by Ribbit and says