"I was just scammed for $500K by Polymarket."(xcancel.com)

12 points by int32_64 4 months ago | 1 comments

Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police(twitter.com)

346 points by I_am_tiberius 4 months ago | 305 comments

A thread by Danish privacy activist and former police officer Lars Andersen describing his arrest after masked police broke down his door over publishing the PM's personal numbers.

BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork(xcancel.com)

355 points by Tomte 5 months ago | 132 comments

Josef Prusa's X thread (via xcancel) alleging BambuStudio violates PrusaSlicer's AGPL license and linking it to Chinese national intelligence and data laws.

A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran(twitter.com)

90 points by doener 7 months ago | 60 comments

Claude Opus 4.8 Max responding to an empty message(xcancel.com)

16 points by frb 4 months ago | 0 comments

I resigned from Anthropic today(twitter.com)

540 points by yurivish 1 month ago | 696 comments

Twitter/X thread (via xcancel) by Jacob Coxon announcing his resignation from Anthropic, arguing AI labs are racing irresponsibly toward superintelligence.

Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech(nonogra.ph)

885 points by arkhiver 3 months ago | 523 comments

An anonymous opinion post arguing that age verification laws in the US, Europe, and Australia are a precursor to tying online speech to people's real identities.

The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online(eff.org)

579 points by bilsbie 4 months ago | 473 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Joe Mullin arguing that the proposed KIDS Act would require age verification checks for people to get online.

I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services(neilzone.co.uk)

905 points by speckx 7 months ago | 554 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author can think of few online services for which he would be willing to verify his identity or age, amid policy proposals for age checks.

EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google(reddit.com)

892 points by cft 1 year ago | 520 comments

A Reddit r/degoogle post about the EU age verification app reportedly refusing to run on Android systems not licensed by Google; the page shows a network block.

EU age verification app not planning desktop support(github.com)

517 points by sschueller 1 year ago | 355 comments

A closed GitHub issue on the EU age verification technical specification repo raising usability concerns, including the assumption that everyone owns a smartphone.

Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults(cnbc.com)

589 points by bilsbie 7 months ago | 315 comments

CNBC article on how online age-verification tools spreading across the U.S. for child safety are leading to surveillance of adults.