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News stories trending in the Fediverse 

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

404MEDIA.CO • 290 shares • 7 sources
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Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in Action

MACRUMORS.COM • 192 shares • 13 sources
#3 TRENDING

‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit

404MEDIA.CO • 246 shares • 7 sources
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Bosses Horrified as "AI Native" College Graduates Hit the Workplace

FUTURISM.COM • 39 shares • 9 sources
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Man charged with sharing asylum seeker addresses in Thetford

BBC.CO.UK • 74 shares • 16 sources
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The National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed

404MEDIA.CO • 89 shares • 7 sources
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Flipping the kill switch: I survived 72 hours without US tech

POLITICO.EU • 59 shares • 14 sources
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Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

ARSTECHNICA.COM • 69 shares • 16 sources
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Camera Traps Reveal Iberian Lynxes Soaking Their Prey, a First-Ever Discovery Among Carnivores

SMITHSONIANMAG.COM • 49 shares • 8 sources
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X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds

404MEDIA.CO • 103 shares • 7 sources

Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.

PROPUBLICA.ORG • 89 shares • 15 sources

We need to care about Trump’s CIA murdering fishermen on the high seas | Will Bunch

INQUIRER.COM • 50 shares • 11 sources

Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI

THEREGISTER.COM • 42 shares • 12 sources

5.0: Laying the foundation

BLOG.JOINMASTODON.ORG • 151 shares • 12 sources

DHS's abuse of power in Minnesota was even worse than we knew

PUBLICNOTICE.CO • 52 shares • 6 sources

ICE pitches legal insurance to help shield local officers who make immigration arrests

APNEWS.COM • 64 shares • 17 sources

Texas Maternal Mortality Committee's Next Report Will Skip Post-'Roe' Deaths. Lawmakers Suspect Political Influence.

TEXASOBSERVER.ORG • 58 shares • 11 sources

Sainsbury's branch pauses AI cameras use after shopper ejected

BBC.CO.UK • 9 shares • 16 sources

ABC Files First Amendment Lawsuit Against FCC

VARIETY.COM • 28 shares • 11 sources

Mexico’s Olinia 1 Is a Homegrown EV Built for the Country's Streets

SPECTRUM.IEEE.ORG • 32 shares • 6 sources

Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods appear in leaked video

THEVERGE.COM • 24 shares • 16 sources

Is the World Getting Uglier?

TIME.COM • 24 shares • 16 sources

UK 'supports Ukraine 100%', Burnham says, after Russia's drone warning

BBC.CO.UK • 28 shares • 14 sources

ABC Files First Amendment Lawsuit Against FCC

DEADLINE.COM • 27 shares • 8 sources

Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US

WIRED.COM • 21 shares • 14 sources

Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To

WIRED.COM • 16 shares • 16 sources

Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians

WIRED.COM • 17 shares • 14 sources

Elon Musk broke the FAA — Palantir is picking up the pieces

THEVERGE.COM • 21 shares • 16 sources

Comcast is turning millions of its routers into motion detectors

THEVERGE.COM • 21 shares • 16 sources

The Wrong Kind of American

THEATLANTIC.COM • 18 shares • 7 sources

At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.

PROPUBLICA.ORG • 10 shares • 14 sources

Instead of selling, business owner donates company to trust for charity

PBS.ORG • 31 shares • 9 sources

Turns Out We Blew Up All Those Boats in the Caribbean for Nothing

ESQUIRE.COM • 27 shares • 9 sources

Biological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum – a biologist explains how it’s multidimensional

THECONVERSATION.COM • 39 shares • 8 sources

Internet-Connected Pet Feeders Go Down, Leaving Kitties Hungry

FUTURISM.COM • 36 shares • 8 sources

Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on its lands, won't support projects without consultation — energy and water consumption, air quality, noise, and cultural resource protection among concerns

TOMSHARDWARE.COM • 29 shares • 6 sources

Google’s Pet Memory forgot who my cats are

THEVERGE.COM • 16 shares • 11 sources

Fairphone’s latest repairable phone is going on sale in the US

THEVERGE.COM • 16 shares • 13 sources

Is Coyote vs. Acme really great or do people just hate David Zaslav?

THEVERGE.COM • 16 shares • 12 sources

Trump’s threat of 100% import tariff on UK ‘not a bluff’, US trade tsar warns

INDEPENDENT.CO.UK • 17 shares • 13 sources

Justice Department asks court to reinstate criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

CBSNEWS.COM • 25 shares • 6 sources

Free bus travel for disabled people in England to be extended to 24 hours a day

BBC.CO.UK • 21 shares • 14 sources

R.I.P. Columbia House: Here’s How It Improbably Survived This Long

GIZMODO.COM • 14 shares • 15 sources

Trump's slight of South Korea in favor of the North raises broader US security concerns

APNEWS.COM • 18 shares • 13 sources

Polaroid’s new Pokémon collection captures memories, not Pikachus

THEVERGE.COM • 15 shares • 8 sources

Trump Humiliated After SCOTUS Sides With Nemesis Again

THEDAILYBEAST.COM • 11 shares • 9 sources

The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People

TECHPOLICY.PRESS • 12 shares • 9 sources

We still don’t know how people are really using AI

TECHNOLOGYREVIEW.COM • 15 shares • 6 sources

"Suckers and losers" as policy

PUBLICNOTICE.CO • 12 shares • 6 sources

That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial

PROPUBLICA.ORG • 11 shares • 11 sources

Mitch McConnell is getting more paid time off than women who give birth

NEWSWEEK.COM • 14 shares • 7 sources

Too Little, Too Late: Flock Admits Their Technology Needs Reforms

EFF.ORG • 16 shares • 12 sources

Couple initially told to pay cancellation fee for cable, internet after wildfire destroys home

CTVNEWS.CA • 20 shares • 6 sources

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with new safety features

BBC.CO.UK • 15 shares • 11 sources

AI to help planes avoid climate-warming contrails above North Atlantic

BBC.CO.UK • 14 shares • 13 sources

Mediators wait for Iran-Oman Hormuz deal; Israel kills six people in Gaza

ALJAZEERA.COM • 20 shares • 7 sources

Breast cancer patients in Gaza face barriers to diagnosis and treatment

ALJAZEERA.COM • 14 shares • 7 sources

The Short Life of a Newborn During the Iran War

THEINTERCEPT.COM • 17 shares • 6 sources

ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.

THEINTERCEPT.COM • 20 shares • 8 sources

Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk

THECONVERSATION.COM • 16 shares • 7 sources

At Long Last, Americans Are Starting to See the Truth About the GOP

NEWREPUBLIC.COM • 9 shares • 12 sources

Over one-fifth of Russian LNG exports protected by EU's Greek sanctions exemption

KYIVINDEPENDENT.COM • 17 shares • 6 sources

The Economy Has Spoken: Stuff That's AI-Generated Has Almost Zero Value

FUTURISM.COM • 15 shares • 6 sources

Follow-Up Thoughts on Watermarking Schemes for AI-Generated Text

DARINGFIREBALL.NET • 16 shares • 6 sources

Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked

ARSTECHNICA.COM • 14 shares • 10 sources

Trump dwarfs his predecessors in the number of ultra-rich in his second White House, report shows

APNEWS.COM • 11 shares • 12 sources

Trump blames vandals for damaged grass in the spot where he held his big July 4 celebration

APNEWS.COM • 5 shares • 14 sources

Trump says US has no talks planned with Iran and other news from the Middle East

APNEWS.COM • 11 shares • 10 sources

A federal judge blocks Idaho from prosecuting doctors for health-protecting abortions

APNEWS.COM • 14 shares • 9 sources

AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

APNEWS.COM • 2 shares • 17 sources

ABC sues FCC over challenge to its broadcast licenses, saying actions present 'existential threat'

APNEWS.COM • 11 shares • 11 sources

Oops! My cat is an iPad kid

THEVERGE.COM • 12 shares • 6 sources

YouTube is changing how it counts views to give the numbers a boost

THEVERGE.COM • 7 shares • 9 sources

University of Houston Is Gutting Its Gender and Sexuality Classes. That Won’t Stop Texas' Crusade Against Higher Ed.

TEXASOBSERVER.ORG • 1 shares • 7 sources

Indigenous Group Sues to Stop Big Bend Border Wall on Religious Grounds

TEXASOBSERVER.ORG • 0 shares • 7 sources

Andrew Whitley: Flour to the People

RNZ.CO.NZ • 0 shares • 6 sources

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

PROPUBLICA.ORG • 13 shares • 7 sources

Hakeem Jeffries says he doesn't support Medicare for All or DSA agenda

NEWSWEEK.COM • 1 shares • 11 sources

Why Climateflation Will Drive Food Prices More Than War

FORBES.COM • 0 shares • 13 sources

Kanye 'Ye' West to perform in Russia - a first since invasion of Ukraine in 2022

EURONEWS.COM • 11 shares • 6 sources

Revealed: Cyber spies used malware from GitHub to hack EncroChat cryptophone network | Computer Weekly

COMPUTERWEEKLY.COM • 7 shares • 6 sources

Second-largest reservoir in US plunges to a record low | CNN

CNN.COM • 1 shares • 7 sources

Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

BLEEPINGCOMPUTER.COM • 1 shares • 6 sources

Trump threatens to bomb US ally Oman if it 'gets in the way' over Iran deal

BBC.CO.UK • 1 shares • 6 sources

Ebola outbreak in DR Congo becomes deadliest in its history

BBC.CO.UK • 0 shares • 12 sources

One dead and hundreds ill in UK salmonella outbreak

BBC.CO.UK • 10 shares • 9 sources

Man who rates benches on Instagram gives first ever 10/10 score

BBC.CO.UK • 11 shares • 9 sources

Parents pushed to breaking point by Child Maintenance Service, BBC told

BBC.CO.UK • 1 shares • 10 sources

Israeli settler children attack ambulance in occupied West Bank

ALJAZEERA.COM • 15 shares • 6 sources

Israeli minister calls for killing ’30 to 40′ Palestinians in Gaza nightly

ALJAZEERA.COM • 0 shares • 12 sources

Hollywood Failed Hayden Panettiere

VARIETY.COM • 2 shares • 9 sources

ICE Worked With Iranian Regime to Set Up Deportation Flights as Trump Laid Plans for War

THEINTERCEPT.COM • 12 shares • 6 sources

And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

SHKSPR.MOBI • 4 shares • 8 sources

Jonathan Schofield (@urlyman@mastodon.social)

MASTODON.SOCIAL • 0 shares • 11 sources

jwz (@jwz@mastodon.social)

MASTODON.SOCIAL • 1 shares • 11 sources

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

FUTURISM.COM • 2 shares • 8 sources

Meet the only known trebuchet casualty in history

ARSTECHNICA.COM • 13 shares • 7 sources

After killing hundreds in boat strikes, US military expands campaign on land in Latin America

APNEWS.COM • 5 shares • 7 sources

Trump administration briefly pauses contentious border project in Texas' Big Bend National Park

APNEWS.COM • 5 shares • 7 sources

Judge blocks the Trump administration from moving FBI headquarters to DC office building

APNEWS.COM • 14 shares • 6 sources

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Generated: 2026-08-18 09:24:41 PDT

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