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Google kills Tenor GIF API, forcing changes at X, Discord, and more

Tenor still connects to Google apps, but other platforms must look elsewhere for GIFs.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/google-kills-tenor-gif-api-forcing-changes-at-x-discord-and-more/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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Joseph Cox 16h ago

Buy 404 Media's course:

https://www.404media.co/how-i-bought-a-private-jet-by-selling-10-subscriptions-to-404-media/

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Jay Kuo 1d ago

Link: https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/katie-phang-is-a-bad-ass?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Katie Phang Is A Badass

Did a journalist / lawyer just crack the Epstein files?

The Status Kuo

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If this project is new to you, maybe read through it and prepare a hunt. No reason. Just a typical happy Monday.

https://github.com/Revertron/Alfis

This software provides:

Tiny and peer-to-peer synchronized database of domain names. The consistency of this database is based on blockchain technology that prevents retroactive changing of data, and has strict cryptographical consensus.
DNS server with cache and enhanced security features. It resolves the domains from database and forwards all regular DNS-requests to some other resolver – your router, Google DNS, Cloudflare DNS, or AdGuard DNS (if you want to block ads and trackers).
Other systems need you to organize and run several DNS-servers to resolve their domains and regular domains, we have both in one. Moreover, ALFIS can forward requests of regular domains to DNS-over-HTTPS server. The security and privacy is right here.
Convenient graphical user interface to create domains in this alternative domain system. If you want just to use it like a DNS-server you can run it with -n flag or just build/download the variant without GUI.

GitHub - Revertron/Alfis: Alternative Free Identity System

Alternative Free Identity System. Contribute to Revertron/Alfis development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

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BrianKrebs 1d ago

This bit from today's NYT gets to the "we're all trying to find the guy responsible" scapegoat aspect of blaming mistakes on AI agents and treating them as employees. From the story:

"Emma Wiles, a Boston University professor who studies how A.I. affects workers, stumbled onto this phenomenon in October, at a conference where two human resources executives said that treating A.I. agents like real employees was a way to increase productivity and to put their companies on the cutting edge.

But when Dr. Wiles and three collaborators from Boston Consulting Group investigated further, they discovered a pitfall. In an experiment involving dozens of companies with A.I. employees, the researchers found that managers tended to vet documents less carefully when told an A.I. employee had produced them. The managers missed errors that other managers caught when told they were vetting the work of a human.

Dr. Wiles speculated that managers didn’t think sussing out mistakes made by A.I. employees was their responsibility. If something went wrong, they could dismiss it as the fault of the tech team, or of the executives who wanted A.I. employees in the first place. “But it’s not your problem,” she said, channeling the managers’ mind-set about their own roles."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/business/artificial-intelligence-workplace-consequences.html

A.I. ‘Employees’ Might Disrupt Work in Unexpected Ways

Scholars say the “unknown unknowns” of using artificial intelligence in the workplace may be undermining the technology’s advertised benefits.

The New York Times

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stroz (he/him)1d ago

Alright, looking for some #antifascist pins to put on a backpack/conference lanyard/what have you. Can be traditional with the safety pin or die cast.

Anybody have good store suggestions? I'd love to have a three arrows pin, for sure (bonus for making it as fucking LGBTQ+ as possible)

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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1d ago

🚨Congress could vote on the KIDS Act today. The bill will push websites towards demanding to know users’ ages, whether through more data collection or error-prone age estimation. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-force-age-checks-online

Tell Congress: Don’t Force Age Checks Online

Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sweeping internet bill that would pressure websites and apps to determine users’ ages before allowing them to read websites, send private messages, or participate in online communities.

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ProPublica Guild 1d ago

Podcast producer Sabby Robinson knows firsthand how important layoff protections are in a union contract: “I started about 3 months ago, right after I got laid off from the Washington Post.”

We deserve seniority-based layoff protections that are standard across the news industry.

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Hacker News 1d ago

Mullvad's co-founder is bankrolling the far right
L: https://korben.info/en/mullvad-cofounder-funding-far-right.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722366
posted on 2026.06.29 at 13:38:23 (c=0, p=3)

Mullvad's co-founder is funding the far right - Korben

Daniel Berntsson is the co-founder of Mullvad, a highly regarded Swedish VPN service. That reputation may be about to change, however, since we just ...

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