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"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."
(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)

Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage
iNaturalist is a website that crowdsources pictures of plants and animals to help identify species. Its tagline is “A Community for Naturalists.” iNaturalist is administered by its own small charit…

LegalOn, whose contract review tool uses AI to identify risks and suggest edits, raised a $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $200M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/softbank-backed-legalon-fuels-ai…

SoftBank-backed LegalOn lands $50M to streamline legal workflows with AI | TechCrunch
LegalOn, which provides AI-powered contract review software for legal teams, has raised $50 million in a Series C round.

Drei chinesische Gruppen als Angreifer auf Sharepoint-Server identifiziert
Eine Analyse von Microsoft nennt drei verschiedene Gruppen aus China als Angreifer auf die jüngste Sharepoint-Lücke. Dabei dürfte es aber nicht bleiben.

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https://www.axios.com/2025/07/23/microsoft-sharepoint-400-victims-china-cyberattacks
More than 400 systems compromised in Microsoft hacking spree, researchers find

More than 400 systems compromised in Microsoft hacking spree, researchers find
That's up from the roughly 60 victims that researchers had identified two days ago.

LGBTQ leader: Dems should talk about 'kitchen table issues, not about identity' (Dustin Gardiner/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/24/lgbtq-leader-dems-kitchen-table-issues-not-identity-00419552
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p87#a250624p87

Top 25 NFL players 25 and under for 2025: Bengals' Ja'Marr Chase headlines list; four Lions crack top 10

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/t…

X is testing using Community Notes to highlight posts that are liked by users with different perspectives (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/x-to-test-using-community-notes-to-find-the-posts-everyone-likes/

X to test using Community Notes to find the posts everyone likes | TechCrunch
X is piloting a new feature that will help to identify the platform's best posts. The system is similar to how Community Notes fact-checking works.

Building an All-Bargain Team from Prisco's Top 100 NFL players of 2025: Lions, Rams, Vikings offer big steals

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/…

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity end a 2022 project offering free cybersecurity tools to critical infrastructure sectors at risk from Russian attacks (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/…

Cyber firms sunset free services meant to counter Russia-linked hacking threats
The 2022 initiative by Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity provided cybersecurity support to critical infrastructure sectors seen as potential targets of Russia-linked attacks.