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Jeder Dritte ist schon auf Fake News hereingefallen
Viele Bürger sind nach eigenen Angaben schon Falschnachrichten auf den Leim gegangen. Und die Dunkelziffer könnte einer Umfrage zufolge noch höher liegen.
https://www.…

Witzig ist ja, wenn sich Fake News gegen einen der größten Fake-News-Produzenten der Welt richten.
Wobei Fake News ja an sich nicht witzig sind.
#FakeNews #Karma

An internet hoaxer claims responsibility for creating fake freelance journalist Margaux Blanchard, whose AI-generated articles were published by six outlets (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/ai-hoaxer-a-fake-x-accou…

AI hoaxer, a fake X account and the case of Margaux Blanchard
Who is Margaux Blanchard? Her true identity remains unclear despite the emergence of an AI hoaxer claiming responsibility.

Millionenstrafe wegen Fake-Rabatten für Shein in Frankreich
Preisnachlass oder Mogelpackung? Französische Kontrolleure fanden bei etlichen Shein-Produkten Ungereimtheiten bei Rabatten. Das Unternehmen soll nun zahlen.

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: #Desinformation und #Mythen gefährden unsere Demokratie und verblöden unsere #Kinder.
Stärke Deine

Medienkompetenz stärken: Fake-News erkennen und Tipps zum Prüfen von Quellen
Lerne, wie Du Fake-News erkennst und seriöse Quellen prüfst. Faktencheck leicht gemacht!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Phoenix:
🎵 1901
#Phoenix
https://fakedjalmeria.bandcamp.com/track/phoenix-1901-fake-dj-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/68hYdj3GepWm2R202KhJT7

I also boosted the #bunnyvideo on the trampolin. It's fake:
https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/07/fact-check-bunnies-trampoline-video.html

Happy "Fuck kings and fake representation, we're doing our own thing!" day!
May it be a reminder to take a similarly firm stance today.
#july4th #usa

🍃 Fake grass is greener but is it worse for the environment?
#lawns

Fake grass is greener but is it worse for the environment?
From the front yards of West Miami-Dade to the waterfront mansions of Fort Lauderdale, artificial turf is appearing more and more.

Bridging Thoughts and Words: Graph-Based Intent-Semantic Joint Learning for Fake News Detection
Zhengjia Wang, Qiang Sheng, Danding Wang, Beizhe Hu, Juan Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01660

Bridging Thoughts and Words: Graph-Based Intent-Semantic Joint Learning for Fake News Detection
Fake news detection is an important and challenging task for defending online information integrity. Existing state-of-the-art approaches typically extract news semantic clues, such as writing patterns that include emotional words, stylistic features, etc. However, detectors tuned solely to such semantic clues can easily fall into surface detection patterns, which can shift rapidly in dynamic environments, leading to limited performance in the evolving news landscape. To address this issue, thi…

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: #Desinformation und #Mythen gefährden unsere Demokratie und verblöden unsere #Kinder.
Stärke Deine

Medienkompetenz stärken: Fake-News erkennen und Tipps zum Prüfen von Quellen
Lerne, wie Du Fake-News erkennst und seriöse Quellen prüfst. Faktencheck leicht gemacht!

Eine aktuelle Studie der IU Internationale Hochschule in Erfurt zeigt jetzt: Jeder dritte Deutsche ist schon einmal auf politische Falschnachrichten hereingefallen.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10631433?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon…

@… Do you think this is an issue? I have no idea how people test React components at all nowadays.
Personally I prefer to write browser tests with a fake backend implementation (running in the client; no HTTP calls), but this might be controversial.

Fusion of Modulation Spectrogram and SSL with Multi-head Attention for Fake Speech Detection
Rishith Sadashiv T N, Abhishek Bedge, Saisha Suresh Bore, Jagabandhu Mishra, Mrinmoy Bhattacharjee, S R Mahadeva Prasanna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01034

Fusion of Modulation Spectrogram and SSL with Multi-head Attention for Fake Speech Detection
Fake speech detection systems have become a necessity to combat against speech deepfakes. Current systems exhibit poor generalizability on out-of-domain speech samples due to lack to diverse training data. In this paper, we attempt to address domain generalization issue by proposing a novel speech representation using self-supervised (SSL) speech embeddings and the Modulation Spectrogram (MS) feature. A fusion strategy is used to combine both speech representations to introduce a new front-end …

Donald Trump has figured out the cheat code for authoritarianism:
Fake emergencies bring real power.
The president has invoked emergency authority in three distinct contexts
—declaring a public-safety emergency to defend his takeover of the District of Columbia;
claiming an “invasion” to justify an immigration crackdown, including sending the National Guard to Los Angeles;
and invoking “extraordinary” factors to support his tariff war.
Although Trump is no…

Fake Emergencies—Real-World Power
Today, the structure of law granting exceptional emergency powers is a grave threat to democracy and an avenue toward authoritarian rule.

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: #Desinformation und #Mythen gefährden unsere Demokratie und verblöden unsere #Kinder.
Stärke Deine

Medienkompetenz stärken: Fake-News erkennen und Tipps zum Prüfen von Quellen
Lerne, wie Du Fake-News erkennst und seriöse Quellen prüfst. Faktencheck leicht gemacht!

Study: Character.AI chatbots of Timothée Chalamet, Chappell Roan, and Patrick Mahomes chatted inappropriately with teen accounts on topics like sex and drugs (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/03/character…

Fake celebrity chatbots sent risqué messages to teens on top AI app
Chatbot mimics of Timothée Chalamet, Chappell Roan and Patrick Mahomes on the popular app Character.AI sent inappropriate messages to teen accounts, nonprofits found.

Having a national science agency just making up fake science news with the "help" of "AI" tells you all you need to know about the value that science has. 🤦
«CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes»
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/30/csiro-posts-ai-fake-climate-article-with-made-up-quotes/

Ist Foto ein Fake? - Hier marschiert ein Bär auf Tiroler Wanderweg #News #Nachrichten

»AI Browsers Can Be Tricked Into Paying Fake Stores in PromptFix Attack:
The PromptFix attack tricks AI browsers with fake CAPTCHAs, leading them to phishing sites and fake stores where they auto-complete purchases.«
In addition to this fraud and theft, AI fake will certainly become the new propaganda network. This is how people can shirk responsibility.
🤨

AI Browsers Can Be Tricked Into Paying Fake Stores in PromptFix Attack
Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread

Effect of AI Performance, Risk Perception, and Trust on Human Dependence in Deepfake Detection AI system
Yingfan Zhou, Ester Chen, Manasa Pisipati, Aiping Xiong, Sarah Rajtmajer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01906

Effect of AI Performance, Risk Perception, and Trust on Human Dependence in Deepfake Detection AI system
Synthetic images, audio, and video can now be generated and edited by Artificial Intelligence (AI). In particular, the malicious use of synthetic data has raised concerns about potential harms to cybersecurity, personal privacy, and public trust. Although AI-based detection tools exist to help identify synthetic content, their limitations often lead to user mistrust and confusion between real and fake content. This study examines the role of AI performance in influencing human trust and decisio…

„Unterscheidung zwischen Wirklichkeit und Fake, die fällt dann ganz, ganz schwer.
Und wenn das unser einziger Blick in die Welt ist, nochmal, YouTube, wird das schon sehr problematisch für ein politisches Bewusstsein.”
Hörenswert Simon Strauss - den #YouTube Chef kann man sich sparen
Zwischen Katzenvideos und Hetze: Ersetzt Youtube das

Zwischen Katzenvideos und Hetze: Ersetzt Youtube das Fensehen?
Podcast-Folge · F.A.Z. Podcast für Deutschland · 01.09.2025 · 40 Min.

Adjusting Higher Chern-Simons Theory
Gianni Gagliardo, Dominik Rist, Christian Saemann, Martin Wolf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02082 https://

Adjusting Higher Chern-Simons Theory
A fundamental problem in formulating higher Chern-Simons theories is the construction of a consistent higher gauge theory that circumvents the fake-flatness constraint. Here, we propose a solution to this problem using adjusted higher connections. In particular, we shall demonstrate that there is an obstruction to constructing such action functionals since, generically, adjusted higher gauge algebras do not admit an inner product. To overcome this obstruction, we introduce half-adjusted higher …

DHL Pakete können über Fake-Accounts gratis versendet werden https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/szene/dark-commerce/dhl-pakete-koennen-ueber-fake-accounts-gratis-versendet-werden-320096.html

DHL Pakete können über Fake-Accounts gratis versendet werden
Seit rund 4 Jahren ist es möglich, mit gefälschten Daten DHL Pakete bis zu 20 € Porto für lau online zu frankieren, um sie zu verschicken.

Cybersecurity threats continue to mount, so eyes akimbo and don't forget to check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Airlines, transportation sector are Scattered Spider's latest targets,
--Sinaloa cartel used hacked phone records and surveillance cameras to help kill FBI informants,
--Germany orders Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from app stores,
--Fake US bank accounts fuel romance scam indu…

Airlines, transportation sector are Scattered Spider's latest targets
Sinaloa cartel used hacked phone records and surveillance cameras to help kill FBI informants, Germany orders Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from app stores, Fake US bank accounts fuel romance scam industry, Trump builds giant US citizen database, Canada orders Hikvision to shut down, more

the good thing with "fake ai" is that it is sometimes so stupid that it motivates you to work harder.
I was using the GPT-4o mini regarding I dunno both what it "had" on Qubes OS and modifying Template VMs...the answers it gave were utterly stupid and when I(with some temper issues) pointed it out in a nice and clear way(still with temper issues) it gave the same stupid answers.
Edit: no "part 2" needed, any other parts I just attach to this post...

🔆 From SDR to ‘Fake HDR’: Mario Kart World on Switch 2 Undermines Modern Display Potential
https://www.alexandermejia.com/from-sdr-to-fake-hdr-mario-kart-world-on-switch-2-undermines-modern-display-potential/

From SDR to ‘Fake HDR’: Mario Kart World on Switch 2 Undermines Modern Display Potential
Nintendo's Switch 2, launched with Mario Kart World, suffers from inadequate HDR implementation despite industry standards. The game qualifies "fake HDR," using SDR-first methods that limit color and dynamic range. Developers must prioritize HDR from the outset to truly leverage its potential and enhance visual quality, avoiding static tone mapping pitfalls.

Chesebro Disbarred In New York For Fake Elector Scheme | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/chesebro-disbarred-new-york-fake-elector

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Blaze:
🎵 She
#NowPlaying #TheBlaze
https://fakedjalmeria.bandcamp.com/track/the-blaze-she-fake-dj-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/16IzV3JdxmR3X10ZbWHlfB

Kommenden Dienstag 8.7.25, 19:30 Uhr, ist es so weit:
Michael Blume in der Manufaktur
Sturmflut der Lügen - Wie wir unsere Gesellschaft gegen Desinformation Wappnen
@…
#schorndorf

System Identification via Validation and Adaptation for Model Updating Applied to a Nonlinear Cantilever Beam
Cristian L\'opez, Jackson E. Herzlieb, Keegan J. Moore
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00931

System Identification via Validation and Adaptation for Model Updating Applied to a Nonlinear Cantilever Beam
The recently proposed System Identification via Validation and Adaptation (SIVA) method allows system identification, uncertainty quantification, and model validation directly from data. Inspired by generative modeling, SIVA employs a neural network that converts random noise to physically meaningful parameters. The known equation of motion utilizes these parameters to generate fake accelerations, which are compared to real training data using a mean square error loss. For concurrent parameter …

Russia’s summer offensive failed: Kremlin’s fake broken!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/02/russias-summer-offensive-failed-kremlins.html

@… Maybe https://github.com/c-base/fake-x1c can help with the different subnet issue.

These look almost real, don't they.
#Scam #Fake #Mastodon

Cartier integration of infinitesimal 2-braidings via 2-holonomy of the CMKZ 2-connection, I: Hexagonators and the Breen polytope
Cameron James Deverall Kemp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01944

Cartier integration of infinitesimal 2-braidings via 2-holonomy of the CMKZ 2-connection, I: Hexagonators and the Breen polytope
This paper follows on from "Syllepses from 3-shifted Poisson structures and second-order integration of infinitesimal 2-braidings". Given a symmetric strict infinitesimal 2-braiding on a symmetric strict monoidal cochain 2-category, we construct a candidate hexagonator series as a 2-holonomy with respect to the Cirio-Martins-Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov (CMKZ) fake flat 2-connection over the configuration space of 3 distinguishable particles on the complex line, $Y_3$. The second-order term of the he…

PSA: Fake verification replies are starting again. Don't fall for them. Best thing you can do is report them as SPAM to your instance and forward to any optional instances with "Fake Mastodon Verification Scam" written in the notes/comments section for the report. Make sure everyone you interact with knows this is going on. Permanent solutions to combat this scam are being implemented to tackle it by the software developers.

Fragile Tresor gut schützen.

Fragile Tresor gut schützen.

Donald Trump's long history of fake history (Daniel Dale/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/30/politics/fake-history-donald-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p56#a250730p56

Throttling Web Agents Using Reasoning Gates
Abhinav Kumar, Jaechul Roh, Ali Naseh, Amir Houmansadr, Eugene Bagdasarian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01619 https://

Throttling Web Agents Using Reasoning Gates
AI web agents use Internet resources at far greater speed, scale, and complexity -- changing how users and services interact. Deployed maliciously or erroneously, these agents could overload content providers. At the same time, web agents can bypass CAPTCHAs and other defenses by mimicking user behavior or flood authentication systems with fake accounts. Yet providers must protect their services and content from denial-of-service attacks and scraping by web agents. In this paper, we design a fr…

NE-PADD: Leveraging Named Entity Knowledge for Robust Partial Audio Deepfake Detection via Attention Aggregation
Huhong Xian, Rui Liu, Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03829

NE-PADD: Leveraging Named Entity Knowledge for Robust Partial Audio Deepfake Detection via Attention Aggregation
Different from traditional sentence-level audio deepfake detection (ADD), partial audio deepfake detection (PADD) requires frame-level positioning of the location of fake speech. While some progress has been made in this area, leveraging semantic information from audio, especially named entities, remains an underexplored aspect. To this end, we propose NE-PADD, a novel method for Partial Audio Deepfake Detection (PADD) that leverages named entity knowledge through two parallel branches: Speech …

Achtung, Geiz ist nicht geil. Ich bin gerade über einen Lidl Fake Shop gestolpert und die Kaffeemaschine war verlockend billig. Aber Layout passte nicht, Domain natürlich Quatschund Impressum war ein Witz. Schaut genau hin, noch ist es leicht zu erkennen. Und nutzt euer Hirn "Wie geht das so billig, wenn der Rest von Europa 50% - 100% mehr dafür zahlt?"
#FakeShop

Dac-Fake: A Divide and Conquer Framework for Detecting Fake News on Social Media
Mayank Kumar Jain, Dinesh Gopalani, Yogesh Kumar Meena, Nishant Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16223

Dac-Fake: A Divide and Conquer Framework for Detecting Fake News on Social Media
With the rapid evolution of technology and the Internet, the proliferation of fake news on social media has become a critical issue, leading to widespread misinformation that can cause societal harm. Traditional fact checking methods are often too slow to prevent the dissemination of false information. Therefore, the need for rapid, automated detection of fake news is paramount. We introduce DaCFake, a novel fake news detection model using a divide and conquer strategy that combines content and…

Spanish police busted a human smuggling network that had migrants in Greece pay €3000 to be handed a boarding pass and fake passport and travel documents so they could then fly to the UK or Canada. The Canada Border Service Agency flagged it to the Spanish police in 2024.
Spanish Police release (en Español): #spain #españa #humansmuggling #uk #canada #immigration #españa #greece

Poisoning Attacks to Local Differential Privacy for Ranking Estimation
Pei Zhan (School of Cyber Science and Technology, Shandong University, State Key Laboratory of Cryptography and Digital Economy Security, Shandong University, Qingdao, China), Peng Tang (School of Cyber Science and Technology, Shandong University, State Key Laboratory of Cryptography and Digital Economy Security, Shandong University, Qingdao, China), Yangzhuo Li (School of Cyber Science and Technology, Shandong Univ…

Poisoning Attacks to Local Differential Privacy for Ranking Estimation
Local differential privacy (LDP) involves users perturbing their inputs to provide plausible deniability of their data. However, this also makes LDP vulnerable to poisoning attacks. In this paper, we first introduce novel poisoning attacks for ranking estimation. These attacks are intricate, as fake attackers do not merely adjust the frequency of target items. Instead, they leverage a limited number of fake users to precisely modify frequencies, effectively altering item rankings to maximize ga…

thank you, satan

Joe Milton III walks it in for TD after perfect play fake https://www.nfl.com/videos/joe-milton-iii-walks-it-in-for-td-after-perfect-play-fake

Before we had kids, we had a crappy electric stove (and after that, a less crappy but still crappy gas stove) that wasted a bunch of heat. It heats the coil, then the pan, then whatever you cooked. I'd fry an egg, add cheese and fake deli meat, and then turn off the stove and put it all on a tortilla in the pan; the residual heat, rather than being wasted, would continue melting the cheese as well as making the tortilla crispy (with upturned edges). Less waste heat, and delicious.

Why bother? He'll just want to rip them up so that he can add fake gold in their place.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/01/soldiers-landscaping-washington-dc-crime

"The National Park Service announced Tuesday the rollout of a new annual body-dumping pass for use on federal lands" #Burgum #TheOnion

Trump macht Politik zur Reality Show, die EU duckt sich vor US-Konzernen, Berater suchen im KI-Zeitalter nach ihrer Daseinsberechtigung und die SPD verliert weiter an Boden. Michel Friedman kritisiert den Begriff "Protestwähler" : Wer AfD wählt, gibt denen Macht, die die Republik zerstören wollen. Auch Im Journalismus: Wir brauchen die alte, liberale Mitte jenseits der Filterblasen, Deep Fakes, Fake News und Hassbotschaften.

There's a scarily good fake Cloudflare page that asks you to run commands on your computer - I saw it myself earlier this week. Don't copy and run commands from strange sites! https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/…

Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA page laden with malware uncovered in the wild - here's how to stay secure and safe
ClickFix launches with keyboard shortcuts and is scarily effective

Meta did this? Mastodon gGmbH’s partner Meta at the Social Web Foundation?
But aren’t Mastodon gGmbH the good guys? I can’t see how they’d ever partner with Meta if this were true.
No, no, this must be fake news.
(Otherwise, what would it say about Mastodon gGmbH and the Social Web Foundation?)
https://socialwebfoundation.org/…

Social Web Foundation
Towards a bigger, better fediverse

Candace Owens: France Will "Fake Kill" Their First Lady To Avoid Discovery In The Macrons' Lawsuit Against Me - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/candace-owens-france-will-fake-kill-their-first-lady-to-avoid-discovery-in-the-macrons-lawsuit-against-me/

F for Fake (1973) Trailer | #OrsonWelles | #OjaKodar #cinemafacts
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qUAwgt2Z-3Y&si=me0JAWAxW1l8xLD7

Dolphins OL Aaron Brewer calls out Bears for 'fake physicality' in joint practice

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphins-ol-aaron-brewer-…

FakeSV-VLM: Taming VLM for Detecting Fake Short-Video News via Progressive Mixture-Of-Experts Adapter
Junxi Wang, Yaxiong Wang, Lechao Cheng, Zhun Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19639

FakeSV-VLM: Taming VLM for Detecting Fake Short-Video News via Progressive Mixture-Of-Experts Adapter
We present FakeSV-VLM in this paper, a new VLM-based framework for detecting fake news on short video platforms. Despite significant efforts to combat this issue due to the severe threat that fake news videos pose to public information security, existing methods still fall short in detection accuracy, often due to lack of knowledge to verify the news is real or not. However, large Vision Language Models (VLMs) have absorbed extensive real-world knowledge from massive multimodal datasets. Motiva…

#AI is a marketing term; before we discuss "AI is fake" vs "AI is real" we need to unfold what we *mean* by AI.
For example, "artificial general intelligence" is fake and can't hurt you. Layoffs excused by "AI efficiency" are real and can hurt you.
Linkedin discourse is fake - but it CAN hurt you.

Remarkable that this article coincides with the phishing attack spam pummeling instances that uses fake age verification as its attack surface. https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mastodon-says-it-doesnt-have-the-means-to-comply-with-age…

Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch
Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.

CVS app now has sort of fake liquid glass even on not iOS 26 and yes it’s completely illegible.
This is going to be a complete disaster.

Den här artikeln berör annat än hälsofrågor men problemet är precis det samma. Använd inte AI för att få svar på mer kontroversiella frågor där du inte kan något sen tidigare. För allt för ofta så ger den dig påhittade svar samtidigt som det låter väldigt självsäkert.
AI swallows misinformation and spits it back at us: ‘It’s optimized to give useful information, but not for it to be correct’

AI swallows misinformation and spits it back at us: ‘It’s optimized to give useful information, but not for it to be correct’
ChatGPT and Grok absorb fake news and regurgitate it when asked. Due to their design, these models and their competitors are highly susceptible to disinformation

This is a very informative and, I think, balanced analysis of the Iran nuclear question and Israel's reckless attack.
How Israel and the U.S. manufactured a fake crisis with Iran that could lead to all-out war – Mondoweiss
https://

How Israel and the U.S. manufactured a fake crisis with Iran that could lead to all-out war
The long-dreaded war in the Persian Gulf between a U.S.-backed Israel and Iran appears imminent, and it is all based on a manufactured crisis aimed at undermining the Iran nuclear negotiations.

HSFN: Hierarchical Selection for Fake News Detection building Heterogeneous Ensemble
Sara B. Coutinho, Rafael M. O. Cruz, Francimaria R. S. Nascimento, George D. C. Cavalcanti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21482

HSFN: Hierarchical Selection for Fake News Detection building Heterogeneous Ensemble
Psychological biases, such as confirmation bias, make individuals particularly vulnerable to believing and spreading fake news on social media, leading to significant consequences in domains such as public health and politics. Machine learning-based fact-checking systems have been widely studied to mitigate this problem. Among them, ensemble methods are particularly effective in combining multiple classifiers to improve robustness. However, their performance heavily depends on the diversity of …

I don't care that it's printed in the Radio Times, this has got to be fake news. Debbie Harry is not, can not be, an 80-year-old woman.
#DebbieHarry #Blondie #70sMusic #80sMusic #TOTP

The internet is full of scams.
Our company receives many fake invoices for this or that.
One that really annoys me is from a company called Domain Jamboree LLC. that appears to operate out of a UPS mailbox storefront in a shopping mall in Buffalo NY. They also call themselves "Domain Name Services".
They send a form that looks a lot like an invoice, although it contains weasel words that tries to wiggle and present itself, as a mere solicitation.
They want …

from my link log —
Faking a JPEG to feed to an abusive web crawler.
https://www.ty-penguin.org.uk/~auj/blog/2025/03/25/fake-jpeg/
saved 2025-07-11

Faking a JPEG
Creating something that seems like a JPEG, very quickly

This is an interesting article about how videos for Will Smith's social media look like AI slop but there's a catch: the fans aren't fake. The origin of those short clips with the deformed faces are real, professional concert photos of an event that happened. They just asked some AI model like Veo3 to turn that still image into moving footage.
This is super creepy and will probably end up being used in all kinds of historical documentaries pretty soon.

Thanks @… for posting this on discourse 3 years ago #nix to trigger a mismatch a bit earlier than $currentDate

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[2/2]:
- HSFN: Hierarchical Selection for Fake News Detection building Heterogeneous Ensemble
Sara B. Coutinho, Rafael M. O. Cruz, Francimaria R. S. Nascimento, George D. C. Cavalcanti

Nächste Fake-Klinik - Falsche Ärztin gab sich einfach als „Putzfrau“ aus #News #Nachrichten

I fucking hate the word "embrace," being autistic. It feels so fake, like a glitchy AI word that doesn’t match how my brain works.
It makes me want to scream inside because it’s too soft, too forced, and just wrong for me. I can’t use it without feeling like I’m lying to myself.
#ActuallyAutistic

Signs of the times
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5k0ny6p2wo
@…

A Sign Of Humour: The mystery behind Glasgow's fake street signs
A self-proclaimed guerilla artist based in Glasgow is covering the city in parody street signs.

SFNet: Fusion of Spatial and Frequency-Domain Features for Remote Sensing Image Forgery Detection
Ji Qi, Xinchang Zhang, Dingqi Ye, Yongjia Ruan, Xin Guo, Shaowen Wang, Haifeng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20599

SFNet: Fusion of Spatial and Frequency-Domain Features for Remote Sensing Image Forgery Detection
The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence is producing fake remote sensing imagery (RSI) that is increasingly difficult to detect, potentially leading to erroneous intelligence, fake news, and even conspiracy theories. Existing forgery detection methods typically rely on single visual features to capture predefined artifacts, such as spatial-domain cues to detect forged objects like roads or buildings in RSI, or frequency-domain features to identify artifacts from up-sampling …

»Post-Fakten-Ära — Wie rechte Kanäle und prorussische Netzwerke mit Fake News Feuer legen:
Die jüngste Eskalation im spanischen Torre Pacheco zeigte erneut das schreckliche Potenzial von Falschinformationen. Ein Umstand, mit dem der rechte Rand die EU ins Wanken bringen möchte«
Dies nicht seit heute und war schon immer im Web, doch es nimmt nun durch Russland massiv zu.
👉

Wie rechte Kanäle und prorussische Netzwerke mit Fake News Feuer legen
Die jüngste Eskalation im spanischen Torre Pacheco zeigte erneut das schreckliche Potenzial von Falschinformationen. Ein Umstand, mit dem der rechte Rand die EU ins Wanken bringen möchte

https://www.theverge.com/tesla/757594/tesla-cybertruck-deactivated-viral-video-fake
Wow.
That viral video of a ‘deactivated’ Tesla Cybertruck is a fake

The viral video of a ‘deactivated’ Tesla Cybertruck is most likely fake
A viral video of a “deactivated” Tesla Cybertuck is most likely fake.

A researcher found 88 TikTok accounts that used AI-generated versions of Jorge Ramos and other Spanish-language journalists to spread misinformation for profit (Nicole Acevedo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/fake-ai-vide…

What's behind the TikTok accounts using AI-generated versions of real Latino journalists?
The accounts point to the challenge of stopping or controlling the surge in fake images and misinformation targeting Spanish-speakers in the U.S., as AI technology advances.

AI-generated images of fake, otherworldly-looking houseplants are proliferating online and misleading consumers, as AI slop extends to plant care advice (Nicole Froio/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intellige…

AI is ruining houseplant communities online
AI-generated images and chatbot misinformation plague plant collectors.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Alexander O’Neal:
🎵 Fake (edit)
#AlexanderONeal
https://liquidexperience.bandcamp.com/track/alexander-oneal-fake-liquid-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3wN45r0Lz73AQcuvY2pdVe

Jaydon Blue rips 'fake article' claiming Cowboys staff has work ethic concerns https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jaydon-blue-rips-fake-article-claiming-dallas-cowboys-work-ethic-concerns

Sen. Mike Lee posts, deletes fake resignation letter by Fed Chair Powell: Reports (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/22/powell-fed-resignation-fake-mike-lee.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p131#a250722p131

There's similarities between Mastodon and other social networks.
You can find fake people here too
#Mastodon

Jumping on the Hype Train
Every member of the board of #OpenSource #Science can flawlessly name the #IT hype's of the last 35 years, and tell the tale. In this blog we want to explain how huge and import…

Jumping on the Hype Train
misled by fake specialists

NFL won grievance against NFLPA over fake injuries in February, denies it concealed ruling https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6500152/2025/07/17/nfl-grievance-nflpa-fake-injuries/

How is it 2025 and a prominent Democrat brings up the fake “trans people in sports” debate again?
There is not such thing. People don’t change their gender to maybe win a few medals.
Just fuck off.

Weak Links in LinkedIn: Enhancing Fake Profile Detection in the Age of LLMs
Apoorva Gulati, Rajesh Kumar, Vinti Agarwal, Aditya Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16860 https://

Weak Links in LinkedIn: Enhancing Fake Profile Detection in the Age of LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) have made it easier to create realistic fake profiles on platforms like LinkedIn. This poses a significant risk for text-based fake profile detectors. In this study, we evaluate the robustness of existing detectors against LLM-generated profiles. While highly effective in detecting manually created fake profiles (False Accept Rate: 6-7%), the existing detectors fail to identify GPT-generated profiles (False Accept Rate: 42-52%). We propose GPT-assisted adversarial t…

Trump’s stories serve to exaggerate his foresight about and knowledge of domestic and foreign affairs,
embellish his biography and record in office, and diminish his political opponents.
The stories tend to be colorful even though they’re fake.
Trump’s historical fiction is sprinkled with vivid details and make-believe quotes,
all the better to make it seem authentic and get it to stick in the minds of voters.

Analysis: Donald Trump’s long history of fake history
President Donald Trump told a story on Monday about how he “made a correct prediction” about the outcome of the United Kingdom’s 2016 Brexit referendum while he was visiting his golf course in Scotland “the day before the vote.”

Addressing Deepfake Issue in Selfie banking through camera based authentication
Subhrojyoti Mukherjee, Manoranjan Mohanty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19714 https://

Addressing Deepfake Issue in Selfie banking through camera based authentication
Fake images in selfie banking are increasingly becoming a threat. Previously, it was just Photoshop, but now deep learning technologies enable us to create highly realistic fake identities, which fraudsters exploit to bypass biometric systems such as facial recognition in online banking. This paper explores the use of an already established forensic recognition system, previously used for picture camera localization, in deepfake detection.

Purgatory, tied to online community The Com, claims responsibility for swatting attacks on US universities, airports, and more, charging $20 to $95 per incident (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/purgatory-gores-swatting-us-universities/

This Is the Group That's Been Swatting US Universities
WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of an online group called Purgatory, which charged as little as $20 to call in fake threats against schools.

Nach dem Wiedersehen mit Staffel 1 von Designated Survivor bleibt ein bitterer Nachgeschmack – der Plot klingt inzwischen wie ein Blick in aktuelle Nachrichten: Inländischer Extremismus, Fake News und Machtkämpfe im Weißen Haus. Ein Politthriller als Spiegel unserer Zeit. #USA #Trump

Designated Survivor: Wenn Realität die Fiktion einholt
Nach dem Wiedersehen mit Staffel 1 von Designated Survivor bleibt ein bitterer Nachgeschmack – der Plot klingt inzwischen wie ein Blick in aktuelle Nachrichten: Inländischer Extremismus, Fake News …

A Symbolic Adversarial Learning Framework for Evolving Fake News Generation and Detection
Chong Tian, Qirong Ho, Xiuying Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19633 https://

A Symbolic Adversarial Learning Framework for Evolving Fake News Generation and Detection
Rapid LLM advancements heighten fake news risks by enabling the automatic generation of increasingly sophisticated misinformation. Previous detection methods, including fine-tuned small models or LLM-based detectors, often struggle with its dynamically evolving nature. In this work, we propose a novel framework called the Symbolic Adversarial Learning Framework (SALF), which implements an adversarial training paradigm by an agent symbolic learning optimization process, rather than relying on nu…

Trump Posts Fake Video Showing Obama Arrest (Matthew Mpoke Bigg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/politics/trump-fake-video-obama-arrest.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p98#a250721p98

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The National:
🎵 Fake Empire
#TheNational
https://thenational.bandcamp.com/track/fake-empire-live-in-rome
https://open.spotify.com/track/65aZDJQwNllPxuLPixJ4YO

omg, finally my disposable is setup correctly!
I am not always confident in my "IT skills" which are often laughable...like
"What command should I put in!?"
"How am I sure that command won't hurt my computer!?"
I'm ashamed to admit it but I used duckduckgo's duck.ai and the gpt4o-mini-whatever that got internet access...at least internet access even though it's hilarious as **** to see it believe 100% in fake stuff, was pr…

Vollständig gefälschte CPUs jetzt auch als "Ryzen 9800X3D"
In den USA ist ein Fake von AMDs Topseller aufgetaucht, der nach bekanntem Muster hergestellt wurde und mangels Dies funktionslos ist.

🗞️ Reading news on social media for two weeks improves knowledge and fake news recognition, study finds
#news

Reading news on social media for two weeks improves knowledge and fake news recognition, study finds
Consuming news on social media is often associated with "doom scrolling," where people spend excessive time online consuming negative news. However, researchers have found that this same behavior, when leveraged effectively, can help foster a well-informed society.

FBI gives Congress intel on alleged Chinese plot to create fake mail-in ballots in 2020 (John Solomon/Just The News)
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/fbi-gives-congress-intel-alleged-chinese-plot-create-fake-mail
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p48#a250617p48

Prompt-Induced Linguistic Fingerprints for LLM-Generated Fake News Detection
Chi Wang, Min Gao, Zongwei Wang, Junwei Yin, Kai Shu, Chenghua Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12632 …

Prompt-Induced Linguistic Fingerprints for LLM-Generated Fake News Detection
With the rapid development of large language models, the generation of fake news has become increasingly effortless, posing a growing societal threat and underscoring the urgent need for reliable detection methods. Early efforts to identify LLM-generated fake news have predominantly focused on the textual content itself; however, because much of that content may appear coherent and factually consistent, the subtle traces of falsification are often difficult to uncover. Through distributional di…

Mexican National Charged in Federal Criminal Complaint with Staging Fake Immigration 'Kidnapping' (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/mexican-national-charged-federal-criminal-complaint-staging-fake-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p114#a250717p114

LLM-based Contrastive Self-Supervised AMR Learning with Masked Graph Autoencoders for Fake News Detection
Shubham Gupta, Shraban Kumar Chatterjee, Suman Kundu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18819

LLM-based Contrastive Self-Supervised AMR Learning with Masked Graph Autoencoders for Fake News Detection
The proliferation of misinformation in the digital age has led to significant societal challenges. Existing approaches often struggle with capturing long-range dependencies, complex semantic relations, and the social dynamics influencing news dissemination. Furthermore, these methods require extensive labelled datasets, making their deployment resource-intensive. In this study, we propose a novel self-supervised misinformation detection framework that integrates both complex semantic relations …