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The European Parliament has temporarily disabled AI features on lawmakers' official devices, citing concerns that sensitive information could be sent outside its secure systems.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/european-parlia…

European Parliament switches off AI features over data fears
The European Parliament has temporarily disabled AI features on lawmakers' official devices, citing concerns that sensitive information could be sent outside its secure systems.

National Today, a site that mimics news outlets and includes subdomains for dozens of US cities, appears to use AI to plagiarize articles from multiple sources (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/national-today-ai-plagiari…

A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale
A PR firm is running a strange AI-fueled plagiarism mill that's ripping off — and mangling — a huge amount of local and national reporting.

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PADD: Some new features!
I've been working on PADD publicly for about a week now. Before that I was hacking on the individual parts (indieauth, micropub, etc.) but I was finally able to put them together in a fun UI and re...

Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.
On the night of 27 February, the day before the US and Israel would carry out strikes on Iran, an unusual influx of about 150 accounts on Polymarket placed bets that the US would strike Iran the next day.
A New York Times analysis found the bets totaled $855,000, with 16 accounts pocketing more than $100,000 each.
Soon after, a single anonymous Polymarket user, under an account named “Magamyman”, made o…

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? — Guardian US
Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

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Future Islands:
🎵 Find Love
#FutureIslands
https://futureislands.bandcamp.com/track/find-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ZbcDWGCVngCgSV8v0Q9gz

8 Quick Actions to Take for Horses #AnimalRights

8 Quick Actions to Take for Horses - PETA UK
Right now, horses are being exploited all over the world for tourism, entertainment, drug manufacturing, and their flesh – here’s how you can help.

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Future Islands:
🎵 Ran
#NowPlaying #FutureIslands
https://futureislands.bandcamp.com/track/ran
https://open.spotify.com/track/7BTaDw9yXTknLItNtuZFgF

How gambling companies like FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as Meta and a16z's founders, are pouring millions into state-level election campaigns via super PACs (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20…

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Future Islands:
🎵 Seasons (Waiting On You)
#FutureIslands
https://futureislands.bandcamp.com/track/seasons-waiting-on-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/522YBf6WqBwJVAe7oHLymu

A profile of OpenTable CEO Debby Soo, who shifted its focus from diners to restaurants; it now seats ~2B diners a year across 65K restaurants, an all-time high (Brent Crane/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20