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Fake Bitdefender website used to spread infostealer malware https://therecord.media/fake-bitdefender-website-venomrat-infostealer

For example:
- Telling apart photos of cats and dogs is “AI.”
- Making up fake but plausible facts on an arbitrary topic is “AI.”
- Walking is “AI.”
- Doing long multiplication is something we might call “intelligence” in humans, but it is not “AI” because computers have •always• been good at it.
- Winning at checkers •used• to be “AI” because computers didn’t used to be able to do that, but now it’s not “AI” because computers have been good at it for too long.
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TACO with fake ear wound

AI-generated political fanfiction videos that feature political stars and look like breaking news are proliferating in places like Mr. Noah's Stories on YouTube (David Weigel/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/28/2025/a…

AI-powered political fanfiction racks up views online
Fake stories about real politicians sometimes get more views than real-world reporting that’s not built for the algorithms.

Beware diluted, fake, scam "degrowth". Insist on the real thing.
New piece in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series.
"Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam" – #degrowthUK

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospect…

Fake-Bewertungen, Betrug und Manipulation im App Store: Apple nennt Zahlen
Apples stark frequentierter App Store lockt auch Betrüger in großem Stil. Der Konzern nennt neue Zahlen zu seinen Anti-Scam-Maßnahmen.

Beyond just predicting words, LLMs interpolate meaning between data points, as in the recent phenomenon of AI explaining fake idioms like "you can’t lick a badger twice." The danger is that made-up "truths" will fuel future models
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For example:
- Telling apart photos of cats and dogs is “AI.”
- Making up fake but plausible facts on an arbitrary topic is “AI.”
- Walking is “AI.”
- Doing long multiplication is something we might call “intelligence” in humans, but it is not “AI” because computers have •always• been good at it.
- Winning at checkers •used• to be “AI” because computers didn’t used to be able to do that, but now it’s not “AI” because computers have been good at it for too long.
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uspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.

I noticed yesterday that if you call Wells Fargo that their announcement now says "Your call may be recorded *or analyzed*"
Oh, and Wells also added that fake typing sound to their awful call-tree. What, do they think that we believe we are talking to a real person who is typing at a keyboard?

How fake news can turn against its spreader
Dorje C. Brody, Tomooki Yuasa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17820 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504…

Financing abstract expressionism was #odd enough, but the #CIA also ran a fake #StarWars fansite to communicate with its foreign assets:

Spotting fake science journals https://clinmedjournals.org/articles/cmrcr/clinical-medical-reviews-and-case-reports-cmrcr-10-420.php?jid=cmrcr "It is worth noting that while these findings may be intriguing,…

Google warns of Vietnam-based hackers using bogus AI video generators to spread malware https://therecord.media/malvertising-vietnam-hackers-fake-ai-video-generators

#Proofreading is dead.
I feel like I've said this earlier. 🤔
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/chicago-sun-time…

Feds: Just change your State's whole way of doing things and make your ID's "Real ID". That way we can be sure they aren't fake.
Also Feds: This "Real ID" looks fake, we're deporting you!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-ci…

U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed in Alabama immigration raid and held before release
A U.S.-born citizen who was wrestled into the dirt, handcuffed and detained in a vehicle as part of an immigration raid had a REAL ID on him that was dismissed as fake, the man's cousin said Friday.

#NVIDIA = fake reviews of fake frames.
Fortunately, reputable card reviewers refused to publish misleading bribed content:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiekGcwaIho

Modeling the Impact of Misinformation Dynamics on Antimicrobial Resistance
Laurance Fakih, Andrei Halanay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21540 https://

Modeling the Impact of Misinformation Dynamics on Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrobial Resistance (RAM) poses a significant threat to global public health, making important medicines less useful. While the medical and biological reasons behind RAM are well studied, we still don't know enough about how false health information affects people's actions, which can speed up RAM. This study presents a new mathematical model to investigate the complex interplay between the spread of misinformation and the dynamics of RAM. We adapt a multi-strain fake news model, including…

Identitätsklau auf Social Media nimmt rasant zu: Prominente wie Marcel Fratzscher kämpfen gegen bis zu 20 Fake-Profile, die mit gestohlenem Namen dubiose Anlagetipps verbreiten. Strafanzeigen verlaufen meist im Sand, Plattformen wie Meta und X reagieren kaum, Gesetzgeber auch nicht. Der digitale Raum wird zum „Raum der Gesetzlosigkeit“. Identitätsdiebstahl ist längst Massenphänomen. (Volker Hirth, #tagesschau

Hahaha, I saw my first and likely only Swasticar Cybertruck IRL. Importing one of those to Argentina requires being a special type of stupid.
Beyond all the well-known issues with the cars, why would you import it to a country with zero electric car infrastructure? Got a nice fake Offroad vehicle that you can charge at home there. 😅

"...the emails manage to bypass the DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) authentication that would normally flag fake emails, because they came from Google’s own tool."
https://www.theverge.com/news/652509/google-no-reply-dkim-phishing-scam

This prick is always wrong.
LD_PRELOAD rules, paper coming soon!
(Yep it’s fake but I don’t care lol)

I was attacked two days ago in Newton MA by a self-described "terrorist hunter" with a fake Nazi license plate (mv 1488 MA) on his white pickup: while I was riding my bike he intentionally doored me, and then later punched me in the face. See https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/E8mOzkf1

Diese ganzen Fake Beiträge in den Sozialen Medien werden immer mehr und fangen an zu nerven. Hier ein guter Bericht dazu.
https://youtu.be/HlyXgH11VMY?si=yZfwjFt21AOWwliq

Hahaha, I saw my first and likely only Swasticar Cybertruck IRL. Importing one of those to Argentina requires being a special type of stupid.
Beyond all the well-known issues with the cars, why would you import it to a country with zero electric car infrastructure? Got a nice fake Offroad vehicle that you can charge at home there. 😅

Jetzt wissen wir alle inzwischen, dass #ElonMusk mit dem, was früher mal #Wahrheit genannt wurde, eine sehr interessante und spannungsvolle Beziehung unterhält.
Anscheinend stehen ihm jedoch nicht alle

Merci ans Fotomuseum Winterthur fürs Vertrauen und die unterdessen 6 Millionen Views (12 Millionen Eyeballs)
https://www.blick.ch/digital/ki-video-mit-trump-deepfake-geht-viral-die-schweiz-existiert-nicht-id20846382.ht…

Got my first call from "PECO" (local electric company) threatening to disconnect my service. I was pretty sure it was fake from the start, but when they gave me an address that 1) I haven't lived at since 2008, and 2) didn't have any utilities in my name....
Up your game, fellas...

That is a nothing burger pumped up by the fake mews media. He just confused the Declaration of Independence with Brexit, that is all.

Unser virales "Switzerland is Fake" Video hat auf allen Kanälen 4,2 Millionen Views gesammelt. Ist eine Zusammenarbeit mit dem Fotomuseum Winterthur, das am 17. Mai endlich wieder auf geht. (Winterthur existiert natürlich auch nicht).
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ub02Si5T9lI…