In this gripping docuseries social media influencers join a management company accused of acting like a cult

#SocialMedia #TikTok #Netflix #CoSoTV

Dancing for the devil: the 7m TikTok cult

https://youtu.be/-CCG5RXbtwc

North Korea building cash reserves using ransomware, video games

Microsoft says Kim’s hermit nation is pivoting to latest tools as it evolves in cyberspace

#CoSoGaming #Gamers #CoSec

https://theregister.com/2024/05/29/north_korea_using_ransomware_and/

Black Mirror?

China's machine-gun-toting robo-dogs are not unique, nor is its approach to the binary beasts. the US military has explored the same idea and, like China, wants a human to pull the trigger rather than letting robot dogs with machine guns off the leash

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/quadruped_dogs_gun_xm7/

China has shown off a pair of robot dogs – one of them toting a machine gun and the other powered by AI.

https://youtu.be/YMnkqY98Cyo

State broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) posted news of the digital hounds earlier this week -

Windows 12 marketing dev team

#CoSec humor 😆

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@process @thedisasterautist @BlueStateBabe @BreakingNews the deal isn't finalised yet

The deal will still need to be approved by shareholders at IDS’s next annual general meeting in September. The potential sale has attracted considerable scrutiny and could yet be blocked by the government under the National Security and Investment Act.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/royal-mail-takeover-daniel-kretinsky-owner-deal-b2552988.html

Government could block it outright

there's more! Microsoft's announcement sneaks in a mention that Intel and Tencent have worked together on an upgraded Android engine that will allow mobile apps running under Windows to take advantage of PC hardware

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/29/microsoft_tencent_china_appstore_link/

Meanwhile: #Microsoft

Tencent and Microsoft have struck a deal that will see the Chinese gaming giant's Android wares available on the Microsoft Store, and playable on Windows PCs.

/nosanitize

https://news.microsoft.com/zh-cn/%e8%85%be%e8%ae%af%e5%ba%94%e7%94%a8%e5%ae%9d%e4%b8%8e-microsoft-store-%e8%be%be%e6%88%90%e5%90%88%e4%bd%9c%ef%bc%8cwindows-%e5%8f%af%e7%9b%b4%e6%8e%a5%e8%bf%90%e8%a1%8c%e7%a7%bb%e5%8a%a8%e5%ba%94/
A Microsoft China announcement explains the deal means Windows users can install mobile apps on their PCs. It quotes Tencent veep Lin Songtao expressing his enthusiasm about the size of the PC market, and plans to help developers to ensure their products run in Microsoft's OS.

Closing arguments

https://youtu.be/GmFxv-ES9gk

The Trump lawyers strategy was, from the beginning, 'he only needs one' is definitely what they planned IMO

Debunking of trump defense argument

https://youtu.be/3gOX2SStMfU

Well that took 2.3 secs 😂

Lefties losing it YouTube channel is feckin hilarious 😂😂😂

https://youtu.be/869ngUFARNM

🤨 I'm done caring what people think but some people are just asking to be mocked these days 😂

When the Wall Street Journal tested the big chatbots across a wide variety of criteria, it ranked Google third, after the upstart Perplexity and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.(perplexity is the best IMO it has its own search engine)

#AI

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112103925059642891

The Great AI Challenge: We Test Five Top Bots on Useful, Everyday Skills

OpenAI’s ChatGPT competes against Microsoft’s Copilot and Google’s Gemini, along with Perplexity and Anthropic’s Claude. Here’s how they rank.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/ai-chatbots-chatgpt-gemini-copilot-perplexity-claude-f9e40d26

#AI

Google’s AI search setback

The AI Overviews debacle and leaked search ranking documents tell a common story about the web's future — and it's not pretty

https://www.platformer.news/google-ai-overviews-eat-rocks-glue-pizza/

ICYMI

How to stop google AI overviews from showing

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112471842351444457

Wait for it 🤔

https://youtu.be/WCtEkGvNLVU

Listen to the words 😂

some outlets report that the Pope also said that gay people needed kicking out of seminaries whether they acted on their sexual tendencies or not.

¯\(°_o)/¯

Big shift from >> He recently created consternation among Catholic traditionalists by saying priests should be able to bless same-sex couples in some circumstances and has frequently talked of gay people being welcome in the Church.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67751600

some news agencies report that he used derogatory language on more than one occasion

Italian is not the Pope’s first language and he has been known to make mistakes in the past.

Although it was a meeting that happened behind closed doors, the Pope’s reported comments were first conveyed to the Italian investigative website, Dagospia.

Other Italian news agencies have since confirmed the Pope’s words citing numerous sources.

Meanwhile: the pope being a dick

When asked at the Italian Bishops’ Conference if gay men should now be allowed to train for the priesthood as long as they remained celibate, Pope Francis said they should not.

He is then believed to have continued by saying in Italian that there was, in the Church, already too much of an air of frociaggine, which translates as a highly offensive slur

Don't be like the pope 😬