If Silicon Valley is a cutthroat place, the AI industry is currently its most vicious arena. Tech giants developing large language models and text-to-video generators are spending billions on data centers in order to stay one step ahead — and, they hope, to meet exploding demand from users. It seems …
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An investigation is underway in Oklahoma after a television screen in the MAGA state school superintendent’s office reportedly showed a video of nude women during an executive session of the State Board of Education on Thursday. The images reportedly appeared on a screen in the office of Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s …
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is reintroducing her bill to provide civil recourse for survivors of nonconsensual sexually-explicit deepfakes. Ocasio-Cortez is co-leading the bicameral bill with Rep. Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act was originally …
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Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Internal Revenue Service, Billy Long, is famous for mixing it up on the social media platform X, previously Twitter. Representing Missouri in the House, Long once earned the title of Congress’ most prolific tweeter. A Rolling Stone audit of Long’s social media diet on …
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Last December, Chinese-based publisher NetEase Games released Marvel Rivals, a multiplayer shooter featuring a huge roster of iconic (and some lesser-known) heroes from the comic monolith. Brilliantly, Rivals’ gameplay mimics a once-dominant, now-struggling hero shooter known as Overwatch, and the Marvel multiplayer game immediately shot to the top of Steam …
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It’s not every day that the highest court in the land talks about the constitutional laws around pornography, but such cases have regularly made for landmark rulings. And should today’s Supreme Court arguments about an age-verification law for websites like Pornhub go down in history, future legal scholars will be …
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Every week, there’s a new main character on the internet. And last Monday, that main character was a good-natured Australian himbo with an eight-inch-long, seven-inch-circumferenced penis. The aptly dubbed Girthmasterr (technically it’s with two “Rs” at the end) went viral after being interviewed in a man-on-the-street TikTok segment promoting a …
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Elon Musk took over Twitter promising to rid the platform of what he described as its biggest problem: bots. In his characteristic fashion, he not only failed to make good on his word, but the paid verification system he claimed would solve the issue pushed more fake accounts into users’ …
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Dusty Deevers is a fundamentalist preacher. He’s also a state senator. And he insists he doesn’t see “any firewalls” between his two roles — as he crusades to outlaw porn, end what he decries as the “abortion holocaust,” and abolish no-fault divorce in Oklahoma. He argues that the sole purpose …
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Adult performer Jesse Jane, the porn actor who famously starred in the XXX movie franchise Pirates — the most expensive adult film of all time —was found dead on Wednesday of an apparent overdose. She was 43 years old. According to TMZ, authorities responded to a call for a welfare …
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