Officials at TikTok discovered that there was “a high” number of underage streamers receiving a “gift” or “coin” in exchange for stripping — real money converted into a digital currency […] TikTok quantified the precise amount of viewing it takes for someone to form a habit: 260 videos […] TikTok videos can be just a few seconds long. Thus, in under 35 minutes, an average user is likely to become addicted to the platform. […] TikTok’s algorithm prioritizes beautiful people […] 95% of smartphone users under 17 use TikTok

His daughter was murdered nearly two decades ago. Earlier this month, he discovered that her name and image had been used to create an AI chatbot.

Spotify criticized for letting fake albums appear on real artist pages

Reflections on Palantir […] I left last year, but never wrote publicly about what I learned there.

Triphallia, a rare congenital anomaly describing the presence of three distinct penile shafts, has been reported only once in the literature. This case report describes the serendipitous discovery during cadaveric dissection of the second reported human case of triphallia

every day the same again | October 16th, 2024