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TeaOnHer is an app just like Tea but gender-swapped, that is, it's for spilling the beans on women in dating rather than men. (Tech Crunch)

With all the same security problems, in that it doesn't seem to have any.

Just like Tea, users need to upload government-issued photo ID to use the platform.

Just like Tea, it's all stored publicly.

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Kodak may soon face bankruptcy after more than 130 years in business. (USA Today)

Which comes as a surprise to those of us who thought... It already was?
Russia has started to block voice calls made using WhatsApp and Telegram. (AP News)

I'm surprised it took them so long.
Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people? (Ars Technica)

This story came out recently: Under certain simulated circumstances where the AI believes it has control, it believes it will blackmail the controllers to maintain that control Which does absolutely nothing.

What that means in the real world is an open question but quite possibly nothing at all.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Under this busy shopping street in Japan there's more than 80 hidden restaurants and I'm trying every one of them. Out of my comfort zone I go in completely blind. I order what they recommend, and based on taste alone, I rank them on a tier list. Some are incredible, and some are inedible.

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