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Top 5 Most Liked Skeets (14 days)

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OpenAI confirms fixing an issue "where it appeared as though ChatGPT was starting new conversations", after users reported ChatGPT reaching out proactively (Victor Tangermann/Futurism) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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YouTube takes down Tenet Media and four other channels after the DOJ alleged that Russia was paying right-wing influencers in the US to produce content (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Bluesky says it had over 9M users as of September 6, after adding 3M new users in the week or so since Brazil blocked X, and that video support is "coming soon" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Brazil lifts the block on the bank accounts of X and Starlink after withdrawing ~$3.3M from the accounts to pay for fines imposed by the Supreme Court (Daniel Carvalho/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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CEO Anne Wojcicki says she remains committed to taking 23andMe private and is "surprised and disappointed" after all seven independent board directors resigned (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public data to train AI, with no opt-out option because it is not required to do so under privacy law (Jake Evans/ABC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Researchers: GPT-4 generating a 100-word email uses 1,468ml of water at its Washington data center, 925ml in Arizona, 464ml in Illinois, and 235ml in Texas (Washington Post) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Mozilla says it will shut down its Mastodon server, Mozilla.social, giving users until December 17 to export their data and migrate to another instance (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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OpenAI confirms fixing an issue "where it appeared as though ChatGPT was starting new conversations", after users reported ChatGPT reaching out proactively (Victor Tangermann/Futurism) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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YouTube takes down Tenet Media and four other channels after the DOJ alleged that Russia was paying right-wing influencers in the US to produce content (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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