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Pinterest Changes User Terms So It Can Train AI on User Data and Photos, Regardless of When They Were Posted

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Pinterest is the latest tech company to position itself to swallow user data for AI training, following suit with Meta , which owns Facebook and Instagram, Reddit , and Google , among others. And here I was hoping someday there'd be something done to slow the waves of AI slop on the site," reads one comment. It's so underhanded.

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GameStop stock halts trading after Reddit drama

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Photo by Johnny Louis/Getty Images. Trading in stock of video game retailer GameStop (GME) was halted briefly Friday, as it soared more than 70 percent, due partly to the enthusiastic support of a group of Reddit day traders. GameStop is the most-shorted stock in the market.

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The leaning rail is the new bench. Not every butt is happy about it

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Comment by u/thrilsika from discussion in nycrail Goodbye benches, hello leaning rails? Thanks, I hate it, one Reddit user wrote. Reacting to a photo of the newly installed leaning rail, some called it hostile architecture that is intended to deter the homeless while disregarding the needs of people with mobility challenges.

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Reddit reports 18 percent reduction in hateful content after banning nearly 7,000 subreddits

The Verge

In June this year, Reddit began a huge campaign to remove hateful content from its site, blocking communities that engaged in hate speech and harassment. While I would love that number to be 100 percent, I’m encouraged by the progress,” writes Reddit user u/worstnerd , a member of the company’s Safety team. Image: Reddit.

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Reddit winds down Dubsmash, but its video creation tools live on

The Verge

Photo by Reddit. Reddit will shut down its short-form video platform, Dubsmash, on February 22nd, 2022. A competitor to TikTok, Dubsmash was acquired by Reddit late last year with the purpose of embedding its video creation tools into the larger platform. Photo by Reddit.

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Mysterious white next-gen Xbox controller appears online

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An image of the white controller appeared on Reddit over the weekend, before the poster deleted their account and the image. Identified only as “Wolfy_Wizzardo,” the Reddit user claimed to have snapped the photo at a party in Washington state hosted by the child of a Microsoft employee.

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Even Utah’s mysterious monolith may be no match for Google Earth

The Verge

On November 23rd, they posted photos of it to Instagram and the DPS site. Within hours, someone had inevitably opened a Reddit forum to locate the monolith. A Utah DPS public affairs officer didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about the supposed location of the monolith. View this post on Instagram.

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