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A Thief Just eBayed A $4000 Custom Canon Lens For $84,700
Can’t say I’m in the business of fencing goods, but if I was, eBay would be the backup plan if I couldn’t move my wares face-to-face. That’s not the case for eBay seller “salmanleitz047”, who successfully auctioned a pilfered custom Canon lens for $US65,100 — about $84,700 Australian.
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Comcast’s ‘Compromise’ On Net Neutrality Is Just The FCC Rules It Spent Millions To Kill
For years, internet service providers in the US have maintained that they support net neutrality while the industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars to destroy it. The big guys still make that claim while they fight efforts to enshrine the open web into law. Now, a Comcast exec has given us a little more…
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AI Imagines Nude Paintings As Terrifying Pools Of Melting Flesh
When Robbie Barrat trained an AI to study and reproduce classical nude paintings, he expected something at least recognisable. What the AI produced instead was unfamiliar and unsettling, but still intriguing. The “paintings” look like flesh-like ice cream, spilling into pools that only vaguely recall a woman’s body. Barrat told Gizmodo these meaty blobs, disturbing…
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Facebook Exec Who Wrote Terrorism And Death Are ‘Justified’ By Facebook’s ‘Growth’ Says He Was Just Trying To Be ‘Provocative’
In 2016, a top Facebook executive wrote in an internal company memo that said Facebook may be used to coordinate terrorist attacks and that it might cause deaths from bullying, but that those effects were justified in the name of corporate growth.