OpenAI killed a ChatGPT feature that made some sensitive conversations publicly searchable.
The search-engine-indexing feature recently went viral online — if you knew where to look, anyone on the internet could access public ChatGPT logs where people seemed to confess to crimes, share trade secrets, and more potentially damning scenarios.
Dane Stuckey, OpenAI’s CISO, shared in an X post Thursday that it will be removed starting Friday morning.
The ChatGPT confession files
Digital Digging investigation: how your AI conversation could end your careerHenk van Ess (Digital Digging with Henk van Ess)
Slovenia becomes 1st EU state to impose arms embargo on Israel
Slovenia said on Thursday it will impose an embargo on exports, imports and transit of arms to Israel, becoming the first European country to do so over theBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Protests in Israel - Haaretz
Over the past week, Tel Aviv-Jaffa saw a myriad of protests, each with its own message. But the movements must now truly join forces – Gaza's children and Israel's hostages can't wait for us to build the perfect coalition
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Israel News, Thursday, 31.07.2025
Linda Dayan
[an Israeli liberal perspective on various protests going on in Israel right now]
Each of these demonstrations carries its own message. At one, saying "starvation isn't a Jewish value" would be considered provocative; at another, signs declare "end the genocide." Some rail against the government for allowing Haredi youth to dodge the military draft, while others call for wholesale refusal to serve in the military at all.
Lord Hunt smashing it out of the court! YES to sortition!
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Epstein abuse survivor Virginia Giuffre wanted files released before her death, family says
Virginia Giuffre, the woman who survived years of Jeffery Epstein's abuse and died by suicide earlier this year, wanted the so-called "Epstein files" released, her siblings said.Hallie Jackson (NBC News)
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Fake: Germany Alleges NATO Preparing Provocation in Kaliningrad
Ralph Niemeyer holds no official position in Germany and carries no political authority or influence. He fled to Russia in 2022.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Colorado deputies disciplined for helping federal immigration agents
https://apnews.com/article/colorado-deputies-immigration-arrest-signal-chat-0a5bad90d8e66ba77e31bf3511377aa4?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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AMOLED Linux?
Ukraine’s NATO accession fundamental security issue for Poland
Photo: Fot. PAP/Vladyslav MusiienkoBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Type 2 Diabetes
In type 2 diabetes, your body doesn’t use insulin well and can’t keep blood sugar at normal leveDiabetes
How Trump’s threat to tariff Russia trade partners affects India : NPR
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Microsoft follows Nvidia's lead, surpasses $4 trillion market capitalization on soaring demand for cloud services, multi-front AI endeavors
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-follows-nvidias-lead-surpasses-usd4-trillion-market-capitalization-on-soaring-demand-for-cloud-services-multi-front-ai-endeavors?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Microsoft follows Nvidia's lead, surpasses $4 trillion market capitalization on soaring demand for cloud services, multi-front AI endeavors
AI and Azure drive Microsoft's market cap.Anton Shilov (Tom's Hardware)
White House conducts de-Muskification at GSA (Politico)
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White House conducts de-Muskification at GSA
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How Epstein and Maxwell Used Trump's Fame to Groom 13-Year-Old Girl (Michael Daly/The Daily Beast)
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How Epstein and Maxwell Used Trump’s Fame to Groom 13-Year-Old Girl
“Jane” revealed how the pair used Trump’s name and a meeting with him as part of their twisted plan.Michael Daly (The Daily Beast)
A study shows that Starlink is just too messy and congested to take seriously, but don't tell governments (such as the US) as they're sadly embracing a whole lot of them by giving away more subsidies (BEAD funds).
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Speaking of which, here's the latest satellite numbers. Grim indeed. (h/t @sundogplanets)
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Study Shows Musk’s Starlink Too Congested To Tackle U.S. Broadband Woes Despite Billions In New Subsidies
A new study from researchers at X-Lab shows that Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite broadband service lacks the capacity to put a serious dent in U.S. broadband. Despite recent efforts by the Tru…Techdirt
I'm updating satellite numbers for yet another talk.There now 8,077 Starlink satellites in orbit, 1,240 have already been burned up in the atmosphere, depositing all their metal, plastic, and computer bits in the stratosphere as weird vapour (data from planet4589.org/space/con/conli…)
12,238 active satellites now catalogued. The fraction of Starlinks is actually holding pretty steady lately because so many other operators have started launching. Over 200 satellites launched this month.
Myanmar ends state of emergency in some parts before planned elections | Politics News
General Min Aung Hlaing to lead an 11-member commission to supervise the elections, expected in December.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
writerDeck.org
Information about dedicated writing devices, digital typewriters, or modern word processors.writerDeck
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Mars Glaciers Have More Water Content than Previously Thought
On the slopes of Martian mountains and craters clings what appears to be flowing honey, coated in dust and frozen in time.Universe Today
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in reply to WaffleWarrior • • •Browse Latest | www.gnome-look.org/browse/
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in reply to WaffleWarrior • • •Install and Use GNOME Tweak Tool in Ubuntu and Other Linux
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in reply to WaffleWarrior • • •You would just install one of the KDE meta-packages. After that you can select the new desktop environment when you login again.
The only thing to note is that some settings don't always play nice between the two (for example one might overwrite settings on the other), so maybe consider making a new user account just to see if you like it.
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in reply to WaffleWarrior • • •I have OLED tv as my main monitor, and adjusting the settings of the screen allowed me to achieve this using a black image at full screen. The screen looks like it is turned off. I even tested with a dark room. No light comes from the screen. Once you get that set, then using black in UI colors should achieve this if I understand what you are asking.
I'm not familiar with HDR capablity within Linux though, and many newer OLED screens have some of these capabilities. That could be another element to consider depending on your screen capabilities and settings available.
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in reply to WaffleWarrior • • •It's okay for asking some kinds of questions. But when you get down to specific packages you're better off just reading the README.
You can always just ask here if you can't figure something out
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in reply to WaffleWarrior • • •I havent used Ubuntu in a long time but im guessing its a similar process to Debian. Open terminal and type
Go into the extension manager. Click browse and search for and get blur my shell, and User Themes. Go to gnome-look.org and go to the gnome shell section and find a theme you like. Place it in the /.themes folder (located in Home create this folder if needed), then click the gear next to User Themes and select the theme you added.
Make sure you get a gnome theme that is made for your current version of gnome or itll look janky. Blur my shell will take your desktop background and fill in some of the dead space with that. There are other nice extensions too. Lock screen Background, AppIndicator and KstatusNotifierItem Support, Caffeine, Weather O'Clock, are some i use.
Mess around with it a bit and get a feel for it is my suggestion. It should be easily reversible so dont be afraid to try stuff out. (You can turn extensions on/off with a click)
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