🚓 FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Said to Be Arrested in the Bahamas.

Plus: The viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me-without my consent, The Eureka Theory of History Is Wrong, and more…

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FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Said to Be Arrested in the Bahamas. Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday after U.S. prosecutors filed criminal charges. (David Yaffe-Bellany / The New York Times)

The New York Times @nytimes

Breaking News: Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX founder, was arrested in the Bahamas after U.S. prosecutors filed criminal charges, the Bahamas government said.

nyti.msFTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Is Arrested in the BahamasA statement by the government of the Bahamas said Mr. Bankman-Fried was arrested after prosecutors in the United States filed criminal charges.

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The viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me-without my consent. Lensa's fetish for Asian women is so strong that I got female nudes and sexualized poses even when I directed the app to generate avatars of me as a male. The fact that my results are so hypersexualized isn't surprising, says Aylin Caliskan, an… (Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review)

Melissa Heikkilä @Melissahei

I tried the viral Lensa AI portrait app, and got lots and lots of nudes. I know AI image generation models are full of sexist and racist biases, but this one really hit home. My latest story for @techreview

technologyreview.comThe viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me—without my consentMy avatars were cartoonishly pornified, while my male colleagues got to be astronauts, explorers, and inventors.

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The Eureka Theory of History Is Wrong. If you were, for whatever macabre reason, seeking the most catastrophic moment in the history of humankind, you might well settle on this: About 10,000 years ago, as people first began to domesticate animals and farm the land in Mesopotamia, India… (Derek Thompson / The Atlantic)

Derek Thompson @DKThomp

I'm SO EXCITED to reveal a magazine feature I've been working on for months (and thinking about for years): theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… It's about the myths of progress in America, and about how we—in politics, policy, and the media—overrate invention and underrate implementation.

theatlantic.comWhy the Age of American Progress EndedInvention alone can’t change the world; what matters is what happens next.

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China bans AI-generated media without watermarks. China's Cyberspace Administration recently issued regulations prohibiting the creation of AI-generated media without clear labels, such as watermarks—among other policies— reports The Register. The new rules come as part of China's… (Benj Edwards / Ars Technica)

Ars Technica @arstechnica

China bans AI-generated media without watermarks arstechnica.com/information-te… by @benjedwards

arstechnica.comChina bans AI-generated media without watermarksChina regulates generative AI tech with rules that aim to spur growth and ban deception.

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Xnspy stalkerware spied on thousands of iPhones and Android devices. A little-known phone monitoring app called Xnspy has stolen data from tens of thousands of iPhones and Android devices, the majority whose owners are unaware that their data has been compromised. Xnspy is one of many so-called stalkerware apps sold… (Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker

New: Xnspy is a little-known stalkerware app that has compromised thousands of iPhones and Android devices worldwide. Xnspy's developers kept a low profile, but data seen by TechCrunch links the stalkerware to a Lahore-based startup called Konext.

techcrunch.comXnspy stalkerware spied on thousands of iPhones and Android devicesMeet the Pakistan-based startup, whose spyware has compromised at least 66,000 devices.

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