Meta’s fact-checking partners, including USA Today, say they were blindsided by Meta’s decision to drop them and reject claims of being “too politically biased” (David Gilbert/Wired)

David Gilbert / Wired:
Meta’s fact-checking partners, including USA Today, say they were blindsided by Meta’s decision to drop them and reject claims of being “too politically biased”  —  Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move.

Asus unveils the 2025 Asus XG Mobile, a $1,200+ portable docking station with the world’s first Thunderbolt 5 eGPU, with an option to add a GeForce RTX 5090 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Asus unveils the 2025 Asus XG Mobile, a $1,200+ portable docking station with the world’s first Thunderbolt 5 eGPU, with an option to add a GeForce RTX 5090  —  This smoky black translucent box isn’t a gaming PC — instead, it might be the most powerful single-cable portable docking station ever conceived.

People are taking horrific videos like of mass shootings and using Runway’s AI tools to insert cartoons, likely to bypass social networks’ automated moderation (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
People are taking horrific videos like of mass shootings and using Runway’s AI tools to insert cartoons, likely to bypass social networks’ automated moderation  —  People are using the popular AI video generator Runway to make real videos of murder look like they came from one of the animated Minions movies …

Source: OpenAI may launch agents this month and has been cautious, as rivals like Anthropic moved ahead, partly due to concerns of prompt injection attacks (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: OpenAI may launch agents this month and has been cautious, as rivals like Anthropic moved ahead, partly due to concerns of prompt injection attacks  —  Imagine you’re asking a computer-using agent from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google to find and order a new outfit for your upcoming holiday party …

For months, Meta hid posts that included LGBTQ+ hashtags for all users who had their sensitive content filter turned on; Meta claims this was done erroneously (Taylor Lorenz/User Mag)

Taylor Lorenz / User Mag:
For months, Meta hid posts that included LGBTQ+ hashtags for all users who had their sensitive content filter turned on; Meta claims this was done erroneously  —  Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta’s “sensitive content” policy which restricts “sexually suggestive content”

Screenshots: several employees’ posts critical of Meta’s new board member Dana White were deleted by Meta’s ICC, which aims to “minimize disruption” internally (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Screenshots: several employees’ posts critical of Meta’s new board member Dana White were deleted by Meta’s ICC, which aims to “minimize disruption” internally  —  “Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE.”