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For months members of the public have been using GeoSpy, a tool trained on millions of images that can find the location a photo was taken based on soil, architecture, and more. It's GeoGuesser at scale.

That’s my secret Captain…I’m always traumatized.

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss joylessness in the AI industry and the TikTok ban.

On Wednesday, Google pushed various Gemini capabilities to business and enterprise customers, including the ability to summarize the contents of emails.

A TikTok ban is a massive prize that Zuckerberg has been laying the groundwork on for years. Will Trump let him have it?

The Nokia Design Archive contains thousands of designs, pitch decks, presentations and prototypes from the turn of the millennium.

Multiple experts drew comparisons between Meta's recent changes around immigration and what happened in Myanmar in 2017, where Facebook contributed to a genocide by allowing the spread of hate.

Justice Alito should watch this Pornhub video about calculus.

Deere "has illegally restricted the ability of farmers and independent technicians to repair Deere equipment, including tractors and combines."

Porn workers joined hospitality workers to march down the Las Vegas strip, as the adult industry prepares for its biggest event of the year.

Employees inside Meta threatening to quit over the recent speech policy changes; thousands of apps hijacked to steal your location data; and lots of stories around the LA fires.

A service for creating AI-generated nude images of real people is running circles around Meta’s moderation efforts.

Come learn how to pry government records from the new Trump administration.

Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."

"I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music.”

Amazon drivers have continued delivering packages in some areas of Los Angeles affected by ongoing wildfires in a constantly changing situation.

The forums for Path of Exile 2 have been awash with people claiming they’ve been hacked and their inventories emptied of valuable items. Now there’s an explanation for at least dozens of the account compromises.

A tour of the outer solar system, from Pluto-Charon to Planet X, plus saber teeth and punky molluscs.

Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss weird fake furniture and shared reality (or the lack thereof).