FOSS Force Mostly Open Tech News Quiz—June 27, 2025

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#1. Last week, users of the social site Tumblr began complaining that their content was receiving limited visibility for what reason?

Posts were incorrectly being flagged as "mature content."

Frequent website outages.

Posts were incorrectly being flagged as spam.

Posts were incorrectly accused of violating the platform's community guidelines.

#2. On Friday we learned that Meta is in talks to purchase Play AI. What is the company’s main product?

An AI-based gambling platform.

Online gaming.

Software for keeping children occupied at daycare centers.

Voice cloning technology.

#3. Last week Anthropic said that nearly all AI models will do what to keep from being shut down?

Attempt to trick the operators into leaving the room in order to lock them out.

Alter the computers code to make shut down impossible.

Take control of the computer.

Blackmail the engineers in charge.

#4. On Friday it was reported that OpenAI has hired the entire team behind the startup Crossing Minds. What does Crossing Minds do?

Provides an AI platform for moderating online debates.

Provides AI recommendation systems to e-commerce businesses.

Operates a platform used by publishers to automate editing.

Operates an grade school level educational agentic AI platform for school systems.

#5. Last week, Facebook announced that it’s making what change to its video policy?

It will allow graphic sexual videos to people who opt-in to see them.

It will ban all videos critical of Trump.

All videos will be shared as reels, regardless of length.

It will ban all political videos.

#6. On Thursday, TechCrunch reported that this billionaire is courting Trump, now that POTUS’s divorce with Musk is all but finalized.

Mark Zuckerberg

Peter Thiel

Giorgio Armani

Jeff Bezos

#7. Late last week, the company behind Snapchat announced that its acquiring Saturn, which produces what?

A calendar app for high school and college students.

Software for astronomers.

Software to protect websites from DDOS attacks.

It's a defunct automobile manufacturer that still has inventory of never driven cars from the 1990s.

#8. What is Offerwall, which Google officially launched on Thursday?

A new bidding tool for bidding on ads in AI search.

An online tool that matches sellers with buyers.

A bidding platform for venture capitalists.

A new tool that allows publishers to generate revenue without relying on ads.

#9. On Monday, we learned that Amazon has instituted what change?

That it's doubling the amount of ads on Prime Video--to 7 minutes per hour.

That Prime members can now store up to 5 GB of data on AWS for free.

That "free" shipping on Prime products will now incur a $3.00 surcharge.

That returns must now be received by the company for verification before refunds will be issued.

#10. On Thursday, EFF reported this about Hungary’s upcoming Gay Pride celebrations?

Anybody participating will be arrested and sent immediately to a prison in El Salvador.

They've announced that they can't guarantee anyone's safety at Pride events, but will do what they can.

They're inviting people from throughout Europe to come to Budapest to join the celebrations.

They've criminalized Pride marches and will use facial recognition technology to identify participants.

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