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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
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Dubstep and BookTok, a perfect match?
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The Creator of ‘Smutstep’ Wants You to ‘Let Your Freak Flag Fly’
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Tesla's 'Security Protocols' Stopped DHS From Installing a Tracking Device
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Cops can creep on Airbnb
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AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo
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Our Solar System Is Terminally Unstable and Will Be Completely Destroyed, Study Finds
I trace my ancestry to Snowball EarthDurbin, Orin Lole et al. “Re-evaluating molecular clock maximum age calibrations…
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
There are currently more than a hundred thousand warrantless searches of the Flock system every month, according to…
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Podcast: The FBI Was Hacked. We’ve Seen the Data
We start this week with Joseph’s stories on the massive FBI hack. 404 Media broke this news and continued to cover the…
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Behind the Blog: Freaking Out
The article discusses the growing prevalence of AI-generated emails sent to journalists, which the author refers to as…
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'Everything but censorship'
Student journalists meet the moment, as we’ve seen most recently this week. As the Cornell University sexual abuse…
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How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists
They also show escalating tensions between student newsroom staff and administrators, prompting more legal aid…
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Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims
A company that makes phone hacking devices claims to have developed a solution that freezes iPhones in a state that…
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome…
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Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal
A lawyer used ChatGPT to generate briefs that included completely made-up witnesses and testimony while representing a…
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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
The United States Postal Service is running a pilot program to put cameras in its mail carrier trucks that…
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Internet Infrastructure Services Empower Deepfake Abuse, New Study Finds
Abusive, sexually explicit deepfakes have only become easier to make and more widespread in the last nine years. Since…
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How the Feds Get Your Data
Surveillance isn’t just about who is collecting the data. Surveillance is, of course, also about who that data ends up…
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
The Trump administration is utilizing the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) grant program to compel cities…
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Two New Birds Louder Than Jackhammers Just Dropped
Scientists have identified two new contenders for the world’s loudest bird—the bare-throated bellbird and the…
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Surveillance Finds a Way
A thing I’ve been saying over and over is that surveillance companies can’t be trusted to regulate themselves or to…
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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
While Flock Safety has explicitly stated it will not add facial recognition to its devices, a third-party company…
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These Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla
Some tech workers in San Francisco hooked up ChatGPT to a Toyota Corolla and got it to drive around a parking lot. In…
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FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data
The hacking group ShinyHunters has stated that they do not intend to publish the massive trove of personal data stolen…
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The End of Privacy Is Here (with Kashmir Hill)
It’s in surveillance cameras; it’s soon going to be in Meta’s RayBan pervert glasses, and some students already did…
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
This piece contains references to eating disorders. If you or someone you know needs help, support is available.Human…
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Alien Life Can Survive on This Tiny Moon—We Just Need to Go Find It
Here are the studies this week that sailed alien seas, beat the heat, went retro, and got caught in the food…
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AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory
We debated for a long time about whether to write about the following video, which comes from a murder trial in which…
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Behind the Blog: Did you notice?
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week…
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Podcast: OpenAI Admits AI is Killing the Internet
We start this week with Jason’s story about OpenAI and Microsoft’s big admissions from court records that they are…
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This ‘World of Warcraft: Forever’ Mod Blocks All Interactions With Asmongold Fans
The beta for the hotly anticipated World of Warcraft: Forever has been marred by fans of the streamer Asmongold who…
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Watch Body Cam of Man Arrested for Just Cussing at a County Meeting
Last month Fort Worth, Texas police arrested political activist EJ Carrion a week after he cursed at a city council…
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FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit
There is very little public information about the FBI’s hacking unit, including the operations it conducts, the tools…
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An Invisible Force Has a Mysterious Effect on Aging, Scientists Discover in 'Startling' Breakthrough
Scientists have discovered that the removal of Earth's magnetic field influences the lifespans of fruit flies in…
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Woman Arrested After City Council Denies Residents Right to Speak on Flock Cameras
Mia Heider had never attended a public meeting before when she showed up to the city council meeting in Springfield,…
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Americans Fear AI Will Make the World Worse, Love It Anyway
A new Gallup and Microsoft study reveals that while most people globally view AI positively, the United States is an…
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
Criminals from the same ecosystem as ShinyHunters have previously used hacked data like phone records to track,…
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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
Last week, Meta executives announced that its much-hyped AI agent, Muse, had a new feature: It could call businesses…
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People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users’ prompts and other data to help improve the chatbot’s…
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How AI Chatbots Are 'Deskilling' Human Empathy
When I first started writing about online cultures and subcultures almost 10 years ago, one of the first scholars I…
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Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help
Cities across the United States are replacing Flock automatic license plate reader cameras with Axon systems following…
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‘Supermountains’ Buried Under Antarctica Fueled Explosion of Life, Scientists Discover
Scientists propose that Venus likely destroyed a primordial moon through tidal forces, an event that may have…
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404 Media x The Intercept Live: How AI Is Used to Surveil and Kill
In this collaboration with our friends at The Intercept, 404 Media's Jason Koebler and the Intercept's Sam Biddle and…
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Behind the Blog: Eating the Internet
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week…
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements, taken together, are some of…
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‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People
Flock created a fake police department called “Flock City PD” that it used to search a series of live automated…
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University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It
Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer given to a high profile activist who is currently fighting a case…
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Contest to Open for Ed Sheeran Flooded With Free Palestine Videos and Fart Memes
An online contest to open for Ed Sheeran's Mexico City show was flooded with protest videos and memes following the…
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I Hijacked a Real Artist's Spotify with AI Music. It Was Disturbingly Easy
On September 10, the Brooklyn-based punk band Lathe of Heaven released a new single on its verified Spotify page…
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