23andMe
DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy
There is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.
News
Viral Audio of JD Vance Badmouthing Elon Musk Is Fake, Just the Tip of the AI Iceberg
AI-generated audio of Vance saying Must is “cosplaying as a great American leader” has been played more than 2 million times on TikTok alone.
23andMe
DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy
There is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.
News
Tesla Owner Doxing Site ‘Dogequest’ Relaunches on Dark Web
Last week 404 Media reported a website called ‘Dogequest’ was doxing Tesla owners. The site administrators appear to have launched a clone of the interactive map on the dark web too.
News
Mozilla Foundation Calls on Tech Industry to Block ICE Contractor
The Mozilla Foundation says 30 companies should block web scrapers from ShadowDragon, an ICE contractor.
The Abstract
What’s in Your Head? A Plastic Spoon and Lost Baby Memories
This week, we journey into the human brain and find some disturbing stuff in there.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Vile Media and Fine Sciences
This week, we discuss doxed Teslas, the concept of "amplification," and how we'd much rather be looking at cooking videos than all this mess.
News
How Three Alleged Tesla Vandals Got Caught
Automatic license plate readers, Instagram captions, and fingerprints.
Clearview AI
Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.
News
Meta Promises to Fight Misinformation in Australia With Same Strategy It Killed in the U.S. to Appease Trump
Meta is preparing for the Australian election by working closely with the government and news outlets that Zuckerberg said were “clearly political” and dismissed in the US.
News
People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes
Instagram’s unwillingness to moderate AI-generated content finds a new low.
Podcast
Podcast: The Websites an ICE Contractor is Monitoring
The sites an ICE contractor is pulling data from; why top scientists are considering leaving the U.S. for France, and why Super Nintendos are getting faster as they age.
FOIA
Public Records Reveal How Agencies Complied With Trump's Anti-Trans Order
FOIA documents show how agencies dropped everything to comply with Trump order—and that FOIA is still sort of working.