Flock
Police Used Flock to Give a Man a Traffic Ticket
“CAPTURED ON FLOCK CAMERA 31 MM 1 HOLDING PHONE IN LEFT HAND.”
News
Reddit Hentai Community Fights Over AI-Generated Monster Girls
r/MonsterGirl members are tired of AI-generated slop in its subreddit.
AI
Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From
Facebook itself is paying creators in India, Vietnam, and the Philippines for bizarre AI spam that they are learning to make from YouTube influencers and guides sold on Telegram.
AI
Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI
Internal emails, Slack conversations and documents obtained by 404 Media show how Nvidia created a yet-to-be-released video foundational model.
News
Hotel to Search Rooms During DEF CON Hacking Conference
“As you may or may not know, a well-known hacking convention will be held in Las Vegas during your stay,” Resorts World Las Vegas writes. “We will be conducting scheduled, brief visual and non-intrusive room inspections daily,” it adds.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Olympic Posting and Reddit Gone Wild
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 Olympics posting, Reddit wildness, and "hacktivism."
Podcast
Podcast: Signal's President Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AI
We speak to Meredith Whittaker about the threat posed by AI to end-to-end encryption, what backdoors actually look like, and much more in this special interview episode.
FOIA Forum
Here's the Video for Our Fourth FOIA Forum: PACER with Seamus Hughes
PACER expert Seamus Hughes shows us how to dig up interesting court cases and so much more.
AI
AI Music Generator Suno Admits It Was Trained on ‘Essentially All Music Files on the Internet’
"Suno’s training data includes essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open internet."
Rabbit
Rabbit Says Breach 'Not Caused by a Breach,' Is Fault of Malicious Employee, 'Hacktivists,' Journalists
The AI assistant company is blaming everything but its own security practices for a June security breach.
News
Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit
Reddit says that it doesn’t want companies scraping the site for AI. Microsoft says it’s not doing that.
News
AI Companion Device Releases Diss Track Against ‘Friend’
The maker of Friend said he had “no relation” to the person who released the diss track.
Court Watch
DHS Cracks Large-Scale Apple Counterfeiting ‘Refund Fraud’ Ring
A traffic stop in Alabama led to the discovery of a large-scale counterfeiting ring.