News
Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War
“White House videos—AI or otherwise—are like group-chat in-jokes aimed at keeping cohesion.”
Deepfakes
GOP Candidate Claims Incest Arrangement Audio Is a ‘Deepfake’ Meant to Smear Him
John Lee, a Trump-endorsed candidate for Congress, is suing his former opponent for defamation.
Amazon Rainforest
‘Remote’ Amazonian Tribes Have Been Using the Internet for a Long Time
The Marubo people written about by the New York Times have been using the internet—and grappling with its implications—long before Starlink came to their village.
FOIA
Cops Released a Car’s Travel History to a Total Stranger
In a rare instance of too much transparency, an Ohio police department released the precise movements of a particular vehicle in response to a public records request, showing just how invasive license plate reading technology can be.
Instagram Experiments With Injecting Pop Up Ads Into Your Friends’ Stories
Ads for a game called "Super Rumble" are popping up into Instagram users' stories as Meta experiments with more invasive types of ads.
Perplexity
A Question About Disputed South China Sea Sends Perplexity AI Into a Sanitized Infinite Loop
The answer shows a conversation between a "human" and an "AI" about the proper way to answer a sensitive question.
Podcast
Podcast: Hacking the Adderall Shortage
People in the U.S. are outsourcing the hunt for Adderall to people in the Philippines; an Apple AirTag stalking case; and the Gateway Pundit's (alleged) bankruptcy.
News
Hacker Accesses Internal ‘Tile’ Tool That Provides Location Data to Cops
A hacker broke into systems used by Tile, the tracking company, then stole a wealth of customer data and had access to internal company tools.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk Tweeted a Thing
Dozens of human journalists are writing the same blog to appease a search algorithm that wants to automate their jobs out of existence.
News
Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on GitHub to Protest 'Art Theft'
An extension for a popular Stable Diffusion graphical user interface on Github appears to have been stealing users’ login credentials.
Microsoft
Microsoft QA Contractors Say They Were Laid Off for Attempting to Unionize
Microsoft, which subcontracts the quality assurance provider, has a standing labor neutrality agreement with the Communications Workers of America.
News
‘AI Call Center Software’ Is Powering a Scam Call Center
Internal data from a scam call center shows it is using Voiso to power its scam operation. Voiso does offer some AI-powered features, although it's unclear if the scammers are using those particular products.
News
Americans Are Hiring People in the Philippines to Help Them Find Adderall
For $50 a prescription, a freelancer overseas will call pharmacies in your area to find Adderall and weight loss drugs like Mounjaro or WeGovy.