Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”
News
Customs and Border Protection Says It Will Stop Buying Smartphone Location Data
For years, journalists and lawmakers have investigated CBP and other agencies’ purchase of smartphone location data without a warrant. Now CBP says it will stop using such data at the end of the month.
Squirting Study Finds Pee Myths Are Ruining the Fun
Lots of people squirt during sex, but years of myths and stigma have gotten into people's heads, a new study shows.
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Masked Man Filmed Smashing San Francisco RoboTaxi With Hammer
A Cruise robotaxi was bashed repeatedly with a hammer and spraypainted in the middle of a San Francisco intersection.
Roblox Event Canceled After Developer Allegedly Shows Up With High Capacity Magazine
Roblox's developer award ceremony was canceled after a developer showed up at the event and allegedly fought the police.
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Starfield Bug Forces Players to Change Gender to Fire Guns
Starfield players looking for how to fix a bug that breaks guns figured out changing their character's gender is a solution.
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Archivists Back Up Nonprofit TV History Museum Before Sony Copystrikes Get It Taken Down From YouTube
The Museum of Classic Chicago Television eventually came back up, but the incident shows how fragile our shared history is in an age of overzealous copyright enforcement.
Features
Revealed: The Country that Secretly Wiretapped the World for the FBI
For years the FBI ran its own encrypted phone company to intercept messages from thousands of people around the globe. One country was critical to that operation, whose identity was unknown to the public. Until now.
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Forensic Investigators Allege Nina Agdal's Snapchat Was Hacked to Steal Private Video
“I have concluded that Ms. Agdal’s Snapchat account was in fact compromised," an affidavit by a forensic investigator said.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: 'Magical' AI That's Human Labor, Sinister Chatbots, and Damage Control
This week, we got some good business coaching from an unlikely place, and pulled back the curtain on a 3D modeling company.
Good Enough
I Have Studied the Blade for 3 Years With the Bob Kramer Sharpening Kit
Bob Kramer will teach how to have a sharp knife and a sharp mind.
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404 Media Got CEO Coaching From John Hittler
John Hittler told us why he hasn’t changed his name, and why we need to celebrate 404 Media at the French Laundry next year.
FOIA
Our First FOIA Forum! 09/14, 2PM EST
We are hosting our first FOIA Forum next Thursday. Join the livestream, file FOIAs with us, get tips, and more.