News
Bodycam Shows Moment Cops Arrested a Man for Speaking Too Long at Data Center Meeting
We spoke to Darren Blanchard, the man arrested while speaking out against data centers at a community meeting. He's sharing the bodycam footage of his arrest for the first time with 404 Media.
News
A Massive Repair Lawsuit Against John Deere Clears a Major Hurdle
The class-action antitrust suit is one of the biggest challenges to Deere's tractor repair monopoly.
Artificial Intelligence
Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data
ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more.
Podcast
Podcast: Male Tech Conference Founder Runs Popular Woman-in-Tech Account (???)
In this week's episode, we talk about the bizarre tale of a tech conference founder who listed a fake, "auto-generated" woman as a speaker, and how he is also behind a popular woman-in-tech social media personality.
FOIA
CBP Is Testing Palmer Luckey's AI-Powered Surveillance Towers in the Great Lakes
Documents obtained by 404 Media show an expansion of Anduril's surveillance technology on the U.S.-Canada border.
Programming
Male Tech Conference Founder Is Behind Popular Woman Coding Influencer Account
IP logs show that accounts for Coding Unicorn, a female tech influencer who's built a following based on her coding advice and Instagram influencer posts, are run by a male developer and conference organizer.
Privacy
Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family
"I can see that one of my friends is apparently watching a ton of cheesy, soft porn stuff," a user said of Plex's Week in Review email and Discover Together feature.
News
Tech Conference Collapses After Organizer Admits to Making Fake ‘Auto-Generated’ Female Speaker
Viral allegations that Devternity founder Eduard Sizovs fabricated female speakers to boost diversity have caused several big-name speakers to publicly drop out of the conference.
News
Sneakers and Armored Cars: How a Shoe Company Empire Allegedly Used a Chinese Money Laundering Ring
James Regis Whitner, Jr. is a known figure in the world of sneakers and fashion. A wide spanning investigation alleges his companies, including Social Status, used a Chinese money laundering ring to move massive amounts of cash.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Disney Copyright, Singing Xi, and the Wizarding World of Effective Altruists
This week, we're looking at OpenAI-adjacent Harry Potter fanfic, Disney's AI generated copyright, and questions about Hugging Face's selectively-enforced terms.
Podcast
Podcast: OpenAI, Harry Potter Fanfic, and Hackers Who Gamble
In this week's episode, we take a unique angle on the OpenAI drama, talk Twitter and sex work, then get into how hackers gamble away stolen Bitcoin at online casinos.
Gadgets
New Kodak Super 8 Film Camera Thought to Be Vaporware Is Actually Coming Out, Costs $5,495, Charges With MicroUSB
A new hybrid film-digital movie camera for a format invented in 1965 is actually coming. It's very weird, and very expensive.
repair
Consumer Rights Groups Petition Government to Create Formal Rules Protecting Right to Repair
The FTC and Biden have repeatedly argued repair monopolies are illegal. So why haven't they created formal regulations protecting right to repair?