Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Sinkholes and Site Seizures
This week, we discuss a ransomware gang, book bans, and infrastructure.
News
Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
News
Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent
The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, which Amazon then pushed out to users.
News
ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It
Welcome to the era of ‘gaslight driven development.’ Soundslice added a feature the chatbot thought it existed after engineers kept finding screenshots from the LLM in its error logs.
Podcast
Podcast: Spotify Is Publishing AI Tracks of Dead Artists
Spotify is publishing AI-generated tracks of dead artists; a company is selling hacked data to debt collectors; and the Astronomer CEO episode shows the surveillance dystopia we live in.
News
'It's Not a Political Statement': Checking in With Tesla Superfans at Elon Musk's New Diner
The Tesla Diner has two gigantic screens, a robot that serves popcorn, and owners hope it will be free from people who don't like Tesla.
Pentagon
Military Says It Will ‘Continuously’ Monitor Bathrooms to Comply With Anti-Trans Order
An internal memo obtained by 404 Media also shows the military ordered a review hold on "questionable content" at Stars and Stripes, the military's 'editorially independent' newspaper.
Spanish
We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish
From ICE's facial recognition app to its Palantir contract, we've translated a spread of our ICE articles into Spanish and made them freely available.
Spanish
El ICE ya usa una nueva app de reconocimiento facial para identificar personas, revelan correos filtrados
Correos internos del ICE obtenidos por 404 Media indican que el sistema CBP, normalmente usado para tomar fotos de personas al ingresar o salir de EE.UU., está siendo usado ahora por la agencia mediante una herramienta llamada Mobile Fortify.
Spanish
Filtración revela el plan de Palantir para ayudar al ICE a deportar personas
Chats de Slack y foros de discusión internos de la empresa muestran que el gigante de la vigilancia está colaborando activamente con el ICE para ubicar a personas con órdenes de deportación.
Spanish
ICE accede a una red nacional de cámaras con inteligencia artificial, según datos
Las cámaras lectoras de patentes de Flock están instaladas en más de 5000 comunidades en EE.UU. y las policías locales usan el sistema nacional para realizar búsquedas el ICE.
Spanish
Un vistazo a la base de datos del ICE que busca comentarios “despectivos” en línea
¿Positivo o negativo? Esas son las opciones que tienen los analistas cuando la herramienta Giant Oak Search Technology desentierra el contenido publicado en redes sociales y otras fuentes para que el ICE lo analice.
Spanish
Manifiestos de vuelo revelan que casi 40 personas no identificadas fueron enviadas en tres vuelos de deportación a El Salvador
Información filtrada mediante hackeos y obtenida por 404 Media revela que en los vuelos de deportación a El Salvador hubo decenas de personas adicionales no registradas oficialmente.