How Resellers Are Transferring Billie Eilish's 'Untransferable' Tickets
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How Resellers Are Transferring Billie Eilish's 'Untransferable' Tickets

Ticketmaster's untransferable tickets can be—and are—transferred by ticket brokers all the time.
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An Open Database Leaked Submissions to Utah’s Transphobic ‘Bathroom Bill’ Snitch Form
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An Open Database Leaked Submissions to Utah’s Transphobic ‘Bathroom Bill’ Snitch Form

House Bill 257, "Sex-Based Designations for Privacy, Anti-Bullying, and Women’s Opportunities," requires the state to investigate reports of people and institutions violating the "bathroom bill" law, but they left the submissions database wide open.
Google Updates Ad Policy to Ban All AI-Generated Porn
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Google Updates Ad Policy to Ban All AI-Generated Porn

Google will now ban all ads for “synthetic sexually explicit content,” even if the ad itself is not explicit.
NYPD Produces Propaganda Instead of Legally Required Public Records
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NYPD Produces Propaganda Instead of Legally Required Public Records

NYPD was able to spin out a hype video in less than 24 hours, which is notable because New York City has been horrendously slow to producing public records they are obligated by law to provide to the taxpayers who fund them. 
Pokémon Go Players Invent Fake Beaches on Real Maps to Catch Rare Wigletts
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Pokémon Go Players Invent Fake Beaches on Real Maps to Catch Rare Wigletts

Volunteer maintainers of the widely used OpenStreetMap are battling Pokémon Go players who are vandalizing the map with fake data in order to cheat in the game.
Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet
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Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet

Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all.
Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher
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Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher

“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. They don't respect the written word,” the founder of Bards and Sages said.
Bike Lock NYPD Insists Is 'Industrial' Protest Tool Is a Normal Lock Recommended by Columbia University
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Bike Lock NYPD Insists Is 'Industrial' Protest Tool Is a Normal Lock Recommended by Columbia University

Columbia University allowed police to storm campus Tuesday night, and Wednesday morning, the NYPD Deputy Commissioner accused student protestors of using an "industrial" chain to barricade doors.
National Archives Bans Employee Use of ChatGPT
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National Archives Bans Employee Use of ChatGPT

The agency tasked with preserving the historical record is banning ChatGPT, citing the possibility that the tool would leak internal information.
Podcast: A Lost Media Mystery
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Podcast: A Lost Media Mystery

The source of a long mysterious 17-second snippet of music; a service that scraped and sold Discord server messages; and influencers using fake, AI-powered livestream apps.
Do You Like These AI Images of Dying, Mutilated Children? Facebook Algorithm Wonders
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Do You Like These AI Images of Dying, Mutilated Children? Facebook Algorithm Wonders

Facebook's recommendation engine, which is core to the company's business model, is injecting grotesque images of AI-generated child gore into people's feeds.
Men Use Fake Livestream Apps With AI Audiences to Hit on Women
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Men Use Fake Livestream Apps With AI Audiences to Hit on Women

"I downloaded this app called Parallel Live which makes it look like you have tens of thousands of people watching. Instantly, I became the life of the party."
Long Lost Song Hunted By Thousands Found in 80s Porno
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Long Lost Song Hunted By Thousands Found in 80s Porno

The search is over for 'Everyone Knows That,' also known as 'Ulterior Motives' by Christopher Saint Booth, when it was found in the pornographic film "Angels of Passion."