ICE
Hackers and Trolls Target Wave of ICE Spotting Apps
Hackers have targeted a spread of apps or sites that aim to track ICE activity, in one case even sending push notifications to users in an attempt to intimidate them.
law
Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI
The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion for sanctions.
‘Save Our Signs’ Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs
More than 10,000 images of signs, placards, quotes, photos and more are part of the crowdsourced effort from over 300 national park and monument sites around the U.S.
News
Man Stores AI-Generated ‘Robot Porn' on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets
A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network.
News
What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer
A prominent beer competition introduced an AI-judging tool without warning. The judges and some members of the wider brewing industry were pissed.
The Abstract
Earth’s Climate Has Passed Its First Irreversible Tipping Point and Entered a ‘New Reality’
The second Global Tipping Points Report warns that the world has crossed a key threshold as ocean heat devastates warm-water reefs.
The Abstract
Mole-Rats Could Hold the Key to Living Longer
Plus, when did claret get so good and why did Shackleton's ship Endurance sink? Historical updates aplenty.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Sinkholes and Site Seizures
This week, we discuss a ransomware gang, book bans, and infrastructure.
AI
Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’
Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."
Jeffrey Epstein
Data Hoarder Uses AI to Create Searchable Database of Epstein Files
The open source project has been mirrored as a torrent file and represents one of the easiest ways to navigate a messy data dump.
News
The Discord Hack is Every User’s Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive information online.
vaccine
A New 'Nanoparticle Vaccine' Prevented Cancer In Mice, Study Says
The vast majority of mice that received the vaccine warded off repeated exposure to cancer cells, but the applications for humans are still not known.
Updates
Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America
404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.