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‘What Was She Supposed to Report?:’ Police Report Shows How a High School Deepfake Nightmare Unfolded
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‘What Was She Supposed to Report?:’ Police Report Shows How a High School Deepfake Nightmare Unfolded

An in-depth police report obtained by 404 Media shows how a school, and then the police, investigated a wave of AI-powered “nudify” apps in a high school.
University of Michigan Sells Recordings of Study Groups and Office Hours to Train AI
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University of Michigan Sells Recordings of Study Groups and Office Hours to Train AI

The data is being offered for tens of thousands of dollars to outside third-parties. It is unclear if the speakers provided informed consent.
Service Jobs Now Require Bizarre Personality Test From AI Company
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Service Jobs Now Require Bizarre Personality Test From AI Company

Paradox.ai, which is used by some of the biggest employers in the country, requires applicants to respond to dozens of confusing slides featuring a blue alien named Ash.
Microsoft’s AI Will Delete Its Own Answers Before Your Eyes
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Microsoft’s AI Will Delete Its Own Answers Before Your Eyes

Copilot knows what a ‘badonkadonk’ is, but will delete its answer after telling you.
Security Researcher Allegedly Hacked Apple’s Backend, Scammed $2.5 Million
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Security Researcher Allegedly Hacked Apple’s Backend, Scammed $2.5 Million

Staggeringly, Apple thanked the defendant, Noah Roskin-Frazee, in a security update less than two weeks after he was arrested.
AI-Generated Grandma Porn Is Flooding the Internet
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AI-Generated Grandma Porn Is Flooding the Internet

Hundreds of AI GILF erotica are flooding Xvideos and Manyvids.
Phone Spy Tool Pitched for ‘Riot Detection’ in NYC
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Phone Spy Tool Pitched for ‘Riot Detection’ in NYC

404 Media recently exposed Patternz, a global phone spy tool that tracks movements and interests through advertising data. Other internal documents now show the technology was marketed as a way to detect riots.
Fake Bill Ackman and Jim Cramer Instagram Ads are Trying to Take My Money
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Fake Bill Ackman and Jim Cramer Instagram Ads are Trying to Take My Money

Meta continues to profit by selling ads to scammers who are trying to fleece its users.
Binance Code and Internal Passwords Exposed on GitHub for Months
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Binance Code and Internal Passwords Exposed on GitHub for Months

A takedown request said the GitHub account was “hosting and distributing leaks of internal code which poses significant risk to BINANCE.”
How a Single ‘Pig Butchering’ Scam Netted $40 Million
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How a Single ‘Pig Butchering’ Scam Netted $40 Million

Pig butchering scams—in which fraudsters continuously extract money from a target—are a multibillion dollar epidemic. Court records show that just one scam operation can make at least tens of millions of dollars.
Encrypted Phone ‘Sky’ Linked to Murder-for-Hire Plot in Maryland
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Encrypted Phone ‘Sky’ Linked to Murder-for-Hire Plot in Maryland

Sky was an encrypted phone used by drug traffickers and other criminals. Now, those phones are linked to a murder-for-hire scheme on U.S. soil involving an arm of the Iranian state.
Microsoft Closes Loophole That Created AI Porn of Taylor Swift
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Microsoft Closes Loophole That Created AI Porn of Taylor Swift

Following 404 Media’s reporting, Microsoft has made changes to a tool people were using to make AI nudes of celebrities.