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Crooks Allegedly Stole Truck Full of $1.5 Million of Oculus Headsets
The truck thieves also stole trucks hauling electronics from Microsoft and Logitech.
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I Don't Own a Cellphone. Can This Privacy-Focused Network Change That?
A small tech company called Cape has been selling a privacy-focused cellphone service to the U.S. military. Now Cape will be offering its product to high-risk members of the public.
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Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World
Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a “Large Geospatial Model” that can navigate the real world and power robots.
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Leaked Documents Show What Phones Secretive Tech ‘Graykey’ Can Unlock
The documents provide never-been-seen insight into the current cat-and-mouse game between forensics companies and phone manufacturers Apple and Google.
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AI-Powered Buzzfeed Ads Suggest You Buy Hat of Man Who Died by Suicide
Buzzfeed is using an AI-powered ad platform that recommends products that attempts to match objects in disturbing images on its site.
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Pregnancy Tracking App ‘What to Expect’ Refuses to Fix Issue that Allows Full Account Takeover
Vulnerabilities in the popular What to Expect app include one that allows a full account take over, and another that exposes that email address of forum admins.
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Here’s the Indictment Against the Alleged Snowflake and AT&T Hacker
The indictment also charges a second hacker that 404 Media previously reported as being linked to the AT&T breach.
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Amazon Confirms Breach of Employee Data
The breach includes the employees’ name, work contact information, and what location they work at.
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Apple Quietly Introduced iPhone Reboot Code Which is Locking Out Cops
On Thursday 404 Media reported that police were freaking out about mysteriously rebooting iPhones. Now multiple experts have found that Apple introduced code that reboots locked phones after a period of time.
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Nintendo Sues Streamer of Emulated, Pre-Released Games
The streamer, who opened new channels when Nintendo shut them down, said he “can do this all day.”
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Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out
Law enforcement believe the activity, which makes it harder to then unlock the phones, may be due to a potential update in iOS 18 which tells nearby iPhones to reboot if they have not been in contact with a cellular network for some time, according to a document obtained by 404 Media.
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Reddit’s ‘Interesting as Fuck’ Community Rules That AI-Generated Video Is Not Interesting
An AI-generated video of a cute parrot got thousands of upvotes before moderators removed it and locked the thread.