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Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles
404 Media reviewed multiple examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News. Google said it doesn't focus on how an article was produced—by an AI or human—opening the way for more AI-generated articles.
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Is Your Local Police Department Using Fusus AI-Enabled Cameras? Find Out Here
404 Media has obtained a new dataset which shows the spread of Fusus cameras across the country. Check the map to see if your local law enforcement agency has signed up.
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Hackers Break into AI Hiring Chatbot, Could Hire and Reject Fast Food Applicants
Chat logs sent to 404 Media show the chatbot automatically denying at least one applicant on certain criteria.
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Sealed Indictment Shows Case Against Hacker Behind Massive T-Mobile Data Breach
A sealed indictment obtained by 404 Media describes the case against John Binns, who allegedly hacked into T-Mobile, stole 40 million user records, and then sold them.
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Inside a $20 Million Coinbase Phishing Ring
404 Media spoke to a victim of a hacking ring the Secret Service believes stole millions of dollars by setting up fake Coinbase login pages.
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Download the Huge New Cache of Unsealed Jeffrey Epstein Documents Here
The court released a gigantic new dump of Epstein documents Friday night, which you can download here.
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Google Contractor Pays Parents $50 to Scan Their Childrens' Faces
Google is having parents film their children wearing hats and sunglasses, with the collected data to include eyelid shape and skin tone.
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Download the Newly Unsealed Jeffrey Epstein Documents Here
Hundreds of pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were unsealed Wednesday. Here they are.
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Wickr Is Dead
The app was a privacy-championing startup, before becoming an app of choice for drug traffickers and being acquired by Amazon Web Services. Near the stroke of midnight on December 31, 2023, AWS shut down the free version of Wickr for good.
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13-Year-Old Becomes First Person to Ever Beat Tetris
34 years after its release on NES, Blue Scuti has become the first human to ever reach Tetris' Kill Screen.
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Real Estate ‘Visionary’ Allegedly Behind Massive, Viral Airbnb Fraud Charged
Shray Goel allegedly duped guests to properties that didn’t exist and then refused to issue refunds. Years after a media report outed his scheme, authorities caught up with Goel last month.
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Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life’
A stalker haphazardly posing as a cop demanded sensitive data from Verizon. Verizon complied, and the stalker drove to an address armed with a knife. 404 Media spoke to the victim.