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News

Cybertruck Tried to Drive 'Straight Off an Overpass' Attorney Claims

AI

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Podcast

Podcast: How to Talk to Your Friend Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'

Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: An AI Army Foot Fetish

The Abstract

Scientists Discover Vast Ancient Trade Network That Rewrites History with Parrot DNA

ICE

How ICE and CBP Use Free Walkie-Talkie App ‘Zello’ to Power Their Operations

FOIA

Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds

Privacy

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby

Features

How Ruby Went Off the Rails

Hacking

The Viral Smart Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Not Real

Meta

Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests

Facebook

'Careless People' Is the Book About Facebook I've Wanted for a Decade

Impact

Lawmakers Demand DHS Define ‘Domestic Terrorist’ As It Uses Vast Array of Surveillance Tools

repair

John Deere Must Face FTC Lawsuit Over Its Tractor Repair Monopoly, Judge Rules

Flock

From Flock to ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched

AI Slop

When Will My Pornographic Shrek Christmas Ornament Arrive?

OpenAI

OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny

Google

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort

Right to Repair

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

Surveillance

The State of Anti-Surveillance Design

age verification

Many UK Users Soon Won't Be Able to Access Pornhub

Donald Trump

AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs

TikTok

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

Elon Musk

Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery

Instagram

Alleged Mail Thief Arrested After Bragging About Crimes On Instagram Stories

Deepfakes

New Research Shows Deepfake Harassment Tools Spread on Social Media and Search Engines

porn

Amid Backlash, Massive Porn Platform ManyVids Doubles Down on Bizarre, AI-Generated Posts

chatbots

Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

Announcements

We Bought 404media.com

ChatGPT

ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says

Reddit

Fascist Kink Roleplay Subreddit Draws the Line: No More ICE Porn

Amazon

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address

FOIA Forum

Here's the Video for Our Seventh FOIA Forum: Flock

Artificial Intelligence

Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation

girls do porn

Woman Who Helped Coerce Victims into GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Ring Sentenced to Prison

Twitter

Afghanistan Resistance Account Says ‘Tour of Booty’ Porn Scene Is The Taliban

Apple

Someone Is Trying to ‘Hack’ People Through Apple Podcasts

science

Paper-Crumpling Study About the Nature of Anger Is the Best Thing I've Read in a Long Time

Spanish

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish

CBP

Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

Ticketmaster

Ticketmaster Used Revolving Barcodes to Control Ticket Resale Market and Surveil Customers, DOJ Alleges

lawsuits

Woman Sues Sex Toy Retailer Adam and Eve, Claims It Shared Data About Her Dildos

DOGE

I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves

pornhub

Pornhub Will Pay $5 Million Over Allegations of Hosting Child Sexual Abuse Material

YouTube

Unionized YouTube Workers Learn Google Laid Them All Off During City Council Meeting

wordpress

Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'

Immigration

Government Shutdown Causes Even More Confusion for U.S. Visa Applicants

Generative AI

AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality

wired

Chinese Livestreaming 'Virtual Human' Salespeople Are Outselling Their Human Counterparts

wall

grok

Grok Exposed a Porn Performer’s Legal Name and Birthdate—Without Even Being Asked

DHS

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements

archiving

Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website

iPhone

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

Tariffs

$2,000 Shipping: International Sellers Charge Absurd Prices to Avoid Dealing With American Tariffs

archives

Visualize All 23 Years of BYTE Magazine in All Its Glory, All at Once

Wikipedia

Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'

Security

Do Spencer’s Vibrators Have Malware on Them? An Investigation

Tesla

'Honk If You Hate Elon:' Two Days of Protest at the Tesla Diner

X

advertising

Google Just Removed Seven Years of Political Advertising History from 27 Countries

Labor

CEO Attempted to Navigate Anti-LGBT Hate Incident By Telling Employees His Mentor Was a KKK Member

podcasts

The Screen Time Panic Sets Parents Up to Fail

Jeffrey Epstein

The DOJ Redacted a Photo of the Mona Lisa in the Epstein Files

nuclear

AI Porn

Aliens and Angel Numbers: Creators Worry Porn Platform ManyVids Is Falling Into ‘AI Psychosis’

sex

Analysis of 34 Hours of Orgasm Recordings Finds People Cum Quietly

Court Watch

FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn

Music

Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes

Ticket Scalping

Workers

texas

Texas Solicitor General Resigned After Fantasizing Colleague Would Get 'Anally Raped By a Cylindrical Asteroid'

publishing

automattic

A WordPress ‘Firehose’ Allows AI Companies to Buy Access to a Million Posts a Day

open source

Here's a PDF Version of the CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism

copyright

Shein Is Suing Temu For Copyright Infringement

Car Repair

It Is Now Legal to Hack McFlurry Machines (and Medical Devices) to Fix Them

Video Games

13-Year-Old Becomes First Person to Ever Beat Tetris

Ticket Brokers

Palestine

Content Moderation

Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma'

union

Sora

People Are Farming and Selling Sora 2 Invite Codes on eBay

Adblock

YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users

platforms

Massive Creator Platform Fansly Bans Furries

John Deere

film

Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again

Github

Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why

Trump administration

waymo

Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars

Crime

Cameras

40,000 Cameras, From Bird Feeders to Baby Monitors, Exposed to the Internet

Zoom

Watch Man Park His Car On Zoom While Appearing Before a Judge For Suspended License Trial

Photography

Kodak Is Selling Its Own Film Again for the First Time in a Decade

Anthropic

Delivery Drivers

23andMe

23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $17

election

This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages

Tractors

Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers' Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season