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News

WebinarTV Secretly Scraped Zoom Meetings of Anonymous Recovery Programs

AI

Maine Is Close to Passing a Moratorium on New Datacenters

Podcast

How the Internet Became Hell (with Whitney Phillips)

Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Smoking the Whole Carton

The Abstract

The Oldest Octopus Fossil Ever Isn’t An Octopus At All, Scientists Discover

ICE

How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir

FOIA

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

Privacy

FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

Features

An Adrenaline Junkie Millionaire’s Quest to Become a Cocaine Kingpin

Hacking

Hacker Compromises a16z-Backed Phone Farm, Tries to Post Memes Calling a16z the ‘Antichrist’

Meta

RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted

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

AI Slop

Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood

repair

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

Flock

Wildlife Conservation Police Are Searching Thousands of Flock Cameras for ICE

OpenAI

OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny

Right to Repair

Data Center Tech Lobbyists Fearmonger in Attempt to Retroactively Roll Back Right to Repair Law

Google

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

Surveillance

The State of Anti-Surveillance Design

age verification

Wisconsinites Can Keep Watching Porn After Governor Vetoes Age Verification Bill

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

porn

I Tried to Find the ‘Arousal Intelligence’ In An Animated, Augmented Reality Porn Star

Elon Musk

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

chatbots

Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

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

ChatGPT

Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows

Announcements

We Bought 404media.com

Reddit

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

Amazon

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address

DOGE

Judge Allows DOGE Deposition Videos Back Online

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

Apple

Someone Is Trying to ‘Hack’ People Through Apple Podcasts

Twitter

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

science

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

CBP

Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

Spanish

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish

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

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

DHS

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

grok

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

wired

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

Immigration

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

podcasts

Mapping Google's Unmappable City

wordpress

Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'

Wikipedia

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

Generative AI

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

Security

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

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archiving

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

archives

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

Tesla

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

Tariffs

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

sex

Analysis of 34 Hours of Orgasm Recordings Finds People Cum Quietly

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

iPhone

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

X

Ticket Scalping

Sora

People Are Farming and Selling Sora 2 Invite Codes on eBay

Music

Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes

Court Watch

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

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’

film

Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again

Palestine

Workers

war

Ticket Brokers

Adblock

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

John Deere

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

automattic

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

texas

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

publishing

Content Moderation

Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma'

Zoom

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

platforms

Massive Creator Platform Fansly Bans Furries

union

Video Games

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

Anthropic

Cameras

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

Lost Media

Long Lost Song Hunted By Thousands Found in 80s Porno

Photography

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

23andMe

23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $17

Trump administration

aliens

Government Registers Aliens.Gov Domain

law

Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

AI Spam

Viral 'Challah Horse' Image Zuckerberg Loved Was Originally Created as a Warning About Facebook's AI Slop

Courtwatch

Men Stole Over $1 Million From DoorDash Delivery Drivers By Impersonating Them to Customer Service