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News

Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long

AI

'The Most Dejected I’ve Ever Felt:' Harassers Made Nude AI Images of Her, Then Started an OnlyFans

Podcast

Podcast: Inside an AI-Powered School

Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Unglamorous Work

The Abstract

Astronomers Create Strange ‘Vortex Crystals’ from Space in the Lab

ICE

Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On

FOIA

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

Privacy

Underground Facial Recognition Tool Unmasks Camgirls

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

Senators Push for Answers on ICE's Surveillance Shopping Spree

repair

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

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

Flock

Police Told to Be ‘as Vague as Permissible’ About Why They Use Flock

Surveillance

The State of Anti-Surveillance Design

Donald Trump

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

age verification

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

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

porn

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

Announcements

We Bought 404media.com

chatbots

Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

Deepfakes

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

ChatGPT

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

Twitter

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

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

FOIA Forum

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

Amazon

Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust

Reddit

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

Apple

Someone Is Trying to ‘Hack’ People Through Apple Podcasts

Spanish

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish

pornhub

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

science

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

lawsuits

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

YouTube

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

Ticketmaster

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

wall

wordpress

Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'

CBP

Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

grok

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

Immigration

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

DOGE

GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government

archiving

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

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

archives

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

Security

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

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

X

iPhone

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

Tariffs

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

Ticket Scalping

Music

Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes

Tesla

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

Wikipedia

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

Jeffrey Epstein

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

AI Porn

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

DHS

Feds Create Drone No Fly Zone That Would Stop People Filming ICE

sex

Analysis of 34 Hours of Orgasm Recordings Finds People Cum Quietly

Ticket Brokers

Palestine

Court Watch

Tipster Arrested After Feds Find AI Child Exploit Images and Plans to Make VR CSAM

film

Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again

platforms

Massive Creator Platform Fansly Bans Furries

Workers

Content Moderation

Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma'

open source

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

Adblock

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

publishing

John Deere

Video Games

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

Car Repair

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

texas

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

copyright

Shein Is Suing Temu For Copyright Infringement

automattic

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

nuclear

Sora

People Are Farming and Selling Sora 2 Invite Codes on eBay

union

sex toys

waymo

Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars

Internet Mysteries

'The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet' Has Finally Been Identified

Cameras

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

Telegram

Podcast: Is the Arrest of Telegram Founder Pavel Durov an Attack on Encryption?

LinkedIn

LinkedIn Removes Accounts of AI 'Co-Workers' Looking for Jobs

Crime

Zoom

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

podcasts

The Screen Time Panic Sets Parents Up to Fail

Delivery Drivers

AI Spam

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

Journalism

election

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