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News

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled

AI

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge

Podcast

Podcast: People Are Modding Meta Ray-Bans to Spy On You

Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Paywall Jumping and Smart Glasses

The Abstract

A Fundamental ‘Constant’ of the Universe May Not Be Constant At All, Study Finds

FOIA

You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says

ICE

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship

Features

How Ruby Went Off the Rails

Privacy

How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government

Hacking

The Viral Smart Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Not Real

Facebook

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

Meta

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

repair

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

Impact

Congress Pushes DHS for Details on ICE’s New Facial Recognition App

Right to Repair

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

OpenAI

OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny

Google

Google's AI Overview Tells Adults to Use 'Magic Wand' With Kids

Donald Trump

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

AI Slop

Andrew Cuomo Uses AI MPREG Schoolhouse Rock Bill to Attack Mamdani, Is Out of Ideas

Surveillance

Researcher Turns Insecure License Plate Cameras Into Open Source Surveillance Tool

age verification

Florida Sues Hentai Site and High-Risk Payment Processor for Not Verifying Ages

TikTok

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

Flock

Flock Logins Exposed In Malware Infections, Senator Asks FTC to Investigate the Company

Deepfakes

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

Elon Musk

Former Heritage Foundation Staffer Orders Treasury Employees to Respond to Elon Musk’s Email

Twitter

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

Amazon

Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust

Instagram

Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence

ChatGPT

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

girls do porn

GirlsDoPorn Victims Sue Major Payment Processors, Claiming They Enabled Sex Trafficking

Announcements

404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation Sue DHS

FOIA Forum

Here's the Video for Our Sixth FOIA Forum: Massive Blue

Reddit

Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X

chatbots

Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children

Apple

Green Bubble Vindication: DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Says Apple Is Causing Android Users 'Social Stigma'

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

porn

Michigan Lawmakers Are Attempting to Ban Porn Entirely

Ticketmaster

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

Spanish

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish

YouTube

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

pornhub

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

Generative AI

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

wall

wordpress

Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'

Immigration

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

wired

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

DOGE

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

Security

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

iPhone

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

X

archiving

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

Labor

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

Tariffs

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

advertising

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

sex

Analysis of 34 Hours of Orgasm Recordings Finds People Cum Quietly

Tesla

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

Ticket Scalping

Video Games

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

Wikipedia

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

CBP

DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants

archives

Trump Fires National Archives Director Colleen Shogan

Ticket Brokers

texas

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

Palestine

automattic

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

film

Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again

Workers

Music

These Songs Are Still Legal in Chechnya

open source

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

Car Repair

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

union

John Deere

Internet of Shit

Taylor Swift

Typewriter Community Braces for Influx of Taylor Swift Fans Inspired by Tortured Poets Department

platforms

Massive Creator Platform Fansly Bans Furries

23andMe

23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $17

sex toys

Cameras

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

publishing

copyright

Shein Is Suing Temu For Copyright Infringement

Journalism

Crime

law

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

work

LinkedIn Descends Into Madness Over ‘WORK From HOME’ Copypasta

Zoom

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

Delivery Drivers

LinkedIn

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

Photography

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

Adblock

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

Court Watch

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

llms

Gemini Is 'Strict and Punitive' While ChatGPT Is 'Catastrophically' Cooperative, Researchers Say

Lost Media

Long Lost Song Hunted By Thousands Found in 80s Porno

Bluesky

Bluesky Deletes AI Protest Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes, Calls It 'Non-Consensual Explicit Material'

Mark Zuckerberg

Drones

The No-Win 'Mystery Drone' Clusterfuck

Anthropic

Internet Mysteries

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