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News

This ‘World of Warcraft: Forever’ Mod Blocks All Interactions With Asmongold Fans

AI

‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

Podcast

Podcast: Humans Are Reading Your ChatGPT Conversations

The Abstract

An Invisible Force Has a Mysterious Effect on Aging, Scientists Discover in 'Startling' Breakthrough

Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Eating the Internet

ICE

ICE Plans to Spend Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots

FOIA

We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything

Privacy

University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It

Flock

‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People

Features

AI Made Cloning Games Easier Than Ever

Hacking

‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees

Meta

Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

Impact

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Facebook

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

Google

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

AI Slop

Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood

OpenAI

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

Surveillance

This 'Digital Camouflage' Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance Cameras

repair

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

Right to Repair

Farmers Finally Get a John Deere Right to Repair Agreement That Doesn’t Screw Them Over

age verification

The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare

Deepfakes

New York Seizes 12 Celebrity Deepfake Websites

Amazon

'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon

porn

Porn Platform Gives Sex Workers Stake in the Company's Profits

podcasts

How AI Chatbots Are 'Deskilling' Human Empathy

ChatGPT

'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AI

TikTok

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

chatbots

Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why

Donald Trump

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

Instagram

I Almost Lost My Mind in the Bridal Algorithm

Apple

Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users’ Real IP Addresses

Elon Musk

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

Reddit

It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests

Announcements

We Bought 404media.com

science

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

FOIA Forum

Our New FOIA Forum! 7/30, 1PM ET

DOGE

Judge Allows DOGE Deposition Videos Back Online

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

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’s Matt Mullenweg Claims He’s Back 'In Control'

DHS

A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over

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

lawsuits

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

Ticketmaster

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

wall

Spanish

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish

CBP

Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

archiving

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

iPhone

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

grok

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

Security

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

nuclear

wired

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

Immigration

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

Microsoft

Satya Nadella ‘Not Sure’ Who Said Microsoft Wanted to Make Addictive AI, Is Looking for Guy Who Did This

Data centers

Data Centers Are Easy to Build. Powering Them Is Complicated, Slow, and Expensive

Books

sex

Analysis of 34 Hours of Orgasm Recordings Finds People Cum Quietly

Court Watch

How a Network of Volunteers Is Liberating Critical Court Records for Everyone

Tesla

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

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

law

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

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

X

Ticket Scalping

Jeffrey Epstein

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

Sora

People Are Farming and Selling Sora 2 Invite Codes on eBay

Music

Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes

libraries

Libraries Not Doing Pride Displays Say They ‘Shouldn’t Be Judged’

AI Porn

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

war

Anthropic

Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing

palantir

Here is the Contract for Palantir’s Super API for the IRS

1201

The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia

platforms

Massive Creator Platform Fansly Bans Furries

automattic

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

ALPR

'I Saw a Shiny Thing': Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman

open source

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

spotify

Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content

LinkedIn

LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button

Zoom

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

Cybersecurity

Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google

Video Games

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

Trump administration

Car Repair

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

fbi

FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit

Tractors

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

Workers

Ticket Brokers

John Deere

23andMe

23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $17

copyright

Shein Is Suing Temu For Copyright Infringement

publishing