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News

Bodycam Shows Moment Cops Arrested a Man for Speaking Too Long at Data Center Meeting

AI

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

Podcast

Podcast: If AI Is Sentient Then So Is 'Age of Empires II'

Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Salesforce Beach

The Abstract

Vast ‘Structures’ In Space Reveal the Universe Isn't What We Thought

ICE

ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants’ Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker

FOIA

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

Privacy

The Trump Administration’s New Census Data Rules Are a Policy Disaster

Features

‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World

Hacking

Hackers Are Hijacking Entire Roblox Games Now

Meta

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

Impact

Immigrant Rights Lawyers File Lawsuit Over Palantir’s ELITE

Flock

‘You Will Not Speak on Flock Tonight’: County Commissioner Refuses to Let Residents Opposing Flock Speak at Meeting

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

repair

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

AI Slop

Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood

Right to Repair

Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor

OpenAI

OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny

age verification

UK iPhone and iPad Users Can Watch Porn Again

Surveillance

The State of Anti-Surveillance Design

Deepfakes

K-pop Fans Are Calling Out Creepy Deepfakes of Idols

Donald Trump

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

chatbots

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

TikTok

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

Instagram

I Almost Lost My Mind in the Bridal Algorithm

porn

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

Amazon

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address

ChatGPT

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

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

podcasts

How the World Became a Casino

Apple

Someone Is Trying to ‘Hack’ People Through Apple Podcasts

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

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

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

DHS Plans to Buy More Predator-Style Drones

Wikipedia

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

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

Spanish

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish

archiving

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

CBP

Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

iPhone

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

Immigration

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

wordpress

Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'

nuclear

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

Security

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

wall

grok

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

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

Tesla

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

X

Labor

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

advertising

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

archives

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

libraries

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

Jeffrey Epstein

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

law

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

Sora

People Are Farming and Selling Sora 2 Invite Codes on eBay

war

Music

Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes

AI Porn

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

Ticket Scalping

Court Watch

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

Adblock

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

Video Games

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

palantir

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

Trump administration

Zoom

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

Content Moderation

Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma'

Car Repair

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

platforms

Massive Creator Platform Fansly Bans Furries

open source

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

Ticket Brokers

Tractors

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

John Deere

Anthropic

union

publishing

texas

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

automattic

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

Workers

film

Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again

Palestine

Microsoft

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

copyright

Shein Is Suing Temu For Copyright Infringement

1201

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

Cameras

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

Internet Mysteries

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