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News

Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue

AI

'Shame Thrives in Seclusion:' How AI Porn Chatbots Isolate Us All

Podcast

Podcast: The Latest Epstein Dump is a Disaster

Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: The Neverending Cybersecurity Story

The Abstract

As Space Tourism Looms, Scientists Ask: Should We Have Sex In Orbit?

ICE

Inspector General Investigating Whether ICE's Surveillance Tech Breaks the Law

FOIA

DHS Is Deploying a Powerful Surveillance Tool at College Football Games

Privacy

FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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

OpenAI

OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny

AI Slop

When Will My Pornographic Shrek Christmas Ornament Arrive?

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

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

Surveillance

The State of Anti-Surveillance Design

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

porn

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

Instagram

Alleged Mail Thief Arrested After Bragging About Crimes On Instagram Stories

Announcements

We Bought 404media.com

ChatGPT

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

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

FOIA Forum

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

Amazon

Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust

girls do porn

Woman Who Helped Coerce Victims into GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Ring Sentenced to Prison

chatbots

Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

Reddit

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

Twitter

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

Apple

Someone Is Trying to ‘Hack’ People Through Apple Podcasts

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

Ticketmaster

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

pornhub

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

Spanish

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish

YouTube

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

wall

Generative AI

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

DOGE

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

wired

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

wordpress

Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'

Immigration

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

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

archives

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

iPhone

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

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

Tariffs

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

X

Jeffrey Epstein

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

Music

Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes

sex

Analysis of 34 Hours of Orgasm Recordings Finds People Cum Quietly

Wikipedia

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

DHS

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

AI Porn

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

Tesla

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

Ticket Scalping

film

Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again

nuclear

open source

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

Workers

copyright

Shein Is Suing Temu For Copyright Infringement

automattic

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

Car Repair

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

Adblock

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

texas

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

publishing

union

Content Moderation

Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma'

Sora

People Are Farming and Selling Sora 2 Invite Codes on eBay

platforms

Massive Creator Platform Fansly Bans Furries

Palestine

John Deere

Court Watch

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

grok

Grok's AI Sexual Abuse Didn't Come Out of Nowhere

Video Games

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

Ticket Brokers

Taylor Swift

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

Telegram

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

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

Anthropic

1201

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

Mark Zuckerberg

election

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

23andMe

23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $17

Bluesky

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

Delivery Drivers

Zoom

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

work

LinkedIn Descends Into Madness Over ‘WORK From HOME’ Copypasta