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News

There’s a Lootbox With Rare Pokémon Cards Sitting in the Pentagon Food Court

AI

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

Podcast

Podcast: The ICE Tool That Tracks Entire Neighborhoods

Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Putting the Puzzle Together

The Abstract

Scientists Make Stunning Find Inside Prehistoric Wolf’s Stomach

ICE

ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice

FOIA

DHS Is Deploying a Powerful Surveillance Tool at College Football Games

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

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

repair

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

Impact

New Legislation Would Rein In ICE’s Facial Recognition App

OpenAI

OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny

Google

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

AI Slop

When Will My Pornographic Shrek Christmas Ornament Arrive?

Right to Repair

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

Flock

Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman Then Refused to Look at Evidence That Exonerated Her, Body Camera Shows

Donald Trump

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

Surveillance

The State of Anti-Surveillance Design

TikTok

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

age verification

Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

Announcements

We Bought 404media.com

Elon Musk

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

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

Instagram

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

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

girls do porn

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

Amazon

Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust

porn

Major Porn Studios Join Forces to Establish Industry ‘Code of Conduct’

Twitter

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

chatbots

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

Apple

Someone Is Trying to ‘Hack’ People Through Apple Podcasts

Reddit

Danish Redditor Charged for Posting Nude Scenes from Films

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'

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

Immigration

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

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

iPhone

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

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

Tariffs

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

Music

Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes

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

Palestine

Sora

People Are Farming and Selling Sora 2 Invite Codes on eBay

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

film

Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again

copyright

Shein Is Suing Temu For Copyright Infringement

Workers

automattic

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

Content Moderation

Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma'

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

DHS

Hilton Hotel That Refused DHS Reservations Backpedals

union

John Deere

Wikipedia

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

platforms

Massive Creator Platform Fansly Bans Furries

nuclear

AI Porn

Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand

Ticket Brokers

Video Games

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

grok

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

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

Mark Zuckerberg

Bluesky

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

23andMe

23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $17

llms

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

work

LinkedIn Descends Into Madness Over ‘WORK From HOME’ Copypasta

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

Delivery Drivers

Zoom

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

Journalism

Anthropic

law

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

Crime