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An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned

AI

'You Can't Defeat the Robots!': Baseball's AI Strike Zone Is Must-Watch Television

Podcast

The Journalist Who Tracked Epstein Island Visitors’ Phones (with Dhruv Mehrotra)

Behind The Blog

Slopaganda and Sora, lol

The Abstract

Scientists Discover Giant ‘Cavity’ Beyond Earth That Isn’t Supposed to Exist

ICE

How ICE and CBP Use Free Walkie-Talkie App ‘Zello’ to Power Their Operations

FOIA

Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds

Privacy

Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature

Features

An Adrenaline Junkie Millionaire’s Quest to Become a Cocaine Kingpin

Hacking

The Viral Smart Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Not Real

Meta

RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted

Facebook

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

Impact

Lawmakers Demand DHS Define ‘Domestic Terrorist’ As It Uses Vast Array of Surveillance Tools

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

Flock

Police Used Flock to Give a Man a Traffic Ticket

OpenAI

OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny

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

Surveillance

The State of Anti-Surveillance Design

age verification

Many UK Users Soon Won't Be Able to Access Pornhub

Donald Trump

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

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

Deepfakes

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

ChatGPT

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

chatbots

Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

Instagram

Alleged Mail Thief Arrested After Bragging About Crimes On Instagram Stories

Announcements

We Bought 404media.com

Amazon

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address

Reddit

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

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

DOGE

Judge Allows DOGE Deposition Videos Back Online

Twitter

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

Apple

Someone Is Trying to ‘Hack’ People Through Apple Podcasts

girls do porn

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

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

YouTube

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

Spanish

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish

CBP

Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

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

Wikipedia

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

DHS

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements

grok

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

wall

wordpress

Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'

archiving

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

podcasts

Mapping Google's Unmappable City

wired

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

Immigration

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

iPhone

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

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

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

Tariffs

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

nuclear

Jeffrey Epstein

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

Ticket Scalping

Sora

People Are Farming and Selling Sora 2 Invite Codes on eBay

sex

Analysis of 34 Hours of Orgasm Recordings Finds People Cum Quietly

Court Watch

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

AI Porn

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

Music

Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes

Video Games

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

John Deere

platforms

Massive Creator Platform Fansly Bans Furries

Ticket Brokers

Anthropic

Content Moderation

Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma'

publishing

texas

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

Palestine

film

Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again

automattic

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

Workers

copyright

Shein Is Suing Temu For Copyright Infringement

Adblock

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

union

Zoom

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

war

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

Github

Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why

Taylor Swift

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

sex toys

23andMe

23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $17

Courtwatch

Men Stole Over $1 Million From DoorDash Delivery Drivers By Impersonating Them to Customer Service

Cameras

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

Journalism

Crime

Trump administration