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News

The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds

AI

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Podcast

Podcast: Hackers Dox ICE

Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Engaging the Public

The Abstract

Scientists Discover Rogue Star-Eating Black Hole Far From Home

FOIA

CBP Flew Drones to Help ICE 50 Times in Last Year

ICE

Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People

Features

How Ruby Went Off the Rails

Hacking

The Viral Smart Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Not Real

Privacy

DeleteMe Helps Companies Fight the Growing Threat From Data Brokers

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

Meta

Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests

Impact

Congress Pushes DHS for Details on ICE’s New Facial Recognition App

Right to Repair

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

OpenAI

OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny

Google

Google's AI Overview Tells Adults to Use 'Magic Wand' With Kids

Donald Trump

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

age verification

Florida Sues Hentai Site and High-Risk Payment Processor for Not Verifying Ages

Surveillance

Researcher Turns Insecure License Plate Cameras Into Open Source Surveillance Tool

TikTok

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

AI Slop

AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable

Flock

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Amazon

Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust

Artificial Intelligence

Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation

Twitter

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

Announcements

404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation Sue DHS

Instagram

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

Deepfakes

Almost Every State Has Its Own Deepfakes Law Now

ChatGPT

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

girls do porn

GirlsDoPorn Victims Sue Major Payment Processors, Claiming They Enabled Sex Trafficking

Elon Musk

Former Heritage Foundation Staffer Orders Treasury Employees to Respond to Elon Musk’s Email

Reddit

Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X

FOIA Forum

Here's the Video for Our Sixth FOIA Forum: Massive Blue

chatbots

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

Apple

Green Bubble Vindication: DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Says Apple Is Causing Android Users 'Social Stigma'

porn

Michigan Lawmakers Are Attempting to Ban Porn Entirely

lawsuits

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

science

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

Spanish

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish

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

Immigration

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

wired

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

DOGE

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

Generative AI

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

Ticketmaster

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

wall

iPhone

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

wordpress

Following Layoffs, Automattic Employees Discover Leak-Catching Watermarks

Tariffs

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

Security

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

X

advertising

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

archiving

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

Labor

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

Ticket Scalping

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

texas

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

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

Video Games

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

union

Music

These Songs Are Still Legal in Chechnya

archives

Trump Fires National Archives Director Colleen Shogan

Workers

Palestine

John Deere

Ticket Brokers

election

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

Zoom

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

sex toys

AI Images

Met Gala AI Images of Katy Perry and Rihanna Show Relentless Spread of AI Junk

Internet Mysteries

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

work

LinkedIn Descends Into Madness Over ‘WORK From HOME’ Copypasta

Trump administration

Content Moderation

Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma'

LinkedIn

LinkedIn Removes Accounts of AI 'Co-Workers' Looking for Jobs

Anthropic

llms

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

copyright

Shein Is Suing Temu For Copyright Infringement

Photography

Kodak Is Selling Its Own Film Again for the First Time in a Decade

Bluesky

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

automattic

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

Internet of Shit

Cameras

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

AI Spam

Viral 'Challah Horse' Image Zuckerberg Loved Was Originally Created as a Warning About Facebook's AI Slop

Delivery Drivers

Journalism

film

Adblock

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

Crime

Lost Media

Long Lost Song Hunted By Thousands Found in 80s Porno

platforms

Massive Creator Platform Fansly Bans Furries

publishing

Drones

The No-Win 'Mystery Drone' Clusterfuck

23andMe

23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $17

Mark Zuckerberg