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News

Arc Raiders ‘Watchlist’ Names and Shames Backstabbing Players

AI

America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle

Podcast

Podcast: A Massive Breach Reveals the Truth Behind 'Secret Desires AI'

Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: A Risograph Journey and Data Musings

The Abstract

Being Famous Can Shorten Your Lifespan, Scientists Find

FOIA

DHS Is Deploying a Powerful Surveillance Tool at College Football Games

ICE

ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued

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

Facebook

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

Meta

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

repair

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

Impact

Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government

OpenAI

OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny

Right to Repair

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

AI Slop

'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022

Google

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

Donald Trump

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

Surveillance

Researcher Turns Insecure License Plate Cameras Into Open Source Surveillance Tool

TikTok

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

age verification

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

Flock

Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country

Deepfakes

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

Announcements

Please, please do our reader survey

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

Twitter

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

Elon Musk

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

ChatGPT

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

girls do porn

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

porn

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

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

Instagram

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

Spanish

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish

science

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

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

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

wall

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

wordpress

Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'

archiving

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

iPhone

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

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

archives

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

advertising

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

X

Labor

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

sex

Analysis of 34 Hours of Orgasm Recordings Finds People Cum Quietly

Ticket Scalping

Tesla

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

Music

These Songs Are Still Legal in Chechnya

Video Games

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

Wikipedia

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

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

copyright

Shein Is Suing Temu For Copyright Infringement

film

Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again

Workers

Palestine

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

Sora

People Are Farming and Selling Sora 2 Invite Codes on eBay

CBP

DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants

union

John Deere

Ticket Brokers

Court Watch

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

nuclear

Cameras

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

law

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

Trump administration

llms

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

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'

Mark Zuckerberg

election

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

Internet Mysteries

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

Telegram

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

AI Images

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

Journalism

Crime

work

LinkedIn Descends Into Madness Over ‘WORK From HOME’ Copypasta

Zoom

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

Delivery Drivers

LinkedIn

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

sex toys

DHS

TSA Working on Haptic Tech To 'Feel' Your Body in Virtual Reality

Content Moderation

Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma'