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News

The Government Added a Comments Section to the Epstein Photo Dump

AI

Porn Is Being Injected Into Government Websites Via Malicious PDFs

Podcast

Why Are We Obsessed With Aliens?

Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Resisting Demoralization

The Abstract

Scientists Discover ‘Black Widow’ Exoplanet That Defies Explanation

FOIA

DHS Is Deploying a Powerful Surveillance Tool at College Football Games

ICE

ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents

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

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

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

AI Slop

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

Donald Trump

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

age verification

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

Surveillance

Researcher Turns Insecure License Plate Cameras Into Open Source Surveillance Tool

TikTok

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

Flock

Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI

Announcements

404 Media Is Making a Zine

Deepfakes

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

Amazon

Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust

porn

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

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

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

girls do porn

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

Reddit

Danish Redditor Charged for Posting Nude Scenes from Films

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

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

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

YouTube

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

pornhub

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

CBP

Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

wordpress

Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'

wall

Generative AI

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

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

DOGE

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

wired

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

archives

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

Tariffs

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

X

Security

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

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

iPhone

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

Ticket Scalping

Tesla

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

sex

Analysis of 34 Hours of Orgasm Recordings Finds People Cum Quietly

publishing

texas

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

Video Games

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

John Deere

automattic

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

Ticket Brokers

copyright

Shein Is Suing Temu For Copyright Infringement

Music

These Songs Are Still Legal in Chechnya

Sora

People Are Farming and Selling Sora 2 Invite Codes on eBay

AI Porn

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

Palestine

film

Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again

Workers

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

Adblock

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

union

Wikipedia

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

nuclear

Cameras

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

sex toys

Internet Mysteries

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

Journalism

Crime

Internet of Shit

Photography

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

Taylor Swift

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

llms

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

Bluesky

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

Mark Zuckerberg

Content Moderation

Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma'

DHS

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

Anthropic

1201

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

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

Tractors

Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers' Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season

Telegram

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