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News

Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site

AI

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

Podcast

How Identity Literally Changes What You See (with Samuel Bagg)

Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Own Goals and Lying Devs

The Abstract

Dozens of Bizarre Ancient Lifeforms Discovered in ‘Extraordinary’ Fossil Find

ICE

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE

FOIA

DHS Is Deploying a Powerful Surveillance Tool at College Football Games

Privacy

Privacy Telecom ‘Cape’ Introduces ‘Disappearing Call Logs’ That Delete Every 24 Hours

Features

How Ruby Went Off the Rails

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

Impact

Senators Push for Answers on ICE's Surveillance Shopping Spree

repair

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

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?

Flock

Police Told to Be ‘as Vague as Permissible’ About Why They Use Flock

Right to Repair

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

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

Surveillance

The State of Anti-Surveillance Design

TikTok

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

Instagram

Alleged Mail Thief Arrested After Bragging About Crimes On Instagram Stories

porn

Amid Backlash, Massive Porn Platform ManyVids Doubles Down on Bizarre, AI-Generated Posts

Elon Musk

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

Announcements

We Bought 404media.com

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

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

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

Twitter

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

Reddit

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

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

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

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

Spanish

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish

YouTube

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

wall

DOGE

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

wired

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

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

CBP

Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

archiving

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

wordpress

Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'

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

Tariffs

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

X

iPhone

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

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

Ticket Scalping

Music

Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes

Tesla

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

AI Porn

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

DHS

Feds Create Drone No Fly Zone That Would Stop People Filming ICE

sex

Analysis of 34 Hours of Orgasm Recordings Finds People Cum Quietly

Wikipedia

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

Ticket Brokers

Sora

People Are Farming and Selling Sora 2 Invite Codes on eBay

nuclear

Video Games

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

Content Moderation

Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma'

platforms

Massive Creator Platform Fansly Bans Furries

publishing

Adblock

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

grok

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

Court Watch

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

union

Car Repair

It Is Now Legal to Hack McFlurry Machines (and Medical Devices) to Fix Them

open source

Here's a PDF Version of the CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism

John Deere

Palestine

film

Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again

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

Workers

llms

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

election

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

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

Github

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

Trump administration

AI Images

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

law

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

Telegram

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

23andMe

23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $17

LinkedIn

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

Internet Mysteries

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

Journalism

Taylor Swift

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