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News

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

AI

AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History

Podcast

Podcast: AI Slop Is Drowning Out Human YouTubers

Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: 'Free Speech' and Open Dialogue

The Abstract

NASA Rover Finds ‘Potential Biosignature’ on Mars

FOIA

Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching

Features

How Lofi Girl Became a Chill Beats Empire

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

All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation

Donald Trump

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

Google

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

Surveillance

Researcher Turns Insecure License Plate Cameras Into Open Source Surveillance Tool

TikTok

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

age verification

Wyoming and South Dakota Age Verification Laws Could Include Huge Parts of the Internet

OpenAI

OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us

AI Slop

80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

Instagram

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

Deepfakes

Almost Every State Has Its Own Deepfakes Law Now

Elon Musk

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

chatbots

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

Flock

CBP Had Access to More than 80,000 Flock AI Cameras Nationwide

Reddit

Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X

Apple

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

FOIA Forum

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

girls do porn

Michael Pratt, GirlsDoPorn Ringleader, Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison

Announcements

404 Media Objects to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's Subpoena to Access Our Reporting

Spanish

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish

lawsuits

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

ICE

Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People

ChatGPT

ChatGPT Answered 'High Risk' Questions About Suicide, New Study Finds

pornhub

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

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

YouTube

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

porn

Michigan Lawmakers Are Attempting to Ban Porn Entirely

science

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

wall

iPhone

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

Ticketmaster

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

wordpress

Following Layoffs, Automattic Employees Discover Leak-Catching Watermarks

wired

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

X

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

Tariffs

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

Immigration

Pentagon Asks Its Civilian Employees If They Want to Work for ICE

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

advertising

WTF Is Stake, the Online Casino Using Viral Posts to Advertise Its Gambling Site

sex

Analysis of 34 Hours of Orgasm Recordings Finds People Cum Quietly

archives

Trump Fires National Archives Director Colleen Shogan

John Deere

Ticket Scalping

Ticket Brokers

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

texas

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

Palestine

Workers

Video Games

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

Music

These Songs Are Still Legal in Chechnya

automattic

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

Content Moderation

Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma'

Telegram

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

Internet Mysteries

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

election

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

Court Watch

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

AI Spam

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

Mark Zuckerberg

AI Images

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

Bluesky

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

llms

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

LinkedIn

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

Delivery Drivers

Zoom

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

work

LinkedIn Descends Into Madness Over ‘WORK From HOME’ Copypasta

Crime

Journalism

Trump administration

copyright

Shein Is Suing Temu For Copyright Infringement

publishing

sex toys

Wikipedia

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

platforms

Massive Creator Platform Fansly Bans Furries

Taylor Swift

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

23andMe

23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $17

Cameras

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

Adblock

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

Lost Media

Long Lost Song Hunted By Thousands Found in 80s Porno

Drones

The No-Win 'Mystery Drone' Clusterfuck