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YouTube “Enhances” Comment Section With AI-Generated Nonsense
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Behind the Blog: Nostalgia and Newsworthiness
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NYPD Produces Propaganda Instead of Legally Required Public Records
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'The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet' Has Finally Been Identified
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Elon Musk Broke All the Tools Historians Need to Archive Tweets About Israel-Gaza War
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Internet Sleuths Finally Find Origin of 'The Backrooms' Creepypasta Image
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'Sydney Sweeney Leak' Malware is All Over Twitter
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Governor Says National Guard, More Surveillance Coming to NYC Subways
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Paypal Opted You Into Sharing Data Without Your Knowledge
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Viral ‘All Eyes on Rafah’ Image Came From Facebook Group to Make ‘AI Industry Prosper’
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‘The Community Is Scrambling:’ Patreon Banned a Ton of 'Adult Baby/Diaper Lover' Furries
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Annual Reminder: 23andMe Is a Dangerous Christmas Gift That Could Have Unforeseen Impacts on Your Entire Family, Your Children, Etc.
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Hackers Popped a Porn Site for Inflation Fetishists
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Freezing My Eggs Felt Like Spinning a Slot Machine With My Ovaries
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Watch Peloton Instructor Dunk on ‘Tenet’ to Christopher Nolan’s Face
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Man Sues 27 Women After Facebook Users Call Him ‘Clingy’ and ‘Psycho’
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KAYAK Lets Users Filter Out Boeing 737 Max 9 Flights After Door Blows Off Plane
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Oklahoma Bill Would Rewrite Long-Accepted Obscenity Standards
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Stripe Cuts Off Platform Used by Dominatrixes
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Fanfiction Community Rocked By Etsy Sellers Turning Their Work Into Bound Books
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Watch This Guy Play ‘Doom’ on a Toothbrush
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LA Car Culture Warriors In Shambles After Overwhelming Vote for New Bike Lines
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NYTimes Files Copyright Takedown Against Hundreds of Wordle Clones
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I Tried a Bot That Swipes Tinder For Me
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How a Foul Ball From 2014 Became Part of a Russian Disinformation Campaign
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Gumroad Celebrates Sales Spike While Adult Creators Panic
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'Enhanced' Photos of Kate Middleton Are Just More AI Bullshit
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The FBI Charged a Man With Cyberstalking Nude Erotic Wrestlers
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Deadspin Is Becoming a Gambling Referral Site
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Here's the U.S. Government's Antitrust Case Against Apple
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404 Media
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The Amateur Bridge Engineers Have Logged On
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Scientific Journal Bans Images of ‘Lena,’ Researchers’ Favorite Centerfold
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The Editor's Note on Kate Middleton Cancer Announcement Video Doesn't Mean It's Fake
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Friendship Ended With GOOGLE Now KAGI Is My Best Friend
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Cryptographers Who Solved Zodiac Killer Cipher Publish Paper About How They Did It
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The Dystopian Future of TV Is AI-Generated 'FAST' Garbage
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Manga Site Blocks Adult Content, But Only for US and UK Users
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Bike Lock NYPD Insists Is 'Industrial' Protest Tool Is a Normal Lock Recommended by Columbia University
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An Open Database Leaked Submissions to Utah’s Transphobic ‘Bathroom Bill’ Snitch Form
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'Kendrick's Pool:' People Are Tagging Drake's House With Insults on Google Maps
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Scientists Use Ultrasound to Make Cold Brew Coffee in 3 Minutes Instead of 24 Hours
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All Eyes on Rafah’s Virality Creates Market for AI Spam About Palestine
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'Are We Dating the Same Guy' Guy Imprisoned for Tax Fraud
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A Suspected Human Smuggler Used AirTags to Track and Control The Woman He Brought Into the U.S.
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A 27-Year Old Tamagotchi Mystery Has Been Solved
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Gateway Pundit Bankruptcy Is a 'Delay Tactic,' Election Workers Suing the Company Say
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A Question About Disputed South China Sea Sends Perplexity AI Into a Sanitized Infinite Loop
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‘Remote’ Amazonian Tribes Have Been Using the Internet for a Long Time
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You Probably Unwittingly Voted to Give Elon Musk a Huge Raise
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The DJI Drone Ban: A Uniquely American Clusterfuck
DJI Ban
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Listen to the AI-Generated Ripoff Songs That Got Udio and Suno Sued
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'Local Residents' Terrorizing City Council Meetings Were Actually Overseas, Feds Allege
Tickets
Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets
Scalpers
Ticketmaster Hack
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The '25-Year-Old Bachelor Living In Washington, D.C.' Is a NATO Influencer Now
reels
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Sticker Mule in Marketing Email: ‘Donald Trump Was Shot … Btw, get 1 Shirt for $4 (normally $19)’
Trump
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Dunking on J.D. Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Is ‘Unusual Behavior,’ Goodreads Says
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You're Invited: 404 Media's First Anniversary Party
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I Tried to Vape the Internet
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To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says
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Robots.txt
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Rabbit
Rabbit Says Breach 'Not Caused by a Breach,' Is Fault of Malicious Employee, 'Hacktivists,' Journalists
Rabbit R1
def con
DEF CON Badge Maker Pulled Off Stage Amid Claims of Non-Payment and Failed Work
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I Gazed Lovingly Into Strangers’ Eyes on ‘Eyechat’
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Big Tech ‘Clients’ of Jacob Wohl’s Secret AI Lobbying Firm Say They've Never Heard of It
Jacob Wohl
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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
Four Thieves Vinegar Collective
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Leticia Sarda
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Larry Ellison's AI-Powered Surveillance Dystopia Is Already Here
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Delivery Robot Knocked Over Pedestrian, Company Offered ‘Promo Codes’ to Apologize
Delivery Robots
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Experts: Lebanon Pager Explosions Likely Not Lithium Batteries Alone
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Steam Removes Forced Arbitration Clause, Gamers Can Now Sue Valve
Steam
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Hidden ‘BopSpotter’ Microphone Is Constantly Surveilling San Francisco for Good Music
Bopspotter
waymo
Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic
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Elon Musk-Funded PAC Supercharges ‘Progress 2028’ Democrat Impersonation Ad Campaign
Disney
Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information
Mark Zuckerberg
Fex
Subways of Your Mind
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Inside the Plan to Use AI to Purge Voter Rolls
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DeFlock
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ISIS
Graphic Design for ISIS Is His Passion, FBI Alleges in Filing
llms
mit press
spotify
Spotify Has A Pirated Software Problem
stake
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Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing?
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Happy Affiliate Marketing Day to All Who Celebrate
Affiliate Marketing
Zipcar
‘A Total Meltdown’: Black Friday Zipcar Outage Strands Customers in Random Places
insurance
Major Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder of United Healthcare CEO
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Luigi Mangione Played 'Among Us,' Breathes Air
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WTF Is Going on With the New Jersey Mystery Drones? Maybe Mass Panic Over Nothing
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