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News

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

AI

These Are the Worst ChatGPT Flyers You've Sent Us

Podcast

Podcast: We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Infinite Bowl Machine

The Abstract

Ancient Princesses Were Weapon-Wielding Badasses, Scientists Discover

ICE

ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’

FOIA

We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything

Privacy

Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses

Features

AI Made Cloning Games Easier Than Ever

Hacking

Hackers Are Hijacking Entire Roblox Games Now

Meta

I Have Thoughts About That Kylie Jenner Meta Glasses Ad

Flock

How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars

Impact

Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage

Facebook

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

Google

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

repair

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

Right to Repair

Farmers Finally Get a John Deere Right to Repair Agreement That Doesn’t Screw Them Over

AI Slop

Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood

OpenAI

OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny

Surveillance

Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader

age verification

UK iPhone and iPad Users Can Watch Porn Again

Deepfakes

K-pop Fans Are Calling Out Creepy Deepfakes of Idols

TikTok

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

porn

Porn Platform Gives Sex Workers Stake in the Company's Profits

Donald Trump

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

chatbots

Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why

Amazon

'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon

ChatGPT

Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows

Instagram

I Almost Lost My Mind in the Bridal Algorithm

Elon Musk

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

Reddit

It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests

podcasts

How the World Became a Casino

Announcements

We Bought 404media.com

Apple

Someone Is Trying to ‘Hack’ People Through Apple Podcasts

DOGE

Judge Allows DOGE Deposition Videos Back Online

Artificial Intelligence

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

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

FOIA Forum

Here's the Video for Our Seventh FOIA Forum: Flock

science

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

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

Ticketmaster

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

Wikipedia

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

lawsuits

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

Spanish

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish

CBP

Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

DHS

DHS Plans to Buy More Predator-Style Drones

archiving

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

grok

Grok Exposed a Porn Performer’s Legal Name and Birthdate—Without Even Being Asked

iPhone

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

Generative AI

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

nuclear

wall

wired

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

wordpress

Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'

Security

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

Immigration

Government Shutdown Causes Even More Confusion for U.S. Visa Applicants

archives

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

sex

Analysis of 34 Hours of Orgasm Recordings Finds People Cum Quietly

X

Labor

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

Tesla

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

Tariffs

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

advertising

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

Sora

People Are Farming and Selling Sora 2 Invite Codes on eBay

Music

Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes

Ticket Scalping

Jeffrey Epstein

The DOJ Redacted a Photo of the Mona Lisa in the Epstein Files

law

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

AI Porn

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

libraries

Libraries Not Doing Pride Displays Say They ‘Shouldn’t Be Judged’

Court Watch

FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn

war

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

Zoom

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

union

Games

I Wish I Didn’t Care About 'Marathon' Player Numbers, But I Do

platforms

Massive Creator Platform Fansly Bans Furries

palantir

Here is the Contract for Palantir’s Super API for the IRS

Ticket Brokers

waymo

Cops Say Waymo Snitched on Teens for Allegedly Drinking and Shooting a Toy Gun

Trump administration

Video Games

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

Tractors

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

John Deere

Anthropic

publishing

film

Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again

Content Moderation

Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma'

Workers

Microsoft

Satya Nadella ‘Not Sure’ Who Said Microsoft Wanted to Make Addictive AI, Is Looking for Guy Who Did This

automattic

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

copyright

Shein Is Suing Temu For Copyright Infringement

Palestine

Adblock

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

Drones

New Orleans Cops Published Policy Document Allowing Weaponized Drones

texas

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