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AI slop, shared by thousands of prolific accounts, is brute forcing virality, and platforms like Meta embrace it; some AI videos get 350M+ views (www.404media.co)
13 days ago AI

The doge.gov website tracking Elon Musk's cuts to the federal government pulls from a database editable by anyone, say two sources who found the vulnerability (www.404media.co)
2025-2-14 Database Elon Musk

Sources: DOGE staff were ordered to stop using Slack while it transitions from the OMB to the Executive Office of the President, which is not subject to FOIA (www.404media.co)
2025-2-6 Slack

Sources: many Meta employees are furious about its moderation changes that allow “allegations of mental illness” when based on “gender or sexual orientation” (www.404media.co)
2025-1-10

People are taking horrific videos like of mass shootings and using Runway's AI tools to insert cartoons, likely to bypass social networks' automated moderation (www.404media.co)
2025-1-8 AI

Screenshots: several employees' posts critical of Meta's new board member Dana White were deleted by Meta's ICC, which aims to “minimize disruption” internally (www.404media.co)
2025-1-8

Meta says it's testing an “Imagine Yourself” feature announced in September that automatically generates AI images of a user and puts them into that user's feed (www.404media.co)
2025-1-7 AI

Meta says the viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 as part of “an early experiment” with AI characters, and it is deleting them (www.404media.co)
2025-1-4 Facebook AI Instagram

Pornhub now blocks users in 17 US states, including almost all of the South, after blocking Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina due to age verification laws (www.404media.co)
2025-1-2

Researchers at Anthropic, Oxford, Stanford, and MATS create Best-of-N Jailbreaking, a black-box algorithm that jailbreaks frontier AI systems across modalities (www.404media.co)
2024-12-21 AI Algorithm

Amnesty International: Serbian authorities used phone hacking startup Cellebrite's tools to unlock a journalist's phone before infecting the device with malware (www.404media.co)
2024-12-17 Startup

FTC bans location data providers Gravy and subsidiary Venntel as well as Mobilewalla from using or selling data related to sensitive locations and more (www.404media.co)
2024-12-4

Bluesky says it is up to outside orgs to respect user consent, after a Hugging Face employee published a dataset of 1M posts from Bluesky's API for ML research (www.404media.co)
2024-11-27

X files an objection to including X accounts belonging or related to Infowars in the outlet's bankruptcy auction, arguing it has ownership of all X accounts (www.404media.co)
2024-11-27

Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, retrieves “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1 (www.404media.co)
2024-11-20 IOS iPhone

Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a large geospatial model, or LGM, that can navigate the real world and power robots (www.404media.co)
2024-11-20 Robot

Secret Service Says You Agreed To Be Tracked With Location Data (www.404media.co)
2024-11-13

A look at DeFlock, an open-source project that has crowdsourced the locations of 5,600+ automated license plate reader cameras globally from Flock and others (www.404media.co)
2024-11-12

An indictment against two men suspected of hacking Snowflake clients, including AT&T, says the pair and their co-conspirators extorted at least 36 bitcoins (www.404media.co)
2024-11-12 Bitcoin AT&T

Experts say a new feature in iOS 18.1 causes iPhone to reboot after few days of inactivity, which improves security and has caused concern among law enforcement (www.404media.co)
2024-11-9 IOS iPhone

Elon Musk's PAC sends Republicans texts impersonating Kamala Harris without disclaimers, pushing policies Harris doesn't support, and ups its social ads spend (www.404media.co)
2024-10-30 Elon Musk Republican

Privacy advocates leak hours of footage of Locate X, a global, warrantless phone tracking tool made by Babel Street and used by US agencies like ICE and CBP (www.404media.co)
2024-10-23

A civil rights org claims in a lawsuit that a VA town violated 4A protections by installing Flock cameras, making it “impossible” for citizens to move untracked (www.404media.co)
2024-10-22

Sources: Matt Mullenweg offered another buyout offer to Automattic staff; Mullenweg appears to have redirected staff's Blind sign-up emails to himself (www.404media.co)
2024-10-18

Hobbyists post the code for Redbox kiosk software online, and tinkerers have been probing how it works, sometimes repurposing abandoned machines to run Doom (www.404media.co)
2024-10-17

Study: X acts quickly to remove AI-made nonconsensual nude images reported by users as a copyright violation but not if reported as nonconsensual intimate media (www.404media.co)
2024-10-9 AI

An era of politically motivated AI slop is here, exacerbating viral conspiracy theories and making a big impact after disasters, as in the US, Brazil, and Gaza (www.404media.co)
2024-10-9 AI Conspiracy Brazil

Two Harvard students demo using Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, PimEyes, and other tools to instantly identify strangers' names, phone numbers, addresses, and more (www.404media.co)
2024-10-3 Ban

Udemy uses opt-out windows, the first of which lasted three weeks and just ended, that its creators must use to prevent their videos from being used to train AI (www.404media.co)
2024-10-1 AI

LinkedIn confirms training its AI on user data by default, and says it is “making sure that those who have specific privacy preferences” can opt out (www.404media.co)
2024-9-19 LinkedIn AI

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