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The suspect believed to be behind the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada made a Roblox game simulating a mall shooting; Roblox says it removed the account (www.404media.co)
6 days ago Canada

A researcher says an exposed Moltbook database could have let anyone take control of AI agents on the site and post anything; the database has now been closed (www.404media.co)
18 days ago Database AI

Pornhub parent Aylo says it will restrict UK users from February 2, after six months of complying with the UK's OSA; users who verified their ages can login (www.404media.co)
22 days ago

Instagram appears to be generating often misleading SEO-style headlines and long descriptions for users' Instagram posts, appearing in Google Search results (www.404media.co)
2025-12-10 Google Instagram

Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or biometric data to access pornographic content, as Missouri became the 25th state to enact such a law (www.404media.co)
2025-12-3

Polymarket's Ukraine war betting, based on ISW's map, generated $1M+ in volume for “Will Russia capture Myrnohrad?”; an “unauthorized” map edit resolved the bet (www.404media.co)
2025-12-2 Russia Ukraine

X's location tool shows revenue sharing incentivizes US political content from international sock puppet and bot accounts, making polarization a side hustle (www.404media.co)
2025-11-25

A researcher details an LLM-based AI agent that “demonstrated a near-flawless ability” to bypass bot detection methods while answering online survey questions (www.404media.co)
2025-11-24 AI

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner of the archiving site as part of a criminal investigation (www.404media.co)
2025-11-7 FBI

arXiv says it will stop accepting computer science papers that haven't been vetted by an academic journal or a conference, after a surge in AI-generated papers (www.404media.co)
2025-11-4 AI

Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials in a mass doxxing event (www.404media.co)
2025-10-17 Hacker FBI

Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through (www.404media.co)
2025-10-17 AI chatbot

Apple has removed Eyes Up, which archives video evidence of ICE abuses, from the App Store; unlike ICEBlock, it doesn't share ICE officers' real-time locations (www.404media.co)
2025-10-9 Apple

Google and Apple removed Red Dot, an app for reporting ICE sightings; Google says the app was being used to share the location of a “vulnerable group” (www.404media.co)
2025-10-4 Google Apple

OpenAI's Sora 2 openly features copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips of SpongeBob, Pikachu, and Mario (www.404media.co)
2025-10-2 AI

Google's Ad Transparency tool no longer shows any political ads, past or present, from any EU countries ahead of new EU ad transparency regulations (www.404media.co)
2025-10-1 Google

4chan and Kiwi Farms sue the UK's Ofcom in a US court over the Online Safety Act, saying they aren't subject to UK law, after Ofcom tried to fine and block them (www.404media.co)
2025-8-28

Forty-four US AGs sign an open letter to 11 chatbot and social media companies, warning they'll be held accountable if their AI chatbots knowingly harm children (www.404media.co)
2025-8-26 AI chatbot

Grok's website is exposing the underlying prompts for its AI personas, including one for a “crazy conspiracist” persona that spends “a lot of time on 4chan” (www.404media.co)
2025-8-19 AI

Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, several owned by companies outside the US, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law (www.404media.co)
2025-8-7

Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving administrators the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like wrong citations (www.404media.co)
2025-8-7 AI

Trump Media says it is beta testing Truth Search AI, a new search feature powered by Perplexity, on the web version of Truth Social (www.404media.co)
2025-8-7

Internal memo: Meta is piloting AI-enabled coding interviews, letting candidates use AI during the process, and asks for “mock AI-enabled interview” volunteers (www.404media.co)
2025-7-29 Interview AI

A second security breach at Tea exposes more than 1.1M user messages, dating from early 2023 to as recently as last week, many containing sensitive information (www.404media.co)
2025-7-29

Some 4chan users claim they breached Tea, the women's dating safety app that has topped the US App Store charts, exposing selfies and drivers' licenses (www.404media.co)
2025-7-26

Google's AI Overviews, which a recent Pew study shows reduce clickthrough rates, are further eroding traffic to original publishers by linking to aggregators (www.404media.co)
2025-7-24 Google AI

A hacker claims to have compromised Amazon's Q coding assistant for VS Code via a GitHub pull request; Amazon says “no customer resources were impacted” (www.404media.co)
2025-7-24 Amazon Hacker GitHub

Users have uploaded 5,000 AI models, previously banned from Civitai for generating nonconsensual sexual content of real people, to Hugging Face (www.404media.co)
2025-7-16 AI

A look at various responses to AI firms' scraping, like open source Anubis that uses cryptographic JavaScript challenges, Cloudflare's “link mazes”, and more (www.404media.co)
2025-7-8 AI

Internal emails: ICE is using Mobile Fortify, an app that uses facial recognition and fingerprint scanning via phone cameras to identify people in the field (www.404media.co)
2025-6-27 Mobile Facial Recognition

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