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Researchers in Rabbit R1's jailbreaking community say Rabbit left critical API keys hardcoded in its code, which would let hackers use Rabbit's internal systems (www.404media.co)
2024-6-27

Sources: an ID verification service that handles ID photos and is used by TikTok, X, Uber, and others, left admin credentials exposed online for over a year (www.404media.co)
2024-6-27 Uber

Users of the popular AI chatbot platform Character.AI are reporting that their bots' personalities changed a few days ago and aren't as fun as they once were (www.404media.co)
2024-6-26 AI chatbot

Meta has seemingly stopped trying as hard to moderate its services, overrun with AI spam and scams; X gutting safety staff may have lowered the industry's bar (www.404media.co)
2024-6-25 AI

A look at Congress' absurd plan to ban DJI drones in the US, even as the company adds restrictions and features to comply with US government regulations (www.404media.co)
2024-6-21 Drone Ban

A hacker says they breached Tile internal tools, including one for processing data for cops, and stole customer data like phone numbers, addresses, and Tile IDs (www.404media.co)
2024-6-13 Hacker

Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft' (www.404media.co)
2024-6-12 AI GitHub

An internal Google database tracking thousands of privacy and security issues from 2013-2018 details a myriad of data management mistakes made at the company (www.404media.co)
2024-6-4 Database Google

Filing: Ticketmaster confirms “unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database”, after a hacking group advertised alleged data of 560M users for sale (www.404media.co)
2024-6-1 Database

Leaked contract: Samsung requires independent repair shops to share customer data and disassemble devices that have aftermarket parts after notifying Samsung (www.404media.co)
2024-5-24 Samsung

The FBI has arrested a man on criminal charges for allegedly producing and distributing AI-generated images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct (www.404media.co)
2024-5-21 AI FBI

US farmers had to halt their planting operations after the solar storm broke critical GPS and precision farming functionality in tractors and other equipment (www.404media.co)
2024-5-13 Solar GPS

Discord bans Spy Pet-affiliated accounts, which were scraping 12K+ Discord servers to archive and sell user data, and says it is considering legal action (www.404media.co)
2024-4-27

Apple removes three AI image generation apps from the App Store after 404 Media probe found the apps advertised the ability to create nonconsensual nude images (www.404media.co)
2024-4-27 AI Apple

Microsoft took down its WizardLM 2 LLM after it reportedly missed “toxicity testing”, but people already downloaded and re-uploaded it to GitHub, Hugging Face (www.404media.co)
2024-4-24 Microsoft GitHub

A look at Salad, which pays gamers in Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards to rent their GPUs remotely to AI companies, including those making AI-generated porn (www.404media.co)
2024-4-19 AI

A look at Spy Pet, a Discord scraping service that claims to get data from 14K+ servers and 600M users, available for as little as $5; Discord is investigating (www.404media.co)
2024-4-18

Researchers say they haven't found “strikingly novel compounds” after analyzing a subset of the 2.2M new crystals DeepMind claimed its AI tool GNoMe discovered (www.404media.co)
2024-4-12 AI

Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books, which may impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use (www.404media.co)
2024-4-5 Google AI

A publisher says he has been targeted by a backlink SEO scam in which a “law firm” with AI-generated photos of “lawyers” sent copyright infringement notices (www.404media.co)
2024-4-5 AI

Developers say open-source software culture, where users demand constant updates from volunteer coders, is a security issue, as shown by the XZ Utils backdoor (www.404media.co)
2024-4-5

Texas Sues xHamster and Chaturbate (www.404media.co)
2024-3-22 Texas

Facebook's Algorithm Is Boosting AI Spam That Links to AI-Generated, Ad-Laden Click Farms (www.404media.co)
2024-3-20 Facebook AI Algorithm

Searches for “As of my last knowledge update”, a phrase often used by ChatGPT, return 115 results on Google Scholar, suggesting the use of AI tools in papers (www.404media.co)
2024-3-19 Google AI

Unionized YouTube music workers learn they were laid off at a meeting where Austin city council was considering calling on Google to bargain with their union (www.404media.co)
2024-3-2 Google YouTube

Internal docs: Tumblr staff compiled users' data in preparation for deals where Automattic would sell the data to OpenAI and Midjourney to train AI tools (www.404media.co)
2024-2-28

At a legislative hearing in Oregon, an Apple executive opposed a strong right-to-repair bill, despite Apple's support for a similar but weaker law in California (www.404media.co)
2024-2-10 Apple California

A look at OnlyFake, an underground site that claims to use “neural networks” to make highly convincing fake IDs for just $15; one ID passed verification on OKX (www.404media.co)
2024-2-6

Binance left a cache of code, infrastructure diagrams, passwords, and more on a public GitHub repository for months; GitHub removed after Binance's request (www.404media.co)
2024-2-1 GitHub

After fake AI images of Taylor Swift went viral, Microsoft adds safeguards to its AI text-to-image tool Designer; Microsoft couldn't verify if Designer was used (www.404media.co)
2024-1-30 Microsoft AI

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