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US court records: US agencies are increasingly accessing parts of the 500M encrypted message haul retrieved from the hack of encrypted phone company Sky in 2021 (www.404media.co)
2024-8-22

Shein sues Temu for copyright infringement, accusing the company of stealing trade secrets and masquerading “as a legitimate e-commerce ‘marketplace'” (www.404media.co)
2024-8-21

Thomas White, who served five years for administering Silk Road 2.0 and possessing images of CSAM, claims to have co-founded activism organization DDoSecrets (www.404media.co)
2024-8-12

Behind the YouTube influencers, WhatsApp and Telegram groups, and services like FewFeed fueling Facebook's problem of creators profiting off of viral “AI slop” (www.404media.co)
2024-8-7 Facebook AI YouTube WhatsApp

Sources: Nvidia scraped sources like Netflix and YouTube to train an unreleased foundational model; concerned staff were told they had full clearance to do so (www.404media.co)
2024-8-6 YouTube Netflix Nvidia

Rabbit says a June security breach was caused by an employee who leaked API keys and has since been terminated, and it has revoked and rotated those API keys (www.404media.co)
2024-8-2

Some popular sites like Condé Nast's and Reuters' have robots.txt files meant to block Anthropic's bots, but Anthropic has just made new bots with other names (www.404media.co)
2024-7-30 Robot

Source and doc: Runway scraped thousands of videos from YouTube creators and brands, including Disney and VICE News, to train its Gen-3 AI video generation tool (www.404media.co)
2024-7-26 AI YouTube

Reddit appears to be blocking search engines that don't rely on Google's indexing; Bing, DuckDuckGo, and others are not showing recent results from Reddit (www.404media.co)
2024-7-25 Google Reddit

The UK and US say they arrested a 17-year-old boy from Walsall, UK, suspected of being connected to the ransomware attack against MGM Resorts in 2023 (www.404media.co)
2024-7-20

Leaked docs show Cellebrite couldn't forcibly unlock any iPhone running iOS 17.4 or newer as of April 2024; most of the listed Android devices could be unlocked (www.404media.co)
2024-7-18 Android IOS iPhone

Sources: John Binns, a US citizen who was previously arrested in Turkey, is linked to the AT&T data breach; the AT&T data was lifted from a Snowflake instance (www.404media.co)
2024-7-13 AT&T

Figma disables a recently launched generative AI app design tool, after a user showed it just copied Apple's weather app when asked to design a weather app (www.404media.co)
2024-7-3 AI Apple

A look at the disastrous launch of Stable Diffusion 3, which struggles to generate correct human anatomy, and concerns over the tool's new and different license (www.404media.co)
2024-6-29

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

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