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An investigation details a spy tool called Patternz, which can track billions of phone profiles via ads in hundreds of thousands of apps, including 9gag and Kik (www.404media.co)
2024-1-25

These Are the Notorious NSA Furby Documents Showing Spy Agency Freaking Out About Embedded AI in Children's Toy (www.404media.co)
2024-1-24 AI

Google News is boosting sites that use AI to rip off other outlets and churn out content; Google says News doesn't focus on whether articles are by humans or AI (www.404media.co)
2024-1-19 Google AI

Pornhub changes its performer verification policy, requiring performers to upload proof of consent from scene partners, in addition to IDs, starting January 23 (www.404media.co)
2024-1-19

Google News surfaces sites that use AI to rip-off other outlets and churn out content; Google says it doesn't focus on whether articles are by humans or AI (www.404media.co)
2024-1-19 Google AI

Researchers studying Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo search results over a year: search engines are losing the cat and mouse game of SEO spam, likely boosted by AI (www.404media.co)
2024-1-17 Google AI

Is Your Local Police Department Using Fusus AI-Enabled Cameras? Find Out Here (www.404media.co)
2024-1-17 AI

Google formally endorses right to repair and will testify in favor of a law in Oregon, says regulators should ban “parts pairing”, a tactic used by Apple (www.404media.co)
2024-1-12 Google Apple Ban

An investigation finds over 1,600 YouTube videos featuring celebrity deepfakes promoting Medicaid and Medicare scams; the videos have over 195M views in total (www.404media.co)
2024-1-10 YouTube Medicare

Pornhub blocks access in two more states, Montana and North Carolina, in protest of the states' age verification laws (www.404media.co)
2024-1-3

Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life' (www.404media.co)
2023-12-25

Cox Media Group claims it can listen to conversations of consumers through microphones in smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices and use it to target ads (www.404media.co)
2023-12-15

Three Polish hackers say they fixed trains allegedly bricked by manufacturer Newag after an independent repair shop worked on them; Newag denies bricking them (www.404media.co)
2023-12-14 Poland

A Massive Repair Lawsuit Against John Deere Clears a Major Hurdle (www.404media.co)
2023-12-13

OctoML ends its business with text-to-image AI model sharing platform Civitai, after a report found some images by Civitai users “could be categorized as” CSAM (www.404media.co)
2023-12-10 AI

Alibaba's paper on its Animate Anyone AI model went viral as users saw how the model could replace TikTok influencers and that it's trained on TikTokers' videos (www.404media.co)
2023-12-6 Alibaba AI

Leaked docs show concern at OctoML over helping its customer Civitai make AI images; OctoML co-founder Thierry Moreau said some “could be categorized as” CSAM (www.404media.co)
2023-12-6 AI

Asking ChatGPT to repeat words “forever” is now against OpenAI's terms of service, after Google researchers showed that doing so led it to reveal training data (www.404media.co)
2023-12-5 Google

Plex users express alarm after receiving a “week in review” summary that showed what their friends had watched, part of Plex's opt-out Discover Together tool (www.404media.co)
2023-11-30

Big names like Kelsey Hightower pull out of the DevTernity conference after allegations its founder made fake profiles of female speakers to boost diversity (www.404media.co)
2023-11-28

Users Can't Speak to Viral AI Girlfriend CarynAI Because CEO Is in Jail for Arson (www.404media.co)
2023-11-17 AI

Civitai, where users share AI-made images, including nonconsensual porn of real people, announces a $5M seed led by a16z, after launching a “bounties” feature (www.404media.co)
2023-11-15 AI

Advertisers Don't Want Sites Like Jezebel to Exist (www.404media.co)
2023-11-11

A look at Fusus, which links town and city security cameras into one central hub and analyzes the feeds using AI, as its systems are deployed across the US (www.404media.co)
2023-11-3 AI

YouTube's ‘War' on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)
2023-11-2 Google YouTube

YouTube Is Monetizing Human Suffering at an Open Air Drug Market (www.404media.co)
2023-10-31 YouTube

FOIA documents: ICE used a tool called GOST to decide if US visa applicants' social media posts are “derogatory” to the US, as part of immigration enforcement (www.404media.co)
2023-10-25 Immigration

Experts say misinformation from “verified” pseudo-OSINT accounts on X, driven by profit and engagement, is destroying the Israel-Palestine information ecosystem (www.404media.co)
2023-10-19 Israel

Some AI image detecting tools are labeling real photographs from the Israel-Hamas war as fake, creating what an expert calls a “second level of disinformation” (www.404media.co)
2023-10-15 Israel AI

Some 4chan users are running a coordinated campaign to flood the internet with racist images created using Bing's text-to-image generator powered by DALL-E 3 (www.404media.co)
2023-10-9

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