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Apple's July 2022 to June 2024 transparency report shows it gave governments data on thousands of push notifications, which can include unencrypted content (www.404media.co)
2025-6-5 Apple

The IRS open sourced most of its Direct File tax software on GitHub last week, fulfilling a legal requirement under the SHARE IT Act, despite Intuit pressure (www.404media.co)
2025-6-5 Tax GitHub

Civitai is banning “real-person likeness content” on its site, citing new laws and the loss of its payment processor, after problems with nonconsensual porn (www.404media.co)
2025-5-28

Brazilian researchers scraped 2B+ Discord messages from 3,167 public servers using Discord's public API, covering 2015 to 2024, and publish the messages online (www.404media.co)
2025-5-22 Brazil

Civitai will “pause” credit card payments starting May 23, as its current payment processor won't “support platforms that allow AI-generated explicit content” (www.404media.co)
2025-5-21 AI Credit Card

Civitai says a configuration issue was to blame for allowing users to create non-consensual porn; it appears such videos of non-celebrities can still be created (www.404media.co)
2025-5-21

House Republicans introduced language to the Budget Reconciliation bill that would ban US states from enforcing any AI regulation for 10 years (www.404media.co)
2025-5-14 AI Ban Republican Budget

Unlike most mainstream social networks, Instagram has failed to scrub Kanye's pro-Nazi song “Heil Hitler”, with several posts garnering 1M+ views (www.404media.co)
2025-5-14 Instagram

The biggest deepfake porn site on the internet, Mr. Deepfakes, says it is shutting down permanently because a “critical service provider” stopped serving it (www.404media.co)
2025-5-5

A hacker breaches TeleMessage, which offers modified versions of apps like Signal used by US officials including Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard, JD Vance, and others (www.404media.co)
2025-5-5 Hacker

Tests appear to show Instagram blocking minors from accessing AI Studio, its user-generated chatbot character platform, after recent reports on safety issues (www.404media.co)
2025-4-30 AI chatbot Instagram

Researchers say bots on Reddit posing as rape victims and more were effective at changing minds in 1K+ posts, in an unauthorized AI persuasion experiment (www.404media.co)
2025-4-29 AI Reddit

Kickstarter introduces a “Tariff Manager tool” that lets creators add extra charges for backers on projects that were already fully funded (www.404media.co)
2025-4-29

A Nevada judge rules that “tower dumps”, the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers, is unconstitutional (www.404media.co)
2025-4-19

Documents: ICE awarded Palantir nearly $30M in April 2025 to enhance its Investigative Case Management system, after a $90M, five-year deal in September 2022 (www.404media.co)
2025-4-17

Meta says LLMs have historically leaned left and wants to remove that bias with Llama 4 to “understand and articulate both sides of a contentious issue” (www.404media.co)
2025-4-11

Framework stops selling its six lowest-priced laptops in the US, saying those models would sell at a loss due to tariffs that went into effect on April 5 (www.404media.co)
2025-4-8

In backing Trump, effective accelerationists like Musk and Andreessen got a “Decel-in-Chief”, who instigated a brain drain and tariffs that hurt tech companies (www.404media.co)
2025-4-6 Trump

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)
2025-3-18 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

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