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Elon Musk's PAC sends Republicans texts impersonating Kamala Harris without disclaimers, pushing policies Harris doesn't support, and ups its social ads spend
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2 days ago
Elon Musk
Republican
Privacy advocates leak hours of footage of Locate X, a global, warrantless phone tracking tool made by Babel Street and used by US agencies like ICE and CBP
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8 days ago
A civil rights org claims in a lawsuit that a VA town violated 4A protections by installing Flock cameras, making it “impossible” for citizens to move untracked
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10 days ago
Sources: Matt Mullenweg offered another buyout offer to Automattic staff; Mullenweg appears to have redirected staff's Blind sign-up emails to himself
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14 days ago
Hobbyists post the code for Redbox kiosk software online, and tinkerers have been probing how it works, sometimes repurposing abandoned machines to run Doom
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14 days ago
Study: X acts quickly to remove AI-made nonconsensual nude images reported by users as a copyright violation but not if reported as nonconsensual intimate media
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23 days ago
AI
An era of politically motivated AI slop is here, exacerbating viral conspiracy theories and making a big impact after disasters, as in the US, Brazil, and Gaza
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23 days ago
AI
Conspiracy
Brazil
Two Harvard students demo using Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, PimEyes, and other tools to instantly identify strangers' names, phone numbers, addresses, and more
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28 days ago
Ban
Udemy uses opt-out windows, the first of which lasted three weeks and just ended, that its creators must use to prevent their videos from being used to train AI
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2024-10-1
AI
LinkedIn confirms training its AI on user data by default, and says it is “making sure that those who have specific privacy preferences” can opt out
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2024-9-19
LinkedIn
AI
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
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2024-8-22
Shein sues Temu for copyright infringement, accusing the company of stealing trade secrets and masquerading “as a legitimate e-commerce ‘marketplace'”
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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
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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”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2024-6-13
Hacker
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