From 404media.co
Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App
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“Ultimately it is my fault for not insisting on a better QA process for this work and pushing our team hard to hit a deadline,” Figma’s CEO said.
on Wed, 5AM
From 404media.co
'Local Residents' Terrorizing City Council Meetings Were Actually Overseas, Feds Allege
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A racist 'Zoom Bombing' group was made up of American teenagers collaborating on a Roblox-owned chat with foreign nationals, according to a criminal complaint.
on Mon, 7PM
From 404media.co
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404 Media is a new independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.
on Feb 5
From 404media.co
Behind the Blog: Dogs, Fireworks, and Gaming
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This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss turning our brains off with some gaming for the long weekend, dogs and fireworks, and the staying power of a meme.
on Fri, 6PM
From 404media.co
r/SecurityClearance Is the Best Subreddit
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An unhinged subreddit of people sharing their secrets before they share them with the U.S. government.
on Fri, 1AM
From 404media.co
r/SecurityClearance Is the Best Subreddit
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An unhinged subreddit of people sharing their secrets before they share them with the U.S. government.
on Thu, 3PM
From 404media.co
Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug
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“While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.”
on Thu, 1AM
From 404media.co
Google Says AI Could Break Reality
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“While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.”
on Wed, 9PM
From 404media.co
Fiverr Freelancers Offer to Dox Anyone With Powerful U.S. Data Tool
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Dozens of Fiverr sellers are advertising access to TLOxp, a potent data surveillance tool sold by credit bureau TransUnion.
on Wed, 7PM
From 404media.co
Google Says AI Could Break Reality
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“While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.”
on Wed, 2PM
From 404media.co
Podcast: Your Identity Hacked, Yet Verified
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An ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, and X exposed drivers' licenses; the FBI think it knows who is behind a Zoom Bombing ring; and Fiverr freelancing are offering to dox people for $30.
on Wed, 2PM
From 404media.co
Car Rental Service Replaces Desk Agents With People On Video Chat
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A Nu Car Rentals office in Charlotte, North Carolina offers only "virtual assistance" to customers.
on Tue, 8PM
From 404media.co
Google Delists DIY Hormone Therapy Sites
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“In the short term, they will be left with no healthcare at all. However, they will find alternatives, as they always have.”
on Tue, 3PM
From 404media.co
Car Rental Service Replaces Desk Agents With People On Video Chat
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A Nu Car Rentals office in Charlotte, North Carolina offers only "virtual assistance" to customers.
on Mon, 2PM
From 404media.co
I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AI
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Paying a freelancer on Fiverr to create a plagiarizing ChatGPT-powered news site revealed an industry of middlemen and services trying to game Google Search.
on Jun 29
From 404media.co
Behind the Blog: Too Many Tabs and Generative AI Hype
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This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss exciting new updates to the podcast, having too many tabs open, and the generative AI boom.
on Jun 28
From 404media.co
Stable Diffusion 3's Disastrous Launch Could Change the AI Landscape Forever
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Stability AI botched the launch of its latest model, proving the Stable Diffusion community doesn’t need the company that brought it to the world.
on Jun 28
From 404media.co
Lawsuit Claims Microsoft Tracked Sex Toy Shoppers With 'Recording in Real Time' Software
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The complaint claims that Babeland and Good Vibrations websites uses Microsoft's Clarity tracking software to see what visitors searched for and bought.
on Jun 28
From 404media.co
Perplexity’s Origin Story: Scraping Twitter With Fake Academic Accounts
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CEO Aravind Srinivas explained how the company took off after it created a demo by scraping twitter with fake academic accounts using fake AI-generated research proposals.
on Jun 28
From 404media.co
eBay Removes Listing for StingRay Cellphone Spying Tech
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The StingRay was listed at $100,000 before being removed for violating the platform’s policy on not selling electronic surveillance equipment.
on Jun 28
From 404media.co
Podcast: Replacing 404 Media with AI
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Emanuel's AI-powered ripoff news site; we listen to the music that has record labels suing startups; and chatbots have changed their personalities overnight.
on Jun 28
From 404media.co
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Facebook has been overrun with AI spam and scams. Experts say Facebook has stopped asking them for help.
on Jun 28
From 404media.co
ID Verification Service for TikTok, Uber, X Exposed Driver Licenses
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As social networks and porn sites move towards a verified identity model, the actions of one cybersecurity researcher show that ID verification services themselves could get hacked too.
on Jun 27
From 404media.co
We Tried to Replace 404 Media With AI
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Trying to make AI do my job revealed a vast infrastructure of cheap tricks and middlemen that have been trying to game Google Search for more than a decade.
on Jun 27
From 404media.co
Self Tanner and Cheap Ties: Bankruptcy Filings Reveal Rudy Giuliani's Amazon Purchases
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Court documents show what the former mayor of NYC has been buying on Amazon lately, including a lot of socks, ties, and self-tanning lotion.
on Jun 26
From 404media.co
Researchers Prove Rabbit AI Breach By Sending Email to Us as Admin
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The researchers claim they could see “all Rabbit R1 responses ever given."
on Jun 26
From 404media.co
‘No Bot is Themselves Anymore:’ Character.ai Users Report Sudden Personality Changes to Chatbots
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The company denied making "major changes," but users report noticeable differences in the quality of their chatbot conversations.
on Jun 26
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Ted Cruz Wants Platforms To Be Liable for Deepfakes
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The bill, introduced this week, is called the “Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks (TAKE IT DOWN) Act."
on Jun 26
From 404media.co
The DJI Drone Ban: A Uniquely American Clusterf*ck
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Lawmakers are trying to ban a Chinese company on "surveillance" grounds to benefit American competitors powering U.S. police surveillance.
on Jun 26
From 404media.co
Ticketmaster Crashes During Olivia Rodrigo Presale—Here's Why
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Specialized web browsers for ticket brokers combined with overwhelming fan demand is overwhelming Ticketmaster's infrastructure.
on Jun 26
From 404media.co
The DJI Drone Ban: A Uniquely American Clusterfuck
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Lawmakers are trying to ban a Chinese company on "surveillance" grounds to benefit American competitors powering U.S. police surveillance.
on Jun 26
From 404media.co
Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet
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Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all.
on Jun 26
From 404media.co
‘You Will Lose Access To Pornhub:’ Kentucky and Indiana Face a Porn Countdown
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With age verification laws looming, visitors to Pornhub and all sites under the Aylo umbrella now see a popup stating how many days are left before the site blocks itself from access in their states.
on Jun 26
From 404media.co
Game Studio's Job Requirement: 'Non Negotiable' Nude Sauna Sessions
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"It is not about getting naked. It’s about experiencing different kind of sauna," LinkedIn's new 'saunaman' wrote.
on Jun 26
From 404media.co
Emails Reveal the Playbook Used Against Libraries Planning ‘Drag Story Time’ Events
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Internal messages shared with 404 Media show how an official’s complaint about a drag queen story hour can spiral into bomb threats against the library hosting it.
on Jun 26
From 404media.co
California Fines Amazon $6 Million for 59,017 Separate Warehouse Violations
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The citations allege that Amazon did not provide workers with written performance quotas.
on Jun 26
From 404media.co
The Jailbroken 'Dream Machine'
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Luma Labs’ Dream Machine, an AI video generator that’s on the market before OpenAI’s Sora, can be tricked to generate explicit videos.
on Jun 26
From 404media.co
Researcher Infects His Own Meta Quest VR Headset With Ransomware
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A cybersecurity researcher set out to prove whether Meta’s virtual reality headset is susceptible to a certain flavor of ransomware.
on Jun 25
From 404media.co
California Apple Manufacturing Facility Has 19 ‘Potential Violations’ of EPA Regulations
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A new report by the Environmental Protection Agency suggests that Apple also miscalculated the effectiveness of its hazardous compound air filters.
on Jun 25
From 404media.co
You Probably Unwittingly Voted to Give Elon Musk a Huge Raise
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The rise of passive investing in retirement has given firms like Vanguard a huge amount of power at companies like Tesla.
on Jun 25
From 404media.co
AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hell
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Google image search results are turning up AI-generated images of celebrities and leading users to sites that host AI-generated nudes celebrities made to look like children.
on Jun 25
From 404media.co
Users ‘Jailbreak’ AI Video Generator to Make Porn
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Luma Labs’ Dream Machine, an AI video generator that’s on the market before OpenAI’s Sora, can be tricked to generate explicit videos.
on Jun 25
From 404media.co
Behind the Blog: Finding Meds and Hiding 'Likes'
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This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss getting people to talk to us, and collapsing civilizations on the internet.
on Jun 25
From 404media.co
Internet in the Amazon Rainforest
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The Marubo people written about by the New York Times have been using the internet—and grappling with its implications—long before Starlink came to their village.
on Jun 25
From 404media.co
Listen to the AI-Generated Ripoff Songs That Got Udio and Suno Sued
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The record industry has filed a list of thousands of songs it believes have been scraped without permission, and has recreated versions of famous songs using Udio and Suno.
on Jun 25
From 404media.co
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Facebook has been overrun with AI spam and scams. Experts say Facebook has stopped asking them for help.
on Jun 25
From 404media.co
GOP Candidate Claims Incest Arrangement Audio Is a ‘Deepfake’ Meant to Smear Him
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John Lee, a Trump-endorsed candidate for Congress, is suing his former opponent for defamation.
on Jun 25
From 404media.co
Internet in the Amazon Rainforest
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The Marubo people written about by the New York Times have been using the internet—and grappling with its implications—long before Starlink came to their village.
on Jun 25
From 404media.co
‘Remote’ Amazonian Tribes Have Been Using the Internet for a Long Time
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The Marubo people written about by the New York Times have been using the internet—and grappling with its implications—long before Starlink came to their village.
on Jun 25
From 404media.co
Instagram Experiments With Injecting Pop Up Ads Into Your Friends’ Stories
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Ads for a game called "Super Rumble" are popping up into Instagram users' stories as Meta experiments with more invasive types of ads.
on Jun 24