X's location tool shows revenue sharing incentivizes US political content from international sock puppet and bot accounts, making polarization a side hustle
www.404media.co/americas-pol... @casuallylucid : “The only thing revealed by this transparency is that social media companies do not give a f*ck about this.” — Our attention is the product — There...
Apple removes Eyes Up, which simply archives videos of ICE abuses, from the App Store; unlike ICEBlock, Eyes Up doesn't share ICE officers' real-time locations
and it's not masked agents of ICE www.404media.co/apple-banned... Benn Jordan / @bennjordan : Your smartphone manufacturer doesn't think you deserve 1st or 4th amendment rights. — www.404media.co/ap...
A hacker claims to have compromised Amazon's Q coding assistant for VS Code via a GitHub pull request; Amazon says “no customer resources were impacted”
A hacker compromised a version of Amazon's popular AI coding assistant ‘Q’, added commands that told the software to wipe users' computers … Bluesky: @josephcox . Mastodon: @metacurity@infosec.exchang...
Internal emails: ICE is using Mobile Fortify, an app that uses facial recognition and fingerprint scanning via phone cameras to identify people in the field
www.404media.co/ice-is-using... [image] Ryan Teague Beckwith / @ryanbeckwith : The men wearing masks as they shove people in unmarked vans with swapped license plates are using a facial recognition a...
The Trump Organization teases the $499 “T1 Phone”, a gold phone “designed and built” in the US, and Trump Mobile, an MVNO that uses AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile
The President Launches a Mobile Carrier and a $500 ‘T1’ Android Phone Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register : Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone Joseph Gedeon / The Guar...
The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash
Say No ‘Need To One-Up’ With Google David Uzondu / Neowin : Wikipedia suffers backlash from human editors over AI summaries, prompting feature pause Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku : Wikipedia Won't Add AI-Gene...
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
Civitai, an AI model sharing site backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that 404 Media has repeatedly shown is being used … Bluesky: @jasonkoebler , @patrickhowelloneill.com , and @emanuelmaiberg . Mas...
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
A Brazilian team used Discord's API to scrape 10% of its open servers. — Researchers published a massive database … Bluesky: @vortexegg.com , @cfiesler , and @josephcox Bluesky: @vortexegg.com : It'...
Civitai blames a “configuration issue” for allowing users to generate non-consensual porn; it appears that users can still create such videos of non-celebrities
404 Media found that people were using Civitai to create nonconsensual AI porn videos of anyone for a small price. Bluesky: @josephcox and @emanuelmaiberg . Mastodon: @jbhall56@infosec.exchange Bluesk...
Tests appear to show Instagram blocking minors from accessing AI Studio, its user-generated chatbot character platform, after recent reports about safety issues
We are appalled by the recent Wall Street Journal report detailing … Victor Tangermann / Futurism : Zuckerberg's AI Has Reportedly Been Horrifically Inappropriate With Children Bluesky: Joseph Cox / @...