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Jason Koebler

@jason_koebler
339 posts –
2026-10-14
I pulled the Character bankruptcy docs.  They show: - They were spending $14M/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1M/month - Currently losing $9M a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work
2026-10-14 View on X
Reuters

Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M, and plans to keep operating as it completes the sale

2026-10-13
I pulled the Character bankruptcy docs. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work https://www.404media.co/...
2026-10-13 View on X
Reuters

Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M, and plans to keep operating as it completes the sale

Character.AI said on Monday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US and agreed to sell some of its assets to Walt Disney (DIS.N) for $20 million.

2026-10-04
This is an incredibly important decision, and the judge is requiring the court to throw out all evidence obtained against her. Judge wrote Flock's network is “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance” and that courts must update their understanding of the technology
2026-10-04 View on X
404 Media

A US judge rules an officer's use of Flock to search a car's license plate was a form of “indiscriminate mass surveillance”, and violated the Fourth Amendment

Flock's nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched in Flock “because he saw her license plate was from California” https://www.404media.co/...
2026-10-04 View on X
404 Media

A US judge rules an officer's use of Flock to search a car's license plate was a form of “indiscriminate mass surveillance”, and violated the Fourth Amendment

Flock's nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

2026-10-03
This is an incredibly important decision, and the judge is requiring the court to throw out all evidence obtained against her. Judge wrote Flock's network is “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance” and that courts must update their understanding of the technology
2026-10-03 View on X
404 Media

A US judge rules an officer's use of Flock to search a car's license plate was a form of “indiscriminate mass surveillance”, and violated the Fourth Amendment

Flock's nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched in Flock “because he saw her license plate was from California” https://www.404media.co/...
2026-10-03 View on X
404 Media

A US judge rules an officer's use of Flock to search a car's license plate was a form of “indiscriminate mass surveillance”, and violated the Fourth Amendment

Flock's nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

2026-07-17
Customer emails/phone numbers & Stripe payment details were also hacked; no one was ever notified because the company deemed it wasn't important to. Full story here: https://www.404media.co/...
2026-07-17 View on X
404 Media

A hacker claims to have accessed Suno's user info and source code, showing how it scraped music; Suno says no sensitive info was compromised in a November hack

2026-07-16
Customer emails/phone numbers & Stripe payment details were also hacked; no one was ever notified because the company deemed it wasn't important to. Full story here: https://www.404media.co/...
2026-07-16 View on X
404 Media

A hacker claims to have accessed Suno's user info and source code, showing how it scraped music; Suno says no sensitive info was compromised in a November hack

Hacked source code reveals how Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet to train its AI tool.

2026-07-12
As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X users actually see are AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually shows people https://www.404media.co/... [image]
2026-07-12 View on X
Pangram Labs

An analysis of 1M+ social media posts from April 24 to June 30: ~25% of longform posts with 250+ words were fully AI-generated; on LinkedIn, the figure was 41%

2026-07-11
As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X users actually see are AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually shows people https://www.404media.co/... [image]
2026-07-11 View on X
Pangram Labs

An analysis of 1M+ social media posts from April 24 to June 30: ~25% of longform posts with 250+ words were fully AI-generated; on LinkedIn, the figure was 41%

A first look at analytics from our Pangram Chrome extension  —  Two months ago, we launched our Chrome extension to help combat the rising slop problem on social media.

2026-06-02
New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: https://www.404media.co/...
2026-06-02 View on X
404 Media

Hackers say they used Meta's AI support chatbot to change emails tied to Instagram accounts, amid a wave of high-profile account takeovers; Meta fixed the issue

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.  —  Hackers say that they used Meta's AI support chatbot …

2026-06-01
New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: https://www.404media.co/...
2026-06-01 View on X
404 Media

Hackers say they used Meta's AI support chatbot to change emails tied to Instagram accounts, amid a wave of high-profile account takeovers; Meta fixed the issue

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.  —  Hackers say that they used Meta's AI support chatbot …

2026-05-09
Canvas hack is extremely bad, the “biggest student data privacy disaster in history” because it contains billions of messages between students and their professors, which can be extremely sensitive: [image]
2026-05-09 View on X
Krebs on Security

Instructure says its Canvas edtech platform has been restored after disabling it amid a data extortion attack claimed by ShinyHunters

Cyberattacks on schools and public institutions are becoming more frequent and more sophisticated.  Protecting students, educators, and sensitive information must be a top priority...

Canvas hack is extremely bad, the “biggest student data privacy disaster in history” because it contains billions of messages between students and their professors, which can be extremely sensitive: [image]
2026-05-09 View on X
Associated Press

A hack of Instructure's Canvas locked out students at schools and universities across the US in the middle of finals period; some US colleges postponed exams

Schools and universities across the country are recovering from an outage that knocked down Canvas, an online platform that manages exams …

2026-05-08
Canvas hack is extremely bad, the “biggest student data privacy disaster in history” because it contains billions of messages between students and their professors, which can be extremely sensitive: [image]
2026-05-08 View on X
Krebs on Security

Instructure says its Canvas edtech platform has been restored after disabling it amid a data extortion attack claimed by ShinyHunters

An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework …

2026-04-07
this is how the vast majority of new subscribers are (or were) obtained, yes
2026-04-07 View on X
Silver Bulletin

How social media became a “freak show”: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are low-quality but get more engagement than the NYT

The ecosystem is unhealthy, especially on Twitter, and that's producing some strange beasts among the most influential accounts.

2026-04-06
this is how the vast majority of new subscribers are (or were) obtained, yes
2026-04-06 View on X
Silver Bulletin

How social media became a freak show: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are very low-quality but get more engagement than NYT

The ecosystem is unhealthy, especially on Twitter, and that's producing some strange beasts among the most influential accounts.

2025-11-07
New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind https://archive.is/, which has been running anon for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure https://www.404media.co/...
2025-11-07 View on X
404 Media

The FBI subpoenaed archive.today's domain registrar, Tucows, on October 30, demanding info about the archiving site's owner as part of a criminal investigation

By the service of this subpoena upon you by William Greenwell, Jr. … Malte Kirchner / heise online News : Archive.today: FBI Demands Data from Provider Tucows X: @archiveis : canar...

2025-05-05
SCOOP: The Signal clone used by Trump admin that Mike Waltz was seen using in a cabinet meeting in has been hacked https://www.404media.co/...
2025-05-05 View on X
micahflee

A hacker breaches TeleMessage, which makes modified versions of apps like Signal used by US officials including JD Vance, leaking some chats, contacts, and more

TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.  —  💡

2025-03-25
23andMe as a functioning company was a privacy disaster. 23andMe as a bankrupt, for sale company is a fucking nightmare https://www.404media.co/...
2025-03-25 View on X
Bloomberg

23andMe files for bankruptcy to “maximize the value of its business”, and co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki steps down; 23andMe was valued at $3.5B in June 2021

Most corporations are not going to look out for your privacy.  And we now have a federal government intent on using your data for bad purposes. Frank Figliuzzi / @frankfigliuzzi : ...