Connor Riley Moucka, the alleged Snowflake hacker (aka Waifu) whose campaign impacted AT&T, Ticketmaster, many more, has been extradited to the U.S. and is in a prison in Washington
New from 404 Media: the open-source piece of software saving the internet from AI bot scrapers. Anubis has been downloaded almost 200,000 times. We spoke to the creator:
In this week's Behind the Blog we gave some insight into our headline process. The example is a very complicated AI court ruling story. Not sure we've ever spent longer on a headline
New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE
New from 404 Media: the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC)—the data broker owned by airlines such as Delta, United, American—which has been selling your flight info to the government for years, only just registered as a data broker. Seems it violated California law
In a deepfake nightmare, an alleged stalker is accused of making violent, graphic deepfakes of women with their fathers, and of their children. Device searches revealed he searched for "undress" apps and "ai porn."
New from 404 Media: Flock has cut off cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia from national lookups after our investigations and others based on our reporting. Comes after we revealed cops doing lookups for ICE and an abortion case. Massive changes to this tech
Turns out all the major LLMs (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, Llama 3) struggle to understand Gen Alpha phrases, like "let him cook", "ate that up", "got ratioed", "secure the bag" etc. Research paper written by a soon-to-be 9th grader
Echoing everything Seamus says here. He spends massive amount of time digging through court records to find interesting ones. He shares with us. Other outlets then don't credit. They include referral links, showing they ripped us off. You think we won't notice? 🤡
New from 404 Media: A judge ruled Anthropic likely violated copyright law when it pirated authors’ books to create a giant dataset and "forever" library, but training its AI on those books without authors' permission constitutes fair use under copyright law
