New from 404 Media: Congress has launched a formal investigation into Flock after our articles revealing cops were performing lookups for ICE in its AI-cameras, and that a cop searched the nation's cameras for a woman who had an abortion
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Congress Launches Investigation into Flock After 404 Media Reporting
Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi's office said this was β€œa formal investigation into Flock Group Inc. over its role in enabling invasive surveilla...
New: a brand of vape detectors is in schools and public housing. A young hacker took it apart, found it contained microphones. They then demonstrated how to turn it into an audio bug. Brings up concerns of surveillance in peoples' own homes
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It Looks Like a School Vape Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Become an Audio Bug
The Halo 3C is a vape detector installed in schools and public housing. A young hacker found it contains microphones and that it can be turned into...
A CBP agent wore Meta smart glasses to an immigration raid:
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A CBP Agent Wore Meta Smart Glasses to an Immigration Raid in Los Angeles
Video obtained and verified by 404 Media shows a CBP official wearing Meta's AI glasses, which are capable of recording and connecting with AI. β€œ...
New from 404 Media: we've seen and verified video of a CBP agent wearing Meta's AI glasses during immigration raid in LA. Glasses capable of recording, live-streaming, Meta plans to add facial recognition. Experts deeply concerned about this tech being abused by DHS
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A CBP Agent Wore Meta Smart Glasses to an Immigration Raid in Los Angeles
Video obtained and verified by 404 Media shows a CBP official wearing Meta's AI glasses, which are capable of recording and connecting with AI. β€œ...
New from 404 Media: more than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and other LLM chats are readable on Archive.org. It's similar to the Google indexing issue, but shows it impacts many more LLMs than just ChatGPT. Some chats contain API keys.
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More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org
The issue of publicly saving shared LLM chats is bigger than just Google.
New from 404 Media: ICE is buying iris scanning tech for its deportation arm. Usually this tech, called MORIS and IRIS, is used by Sheriff's Offices to identify known people. Now ICE says it is buying it for Enforcement and Removal Operations, which does deportations
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ICE Is Buying Mobile Iris Scanning Tech for Its Deportation Arm
MORIS and I.R.I.S. was designed for Sheriff's Offices to identify known persons with their iris. Now ICE says it plans to buy the tech.
Watch this guy's interactive wooden pixel machine make art in real time:
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Watch This Guy’s Interactive Wooden Pixel Machine Make Art in Real Time
Kilopixel by Ben Holmen turns a CNC machine and a thousand wooden blocks into pixel art.
New from 404 Media: Home Depot and Lowe's are sharing data from hundreds of AI cameras with cops. Records show a cop in Texas for example is able to search Flock cameras at Lowe's across the country. These stores are "contributing to the massive surveillance dragnet"
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Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops
Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public reco...
The 404 Media Podcast is up! - Google indexing people's ChatGPT convos - how Wikipedia is fighting AI slop - subscribers: how we got to the Steam/Itch censorship Apple/Spotify/YouTube [redownload if you accidentally have last week's ep]:
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Podcast: Google Is Exposing Peoples’ ChatGPT Secrets
Shared ChatGPT indexed by Google; how Wikipedia is fighting AI slop; and the history of how we got to Steam censorship.
Constitution sections on due process and foreign gifts just vanished from Congress' website Include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials.
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Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website
Part of Article I Section 8, and all of Sections 9 and 10, which address things like habeas corpus, nobility, and militias, are gone from Congress'...