New: ChatGPT is now going to guess user ages, tailor the content users receive based on that, and may demand ID for age verification. This comes after a wave of teen suicides. β€œWe know this is a privacy compromise for adults but believe it is a worthy tradeoff.”
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ChatGPT Will Guess Your Age and Might Require ID for Age Verification
OpenAI introduces new age prediction and verification methods after wave of teen suicide stories involving chatbots.
New from 404 Media: some sellers on eBay and Etsy have jacked up their shipping costs, sometimes to $2,000, just to American buyers don't purchase the products and the sellers don't have to deal with the headache of tariffs
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$2,000 Shipping: International Sellers Charge Absurd Prices to Avoid Dealing With American Tariffs
Some sellers on eBay and Etsy have jacked up their shipping costs so American buyers won't buy their products.
By linking up an LLM to Animal Crossing, villagers are now organizing against Tom Nook: "did you know Tom Nook is practically robbing us blind with these houses?"
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AI-Powered Animal Crossing Villagers Begin Organizing Against Tom Nook
An LLM breathed new life into 'Animal Crossing' and made the villagers rise up against their landlord.
New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc
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Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching
New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of ...
Breaking: Michael Pratt, the ringleader of GirlsDoPorn, a sex trafficking ring that flourished on PornHub, was just sentenced to 27 years in prison. We were in the San Diego court room to witness and report the sentencing
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Michael Pratt, GirlsDoPorn Ringleader, Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison
Michael James Pratt was sentenced to federal prison on charges of sex trafficking connected to the GirlsDoPorn crime ring. β€œHe turned my pain int...
Instagram is hosting an account that promotes Holocaust denial t-shirts to its 400,000 followers. Meta took the decision to not ban the account even after being made of aware it
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Instagram Account Promotes Holocaust Denial T-Shirts to 400,000 Followers
Meta decided to not ban the account and the vast majority of its racist posts even after 404 Media flagged them to the company.
New from 404 Media: ICE just spent millions on facial recognition tech explicitly to identify people it believes are assaulting law enforcement. There have been cases all over the country where ICE claim an assault, then charges dropped because authorities misled
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ICE Spends Millions on Clearview AI Facial Recognition to Find People β€˜Assaulting’ Officers
A new contract with Clearview AI explicitly says ICE is buying the tech to investigate "assaults against law enforcement officers."
I've used APK Lab for journalistic investigations for a long time, it was especially useful for quickly finding what endpoints an app connected to, before I then went and AITM'd the traffic. Did this to find sketchy location data sharing. If anyone wants to provide access to a similar tool LMK image
New from 404 Media: this company turns dashcams into 'virtual CCTV cameras'. Then hackers got in. Hacker accessed terabytes of users recordings. Includes a user driving to CIA entrance; others at U.S. military bases. Big tech also buying images from the cameras
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This Company Turns Dashcams into β€˜Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In
A hacker has compromised Nexar, which turns peoples' cars into "virtual CCTV cameras" that organizations can then buy images from. The images inclu...
New from 404 Media: Congress demanding answers on ICE's new facial recognition app 'Mobile Fortify'. App taps into an unprecedented no. databases, uses the same system as when people enter/exit the U.S. Now turned inwards. Directly in response to us revealing the app
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Congress Pushes DHS for Details on ICE’s New Facial Recognition App
404 Media first revealed ICE’s new app, called Mobile Fortify, in June. Now members of a congressional committee are pressing DHS for more inform...