"A frog [..] standing up to ICE covered in weapons and armor is absurd, and that’s part of why it’s hitting so hard. But the frog is also a practical piece [..] in an age of mass surveillance, police brutality, and masked federal agents disappearing people"
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The Surreal Practicality of Protesting As an Inflatable Frog
Say goodbye to the Guy Fawkes masks and hello to inflatable frogs and dinosaurs.
A lawyer was explaining to court why he used AI when he was then caught using AI in that explanation of why he was using AI (earlier)
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Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI
The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations...
A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.
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Man Stores AI-Generated ‘Robot Porn' on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets
A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic imag...
For months I've been following what happened when a company forced AI into the world of craft beer. Legal threats, people quitting, and beer judges in revolt over being told to use AI. "It is attempting to solve a problem that wasn’t a problem before AI showed up"
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What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer
A prominent beer competition introduced an AI-judging tool without warning. The judges and some members of the wider brewing industry were pissed.
Wrote about the seizure of Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters' site that was apparently going to dump data from Salesforces customers including Disney/Hulu, FedEx, Toyota, UPS, more
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Behind the Blog: Sinkholes and Site Seizures
This week, we discuss a ransomware gang, book bans, and infrastructure.
I spoke to Slate about why 404 Media is suing ICE for its $2 million spyware contract. The company ICE contracted with can remotely break into phones without the target even clicking a link
Slate Magazine
The People Suing ICE
What kind of spyware is ICE working with—and what government agencies are collaborating?
New from 404 Media: an internal Meta message we obtained tells employees on its metaverse team that they should be using AI to “go 5x faster”. That's 5 times faster, not 5 percent more.
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Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’
Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."
They're animating the law enforcement seizure notices now. This was just uploaded to the Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters site that was threatening to dump Salesforce customer data. The dark web version remains online.
the discord hack is every user's worst nightmare
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The Discord Hack is Every User’s Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hac...
New from 404 Media: a data hoarder created a searchable data of Epstein files. "This is a public service project. All documents are from public releases. This archive makes them more accessible and searchable."
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Data Hoarder Uses AI to Create Searchable Database of Epstein Files
The open source project has been mirrored as a torrent file and represents one of the easiest ways to navigate a messy data dump.