SCOOP: ICE, HSI, and DHS are getting side-door access to the nationwide system of Flock license plate cameras by asking local police to perform lookups for them, new public records show. ICE does *not* have a contract to use this surveillance tool itself. [www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...](
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ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nati...
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ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nati...
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I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's very embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times [www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...](
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Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
"I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."
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Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
"I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."
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Meta's PR absolutely lost its shit at us a few months ago when we wrote about how a student added facial recognition to its Rayban smart glasses, the underlying implication being that it would not do that itself. Well Well Well. WELL WELL WELL [www.404media.co/well-well-we...](
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Well, Well, Well: Meta to Add Facial Recognition To Glasses After All
Meta previously lost its shit at 404 Media when we reported that someone had paired facial recognition tech with the company's smart glasses. Now M...
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Well, Well, Well: Meta to Add Facial Recognition To Glasses After All
Meta previously lost its shit at 404 Media when we reported that someone had paired facial recognition tech with the company's smart glasses. Now M...
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NEW: GlobalX, the company doing many deportation flights for ICE, has been hacked. Hackers claim to have stolen flight manifest information and flight details, and have also defaced the website [www.404media.co/globalx-airl...](
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GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked
Hackers say they have obtained what they say are passenger lists for GlobalX flights from January to this month. The data appears to include people...
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Wrote about the nation's greatest living dystopian fiction salesman, Howard Lutnick, and the pathetic policies that are trying to bring this technofeudalist fever dream to life: [www.404media.co/your-childre...](
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Your Children’s Children Will Die in Our Factories
The small, pathetic technofeudalist dystopian vision of Howard Lutnick and the Trump administration.
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Your Children’s Children Will Die in Our Factories
The small, pathetic technofeudalist dystopian vision of Howard Lutnick and the Trump administration.
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New: Reddit is pursuing legal action against the researchers who secretly ran a massive AI persuasion experiment on its users: [www.404media.co/reddit-issui...](
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Reddit Issuing 'Formal Legal Demands' Against Researchers Who Conducted Secret AI Experiment on Users
Reddit called it an "improper and highly unethical experiment" and said it did not know it was happening.
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Reddit Issuing 'Formal Legal Demands' Against Researchers Who Conducted Secret AI Experiment on Users
Reddit called it an "improper and highly unethical experiment" and said it did not know it was happening.
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this article / headline / framing is malpractice. some of the worst I’ve ever seen [www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...](
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FSU shooting suspect's complex past comes to light – yet motive remains a mystery
In recent years, Phoenix Ikner became known for far-right, white supremacist rhetoric, classmates said. It’s unclear if that had any tie to the v...
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FSU shooting suspect's complex past comes to light – yet motive remains a mystery
In recent years, Phoenix Ikner became known for far-right, white supremacist rhetoric, classmates said. It’s unclear if that had any tie to the v...
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Something I don’t do is walk into people’s jobs and ask them to do their work for free and demand that they do it for free for me or start yelling that they should reorient everything they do to appease me. Just saying
Seeing basically indecipherably fakeAI versions of this pop up in real time and go viral alongside the real thing is our new normal unfortunately [www.404media.co/pikachu-spot...](
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Pikachu Spotted Fleeing Police Crackdowns During Turkey Protests
As a real video of someone in a Pikachu suit at a protest goes viral, an AI-generated “photo” is fooling a lot of people.
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Pikachu Spotted Fleeing Police Crackdowns During Turkey Protests
As a real video of someone in a Pikachu suit at a protest goes viral, an AI-generated “photo” is fooling a lot of people.
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An ICE contractor is currently monitoring more than 200 sites (including Bluesky) to draw connections between people and between accounts on different sites. Not good considering ICE is disappearing people at the moment [www.404media.co/the-200-site...](
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The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring
404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the...
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The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring
404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the...
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