important note: the LAPD has figured out it can get footage from Waymos: [www.404media.co/lapd-publish...]( ) [LAPD Publishes Crime Footage I...]( )
Extremely interesting story: the Ukraine drones that did this weekend’s massive attack were powered by free open source pilot assistance software [www.404media.co/ukraines-mas...]( ) [Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack...]( )
Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" [www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...]( ) [A Texas Cop Searched License P...]( )
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...]( ) [ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-En...]( )
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-...]( ) [Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Ge...]( )
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...]( ) [Well, Well, Well: Meta to Add ...]( )
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...]( ) https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cjfcz3t36f6nrprarkhkycxo&cid=bafkreiewwxxt3imbesdcghgzmfxbaukal7hvafooah7j4bzdeqllek4fee
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...]( ) [Your Children’s Children Will ...]( )
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...]( ) [Reddit Issuing 'Formal Legal D...]( )
this article / headline / framing is malpractice. some of the worst I’ve ever seen [www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...]( ) [FSU shooting suspect's complex...]( )