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Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera. Here's 404 Media's guide to the PR team at Meta:

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What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR

Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.

9 days after Inauguration Day, 404 Media wrote about how this declassified World War II-era government guide to sabotaging fascism became one of the most popular open source books on the internet. One of our top stories this year:

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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

When users confronted the exec with their concerns, he brushed them off, said he would not submit to mob rule, and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience.

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Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee

“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot.

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

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Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

This chatbot roleplay and image generator platform left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social media.

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Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn

Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, in...

Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.

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Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.

A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.

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Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers

A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.

A man was charged for allegedly wiping a phone before CBP could search it; an Anthropic exec forced AI onto a Discord community that didn't want it; and we talk the Disney-OpenAI deal.

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Podcast: Is Wiping a Phone a Crime?

A man was charged for allegedly wiping a phone before CBP could search it; an Anthropic exec forced AI onto a Discord community that didn't want it...

Normally, it’s bad news to be next to an exploding star. But ancient supernovae may have aided the formation of our home world—and perhaps Earthlike planets elsewhere.

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Earth-Like Planets Are More Common Than We Thought, Study Says

Normally, it’s bad news to be next to an exploding star. But ancient supernovae may have aided the formation of our home world—and perhaps Eart...

With OpenAI investment, Disney will officially begin putting AI slop into its flagship streaming product.

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Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand

With OpenAI investment, Disney will officially begin putting AI slop into its flagship streaming product.