New: the company behind Pokemon Go has announced it is using data collected by its millions of players to build an AI model that can navigate the real world, and could be used for robots. Doubt Pokemon Go players anticipated contributing data to this project
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Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World
Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a “Large Geospatial Model” that can navigate the real world and power ...
New from 404 Media: we've obtained and published the list of iPhone and Android devices secretive phone unlocking tech Graykey was able, or unable, to get data from recently. Unprecedented leak, we've never seen this granularity from Graykey before
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Leaked Documents Show What Phones Secretive Tech ‘Graykey’ Can Unlock
The documents provide never-been-seen insight into the current cat-and-mouse game between forensics companies and phone manufacturers Apple and Goo...
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New: HarperCollins confirms it has a deal to sell authors' work to AI company. The Big Five publisher made a deal with an unnamed “artificial intelligence technology company” and is allowing authors to opt-in if they want to join the agreement.
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HarperCollins Confirms It Has a Deal to Sell Authors' Work to AI Company
The Big Five publisher made a deal with an unnamed “artificial intelligence technology company” and is allowing authors to opt-in if they want ...
"Bluesky feels more vibrant and more filled with real humans than any other social media network on the internet has felt in a very long time." Here's why the great migration to Bluesky gives @Jason Koebler hope for the future of the internet
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The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet
Or: Why Threads is not it.
Good news: an AI chatbot added to a mushroom foraging Facebook group immediately gave readers advice to “sauté in butter” a potentially dangerous mushroom
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AI Chatbot Added to Mushroom Foraging Facebook Group Immediately Gives Tips for Cooking Dangerous Mushroom
The chatbot said that a mushroom that hyperaccumulates arsenic can be prepared by "sautéing in butter."
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New from 404 Media: got hundreds of internal Secret Service emails where it said tracking peoples' location without a warrant was okay because citizens have clicked 'accept' on app terms of service. This is the data that powers tools like Locate X
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'FYI. A Warrant Isn’t Needed': Secret Service Says You Agreed To Be Tracked With Location Data
The Secret Service has used a technology called Locate X which uses location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on phones. Because users a...
New from 404 Media: we've confirmed that Apple quietly introduced code that automatically reboots an iPhone if it hasn't been unlocked after a period of time. This is why cops are being mysteriously locked out of iPhones they're trying to search.
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Apple Quietly Introduced iPhone Reboot Code Which is Locking Out Cops
On Thursday 404 Media reported that police were freaking out about mysteriously rebooting iPhones. Now multiple experts have found that Apple intro...
In the wake of Trump's victory, we've seen some people unsubscribe because they feel that nothing matters now (they told us this). But the work still matters. We're not going anywhere and will cover the administration aggressively like we did in 2016
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Why the Work Still Matters
When Donald Trump won in 2016, we weren't sure if good journalism mattered anymore. Now, we're more sure than ever it does.
New from 404 Media: police freaking out at iPhones stored for forensic examination mysteriously rebooting themselves. This makes brute forcing much harder. Cops hypothesize Apple pushed an update that tells nearby iPhones to reboot if not on phone network
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Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out
Law enforcement believe the activity, which makes it harder to then unlock the phones, may be due to a potential update in iOS 18 which tells nearb...
Did you vote in America yesterday? If so, you just got doxed This site takes voter records that can be hard to source and puts them all into one place. Name, address, voter history, for free. It turns voting into a privacy and security risk
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Voted in America? This Site Doxed You
Voting rolls are technically public records but can be laborious to get hold of. A right-wing site weaponizes that information by allowing anyone, ...