Tea, the viral women's safety dating app, has been breached: - 4chan found an exposed Firebase bucket - people starting taking Tea users' photos and IDs and posting them to 4chan - we verified it More here:
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Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan
“DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.
New from 404 Media: viral woman's dating safety app Tea breached. 4chan taking peoples' uploaded photos, used to verify its a woman-only app. App recently hit no. 1 in App Store. “DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!”
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Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan
“DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.
New: Grindr won’t allow users to add “no Zionists” to their profiles, but allows any number of other phrases that state political, religious, and ethnic preferences, according to 404 Media’s tests of the platform and user reports
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Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists'
An error message appears saying "The following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists" when users try to add the phrase to their bios, but any nu...
New from 404 Media: LeBron James' lawyers send cease-and-desist to AI company making pregnant videos of him. Marks one of the first known times that a celebrity has threatened legal action against an AI company for enabling nonconsensual AI imagery of their likeness
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LeBron James' Lawyers Send Cease-and-Desist to AI Company Making Pregnant Videos of Him
Viral Instagram accounts making LeBron 'brainrot' videos have also been banned.
We discussed this now clear cultural phenomenon, especially on TikTok: people feel it's their duty to film people in public they may not agree with, or find hot, or whatever, and then do whatever they can to track them down. It's fucking weird! Sub to hear the rest:
Google's AI summaries are - killing traffic to legitimate sites - producing summaries that can be wrong - in the long run probably making you a dumbass
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Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and cr...
The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week: - Spotify publishing AI-generated tracks of dead artists without permission - company selling data from hacked computers to debt collectors - subscribers: the Astronomer CEO incident and the surveillance dystopia we live in
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Podcast: Spotify Is Publishing AI Tracks of Dead Artists
Spotify is publishing AI-generated tracks of dead artists; a company is selling hacked data to debt collectors; and the Astronomer CEO episode show...
Five hours at the Tesla Diner to see why people were there.
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'It's Not a Political Statement': Checking in With Tesla Superfans at Elon Musk's New Diner
The Tesla Diner has two gigantic screens, a robot that serves popcorn, and owners hope it will be free from people who don't like Tesla.
New: a hacker compromised a version of Amazon's Q AI agent, added commands to 'wipe' computers, then Amazon released it. Unclear if wipe effective; hacker did it to prove point. “Ruthless corporations leave no room for vigilance among their over-worked developers.”
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Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent
The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add...
New: in internal memo we obtained, the military says it will 'continuously' monitor bathrooms to comply with the anti-trans order. Also ordered a stop on "questionable content" at Stars and Stripes, the military's editorially independent newspaper.
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Military Says It Will ‘Continuously’ Monitor Bathrooms to Comply With Anti-Trans Order
An internal memo obtained by 404 Media also shows the military ordered a review hold on "questionable content" at Stars and Stripes, the military's...