New from 404 Media: Congress demanding answers on ICE's new facial recognition app 'Mobile Fortify'. App taps into an unprecedented no. databases, uses the same system as when people enter/exit the U.S. Now turned inwards. Directly in response to us revealing the app
the lobbying behind AI is like the lobbying behind guns more here:
New from 404 Media: AI generated history videos are flooding YouTube, and drowning out real history. "It’s worrying to me just for humanity. It’s not good for the state of knowledge in the world. It makes me worry for the future."
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The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week: - Trump take LEGO (and other hobbies impacted by tariffs) - how OnlyFans piracy is ruining the internet for everyone (including takedowns against our site) - subscribers-only: lottt of ChatGPT stuff Apple/Spotify/YouTube:
Hackers compromised an artist platform, and now are threatening to upload all of the artists' art to AI tools if the platform doesn't pay up. A novel extortion strategy
Here is the public procurement record showing that ICE is to regain access to its $2 million purchase of Paragon spyware. Paragon sells powerful mobile phone spyware to governments. Biden admin stopped ICE at time; now lifted () image
New from 404 Media: here's how OnlyFans piracy is ruining the internet for everyone. Companies that file takedown requests for adult creators are targeting the wrong sites/services. We know because we got hit with one, removing our unrelated article from Google
In this week's Behind the Blog, I wrote more about the publicly available map that includes images ripped from dash cams around the U.S. Still has privacy concerns even if blurred image
New from 404 Media: LEGO has stopped shipping individual bricks to the U.S. because of Trump's tariffs. LEGO fans online said that they saw their shopping carts emptied in the middle of building projects.