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
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Congress Pushes DHS for Details on ICE’s New Facial Recognition App
404 Media first revealed ICE’s new app, called Mobile Fortify, in June. Now members of a congressional committee are pressing DHS for more inform...
the lobbying behind AI is like the lobbying behind guns more here:
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Podcast: Trump Take LEGO
How Trump's tariffs are impacting all sorts of hobbies; how OnlyFans piracy is ruining the internet for everyone; and ChatGPT's reckoning.
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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AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History
"These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."
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Shein Used Luigi Mangione’s AI-Generated Face to Sell a Shirt
United Healthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione is not, in fact, modeling floral button-downs for Shein.
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:
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Podcast: Trump Take LEGO
How Trump's tariffs are impacting all sorts of hobbies; how OnlyFans piracy is ruining the internet for everyone; and ChatGPT's reckoning.
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
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Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists' Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up
Artists&Clients, a website for connecting artists with gigs, is down after a group called LunaLock threatened to feed their data to AI datasets.
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 (
Exclusive: ICE reactivated its $2 million contract with Israeli spyware firm Paragon, following its acquisition by U.S. capital
The cyber division of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations on Saturday quietly lifted a stop-work order put into place by the Biden administratio...
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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
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How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone
Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy.
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
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Behind the Blog: Dogfooding and Datasets
This week, we discuss our top games, “dense street imagery," and first-person experiences with apps.
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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.
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Trump Take LEGO
The popular Pick a Brick service let LEGO fanatics get the exact piece they wanted. It’s no longer available to US customers.