A former National Guardsman planned an American Caliphate on Discord and shipped more than 100 3D printed machine gun conversion kits to what he believed was Al Qaeda (it was the FBI)

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National Guardsman Planned American Caliphate on Discord, Sent 3D Printed Guns to Al Qaeda, Feds Say

‘We don’t want democracy lol. We want caliphate.’ According to court records, an Oklahoma guardsman with a security clearance gave 3D printed...

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

All anyone wanted to do with OpenAI's new Sora 2 app was make clips of copyrighted characters. Now they can't, they're pissed. Literally what is the point of this app

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People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling t...

The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week: - all about OpenAI's Sora 2 - Apple and Google's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps - subscribers: a massive update to our Flock reporting Apple/Spotify/YouTube:

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Podcast: The Final Boss of AI Slop

We talk all about Sora 2, Apple and Google removing ICE-spotting apps, and a massive update to our Flock reporting.

Today's the day: DARK WIRE, my book on how the FBI secretly ran a tech company for criminals and wiretapped the world, coming to paperback. Updated with many more details. An Economist and FT book of the year. 404 Media subs: you just got 20% to your email

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Dark Wire

Written “in the manner of a good crime thriller” (The Wall Street Journal), the inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation eve...