New from 404 Media: ICE plans to spend as much as $180 million on bounty hunters to physically locate and stalk immigrants. I spoke to multiple private investigators/skip tracers. Some horrified. Others said they will do this work. "Money is money."
The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week: - inside a town's fight against a $1.2 billion AI data center - how people are 3D-printing whistles to fight ICE - subscribers: AI's war on knowledge YouTube here. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify, etc too
Behold: you can now see all 23 years of BYTE magazine in all its glory, all at once. Every issue on a single zoomable interface
DHS is deploying a powerful surveillance data sharing program at college football games
DARK WIRE is in paperback today! The true story of how the FBI secretly ran a tech company for criminals to wiretap the world. "A tense, deep, beautifully told tale that could be a top-notch techno thriller... except it's all true." Available everywhere image
A Danish Redditor was sentenced for posting nude scenes from copyrighted films. Was similar to massive subreddit r/WatchItForThePlot, where people post clips of nude scenes—almost always featuring female actors—out of context
New from 404 Media: people are 3D-printing whistles to warn each other about the presence of ICE. Some people make designs and upload them; others are given a design and are printing hundreds and hundreds of whistles at home. It's been effective in Chicago
Our new FOIA Forum is next week, Weds 19th! In this hour+ live-streamed event, we'll show you how researchers got Flock "network audits," which show what cops are tapping into Flock's nationwide network of AI surveillance cameras for, including helping ICE Details:
New from 404 Media: a small town is fighting a $1.2 billion AI datacenter for America's nuclear weapon scientists. It is fighting the construction of a "high-performance computing facility" that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
DHS has built a facial recognition app for local cops to scan peoples' faces in an attempt to find immigrants. Says whether to detain the person or not