Ada Ada Ada is documenting her transition on Instagram, uploading shirtless photos weekly to test their nudity guidelines # | Continue reading
Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics. | Continue reading
This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages | Continue reading
Samantha Cole, reporting for 404 Media: In July, before the latest WP Engine blowup, an Automattic employee wrote in Slack that they received a direct message from Mullenweg sending them an identification code for Blind, an anonymous workplace discussion platform, which was requi … | Continue reading
aside from some App Store profiteering, all the remixes and variations complemented the original, but the NYT's lawyers just see them as a threat # | Continue reading
This is where AI generated formats, Minecraft splitscreens, Reddit stories, 'Would You Rather' videos, and deep sea story spam come from. | Continue reading
The three million toothbrush botnet wasn’t real, but this toothbrush hacked for blasting demons between brushes is. | Continue reading
Automattic's new statement confirms they're "working directly with select AI companies" with an opt-out for future AI training # | Continue reading
This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time. | Continue reading
"In order to combat the fracturing of social media platforms, a Google discoverability crisis fueled by AI generated spam and AI-fueled SEO, and a media business environment that is in utter freefall, we need to be able to reach our readers directly using a platform that we own a … | Continue reading
a failure of content moderation, federal legislation, and basic human decency, the images originated in a Telegram group for non-consensual AI-generated porn # | Continue reading
this little indie publication has been killing it, happy to be a supporter since launch # | Continue reading
"Search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam" # | Continue reading
34 years after its release on NES, Blue Scuti has become the first human to ever reach Tetris' Kill Screen. | Continue reading
404 Media's Jason Koebler digs into yet another flood of generative AI chum content and the people trying to track it # | Continue reading
I just don't think advertising is an appropriate way to support this kind of journalism - or, potentially, any kind. This is more evidence, but it's also worth knowing that the private equity firm that owns G/O Media has not been a good steward. Non-profits and worker-owned co-op … | Continue reading
Nothing, Forever is getting another round of virality as people gawk at what might be the end of the first big AI show. | Continue reading
a GTA V mod that lets players leave floating persistent messages anywhere in the game world for others to find # | Continue reading
"I’ve now been using [Mastodon] for about two months and I am here to tell you that it is, in principle, what we should want the internet to be. If you have been remotely interested in Mastodon but had reservations about joining because you thought it would be difficult, confusin … | Continue reading
Anyone that sets themselves up to be a single point of failure like this will be a target. And here we are, with hackers now able to make authentic-looking police requests for data. Something that caught my eye in these screenshots: they include Authy, Twilio's 2-factor authentic … | Continue reading
unlike TikTokers using OSINT techniques to identify people with consent, all this takes is a $30 Pimeyes account and no ethics # | Continue reading
Ticketmaster's "Verified Fan" system doesn't help fans. It helps scalpers who have hundreds of accounts, use special internet browsers, and have dozens of credit cards. | Continue reading
even the AI experts hired by 404 Media can't tell which, if any, are real # | Continue reading
404 Media is a new independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox. | Continue reading
It costs $15 to uncover an American's personally identifiable information illegally for potentially violent purposes. But also consider the number of entities that have access to this information legally, without any oversight. None of it should be allowable. #Technology [L … | Continue reading