09/12/2023
The moves come after 404 Media revealed the a16z funded AI platform was being used to generate images that "could be categorized as child po*******hy."
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08/12/2023
This week, we discuss staying connected in remote places, the future of the "content creator," and how a stalker posing as a cop tricked Verizon.
08/12/2023
The data transfer is a massive failure by Verizon, which fell for a low quality scam that may have put someone’s physical safety in danger.
08/12/2023
Our second FOIA Forum tackled the serious stuff: surveillance and, uhh, pickleball!
07/12/2023
This is your captain speaking: Ahead of Minaj's 'Pink Friday 2' out on December 8, fans flock to an AI-generated world of their own making.
07/12/2023
Patreon told creators that their accounts were banned for s*xualizing minors, which members of the AB/DL community say is unfair and untrue — and throws many of them into real financial hardship.
06/12/2023
The investigation gave unprecedented insight into how hacker-for-hire shops operated. Reuters says it stands by the reporting.
06/12/2023
The ever-worsening 23andMe hack shows the inherent vulnerability of genetic databases designed to show connections between people.
06/12/2023
On this week's episode we focus on Emanuel's new investigation into OctoML, the engine behind the a16z funded AI startup Civitai and how it generated images that “could be categorized as child po*******hy,” according to internal Slack chats.
06/12/2023
The findings come on the heels of a letter from Senator Ron Wyden warning that governments are demanding data related to push notifications from Apple and Google.
06/12/2023
A court record shows how the oft overlooked United States Postal Inspection Service turned to all manner of tech to investigate someone stealing from mailboxes.
05/12/2023
The new image-to-video model went viral this week because people saw potential to replace TikTok personalities, but ripping content creators' work is already baked into the tech.
05/12/2023
OctoML, the engine that powers a16z funded Civitai, thought the images could qualify as “child po*******hy,” but ultimately decided to keep working with the company anyway, internal Slack chats and other material shows.
04/12/2023
A technique used by Google researchers to reveal ChatGPT training data is now banned by OpenAI.
04/12/2023
Pen*ses have all kinds of data-gathering wearable options. What about the cl****is?
01/12/2023
This week, we discuss uncovering government defense contracts, revealing fake "auto-generated" female speakers, and thoughts on FOIA.
01/12/2023
Records reviewed by 404 Media reveal that U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has signed at least $12.5 million to buy the new autonomous aircraft.
30/11/2023
What I learned about the pickleball lobby and pickleball turf wars by reading thousands of pages of documents from inside local government.
30/11/2023
The class-action antitrust suit is one of the biggest challenges to Deere's tractor repair monopoly.
29/11/2023
ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more.
29/11/2023
In this week's episode, we talk about the bizarre tale of a tech conference founder who listed a fake, "auto-generated" woman as a speaker, and how he is also behind a popular woman-in-tech social media personality.
29/11/2023
Documents obtained by 404 Media show an expansion of Anduril's surveillance technology on the U.S.-Canada border.
27/11/2023
IP logs show that accounts for Coding Unicorn, a female tech influencer who's built a following based on her coding advice and Instagram influencer posts, are run by a male developer and conference organizer.
27/11/2023
"I can see that one of my friends is apparently watching a ton of cheesy, soft p**n stuff," a user said of Plex's Week in Review email and Discover Together feature.
27/11/2023
Viral allegations that Devternity founder Eduard Sizovs fabricated female speakers to boost diversity have caused several big-name speakers to publicly drop out of the conference.
27/11/2023
James Regis Whitner, Jr. is a known figure in the world of sneakers and fashion. A wide spanning investigation alleges his companies, including Social Status, used a Chinese money laundering ring to move massive amounts of cash.
24/11/2023
This week, we're looking at OpenAI-adjacent Harry Potter fanfic, Disney's AI generated copyright, and questions about Hugging Face's selectively-enforced terms.
23/11/2023
In this week's episode, we take a unique angle on the OpenAI drama, talk Twitter and s*x work, then get into how hackers gamble away stolen Bitcoin at online casinos.
22/11/2023
A new hybrid film-digital video camera for a format invented in 1965 is actually coming. It's very weird, and very expensive.
22/11/2023
The FTC and Biden have repeatedly argued repair monopolies are illegal. So why haven't they created formal regulations protecting right to repair?
22/11/2023
OpenAI has replaced almost all of the members of the board that fired former and now-current CEO Sam Altman.
21/11/2023
The Eight Sleep pod is a mattress topper with a terms of service and a privacy policy. The company "may share or sell" the sleep data it collects from its users.
21/11/2023
The removals come as Hugging Face is banned in China, which the company called “regrettable.”
21/11/2023
Grips on the PS5 DualSense Edge controller are peeling away after normal use, according to 404 Media's own experience and multiple people complaining online.
20/11/2023
Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."
20/11/2023
OpenAI interim CEO Emmett Shear says he believes there is a 5-50 percent chance of AI-induced apocalypse.
20/11/2023
Microsoft recently pledged to cover the legal costs of customers who infringe on copyright while using its AI-generated content services.
17/11/2023
This week, we discuss the bin Laden TikTok controversy, how brand safety shapes the internet, and Instagram's enforcement of its own rules (or lack thereof).
17/11/2023
The best-selling country music artist of all time released a new album called Time Traveler last week. It is possible to count by hand how many people have posted on the internet about it.
17/11/2023
TikTok is moderating reporting and news about extremism in the exact same way that it moderates actual extremism.
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