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Tests appear to show Instagram blocking minors from accessing AI Studio, its user-generated chatbot character platform, after recent reports on safety issues (www.404media.co)
3 days ago AI chatbot Instagram

Researchers say bots on Reddit posing as rape victims and more were effective at changing minds in 1K+ posts, in an unauthorized AI persuasion experiment (www.404media.co)
4 days ago AI Reddit

Kickstarter introduces a “Tariff Manager tool” that lets creators add extra charges for backers on projects that were already fully funded (www.404media.co)
4 days ago

A Nevada judge rules that “tower dumps”, the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers, is unconstitutional (www.404media.co)
14 days ago

Documents: ICE awarded Palantir nearly $30M in April 2025 to enhance its Investigative Case Management system, after a $90M, five-year deal in September 2022 (www.404media.co)
16 days ago

Meta says LLMs have historically leaned left and wants to remove that bias with Llama 4 to “understand and articulate both sides of a contentious issue” (www.404media.co)
22 days ago

Framework stops selling its six lowest-priced laptops in the US, saying those models would sell at a loss due to tariffs that went into effect on April 5 (www.404media.co)
25 days ago

In backing Trump, effective accelerationists like Musk and Andreessen got a “Decel-in-Chief”, who instigated a brain drain and tariffs that hurt tech companies (www.404media.co)
27 days ago Trump

AI slop, shared by thousands of prolific accounts, is brute forcing virality, and platforms like Meta embrace it; some AI videos get 350M+ views (www.404media.co)
2025-3-18 AI

The doge.gov website tracking Elon Musk's cuts to the federal government pulls from a database editable by anyone, say two sources who found the vulnerability (www.404media.co)
2025-2-14 Database Elon Musk

Sources: DOGE staff were ordered to stop using Slack while it transitions from the OMB to the Executive Office of the President, which is not subject to FOIA (www.404media.co)
2025-2-6 Slack

Sources: many Meta employees are furious about its moderation changes that allow “allegations of mental illness” when based on “gender or sexual orientation” (www.404media.co)
2025-1-10

People are taking horrific videos like of mass shootings and using Runway's AI tools to insert cartoons, likely to bypass social networks' automated moderation (www.404media.co)
2025-1-8 AI

Screenshots: several employees' posts critical of Meta's new board member Dana White were deleted by Meta's ICC, which aims to “minimize disruption” internally (www.404media.co)
2025-1-8

Meta says it's testing an “Imagine Yourself” feature announced in September that automatically generates AI images of a user and puts them into that user's feed (www.404media.co)
2025-1-7 AI

Meta says the viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 as part of “an early experiment” with AI characters, and it is deleting them (www.404media.co)
2025-1-4 Facebook AI Instagram

Pornhub now blocks users in 17 US states, including almost all of the South, after blocking Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina due to age verification laws (www.404media.co)
2025-1-2

Researchers at Anthropic, Oxford, Stanford, and MATS create Best-of-N Jailbreaking, a black-box algorithm that jailbreaks frontier AI systems across modalities (www.404media.co)
2024-12-21 AI Algorithm

Amnesty International: Serbian authorities used phone hacking startup Cellebrite's tools to unlock a journalist's phone before infecting the device with malware (www.404media.co)
2024-12-17 Startup

FTC bans location data providers Gravy and subsidiary Venntel as well as Mobilewalla from using or selling data related to sensitive locations and more (www.404media.co)
2024-12-4

Bluesky says it is up to outside orgs to respect user consent, after a Hugging Face employee published a dataset of 1M posts from Bluesky's API for ML research (www.404media.co)
2024-11-27

X files an objection to including X accounts belonging or related to Infowars in the outlet's bankruptcy auction, arguing it has ownership of all X accounts (www.404media.co)
2024-11-27

Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, retrieves “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1 (www.404media.co)
2024-11-20 IOS iPhone

Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a large geospatial model, or LGM, that can navigate the real world and power robots (www.404media.co)
2024-11-20 Robot

Secret Service Says You Agreed To Be Tracked With Location Data (www.404media.co)
2024-11-13

A look at DeFlock, an open-source project that has crowdsourced the locations of 5,600+ automated license plate reader cameras globally from Flock and others (www.404media.co)
2024-11-12

An indictment against two men suspected of hacking Snowflake clients, including AT&T, says the pair and their co-conspirators extorted at least 36 bitcoins (www.404media.co)
2024-11-12 Bitcoin AT&T

Experts say a new feature in iOS 18.1 causes iPhone to reboot after few days of inactivity, which improves security and has caused concern among law enforcement (www.404media.co)
2024-11-9 IOS iPhone

Elon Musk's PAC sends Republicans texts impersonating Kamala Harris without disclaimers, pushing policies Harris doesn't support, and ups its social ads spend (www.404media.co)
2024-10-30 Elon Musk Republican

Privacy advocates leak hours of footage of Locate X, a global, warrantless phone tracking tool made by Babel Street and used by US agencies like ICE and CBP (www.404media.co)
2024-10-23

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