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Internal memo: Meta is piloting AI-enabled coding interviews, letting candidates use AI during the process, and asks for “mock AI-enabled interview” volunteers (www.404media.co)
3 days ago Interview AI

A second security breach at Tea exposes more than 1.1M user messages, dating from early 2023 to as recently as last week, many containing sensitive information (www.404media.co)
3 days ago

Some 4chan users claim they breached Tea, the women's dating safety app that has topped the US App Store charts, exposing selfies and drivers' licenses (www.404media.co)
7 days ago

Google's AI Overviews, which a recent Pew study shows reduce clickthrough rates, are further eroding traffic to original publishers by linking to aggregators (www.404media.co)
8 days ago Google AI

A hacker claims to have compromised Amazon's Q coding assistant for VS Code via a GitHub pull request; Amazon says “no customer resources were impacted” (www.404media.co)
9 days ago Amazon Hacker GitHub

Users have uploaded 5,000 AI models, previously banned from Civitai for generating nonconsensual sexual content of real people, to Hugging Face (www.404media.co)
17 days ago AI

A look at various responses to AI firms' scraping, like open source Anubis that uses cryptographic JavaScript challenges, Cloudflare's “link mazes”, and more (www.404media.co)
25 days ago AI

Internal emails: ICE is using Mobile Fortify, an app that uses facial recognition and fingerprint scanning via phone cameras to identify people in the field (www.404media.co)
2025-6-27 Mobile Facial Recognition

License plate reader company Flock has stopped US agencies from accessing cameras in CA, IL, and VA after reports of lookups related to ICE and an abortion case (www.404media.co)
2025-6-26

Digital rights organizations urge the FTC to investigate Character.AI and Meta's “unlicensed practice of medicine facilitated” by therapy AI chatbots (www.404media.co)
2025-6-14 AI chatbot

Meta sues Joy Timeline, which makes nudify app CrushAI, in Hong Kong to “prevent them from advertising CrushAI apps on Meta platforms”; CrushAI had run 5K+ ads (www.404media.co)
2025-6-12 Hong Kong

Some domains of Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and the CDC were exploited to host AI spam blogs redirecting users to a spam marketing site (www.404media.co)
2025-6-12 AI Nvidia

The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash (www.404media.co)
2025-6-12 AI

Researcher brutecat finds a vulnerability that revealed the phone number linked to any Google account via brute forcing phone numbers; Google fixed the issue (www.404media.co)
2025-6-10 Google

Apple's July 2022 to June 2024 transparency report shows it gave governments data on thousands of push notifications, which can include unencrypted content (www.404media.co)
2025-6-5 Apple

The IRS open sourced most of its Direct File tax software on GitHub last week, fulfilling a legal requirement under the SHARE IT Act, despite Intuit pressure (www.404media.co)
2025-6-5 Tax GitHub

Civitai is banning “real-person likeness content” on its site, citing new laws and the loss of its payment processor, after problems with nonconsensual porn (www.404media.co)
2025-5-28

Brazilian researchers scraped 2B+ Discord messages from 3,167 public servers using Discord's public API, covering 2015 to 2024, and publish the messages online (www.404media.co)
2025-5-22 Brazil

Civitai will “pause” credit card payments starting May 23, as its current payment processor won't “support platforms that allow AI-generated explicit content” (www.404media.co)
2025-5-21 AI Credit Card

Civitai says a configuration issue was to blame for allowing users to create non-consensual porn; it appears such videos of non-celebrities can still be created (www.404media.co)
2025-5-21

House Republicans introduced language to the Budget Reconciliation bill that would ban US states from enforcing any AI regulation for 10 years (www.404media.co)
2025-5-14 AI Ban Republican Budget

Unlike most mainstream social networks, Instagram has failed to scrub Kanye's pro-Nazi song “Heil Hitler”, with several posts garnering 1M+ views (www.404media.co)
2025-5-14 Instagram

The biggest deepfake porn site on the internet, Mr. Deepfakes, says it is shutting down permanently because a “critical service provider” stopped serving it (www.404media.co)
2025-5-5

A hacker breaches TeleMessage, which offers modified versions of apps like Signal used by US officials including Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard, JD Vance, and others (www.404media.co)
2025-5-5 Hacker

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)
2025-4-30 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)
2025-4-29 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)
2025-4-29

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)
2025-4-19

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)
2025-4-17

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)
2025-4-11

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