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Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials in a mass doxxing event (www.404media.co)
15 days ago Hacker FBI

Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through (www.404media.co)
15 days ago AI chatbot

Apple has removed Eyes Up, which archives video evidence of ICE abuses, from the App Store; unlike ICEBlock, it doesn't share ICE officers' real-time locations (www.404media.co)
23 days ago Apple

Google and Apple removed Red Dot, an app for reporting ICE sightings; Google says the app was being used to share the location of a “vulnerable group” (www.404media.co)
28 days ago Google Apple

OpenAI's Sora 2 openly features copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips of SpongeBob, Pikachu, and Mario (www.404media.co)
30 days ago AI

Google's Ad Transparency tool no longer shows any political ads, past or present, from any EU countries ahead of new EU ad transparency regulations (www.404media.co)
2025-10-1 Google

4chan and Kiwi Farms sue the UK's Ofcom in a US court over the Online Safety Act, saying they aren't subject to UK law, after Ofcom tried to fine and block them (www.404media.co)
2025-8-28

Forty-four US AGs sign an open letter to 11 chatbot and social media companies, warning they'll be held accountable if their AI chatbots knowingly harm children (www.404media.co)
2025-8-26 AI chatbot

Grok's website is exposing the underlying prompts for its AI personas, including one for a “crazy conspiracist” persona that spends “a lot of time on 4chan” (www.404media.co)
2025-8-19 AI

Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, several owned by companies outside the US, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law (www.404media.co)
2025-8-7

Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving administrators the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like wrong citations (www.404media.co)
2025-8-7 AI

Trump Media says it is beta testing Truth Search AI, a new search feature powered by Perplexity, on the web version of Truth Social (www.404media.co)
2025-8-7

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)
2025-7-29 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)
2025-7-29

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)
2025-7-26

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)
2025-7-24 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)
2025-7-24 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)
2025-7-16 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)
2025-7-8 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

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