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If you got an email containing your address and a PDF with a photo of your street, don't freak out: it's a fake sextortion scheme.

If you got an email containing your address and a PDF with a photo of your street, donx27;t freak out: itx27;s a fake sextortion scheme.#News

Sextortion Scammers Try to Scare People by Sending Photos of Their Homes

If you got an email containing your address and a PDF with a photo of your street, don't freak out: it's a fake sextortion scheme.

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

#News #x27

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Pfizer, Microsoft, Palantir, Home Depot, and Lockheed Martin were all shown as "clients" of LobbyMatic. All of them say they haven't worked with the company.

Pfizer, Microsoft, Palantir, Home Depot, and Lockheed Martin were all shown as "clients" of LobbyMatic. All of them say they havenx27;t worked with the company.#LobbyMatic #JacobWohl #AIImages #AI #AILobbying

Big Tech ‘Clients’ of Jacob Wohl’s Secret AI Lobbying Firm Say They've Never Heard of It

Pfizer, Microsoft, Palantir, Home Depot, and Lockheed Martin were all shown as "clients" of LobbyMatic. All of them say they haven't worked with the company.

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

#ai #x27 #AIimages #LobbyMatic #JacobWohl #AILobbying

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The organization that runs National Novel Writing Month, a November challenge to write 50,000 words, said "the categorical condemnation of Artificial Intelligence has classist and ableist undertones."#News #AI #nanowrimo

NaNoWriMo Says Condemning AI Is ‘Classist and Ableist’

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

#ai #News #nanowrimo

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Here’s 22 Examples of Google Employees Trying to Avoid Creating Evidence in Antitrust Case#Google #Antitrust

Here’s 22 Examples of Google Employees Trying to Avoid Creating Evidence in Antitrust Case

"pls turn off history"

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

#Google #antitrust

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LAION-5B is back, with thousands of links removed after research last year that showed it contained instances of abusive content. #News #AI #csam

Massive AI Dataset Back Online After Being ‘Cleaned’ of Child Sexual Abuse Material

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

#ai #CSAM #News

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This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss generative AI in gaming, getting into sports events, and good laptops.#BehindTheBlog

Behind the Blog: Bobbleheads and Maxed-Out Gaming

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#BehindTheBlog

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Apple’s Huge “Dual Use” Face Swap App Problem Is Not Going Away#News

Apple’s Huge “Dual Use” Face Swap App Problem Is Not Going Away

Maybe Apple should ban face swapping apps entirely.

^{Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)}

#News

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Podcast: Is the Arrest of Telegram Founder Pavel Durov an Attack on Encryption?#Telegram

Podcast: Is the Arrest of Telegram Founder Pavel Durov an Attack on Encryption?

The 404 Media podcast discusses France's crackdown on Telegram.

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

#telegram

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GameNGen is an interesting proof-of-concept for a diffusion model-based “game engine.”#News

This Is Doom Running on a Diffusion Model

^{Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)}

#News

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Appliance and Tractor Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair#CarRepair #RighttoRepair #repair #military

Appliance and Tractor Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair

The U.S. military deals with the same repair monopolies consumers do.

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

#righttorepair #military #repair #carrepair

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A new survey attempts to quantify just how common it is for minors to AI-generate nudes of other minors.#News

1 in 10 Minors Say Their Friends Use AI to Generate Nudes of Other Kids, Survey Finds

^{Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)}

#News

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How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr

Conservatives have spent months championing Telegram as an app that more closely aligns with their values than Signal.#Telegram #PavelDurov

How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

#telegram #paveldurov

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The Kindle book has been taken down by Amazon but the authorx27;s childrenx27;s books remain up.#CourtWatch #Amazon

FBI Uses January 6 Rioter’s Self-Published Amazon Book as Evidence Against Him

The Kindle book has been taken down by Amazon but the author's children's books remain up.

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

#Amazon #x27 #CourtWatch

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404 Media previously reported Cox Media Group (CMG) was advertising a service that claimed to target ads based on what potential customers said near device microphones. Now, here is the pitch deck CMG sent to prospective companies.#News

Here’s the Pitch Deck for ‘Active Listening’ Ad Targeting

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

#News

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Joseph went to DEF CON to talk to hackers on location. AI, hacking biology, and community all came up.#Podcast

Podcast: A Whirlwind Tour of DEF CON

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

#Podcast

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This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss running 404 Media for a whole year, public speaking, and meetings.#BehindTheBlog

Behind the Blog: Skipping Meetings and Calming Nerves

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

#BehindTheBlog

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In August 2023, we launched 404 Media with a novel idea: pay journalists to do journalism. Here we are, a year later.#Announcements

What We Learned In Our First Year of 404 Media

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

#Announcements

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European cops hacked the encrypted phone provider Sky in 2021. More and more cases in the U.S. are using that mass of collected messages.#News #Hacking #Privacy

US Feds Are Tapping a Half-Billion Encrypted Messaging Goldmine

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

#privacy #News #hacking

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"We now not only know the person that bought the ticket, but we’re going to know those three people that you are taking to the show, which we have not known historically."#Ticketmaster #TicketScalping #TicketBrokers

Ticketmaster Used Revolving Barcodes to Control Ticket Resale Market and Surveil Customers, DOJ Alleges

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

#ticketmaster #TicketScalping #TicketBrokers

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We break down how Taylor Swift could sue Donald Trump for a fake, AI-generated endorsement of the presidential candidate; how the U.S. is tapping an intelligence goldmine of encrypted chats; and how we approach generating impact with our journalism.#Podcast

Podcast: How Taylor Swift Could Sue Trump for AI Images

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

#Podcast

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Shein, notorious for being accused of copyright infringement by small artists and big brands alike, is suing its competitor Temu for... copyright infringement.#copyright #shein #temu

Shein Is Suing Temu For Copyright Infringement

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

#copyright #Shein #temu

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Donald Trump accepted fake endorsements from AI-generated versions of Taylor Swift and her fans. Under a recently-enacted Tennessee law, the AI-generated images could be illegal.#AI #truthsocial #Twitter #Deepfakes

Swift Could Sue Trump Under State Law for Fake AI Endorsement

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

#twitter #ai #deepfakes #truthsocial

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After ransomware struck the strip, Vegas is more cautious and paranoid about hackers than ever, with businesses and casinos sending a clear message: hackers are not welcome here.#Features #hackers

The Golden Age of Hackers in Vegas Is Over

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

#hackers #features

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David Millette, a YouTube creator, filed a class action lawsuit against Nvidia citing “unjust enrichment and unfair competition” for how the company built its training data for the “Cosmos” project video model.#nvidia #AI #AIScraping #YouTube

Nvidia Sued for Scraping YouTube After 404 Media Investigation

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

#ai #YouTube #nvidia #aiscraping

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This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss LLMs and languages, and a big data breach.#BehindTheBlog

Behind the Blog: Lost in Translation

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#BehindTheBlog

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The popular flight tracking website informed users that it inadvertently exposed user data, including names, physical addresses, aircraft owned, pilot status, and flights tracked.#News

FlightAware Exposed Pilots’ and Users’ Info

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

#News

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A set of credentials related to the GPS tracking company Trackimo let a hacker access an internal troubleshooting tool and retrieve customers’ recent locations.#News #Hacking

Hacker Breaks Into GPS Tracker Tool, Looks Up User Locations

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

#News #hacking

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Sam has a new narrative feature all about the hunt for Michael Pratt.#Podcast

Podcast: The OSINT Hunt for a Sex Trafficking Ringleader

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

#Podcast

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Inside the FBI's Dashboard for Wiretapping the World

Never-before-published screenshots of an internal FBI tool show how the agency monitored millions of messages from the secretly backdoored messaging app Anom.#News #Hacking

Inside the FBI's Dashboard for Wiretapping the World

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

#News #hacking

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'She Turned Ghost White:' How a Ragtag Group of Friends Tracked Down a Sex Trafficking Ringleader

Michael Pratt hid a massive sex trafficking ring in plain sight on PornHub. On the run from the FBI, an unexpected crew of ex-military, ex-intelligence officers and a lawyer tracked him down using his love of rare sneakers and crypto.#girlsdoporn

'She Turned Ghost White:' How a Ragtag Group of Friends Tracked Down a Sex Trafficking Ringleader

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

#girlsdoporn

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Neal Agarwalx27;s eyes-only video chat sets you up with a strangerx27;s eyes only.#fun #videochatting

I Gazed Lovingly Into Strangers’ Eyes on ‘Eyechat’

Neal Agarwal's eyes-only video chat sets you up with a stranger's eyes only.

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

#fun #x27 #videochatting

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Thomas White ran the Silk Road 2.0 drug marketplace and was convicted of child abuse imagery-related crimes. He was also a co-founder of transparency activist organization Distributed Denial of Secrets.#News

Co-Founder of DDoSecrets Was Dark Web Drug Kingpin

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

#News

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Resorts World is searching rooms daily for hacker tools. 404 Media obtained the list of hunted items.#News #Hacking

Here are the Hacker Tools a DEF CON Hotel is Hunting For

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

#News #hacking

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Entropic Engineering, the small company that helped manufacture this year’s DEF CON badge, claims the conference organizers failed to pay for completed work. DEF CON says the company went well over budget.#defcon

DEF CON Badge Maker Pulled Off Stage Amid Claims of Non-Payment and Failed Work

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

#defcon

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This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss crushing and publishing stories and what goes into reporting on a leak.#BehindTheBlog

Behind the Blog: The Tasks In Front of Us

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

#BehindTheBlog

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Hackers are using false identities to book Airbnbs after being doxed and hunted by violent criminals.#News

‘Airbnb Hopping’: How Hunted Hackers Stay on the Run From Kidnappers

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

#News

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Two men face felony charges after allegedly losing an iPhone in the snow after a break-in at a post office.

Cops Used Facial Recognition on Lost iPhone Lock Screen to Find Post Office Robbers

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

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Google Search is providing promoted links to nonconsensual AI “undress” apps.#News

Google Search Includes Paid Promotion of “Nudify” Apps

^{Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)}

#News

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r/MonsterGirl members are tired of AI-generated slop in its subreddit.#News

Reddit Hentai Community Fights Over AI-Generated Monster Girls

^{Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)}

#News

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Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From

Facebook itself is paying creators in India, Vietnam, and the Philippines for bizarre AI spam that they are learning to make from YouTube influencers and guides sold on Telegram.#AI #Facebook #ArtificialIntelligence

Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

#facebook #ai #artificialintelligence

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