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“The internet is a dangerous place for children, rife with sexual material that is harmful to minors," the Republican lawmakers wrote. "The ease of access to this material is downright scary."#ageverification


Employees at Elon Musk's agency have been told "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now."

Employees at Elon Muskx27;s agency have been told "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now."#DOGE #ElonMusk



Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.#organizing #Socialmedia #ElonMusk #DonaldTrump


We talk all about Musk's takeover of the federal government, including audio of a meeting we got touching a Musk ally's AI plans. Then, AI slop in libraries.

We talk all about Muskx27;s takeover of the federal government, including audio of a meeting we got touching a Musk allyx27;s AI plans. Then, AI slop in libraries.#Podcast



404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves is an “illegal task.”#News
#News



A 404 Media reader made a PDF version of the World War II-era manual that's going viral right now.

A 404 Media reader made a PDF version of the World War II-era manual thatx27;s going viral right now.#opensource




According to the language of the proposed bill, people who download AI models from China could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both.#News
#News



Anthropic, the developer of the conversational AI assistant Claude, doesn’t want prospective new hires using AI assistants in their applications, regardless of whether they’re in marketing or engineering.#AI #chatbots #jobs


The Air Force paid a company that is doing generative AI work for the government. The Air Force won't say what it did, though.

The Air Force paid a company that is doing generative AI work for the government. The Air Force wonx27;t say what it did, though.#FOIA

#FOIA #x27





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 AI's boom or bust, trying Github's Copilot, and making time for good ideas.

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 AIx27;s boom or bust, trying Githubx27;s Copilot, and making time for good ideas.#BehindTheBlog



The pleas mean that “Afgoo,” the person who provided the FBI with the backdoored encrypted phone company in the first place, likely won’t have to testify and have their identity revealed in court.#News
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Dario Amodei argues we must limit China’s access to AI chips so we can live under all powerful American-owned AI as opposed to all powerful Chinese-owned AI.#News
#News


OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.

OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone elsex27;s data without permission or compensation.#OpenAI #DeepSeek



We talk all about DeepSeek, the U.S. government memo metadata, and how GitHub is showing the U.S. government's transformation in real time.

We talk all about DeepSeek, the U.S. government memo metadata, and how GitHub is showing the U.S. governmentx27;s transformation in real time.#Podcast





Hackers behind the breach of “nearly all” of AT&T customers’ metadata searched for records associated with members of the Trump family, Kamala Harris, and Marco Rubio’s wife.#News #Hacking


In a slate of several bills restricting reproductive rights and divorce, Oklahoma senator Dusty Deevers suggests anyone making anything even vaguely pornographic should go to jail.#porn
#porn



In this special interview episode of the 404 Media Podcast, Sam talks to Alexzandra Kekesi, VP of Brand and Community at Pornhub, about age verification laws and what she's hearing from adult performers.

In this special interview episode of the 404 Media Podcast, Sam talks to Alexzandra Kekesi, VP of Brand and Community at Pornhub, about age verification laws and what shex27;s hearing from adult performers.#Podcast




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 Nazis celebrating Elon Musk’s salute, Zuckerberg as a kook, dictating your own threat model and a good block/mute ethos.#BehindTheBlog


Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.

Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agencyx27;s GitHub page.#Github #DonaldTrump #Trumpadministration




"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."#AI #AIbots #Robotstxt


"Challah Horse" was a Polish meme warning about Facebook AI spam 'targeted at susceptible people' that was stolen by a spam page targeted at susceptible people.

"Challah Horse" was a Polish meme warning about Facebook AI spam x27;targeted at susceptible peoplex27; that was stolen by a spam page targeted at susceptible people.#AISpam #Facebook #MarkZuckerberg #AISlop #FacebookSpam



Zuckerberg 'Loves' AI Slop Image From Spam Account That Posts Amputated Children#AISlop #AISpam #Facebook


Dozens of big subreddits have already banned all Twitter links, and posts about potential bans are some of the most popular on the site.#Reddit #X #Twitter


When TikTok returned after being pulled from the U.S., hours before President Trump’s inauguration, users reported “free palestine” comments were being instantly removed.#TikTok #TikTokBan #Palestine