Automatic license plate readers, Instagram captions, and fingerprints.#News
Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.#ClearviewAI #Clearview #FacialRecognition
Meta is preparing for the Australian election by working closely with the government and news outlets that Zuckerberg said were “clearly political” and dismissed in the US.#News
Instagram’s unwillingness to moderate AI-generated content finds a new low.#News
The sites an ICE contractor is pulling data from; why top scientists are considering leaving the U.S. for France, and why Super Nintendos are getting faster as they age.#Podcast
FOIA documents show how agencies dropped everything to comply with Trump order—and that FOIA is still sort of working.#FOIA
The site also has information on Tesla dealerships and members of DOGE. “At DOGEQUEST, we believe in empowering creative expressions of protest that you can execute from the comfort of your own home.”#News
"The conspiracies are funny, everyone is acting like not getting instant responses for complicated, broad searches is malice. A lot of it is just very unexciting."#JFK #archives #JFKAssassination #TuckerCarlson
The epic shark may have been a full 80 feet long with a slender build, according to new research.#TheAbstract
This week, we discuss companies' responses to being monitored by an ICE contractor, caring about the little things, weight loss drug ads, and how our SXSW shindig went.
This week, we discuss companiesx27; responses to being monitored by an ICE contractor, caring about the little things, weight loss drug ads, and how our SXSW shindig went.#BehindTheBlog
Behind the Blog: Company Comments and a Party Recap
This week, we discuss companies' responses to being monitored by an ICE contractor, caring about the little things, weight loss drug ads, and how our SXSW shindig went.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
Mahmoud Khalil, who ICE arrested on Saturday, and a group of other students from Columbia are suing the university to stop the release of disciplinary records.#News
Why is this speedrunner putting his Super Nintendo in the freezer? Science.#News
NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says#News
NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says
“We are witnessing a new brain drain.”Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
A company founded by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund just bought the most popular AR video game of all time.#PokemonGo
Internal Spotify communications viewed by 404 Media show Spotify’s own employees complaining about Andrew Tate’s course being available on the platform.#News #ContentModeration
404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it and draw connections between people.#News #Surveillance
We chat the lack of guardrails on China-based AI video models; how cops are using AI to summarize evidence from seized mobile phones; and the AI game that is making $50,000 a month.#Podcast
The oversight and investigative body of NASA spent $16,000 on the technology, 404 Media previously reported.#News
On Sunday Mahmoud Khalil’s wife was unable to find the protester at the New Jersey facility he was allegedly detained in. ICE’s system now says he is in Louisiana.#News
Scientists Made a ‘Woolly Mouse’ in Quest to Resurrect Mammoths#TheAbstract
Scientists Made a ‘Woolly Mouse’ in Quest to Resurrect Mammoths
They are cute, but are they mammoths? No. They are mice.Becky Ferreira (404 Media)
This week, we discuss a Supreme drop, a visit to a local Risograph printer, and what is up with Big Car.#BehindTheBlog
An example of AI attempting to summarizing nuanced reviewed of Hitler's Nazi manifesto turned into an example of algorithms eating themselves.
An example of AI attempting to summarizing nuanced reviewed of Hitlerx27;s Nazi manifesto turned into an example of algorithms eating themselves.#AI #Amazon #Google
Google and Amazon AI Say Hitler’s Mein Kampf Is ‘a True Work of Art’
An example of AI attempting to summarizing nuanced reviewed of Hitler's Nazi manifesto turned into an example of algorithms eating themselves.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
The program, called ‘safe place for science,’ offers American scientists funding to continue their research in France.#News
fly.pieter.com was initially made in just 30 minutes with AI tools and is now generating thousands of dollars a month. The future of AI-assisted game development will not be that simple.#News
The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.#archiving #cdc #DonaldTrump
We talk Cybertruck protests; IDs from Palau; and the big Instagram bug.#Podcast
The proliferation of AI through law enforcement tools already has civil liberties experts concerned. “When you have results from an AI, they are not transparent. Often you cannot trace back where a conclusion came from, or what information it is based on. AIs hallucinate," one said.#News #ArtificialIntelligence
A Facebook group for Cybertruck owners is full of videos of people flicking off Cybertrucks.#Cybertruck #TeslaProtest #Tesla #ElonMusk
U.S. traders are buying 'digital residency' in Palau to skirt restrictions on the amount of cryptocurrency they can withdraw and the exchanges they can use. Major exchanges have already banned the ID, fearing abuse.
U.S. traders are buying x27;digital residencyx27; in Palau to skirt restrictions on the amount of cryptocurrency they can withdraw and the exchanges they can use. Major exchanges have already banned the ID, fearing abuse.#Features
Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws
U.S. traders are buying 'digital residency' in Palau to skirt restrictions on the amount of cryptocurrency they can withdraw and the exchanges they can use. Major exchanges have already banned the ID, fearing abuse.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
He was hanging out in an ancient Roman port town 2,000 years ago, when something struck him (a deadly volcanic eruption).#TheAbstract
This week, we discuss stunt blogging, Signal pains, and murderous Reels.#BehindTheBlog
DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too.
DRM and big techx27;s war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too.#Streaming #DataHoarding
The Digital Packrat Manifesto
DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too.Janus Rose (404 Media)
It took about 24 hours for Alibaba’s Wan 2.1 to become popular in the AI porn community.#News
“Today’s algorithm showed me around 70 murders, 100+ accidents, and around 115 violence videos, is anyone on Instagram noticing it?”#Instagram #ContentModeration
A court document reviewed by 404 Media says Cameron John Wagenius also searched for “U.S. military personnel defecting to Russia.”#News