Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman Then Refused to Look at Evidence That Exonerated Her, Body Camera Shows
A police officer in Colorado used evidence from Flock cameras to wrongfully accuse an innocent woman for package theft, then […]
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Podcast: The ICE Tool That Tracks Entire Neighborhoods
We start this week with Joseph’s article about Webloc, a tool ICE bought that can monitor phones in entire neighborhoods.
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Roblox’s AI-Powered Age Verification Is a Complete Mess
Kids are being identified as adults—and vice versa—on Roblox, while age-verified accounts are already being sold online.
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Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities With Sex Scandals
AI generated influencers are sharing fake images on Instagram that appear to show them having sex with celebrities like LeBron
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Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error
A handful of police departments that use Flock have unwittingly leaked details of millions of surveillance targets and a large
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Reid Hoffman Wants Silicon Valley to ‘Stand Up’ Against the Trump Administration
The LinkedIn cofounder and frequent Trump target has a simple message for his peers: “Just speak up about the things
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How Benn Jordan Discovered Flock’s Cameras Were Left Streaming to the Internet
On the podcast this week, I talked to YouTuber Benn Jordan, who has done some of our favorite reporting on
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‘Shame Thrives in Seclusion:’ How AI Porn Chatbots Isolate Us All
Noelle Perdue recently joined us on the 404 Media podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about AI porn, censorship, age verification
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‘Gifted’ Dogs Learn Human Language, Study Finds
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that lurked in the dark, pulsated with light, wagged
OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents
To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it