Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps ( www.404media.co )
Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' ( www.404media.co )
A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users’ Messages ( www.404media.co )
An online service is scraping Discord servers en masse, archiving and tracking users’ messages and activity across servers including what voice channels they join, and then selling access to that data for as little as $5. Called Spy Pet, the service’s creator says it scrapes more than ten thousand Discord servers, and...
Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability ( www.404media.co )
Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability ( www.404media.co )
The Xz Backdoor Highlights the Vulnerability of Open Source Software—and Its Strengths ( www.404media.co )
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‘Young Indian Method’ Teaches TikTok Spammers How to Hire and Control 'Third World Country Workers' ( www.404media.co )
A Small Steam Game Shows How LLMs Could Kill the Dialogue Tree (re: Verbal Verdict demo) ( www.404media.co )
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Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools ( www.404media.co )
this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had...
Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base' ( www.404media.co )
Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early...
Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance ( www.404media.co )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406...
Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance ( www.404media.co )
Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!
This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time ( www.404media.co )
"I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build," the founder of Stract said.
This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time ( www.404media.co )
"I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build," the founder of Stract said.
Why 404 Media Needs Your Email Address ( www.404media.co )
AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.
Inside a Global Phone Spy Tool Monitoring Billions ( www.404media.co )
Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find ( www.404media.co )
Are Phones and Smart Speakers Listening to You? Cox Media Group Claims They Can | Cord Cutters News ( www.404media.co )
Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of ‘Suspected’ Child Sexual Abuse Material ( www.404media.co )
Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life’ ( www.404media.co )
“Verizon royally fucked up,” Poppy told me in a phone call. “There’s no way around it.” Verizon, she added, was “100% at fault.”...
Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real ( www.404media.co )
Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them ( www.404media.co )
Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them ( www.404media.co )
In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is...
Verizon Gave Phone Data to Armed Stalker Who Posed as Cop Over Email ( www.404media.co )
The FBI investigated a man who allegedly posed as a police officer in emails and phone calls to trick Verizon to hand over phone data belonging to a specific person...