Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Engaging the Public
This week, we discuss crowdsourced resistance and a big government data dump.
The Abstract
Scientists Discover Rogue Star-Eating Black Hole Far From Home
A massive black hole feasting on a star outside of a galactic nucleus was observed in bright radio waves for the first time.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Engaging the Public
This week, we discuss crowdsourced resistance and a big government data dump.
News
Creator of Infamous AI Painting Tells Court He's a Real Artist
"What if I could create Théâtre D’opéra Spatial as if it were physically created by hand? Not actually, of course."
News
Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials, including nearly 700 from DHS.
News
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
News
Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin
AI-generated Reddit Answers are giving bad advice in medical subreddits and moderators can’t opt out.
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GirlsDoPorn Victims Sue Major Payment Processors, Claiming They Enabled Sex Trafficking
The plaintiffs claim that without the payment processors, which include CCBill, Epoch, and several others that process "high-risk" merchant payments, GirlsDoPorn would not have been a commercial enterprise to begin with.
News
Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles
Videos demoing one of the sites have repeatedly gone viral on TikTok and other platforms recently. 404 Media verified they can locate specific peoples' Tinder profiles using their photo, and found that the viral videos are produced by paid creators.
News
ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras
Flock has built a nationwide surveillance network of AI-powered cameras and given many more federal agencies access. Senator Ron Wyden told Flock “abuses of your product are not only likely but inevitable” and Flock “is unable and uninterested in preventing them.”
Right to Repair
The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making
In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.
News
Senators Warn Saudi Arabia’s Acquisition of EA Will Be Used for ‘Foreign Influence’
‘The proposed transaction poses a number of significant foreign influence and national security risks.’
Podcast
Podcast: Meta Tells Workers to ‘Go 5x Faster’ with AI
Meta tells its metaverse workers to push harder with AI; the massive Discord breach; and what happened when AI came for craft beer.