Flock
Wildlife Conservation Police Are Searching Thousands of Flock Cameras for ICE
Ron DeSantis has empowered hundreds of Florida conservation police to work directly with ICE.
News
Multiple Hackers Warned Anti-Porn App Quittr About Security Issue for Months
At least three different people notified the popular app that wants to help men stop watching porn that it was jeopardizing user data.
age verification
Wisconsinites Can Keep Watching Porn After Governor Vetoes Age Verification Bill
“I am vetoing this bill in its entirety because I object to this bill's intrusion into the personal privacy of Wisconsin residents,” Governor Tony Evers wrote.
Flock
Wildlife Conservation Police Are Searching Thousands of Flock Cameras for ICE
Ron DeSantis has empowered hundreds of Florida conservation police to work directly with ICE.
The Abstract
Gambling Is Thousands of Years Older Than We Thought, Rewriting Human Evolution
Native Americans were playing dice and other games of chance many millennia before any known cultures elsewhere.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Systems As Designed
This week, we discuss crypto, journalists using AI, and a cool photo of Earth.
News
Journalist Sues FAA Over Drone No Fly Zone Designed to Prevent Filming ICE
A Minnesota journalist is challenging a 3,000 foot restriction on flying near DHS assets on First Amendment grounds.
nasa
Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work
In space, no one can hear you scream at Microsoft’s legacy software.
Privacy
A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’
TeleGuard is an app downloaded more a million times that markets itself as a secure way to chat. The app uploads users’ private keys to the company’s server, and makes decryption of messages trivial.
The Abstract
Scientists Create Plant That Produces Ayahuasca, Shrooms, and Toad Psychedelics All At Once
The proof-of-concept system produces psilocybin, DMT, and other compounds in leaves of the tobacco plant, potentially easing pressure on wild species and preserving Indigenous traditions.
porn
I Tried to Find the ‘Arousal Intelligence’ In An Animated, Augmented Reality Porn Star
I spent some time with a new browser-based augmented reality porn app.
Podcast
Podcast: Inside the AI Slop Propaganda Wars
Iran's AI and LEGO-focused propaganda; drama in the world of baseball; and perhaps one of the worst sex apps ever.
AI
‘BLOCKADE’: The Right Is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning
Groups that challenge books have begun using Gemini, ChatGPT, xAI, and other AI tools to try to get books banned.