FOIA
We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything
Paragon's software is capable of remotely breaking into phones and accessing messages from encrypted messaging apps. Our lawsuit aims to pry records about it from ICE.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Dangerous Memes
This week, we discuss controversial memes, good times at Meta, and more.
The Abstract
The U.S. Military Quietly Turned GPS Into a Global ‘Numbers Station,’ Evidence Suggests
A random sequence in an innocuous GPS message field is likely encrypted traffic from the U.S. military's system for remotely updating cryptographic keys around the world.
Deepfakes
K-pop Fans Are Calling Out Creepy Deepfakes of Idols
With some fans making sexualized AI-generated images and videos of idols, the rest of the fandom is standing up against the behavior.
Microsoft
Satya Nadella ‘Not Sure’ Who Said Microsoft Wanted to Make Addictive AI, Is Looking for Guy Who Did This
Microsoft's CEO seems unaware of what's going on at his own company.
LEGO
I Must Attempt to Explain the LEGO Scandal Rocking YouTube, Entire State of Utah
The Bricks & Minifigs / Reckless Ben beef is breaking containment and can no longer be ignored.
Impact
Immigrant Rights Lawyers File Lawsuit Over Palantir’s ELITE
Just Futures Law is seeking a wealth of documents related to the tech Palantir provides to ICE.
AI
Watch These Judges Rip Into Lawyers For Citing Cases That Don't Exist
“It's striking, concerning, disappointing, and saddening to think that members of the bar would forward cases to a court that don't exist, and to think that the lawyers on the other side of that didn’t read it for whatever reason, didn’t check it.”
News
Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks
Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code say the AI they’re using is overhyped.
Right to Repair
Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor
"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."
Podcast
Podcast: Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked
The insane Meta AI hack; Amazon's internal AI leaderboard; and our lawsuit against ICE.
Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.
AI
Google Is Quietly Buying Code From Play Store Developers to Train AI
Google is trying to buy code from some Android developers as part of a "confidential" program.