FOIA
'FYI Pickleball DRAMA': Local Governments Overwhelmed By Tennis-Pickleball Turf Wars, Documents Show
What I learned about the pickleball lobby and pickleball turf wars by reading thousands of pages of documents from inside local government.
FOIA
Our Second FOIA Forum! 11/30, 1PM EST
We are hosting our second FOIA Forum at the end of November. Join the livestream, file FOIAs with us, get tips, and more.
News
A Massive Repair Lawsuit Against John Deere Clears a Major Hurdle
The class-action antitrust suit is one of the biggest challenges to Deere's tractor repair monopoly.
Artificial Intelligence
Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data
ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more.
Programming
Male Tech Conference Founder Is Behind Popular Woman Coding Influencer Account
IP logs show that accounts for Coding Unicorn, a female tech influencer who's built a following based on her coding advice and Instagram influencer posts, are run by a male developer and conference organizer.
Privacy
Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family
"I can see that one of my friends is apparently watching a ton of cheesy, soft porn stuff," a user said of Plex's Week in Review email and Discover Together feature.
Gadgets
New Kodak Super 8 Film Camera Thought to Be Vaporware Is Actually Coming Out, Costs $5,495, Charges With MicroUSB
A new hybrid film-digital movie camera for a format invented in 1965 is actually coming. It's very weird, and very expensive.
repair
Consumer Rights Groups Petition Government to Create Formal Rules Protecting Right to Repair
The FTC and Biden have repeatedly argued repair monopolies are illegal. So why haven't they created formal regulations protecting right to repair?
OpenAI
OpenAI Announces Sam Altman Is Returning as CEO With a 'New Board'
OpenAI has replaced almost all of the members of the board that fired former and now-current CEO Sam Altman.
OpenAI
CEO Reminds Everyone His Company Collects Customers' Sleep Data to Make Zeitgeisty Point About OpenAI Drama
The Eight Sleep pod is a mattress topper with a terms of service and a privacy policy. The company "may share or sell" the sleep data it collects from its users.
Adblock
YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users
Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."
AI
New OpenAI CEO Was a Character in a Harry Potter Fanfic That's Wildly Popular With Effective Altruists
OpenAI interim CEO Emmett Shear says he believes there is a 5-50 percent chance of AI-induced apocalypse.