Piracy
Major Private Music Torrenting Site Suffers ‘Massive Peer Scraping Attack’
Orpheus Network tells users: "With great displeasure we need to inform you that a malicious actor has successfully carried out a massive peer scraping attack on our tracker."
Generative AI
Project Analyzing Human Language Usage Shuts Down Because ‘Generative AI Has Polluted the Data’
Wordfreq shuts down because "I don’t think anyone has reliable information about post-2021 language usage by humans.”
Starship
Delivery Robot Knocked Over Pedestrian, Company Offered ‘Promo Codes’ to Apologize
When a Starship employee talked to the police, the report says, he asked for the employee’s information “so he could contact her and offer their insurance information for her injuries and ‘promo codes.’”
Lebanon
Experts: Lebanon Pager Explosions Likely Not Lithium Batteries Alone
Lithium-ion battery fires are dangerous, but small batteries alone don't usually cause this much damage.
Oracle
Larry Ellison's AI-Powered Surveillance Dystopia Is Already Here
"Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on."
Stalker Allegedly Created AI Chatbot on NSFW Platform to Dox and Harass Woman
"If another user interacting with the chatbot asked the ‘Victim’ where she lived, the chatbot could provide the Victim’s true home address followed by ‘Why don’t you come over?'"
Internet Mysteries
'Celebrity Number Six' Internet Mystery Is Solved
Spanish model Leticia Sardá is Celebrity Number Six.
DIY
‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has made DIY medicine cheaper and more accessible to the masses.
LobbyMatic
Big Tech ‘Clients’ of Jacob Wohl’s Secret AI Lobbying Firm Say They've Never Heard of It
Pfizer, Microsoft, Palantir, Home Depot, and Lockheed Martin were all shown as "clients" of LobbyMatic. All of them say they haven't worked with the company.
Telegram
Podcast: Is the Arrest of Telegram Founder Pavel Durov an Attack on Encryption?
The 404 Media podcast discusses France's crackdown on Telegram.
Car Repair
Appliance and Tractor Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair
The U.S. military deals with the same repair monopolies consumers do.