Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Chat, Are We Cooked?
This week, we discuss Palantir scoops, coping mechanisms, and feeling God in this Samsung television.
Podcast
Podcast: Signal's President Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AI
We speak to Meredith Whittaker about the threat posed by AI to end-to-end encryption, what backdoors actually look like, and much more in this special interview episode.
FOIA Forum
Here's the Video for Our Fourth FOIA Forum: PACER with Seamus Hughes
PACER expert Seamus Hughes shows us how to dig up interesting court cases and so much more.
AI
AI Music Generator Suno Admits It Was Trained on ‘Essentially All Music Files on the Internet’
"Suno’s training data includes essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open internet."
Rabbit
Rabbit Says Breach 'Not Caused by a Breach,' Is Fault of Malicious Employee, 'Hacktivists,' Journalists
The AI assistant company is blaming everything but its own security practices for a June security breach.
News
Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit
Reddit says that it doesn’t want companies scraping the site for AI. Microsoft says it’s not doing that.
News
AI Companion Device Releases Diss Track Against ‘Friend’
The maker of Friend said he had “no relation” to the person who released the diss track.
Court Watch
DHS Cracks Large-Scale Apple Counterfeiting ‘Refund Fraud’ Ring
A traffic stop in Alabama led to the discovery of a large-scale counterfeiting ring.
Scammer Allegedly Makes $600,000 a Month Holding Instagram Accounts Hostage
The case of Unlocked4Life, who outed himself on Adam-22's No Jumper podcast, shows how Instagram account scammers have escalated to violence and intimidation too.
Podcast
Podcast: Google, Reddit, and the Robots.txt Rebellion
We go long on robots.txt, AI scraping, and what it means for search and the web today. Also, a leaked document shows a multibillion dollar AI company scraped YouTube videos from specific creators, and we discuss Skibidi.
Podcast
Podcast: The Massive Nvidia Leak
A leak of Nvidia internal emails, Slack messages, and documents; how exactly spammers are flooding Facebook with AI; and our plans for DEF CON.
News
AI ‘Friend’ Company Spent $1.8 Million and Most of Its Funds on Domain Name
AI companion Friend appears to have spent most of its funds on buying friend.com.
News
Hacker Breaches Pharma Giant Bausch Health, Wants to Extort DEA
The data includes DEA numbers used for ordering controlled substances. 404 Media contacted Bausch about the data breach last week.