Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Feeling Smart Along the Way
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss cheating in job interviews, "scary good" surveillance tech, and prudes in payment processing.
News
Tesla Owner Doxing Site ‘Dogequest’ Relaunches on Dark Web
Last week 404 Media reported a website called ‘Dogequest’ was doxing Tesla owners. The site administrators appear to have launched a clone of the interactive map on the dark web too.
News
Mozilla Foundation Calls on Tech Industry to Block ICE Contractor
The Mozilla Foundation says 30 companies should block web scrapers from ShadowDragon, an ICE contractor.
The Abstract
What’s in Your Head? A Plastic Spoon and Lost Baby Memories
This week, we journey into the human brain and find some disturbing stuff in there.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Vile Media and Fine Sciences
This week, we discuss doxed Teslas, the concept of "amplification," and how we'd much rather be looking at cooking videos than all this mess.
News
How Three Alleged Tesla Vandals Got Caught
Automatic license plate readers, Instagram captions, and fingerprints.
Clearview AI
Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.
News
Meta Promises to Fight Misinformation in Australia With Same Strategy It Killed in the U.S. to Appease Trump
Meta is preparing for the Australian election by working closely with the government and news outlets that Zuckerberg said were “clearly political” and dismissed in the US.
News
People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes
Instagram’s unwillingness to moderate AI-generated content finds a new low.
Podcast
Podcast: The Websites an ICE Contractor is Monitoring
The sites an ICE contractor is pulling data from; why top scientists are considering leaving the U.S. for France, and why Super Nintendos are getting faster as they age.
FOIA
Public Records Reveal How Agencies Complied With Trump's Anti-Trans Order
FOIA documents show how agencies dropped everything to comply with Trump order—and that FOIA is still sort of working.
News
‘Dogequest’ Site Claims to Dox Tesla Owners Across the U.S.
The site also has information on Tesla dealerships and members of DOGE. “At DOGEQUEST, we believe in empowering creative expressions of protest that you can execute from the comfort of your own home.”
JFK
Why All of the JFK Assassination Documents Haven’t Been Released Yet
"The conspiracies are funny, everyone is acting like not getting instant responses for complicated, broad searches is malice. A lot of it is just very unexciting."