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![DeepSeek Mania Shakes AI Industry to Its Core](/content/images/size/w1000/2025/01/CleanShot-2025-01-27-at-08.38.20@2x.png)
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DeepSeek Mania Shakes AI Industry to Its Core
Why a relatively unknown Chinese-developed AI model has turned the AI industry on its head.
![Facebook Says It’s Not Forcing You to Follow Trump](https://www.404media.co/assets/images/img-placeholder-md.jpg?v=5a17c261fa)
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Facebook Says It’s Not Forcing You to Follow Trump
Some Facebook users were shocked to see Trump in their feeds yesterday, but that’s likely because they were already following official administration accounts.
![Cloudflare Issue Can Leak Chat App Users' Broad Location](/content/images/size/w1000/2025/01/cloudflare-issue.png)
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Cloudflare Issue Can Leak Chat App Users' Broad Location
A security researcher made a tool that let them quickly check which of Cloudflare's data centers had cached an image, which allowed them to figure out what city a Discord, Signal, or Twitter/X user might be in.
![The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds](/content/images/size/w1000/2025/01/geospy.jpg)
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The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds
For months members of the public have been using GeoSpy, a tool trained on millions of images that can find the location a photo was taken based on soil, architecture, and more. It's GeoGuesser at scale.
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The Moon Got Obliterated and Lost a Bunch of Craters
That’s my secret Captain…I’m always traumatized.
![Meta Is Laying the Narrative Groundwork for Trump’s Mass Deportations](/content/images/size/w1000/2025/01/50432256648_53e6c6da62_c.jpg)
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Meta Is Laying the Narrative Groundwork for Trump’s Mass Deportations
Multiple experts drew comparisons between Meta's recent changes around immigration and what happened in Myanmar in 2017, where Facebook contributed to a genocide by allowing the spread of hate.
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Why This OnlyFans Model Posts Machine Learning Explainers to Pornhub
Justice Alito should watch this Pornhub video about calculus.
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Instagram Ads Send This Nudify Site 90 Percent of Its Traffic
A service for creating AI-generated nude images of real people is running circles around Meta’s moderation efforts.
![CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don’t Like Making Music](/content/images/size/w1000/2025/01/suno.jpg)
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CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don’t Like Making Music
"I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music.”
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Hacker Broke into ‘Path of Exile 2’ Admin Account, Hijacked Wave of Characters
The forums for Path of Exile 2 have been awash with people claiming they’ve been hacked and their inventories emptied of valuable items. Now there’s an explanation for at least dozens of the account compromises.
![Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location](/content/images/size/w1000/2025/01/andrew-guan-lTUyP3RaLpw-unsplash.jpg)
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Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.
![Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship](https://www.404media.co/assets/images/img-placeholder-md.jpg?v=5a17c261fa)
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Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship
Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users.