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Lawsuit Accuses a16z of Turning Roblox Into a School Shooter's Playground
The family of a dead teen girl said she'd still be alive if Roblox did a better job moderating its platform.
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'House of Dynamite' Is About the Zoom Call that Ends the World
The general who advised Netflix’s nuclear Armageddon movie doesn’t believe in abolishing nuclear weapons.
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Con Edison Refuses to Say How ICE Gets Its Customers’ Data
Court records show Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a part of ICE, and the FBI obtained Con Edison user data. The utility provider refuses to say whether law enforcement needs a warrant to access its data.
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Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia.
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AI Dataset for Detecting Nudity Contained Child Sexual Abuse Images
The Canadian Centre for Child Protection found more than 120 images of identified or known victims of CSAM in the dataset.
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a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.
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Apple Removes Women Dating Safety App from the App Store
The app, which went viral before facing multiple data breaches, is currently unavailable on the Apple App Store.
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The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds
When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting with the heat turned all the way up.
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Anthropic Promises Trump Admin Its AI Is Not Woke
After condemnation from Trump’s AI czar, Anthropic’s CEO promised its AI is not woke.
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Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials
The same hackers who doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, and FBI officials now say they have the personal data of tens of thousands of officials from the NSA, Air Force, Defense Intelligence Agency, and many other agencies.
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Creator of Infamous AI Painting Tells Court He's a Real Artist
"What if I could create Théâtre D’opéra Spatial as if it were physically created by hand? Not actually, of course."
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Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials, including nearly 700 from DHS.