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FTC bans location data providers Gravy and subsidiary Venntel as well as Mobilewalla from using or selling data related to sensitive locations and more (www.404media.co)
1 day ago

Bluesky says it is up to outside orgs to respect user consent, after a Hugging Face employee published a dataset of 1M posts from Bluesky's API for ML research (www.404media.co)
7 days ago

X files an objection to including X accounts belonging or related to Infowars in the outlet's bankruptcy auction, arguing it has ownership of all X accounts (www.404media.co)
7 days ago

Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, retrieves “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1 (www.404media.co)
14 days ago IOS iPhone

Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a large geospatial model, or LGM, that can navigate the real world and power robots (www.404media.co)
15 days ago Robot

Secret Service Says You Agreed To Be Tracked With Location Data (www.404media.co)
22 days ago

A look at DeFlock, an open-source project that has crowdsourced the locations of 5,600+ automated license plate reader cameras globally from Flock and others (www.404media.co)
22 days ago

An indictment against two men suspected of hacking Snowflake clients, including AT&T, says the pair and their co-conspirators extorted at least 36 bitcoins (www.404media.co)
22 days ago Bitcoin AT&T

Experts say a new feature in iOS 18.1 causes iPhone to reboot after few days of inactivity, which improves security and has caused concern among law enforcement (www.404media.co)
25 days ago IOS iPhone

Elon Musk's PAC sends Republicans texts impersonating Kamala Harris without disclaimers, pushing policies Harris doesn't support, and ups its social ads spend (www.404media.co)
2024-10-30 Elon Musk Republican

Privacy advocates leak hours of footage of Locate X, a global, warrantless phone tracking tool made by Babel Street and used by US agencies like ICE and CBP (www.404media.co)
2024-10-23

A civil rights org claims in a lawsuit that a VA town violated 4A protections by installing Flock cameras, making it “impossible” for citizens to move untracked (www.404media.co)
2024-10-22

Sources: Matt Mullenweg offered another buyout offer to Automattic staff; Mullenweg appears to have redirected staff's Blind sign-up emails to himself (www.404media.co)
2024-10-18

Hobbyists post the code for Redbox kiosk software online, and tinkerers have been probing how it works, sometimes repurposing abandoned machines to run Doom (www.404media.co)
2024-10-17

Study: X acts quickly to remove AI-made nonconsensual nude images reported by users as a copyright violation but not if reported as nonconsensual intimate media (www.404media.co)
2024-10-9 AI

An era of politically motivated AI slop is here, exacerbating viral conspiracy theories and making a big impact after disasters, as in the US, Brazil, and Gaza (www.404media.co)
2024-10-9 AI Conspiracy Brazil

Two Harvard students demo using Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, PimEyes, and other tools to instantly identify strangers' names, phone numbers, addresses, and more (www.404media.co)
2024-10-3 Ban

Udemy uses opt-out windows, the first of which lasted three weeks and just ended, that its creators must use to prevent their videos from being used to train AI (www.404media.co)
2024-10-1 AI

LinkedIn confirms training its AI on user data by default, and says it is “making sure that those who have specific privacy preferences” can opt out (www.404media.co)
2024-9-19 LinkedIn AI

US court records: US agencies are increasingly accessing parts of the 500M encrypted message haul retrieved from the hack of encrypted phone company Sky in 2021 (www.404media.co)
2024-8-22

Shein sues Temu for copyright infringement, accusing the company of stealing trade secrets and masquerading “as a legitimate e-commerce ‘marketplace'” (www.404media.co)
2024-8-21

Thomas White, who served five years for administering Silk Road 2.0 and possessing images of CSAM, claims to have co-founded activism organization DDoSecrets (www.404media.co)
2024-8-12

Behind the YouTube influencers, WhatsApp and Telegram groups, and services like FewFeed fueling Facebook's problem of creators profiting off of viral “AI slop” (www.404media.co)
2024-8-7 Facebook AI YouTube WhatsApp

Sources: Nvidia scraped sources like Netflix and YouTube to train an unreleased foundational model; concerned staff were told they had full clearance to do so (www.404media.co)
2024-8-6 YouTube Netflix Nvidia

Rabbit says a June security breach was caused by an employee who leaked API keys and has since been terminated, and it has revoked and rotated those API keys (www.404media.co)
2024-8-2

Some popular sites like Condé Nast's and Reuters' have robots.txt files meant to block Anthropic's bots, but Anthropic has just made new bots with other names (www.404media.co)
2024-7-30 Robot

Source and doc: Runway scraped thousands of videos from YouTube creators and brands, including Disney and VICE News, to train its Gen-3 AI video generation tool (www.404media.co)
2024-7-26 AI YouTube

Reddit appears to be blocking search engines that don't rely on Google's indexing; Bing, DuckDuckGo, and others are not showing recent results from Reddit (www.404media.co)
2024-7-25 Google Reddit

The UK and US say they arrested a 17-year-old boy from Walsall, UK, suspected of being connected to the ransomware attack against MGM Resorts in 2023 (www.404media.co)
2024-7-20

Leaked docs show Cellebrite couldn't forcibly unlock any iPhone running iOS 17.4 or newer as of April 2024; most of the listed Android devices could be unlocked (www.404media.co)
2024-7-18 Android IOS iPhone

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