Noelle and Sam discuss everything from sexbots and AI porn to censorship, age verification legislation, and their favorite parody porn flicks.

We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.

The Department of Justice demanded Apple remove ICEBlock, which reports sightings of ICE officials, from its App Store. Now the creator is suing, saying the demand violated his First Amendment rights.

Scientists found sugars that are essential for life on asteroid Bennu, which has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting Earth in 2182.

This week, we discuss PC woes, voice deepfakes, and mutual aid.

The app, called Mobile Identify, was launched in November, and lets local cops use facial recognition to hunt immigrants on behalf of ICE. It is unclear if the removal is temporary or not.

Gives new meaning to the 'internet of shit.'

AI models can meaningfully sway voters on candidates and issues, including by using misinformation, and they are also evading detection in public surveys according to three new studies.

A presentation at the International Atomic Energy Agency unveiled Big Tech’s vision of an AI and nuclear fueled future.

A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work and relocate from their homes.

Something very strange is happening on Apple Podcasts; someone seemingly changed a map of the Ukraine war in connection with a betting site; and now half of the U.S. requires a face or ID scan to watch porn.

Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.

Missouri’s age verification law, enacted on November 30, is the halfway mark for the sweep of age verification laws across the country. 

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It looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets.

Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.

Joseph talks to a former FBI official about how the FBI secretly ran an encrypted phone for organized criminals, sweeping up tens of millions of messages.

Scientists found that major celebrities died four years earlier than their less famous peers, hinting that fame itself can be a mortality risk.

For months Apple Podcasts has been randomly opening spirituality and religion podcasts by itself, and one case directing listeners to a potentially malicious website.

“It was like playing the lottery,” said astronomer Tomonori Totani, adding that he hopes other scientists will verify the possible detection of a new dark matter signature.

Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.

A breach shows people are making AI porn of ordinary people at scale; X exposes the location of its biggest MAGA grifters; and how we contributed to the shut down of a warrantless surveillance program.

‘I’ll find you again, the only thing that doesn’t cross paths are mountains.’ In a game about loot, robots, and betrayal, all a raider has is their personal reputation. This site catalogues it.

Here is the archived video of our FOIA Forum about how to do reporting on Flock.

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The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.

The remains of Theia are scattered deep inside the Earth and its satellite. By analyzing these remnants, scientists have proposed an origin.

This week, we discuss how data is accessed, AI in games, and more.

A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.