A massive black hole feasting on a star outside of a galactic nucleus was observed in bright radio waves for the first time.

This week, we discuss crowdsourced resistance and a big government data dump.

"What if I could create Théâtre D’opéra Spatial as if it were physically created by hand? Not actually, of course."

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.

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

AI-generated Reddit Answers are giving bad advice in medical subreddits and moderators can’t opt out.

The plaintiffs claim that without the payment processors, which include CCBill, Epoch, and several others that process "high-risk" merchant payments, GirlsDoPorn would not have been a commercial enterprise to begin with.

Videos demoing one of the sites have repeatedly gone viral on TikTok and other platforms recently. 404 Media verified they can locate specific peoples' Tinder profiles using their photo, and found that the viral videos are produced by paid creators.

Flock has built a nationwide surveillance network of AI-powered cameras and given many more federal agencies access. Senator Ron Wyden told Flock “abuses of your product are not only likely but inevitable” and Flock “is unable and uninterested in preventing them.”

In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.

Meta tells its metaverse workers to push harder with AI; the massive Discord breach; and what happened when AI came for craft beer.

‘The proposed transaction poses a number of significant foreign influence and national security risks.’

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck the bot. 

Say goodbye to the Guy Fawkes masks and hello to inflatable frogs and dinosaurs.

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion for sanctions. 

More than 10,000 images of signs, placards, quotes, photos and more are part of the crowdsourced effort from over 300 national park and monument sites around the U.S.

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of an appeals process in an attempt to get back his security clearance, the man told

A prominent beer competition introduced an AI-judging tool without warning. The judges and some members of the wider brewing industry were pissed.

The second Global Tipping Points Report warns that the world has crossed a key threshold as ocean heat devastates warm-water reefs.

Plus, when did claret get so good and why did Shackleton's ship Endurance sink? Historical updates aplenty.

This week, we discuss a ransomware gang, book bans, and infrastructure.

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive information online.

The open source project has been mirrored as a torrent file and represents one of the easiest ways to navigate a messy data dump.

The vast majority of mice that received the vaccine warded off repeated exposure to cancer cells, but the applications for humans are still not known.

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

‘We don’t want democracy lol. We want caliphate.’ According to court records, an Oklahoma guardsman with a security clearance gave 3D printed firearms to an FBI agent posing as an Al Qaeda contact.

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation error.

We talk all about Sora 2, Apple and Google removing ICE-spotting apps, and a massive update to our Flock reporting.