Shared ChatGPT indexed by Google; how Wikipedia is fighting AI slop; and the history of how we got to Steam censorship.

The lawsuit alleges XVideos, Bang Bros, XNXX, Girls Gone Wild and TrafficFactory are in violation of Florida's law that requires adult platforms to verify visitors are over 18.

“The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”

Contracting records reviewed by 404 Media show that ICE wants to target Gen Z, including with ads on Hulu and HBO Max.

A researcher has scraped a much larger dataset of indexed ChatGPT conversations, exposing contracts and intimate conversations.

Keywords and tags have never been a useful metric for distilling nuance. Pushing for regulations based on them is repeating a 30-year history of porn panic online.

The afterlife of Puerto Rico’s Aricebo telescope continues with the detection of a powerful “tidal wave” from the Sun.

Protesters outside LA's Tesla Diner fear for the future of democracy in the USA

This week, we discuss meeting a bunch of you in LA, the ongoing Tea saga, and age verification sweeping the UK.

The decision highlights hurdles faced by developers as they navigate a world where credit card companies dictate what is and isn't appropriate.

“I believe Apple is charging this because they know if the price is high enough no one will buy it."

People failing to identify a video of adorable bunnies as AI slop has sparked worries that many more people could fall for online scams.

Scientists have discovered chemosynthetic animals, which don’t rely on the Sun to live, nearly six miles under the ocean surface—deeper than any found to date.

Negative articles about a tech CEO vanished from Google after someone made fraudulent requests using the Refresh Outdated Content Tool.

Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.

We talked to people living in the building whose views are being blocked by Tesla's massive four-story screen.

The massive Tea breach; how the UK's age verification law is impacting access to information; and LeBron James' AI-related cease-and-desist.

The Plaintiff claims Tea harmed her and ‘thousands of other similarity situated persons in the massive and preventable cyberattack.’

The Sig Sauer P320 has a reputation for firing without pulling the trigger. The manufacturer says that's impossible, but the firearms community is showing the truth is more complicated.

“If visibility of r/IsraelCrimes is being restricted under the Online Safety Act, it’s only because the state fears accountability,” moderators say.

404 Media first contacted Tea about the security issue on Saturday. The company disabled direct messages on Monday after our report.

"This is more representative of the developer environment that our future employees will work in."

The more than one million messages obtained by 404 Media are as recent as last week, discuss incredibly sensitive topics, and make it trivial to unmask some anonymous Tea users.

“Without these safeguards, Mr. Barber eventually developed full-blown PTSD, which he is currently still being treated for,” the former mod's lawyer said.

Germ says it is the “first secure messaging service on the ATProtocol!”

Researchers witnessing warming in Svalbard worry that “we have been too cautious” with climate warnings.

This week, we discuss smart glasses for frat bros, Amazon comms messiness, and more.

“DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.

By going after Itch.io, “we’re really hamstringing the future of arts and communication.”

An error message appears saying "The following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists" when users try to add the phrase to their bios, but any number of other phrases about political and religious preferences are allowed.