We start this week with Jason’s article about a CBP official wearing Meta Ray-Bans smart glasses to an immigration raid. A lot of stuff happened after we published that article too. After the break, Sam tells us about the bargain that voice actors are making with AI. In the subscribers-only section, Jason tells us how…
A near-miss episode of attempted defunding spotlights a need for a better way
Tensor.Art, an AI image creating and model sharing site announced on Friday that it is “temporarily” restricting AI models, tools, and posts related to pornographic content or the depiction of real-world celebrities due to pressure from payment processors. The announcement is yet another example of payment processors acting as the ultimate arbiter of what kind…
We recently published a list of 10 AI News You Should Definitely Take a Look At. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Himax Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:HIMX) stands against other AI news you should definitely take a look at. New AI Initiative Promises Jobs and Infrastructure Boost in the U.S….
A Kansas mother who left an old laptop in a closet is suing multiple porn sites because her teenage son visited them on that computer. The complaints, filed last week in the U.S. District Court for Kansas, allege that the teen had “unfettered access” to a variety of adult streaming sites, and accuses the sites…
On Tuesday, some parents lost the ability to track the locations of their children using a T-Mobile tracking device and app and instead were shown the exact locations of random other children around the country, 404 Media has learned. T-Mobile sells a small GPS tracker for parents called SyncUP, which they can use to track…
Mr. Deepfakes, the go-to site for nonconsensual deepfake porn, says it’s shutting down and not coming back because it lost a service provider and data. “A critical service provider has terminated service permanently. Data loss has made it impossible to continue operation,” a notice that appears when visitors go to the site now says. The…
Google’s featured snippet is pulling in an Amazon AI summary of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf that calls it “a true work of art” in the latest AI-related fuckup affecting top search results. As of writing, searching for “mein kampf positive reviews” returned a result that was pulled from an AI-generated summary of an…
The availability of exploit code will likely lead to more widespread opportunistic attacks
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Nazis celebrating Elon Musk’s salute, Zuckerberg as a kook, dictating your own threat model and a good block/mute ethos. EMANUEL: The first week of Trump’s second term…
