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Trump is becoming the technoking of America
The president is surrounded by the leaders of the richest and most powerful companies in history — but their dominance may yet be checked
Almost Every State Has Its Own Deepfakes Law Now
It’s now illegal in Michigan to make AI-generated sexual imagery of someone without their written consent. Michigan joins 47 other states in the U.S. that have enacted their own deepfake laws. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the bipartisan-sponsored House Bills 4047 and its companion bill 4048 on August 26. In a press release, Whitmer specifically…
4K Blu-Ray of 22-Year-Old ‘Master and Commander’ Is Sold Out Everywhere, Being Scalped on eBay
August—2025. The new limited edition 4K Blu-ray of the 2005 film Master and Commander has sold out everywhere. Secondary markets are now battlefields. There are two kinds of people in this world: those who read the above sentences and feel an intense pain and yearning for comradery and combat on the high seas, and those…
What is Deepseek, Chinese AI model that rattled Chatgpt, Nvidia and freaked out AI world: Explained in 10 points
Deepseek has captured the attention of the tech world, surpassing the likes of other leading AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude in terms of performance. The Chinese AI chatbox was reportedly developed for a fraction of the cost of its rivals, which has spooked the global AI market. DeepSeek’s emergence comes as the US…
Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
A man gave himself bromism, a psychiatric disorder that has not been common for many decades, after asking ChatGPT for advice and accidentally poisoning himself, according to a case study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine. In this case, a man showed up in an ER experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations and…
Viral AI-Generated Summer Guide Printed by Chicago Sun-Times Was Made by Magazine Giant Hearst
The “Heat Index” summer guide newspaper insert published by the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer that contained AI-generated misinformation and reading lists full of books that don’t exist was created by a subsidiary of the magazine giant Hearst, 404 Media has learned. Victor Lim, the vice president of marketing and communications at Chicago Public…
Podcast: This Site Unmasks Cops With Facial Recognition
We start this week with Emanuel and Joseph’s coverage of ‘FuckLAPD.com’, a website that uses facial recognition to instantly reveal a LAPD officer’s name and salary. The creator has relaunched their similar tool for identifying ICE employees too. After the break, Jason tells us about a massive AI ruling that opens the way for AI…
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI is attempting to unmask the owner behind archive.today, a popular archiving site that is also regularly used to bypass paywalls on the internet and to avoid sending traffic to the original publishers of web content, according to a subpoena posted by the website. The FBI subpoena says it is part of a criminal…
Podcast: The DNA of 15 Million People Is For Sale
This week we start with the bankruptcy of commercial DNA company 23andMe, and what it means for its users’ genetic data. Probably not good things! After the break, Joseph and Jason explain what ‘Dogequest’ is, and how people allegedly vandalizing Tesla locations have been caught. In the subscribers-only section, Emanuel tells us about some fake…