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In a series of experiments, chimpanzees revised their beliefs based on new evidence, shedding light on the evolutionary origins of rational thought. 🔗 404media.co/chimps-are-cap… 404media.co/chimps-are-cap…

Someone recently managed to get on a Microsoft Teams call with representatives from phone hacking company Cellebrite, and then leaked a screenshot of the company’s capabilities against many Google Pixel phones 🔗 404media.co/someone-snuck-… 404media.co/someone-snuck-…

One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is shutting down causing major issues for libraries. 🔗 404media.co/libraries-scra… 404media.co/libraries-scra…

A number of Instagram accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers and millions of views have uploaded videos filmed with Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses. 🔗 404media.co/metas-ray-ban-… 404media.co/metas-ray-ban-…

Videos show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.” 🔗 404media.co/ice-and-cbp-ag… 404media.co/ice-and-cbp-ag…

The Trump administration used a picture of Halo’s Master Chief to call for the destruction of immigrants. Something about seeing the stalwart hero of a beloved video game twisted into an anti-immigrant super soldier hit people pretty hard. 🔗 404media.co/trump-admins-r…

What if your coworkers were AI? What if AI agents, not humans, monitored security camera feeds? Does that sound like absolute hell on Earth? 🔗 404media.co/a16z-is-fundin… 404media.co/a16z-is-fundin…

Goodreads volunteer moderator went rogue and changed a cover to Eric Trump's book Under Siege, and added the subtitle “Goodreads Censorship in Favor of Trump,” 🔗 404media.co/rogue-goodread… 404media.co/rogue-goodread…

A university in Milwaukee is stuck with ICE as its tenant after the agency refused to leave a building the university intended to renovate. Now, the building is being used as an office for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations. 🔗 404media.co/ice-is-using-a…

The mother of a teenager who died by suicide is suing Roblox, accusing the company of worrying more about its investors than the children in its audience. 🔗 404media.co/lawsuit-accuse… 404media.co/lawsuit-accuse…

A new analysis of synthetic intimate image abuse (SIIA) found that the tools for making non-consensual, sexually explicit deepfakes are easily discoverable all over social media and through simple searches on Google and Bing. 🔗 404media.co/deepfake-tools… 404media.co/deepfake-tools…

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a $60 to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country. 🔗 404media.co/how-to-disable… 404media.co/how-to-disable…

Tea, the women’s safety app which went viral earlier this year before facing multiple data breaches, has been removed from the Apple App Store. 🔗404media.co/women-dating-s… 404media.co/women-dating-s…

Hackers doxxed ice and we spoke to them: 🔗 404media.co/podcast-hacker… 404media.co/podcast-hacker…

Trump posted a video dumping a “brown liquid” on America which seems to be poop 🔗 404media.co/openai-sam-alt… 404media.co/openai-sam-alt…

OpenAI is following a trend we’ve known about for years: There are endless theorized applications of AI, but in the real world many people want to use LLMs for sexual gratification. 🔗 404media.co/openai-sam-alt…

Three victims of sex trafficking ring GirlsDoPorn brought a complaint against multiple companies that processed payments for the criminal organization, claiming that without their payment services, GirlsDoPorn would never have existed. 🔗 404media.co/girlsdoporn-vi…

Reddit’s conversational AI product, Reddit Answers, suggested users who are interested in pain management try heroin and kratom 🔗 404media.co/reddit-answers… 404media.co/reddit-answers…

A division of ICE, the Secret Service, and the Navy’s criminal investigation division all had access to Flock’s nationwide network of tens of thousands of AI-enabled cameras that constantly track the movements of vehicles, and by extension people. 🔗 404media.co/ice-secret-ser…

We found websites that use facial recognition to let partners, stalkers, etc uncover specific peoples’ Tinder profiles, reveal their approximate physical location at points in time, and track changes to their profile including their photos. 🔗 404media.co/viral-cheater-…