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Starting today, platforms are now required to offer a way for you to file takedown requests to get nonconsensual nudes removed under the Take It Down Act. WIRED reached out to 14 companies that spent lobbying money on the act to find out how to do that! Link next...

@megangrA Despite being finalized more recently, the FTC's proposed consent order was voted out over a year ago in January 2025

I had forgotten the FTC also sued General Motors for privacy violations -- which was, weirdly, not mentioned in the recent California action against General Motors for the same thing. Not often we see this kind of tag team -- I assume it's because the FTC didn't insist on $

@mollytaft I use whisper (free, runs on your computer) and it is Fine.

hey journalists: what's your go-to transcription software these days (preferably cheap)

@RobertFreundLaw Where the court is the wife of former DOJ chief of staff Chad Mizelle?

Florida lawyer files brief with "several misrepresentations of caselaw and citations to non-existent cases." Lawyer admits he used "ChatGPT to research and draft" the motion to dismiss. Admits he did not verify the citations before filing. Court says no big deal, just tell your client, the end.

i made an app for tracking whether the oligarchs are actually fleeing city centers ews.kylemcdonald.net

Elon Musk just said on the witness stand that he doesn't know what a "safety card" is with regard to AI development... "Why would it be a card?" He also says he doesn't know what a preparedness framework is.

I’m sick im going to throw up wtf

I just got this ad for funeral services school?

NEW: The Consumer Federation of America is suing Meta, alleging that the company misled consumers about its efforts to combat scam advertisements and violated Washington DC's consumer protection laws. My latest for @WIRED...

Investigative journalism existing amid an infinite scroll of takes on this platform has made people think that reporting is basically a karaoke machine. But repeatedly finding information that people with money don't want the public to know can require months and months of work

If you believe you have been victimized in the alleged SantaCon fraud, as either an attendee or a venue that participated in SantaCon, please fill out the short form found here: fbi.gov/SantaConVictims

@matthewstoller It's a crypto social club DAO. I'm assuming that memberships to country clubs and social clubs like Soho House would not normally be included in disclosures, but thanks to the financialization of everything... nytimes.com/2022/03/02/tec…

This is a weird disclosure. Warsh owns a stake in something called "Friends with Benefits."

@endpointarena Can’t you just use whisper to transcribe and then parse that?

Clinical trial outcomes are scattered across conferences, earnings calls, press releases, and clinicaltrialsgov. Started centralizing this with the Oracles section, but want to expand into earnings calls next. Has anyone used tools like OpenClaw (or similar) to listen and parse conference calls? I have until 8:30 am ET tomorrow to figure this out.

Thank you for the suggestion, we just published a story about non-profits here: wired.com/story/us-borde…

i love working at @WIRED bc we publish investigations like this, where we have to reach out to Funko Pop for comment on Border Patrol activities wired.com/story/us-borde…

NEW: I found IRS paperwork for several nonprofits whose addresses matched Border Patrol stations. Some of the groups, named after the military's "morale, welfare, and recreation" program, sold challenge coins commemorating last year's enforcement surges: wired.com/story/us-borde…

A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history. wired.com/story/border-p…

@BenSchifman @alasdairpr wait lmao this is a great idea

@alasdairpr I would love to see this idea turned into a benchmark, SCOTUSbench: models ranked on how well they can predict how SCOTUS will rule. You'd need to provide them all the lower court proceedings, SCOTUS briefs, etc.

Taking Alito's suggestion, I gave Claude the briefs and asked how it would rule. (This is a dispute between a hotel and a former employee about enforcing an arbitration award.) Answer: it rules for the hotel and thinks the Court will too, 9-0 or 8-1. Here's the start of its majority op. and some of its analysis. I haven't read the briefs , so I won't weigh in on its prediction, but I'll say that its analysis feels, as so often with AI in legal work, like it has the form correct, but isn't connecting with the substance properly.