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    Tuesday&#39;s election was a wholesale rejection of Silicon Valley&#39;s worldview and AI-powered kleptocracy. https://www.404media.co/there-is-one-fight-american-voters-reject-tech-oligarchy/

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    Because big tech platforms essentially do not have customer support and make it impossible for their users to contact a human, many people experiencing run-of-the-mill tech problems have turned to ChatGPT, which told them to contact us... no... https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-keeps-telling-people-404-media-can-solve-their-tech-support-problems/

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    Samuel Tunick allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before CBP officials could search it, in what has become a high profile civil liberties case. Now Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer to him. https://www.404media.co/university-rescinds-job-offer-to-activist-who-allegedly-wiped-phone-before-dhs-could-search-it/

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    “These re-interviews are consequential,” a leaked email seen by 404 Media reads. https://www.404media.co/proton-to-re-interview-staff-about-ai-to-see-who-gets-to-keep-their-job/

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    A small grove of historic American chestnut trees has become the site of resistance against an AI data center in West Virginia. https://www.404media.co/west-virginia-american-chestnut-trees-data-center/

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    An endangered American chestnut grove faces a new threat: A massive data center. https://www.404media.co/chestnuts-roasting-on-a-data-center/

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    Amanda Smith spent three nights in jail after a Facebook Marketplace scam led to a CashApp account in her name. She says she didn&amp;#39;t make it. https://www.404media.co/amanda-smith-opened-a-cashapp-in-her-name-she-faces-years-in-prison-cashapp-fraud/

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    A surveillance document tells cops to expect &amp;quot;emotional confrontations&amp;quot; at Flock city council meetings. https://www.404media.co/cops-warned-to-look-for-suspicious-behavior-from-people-opposing-flock-at-city-council-meetings/

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    The people who write the Laws of Armed Conflict want to put guardrails on AI weapons systems. Will the world listen? https://www.404media.co/ai-is-already-amplifying-the-destruction-of-war/

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    &amp;#39;Black October:&amp;#39; The PHP vulnerabilities and a series of other hacks and bugs have cybersecurity experts freaking out and unsure what happens next. https://www.404media.co/php2shell-black-october-ai-is-changing-everything-about-hacking-no-one-knows-what-happens-next/

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    A CashApp scam mess, Airbnb hosts crashing out, and much more. https://www.404media.co/this-womans-living-a-cashapp-scam-nightmare/

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    Commissioners in Texas said they’re making sure ‘all applications are reviewed by agency staff to determine if they are related to data centers.’ https://www.404media.co/texas-commission-on-environmental-quality-portal-down/

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    companies to employees a few months ago: you better use AI companies now: wait, wait, just $29 a month on claude pls https://www.404media.co/accenture-tells-employees-they-can-now-spend-only-29-on-claude-per-month/

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    This week, we discuss reverse engineering and some wild court docs. https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-brute-forces/

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    How people are removing surveillance ads from their TVs; a big AI shakeup at Accenture; and the Character.ai bankruptcy. https://www.404media.co/podcast-reverse-engineer-anything-is-the-next-wave-of-ai-slop/

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    Scientists have discovered a family of retroviruses that invaded the genomes of chimps and other primates, silencing genes involved with brain development, while humans were left unaffected. https://www.404media.co/an-ancient-virus-explains-why-the-human-brain-is-special/

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    we now know what it looks like when telegram gives data to the US government https://www.404media.co/heres-what-telegram-giving-data-to-the-u-s-government-looks-like/

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    companies to employees a few months ago: you better use AI companies now: wait, wait, just $29 a month on claude pls https://www.404media.co/accenture-tells-employees-they-can-now-spend-only-29-on-claude-per-month/

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    Officials said they wanted to search the phone of Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, for child abuse material. It was actually because he was suspected of “terrorist activities.” https://www.404media.co/dhs-said-they-searched-man-who-wiped-grapheneos-phone-for-child-abuse-material-they-lied/

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    The case shows the very real danger of identity theft, how the data and tools offered to police can lead them to the wrong person, and the sprawling world of CashApp fraud. https://www.404media.co/amanda-smith-opened-a-cashapp-in-her-name-she-faces-years-in-prison-cashapp-fraud/

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    This is symptomatic of a broader, potentially destabilizing trend in AI. It has become trivially easy for people to use AI to make functional clones of software that live in a copyright grey zone. https://www.404media.co/video-game-reverse-engineering-community-shuts-down-because-ai-has-made-it-too-easy/

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    AI slopifying your defunct exercise bike? What could go wrong? https://www.404media.co/reverse-engineer-anything-is-the-new-wild-west-of-ai/

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    A sophisticated organized crime gang hacked into Staples, issued millions of dollars worth of gift cards, and went on a spending spree across the U.S. https://www.404media.co/how-a-massive-chinese-crime-ring-hacked-staples-to-steal-millions/

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    Scientists discovered that human brain organoids, which are small neural clusters derived from stem cells, could identify the Braille alphabet with a high degree of accuracy. https://www.404media.co/computers-made-of-human-brain-tissue-identify-braille-letters-in-breakthrough/

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    The &quot;AI Torture Chamber&quot; has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with &quot;model welfare.&quot; https://www.404media.co/someone-torturing-llms-in-a-robot-prison-has-triggered-the-dumbest-debate-in-ai-yet/

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    One of the first dominos to fall in the long-foreseen AI bubble. https://www.404media.co/character-ais-bankruptcy-documents-show-the-economics-of-ai-dont-work/

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    Flock ran searches for “coexist bumper sticker,” “white truck with a trump sticker,” and “Star of David,” apparently to demonstrate what cops shouldn&#39;t search for. https://www.404media.co/flock-city-pd-the-fake-flock-owned-police-department-that-searched-real-cameras-for-real-people/

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    In an internal email shared with creators, CEO Jack Conte wrote that AI doesn’t replace human creativity — but it does affect how the company operates. https://www.404media.co/patreon-lays-off-20-percent-of-its-workforce/

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    Apple’s Sensitive Content Warning is supposed to protect users from unwanted nude images. It accidentally blurred my friend’s dog video. https://www.404media.co/apples-imessage-scanning-flagged-a-video-of-my-friends-dog-as-nudity/

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    After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” https://www.404media.co/google-earths-new-ai-lets-anyone-fabricate-completely-bullshit-satellite-images/