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404 Media @404media.co · 11h
A look at the state of student journalism in light of the Cornell sexual assault case, and much more.
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'Everything but censorship'
A look at the state of student journalism in light of the Cornell sexual assault case, and much more.
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404 Media @404media.co · 13h
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...
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404 Media @404media.co · 12h
NEW: Public records obtained by 404 Media show administrators taking meetings with parents and alumni when they take issue with student reporting. This comes as student journalists at The Cornell Daily Sun earned recognition for breaking the “Cornell Seven” story.
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How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists
As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.
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404 Media @404media.co · 12h
As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.
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How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists
As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.
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404 Media @404media.co · 13h
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...
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404 Media @404media.co · 13h
Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.
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Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims
Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
one of the most heated discussions on X is about the ethics of a project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted LLMs, sparking a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare"... time 2 log off
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
sorry to editorialize but log tf off please god
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
one of the most heated discussions on X is about the ethics of a project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted LLMs, sparking a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare"... time 2 log off
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i regret to inform you that people have absolutely lost it www.404media.co/someone-tort...
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People who believe LLMs are conscious are having one of the biggest AI meltdowns yet because someone is running a Saw-like torture chamber for LLMs on GitHub. Just before we published, GitHub took it down. GitHub hasn't said why www.404media.co/someone-tort...
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked the lawyer, who submitted false testimony and witnesses after using ChatGPT.
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Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal
"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked the lawyer, who submitted false testimony and witnesses after using...
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
This New Mexico lawyer is representing a man who was found guilty of killing his wife earlier this year. Here he is being ripped apart by judges who found that he used ChatGPT to make up nonexistent witnesses and testimony. Read more: www.404media.co/chatgpt-fake...
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
The Trump administration is using a program from the 1980s to force cities around the country to funnel their ongoing Flock, Axon and other ALPR data into federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
The idea is that, since USPS trucks are constantly traveling anyway, they can be used as a way to collect data, eventually potentially across the nation.
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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New: USPS is to put cameras in its trucks that continuously record. This is to gather data on roads, signage, and to improve "community safety," the agency tells me. The cameras are marketed to capture passing license plates too, but don't run ALPR software www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...
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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
Cloudflare, Google, and Proton were among the "dominant" infrastructure providers to sites dedicated to hosting abusive content, the study found.
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Internet Infrastructure Services Empower Deepfake Abuse, New Study Finds
Cloudflare, Google, and Proton were among the "dominant" infrastructure providers to sites dedicated to hosting abusive content, the study found.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
How local cops are forced to feed their license plate data to the feds, the two loudest birds on the planet, and a very strange video from the FBI.
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How the Feds Get Your Data
How local cops are forced to feed their license plate data to the feds, the two loudest birds on the planet, and a very strange video from the FBI.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
whenever you feel like you’re too small to change anything know that citizens from small towns and cities that speak up against flock and axon cameras in their communities (and sometimes get arrested for it) are fighting and sometimes succeeding against this
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
Flock and Axon did not respond to a request for comment. The DEA said that it did not have jurisdiction over HIDTA and refused to comment. CBP and the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy did not respond to a request for comment.
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
The White House has taken steps to ensure local ALPR systems are fed into the “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” (HIDTA) program. For example: cities in Georgia can't operate ALPR systems without signing a “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) in which they promise to send their data to a HIDTA.
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
The program raises significant privacy and transparency concerns; as cities begin to place restrictions on how their Flock data can be used, it represents an end-around for federal law enforcement to access data that it might not normally be able to, and to do so without any obvious oversight body.
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Readers of our daily email—where we send you our scoop of the day—will have seen we're mixing stuff up. Now we email you a chunk of the main story, but also other stuff we've written and wild/whacky shit we're seeing across the web. People are loving it, sign up here: www.404media.co/surveillance...
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Surveillance Finds a Way
CEO who wants to add facial recognition to Flock cameras says it's "the way the world will have to be."
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New from 404 Media: a surveillance company is telling cops it wants to add facial recognition to Flock cameras. Flock doesn't do face rec, but that doesn't stop other companies doing it. "This is the way the world is going, the way the world will have to be" www.404media.co/surveillance...
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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
So ShinyHunters, the group behind the FBI hack, told us Monday they would not publish the data of thousands of FBI employees publicly. @josephcox.bsky.social explains why this breach is still a major counterintelligence and national security issue. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrni...
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social breaks it down. Watch the full episode now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrni...
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
So Trump's new AI chatbot? Creepy. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social saw this on Bluesky and gave the prompt "play minecraft" a test. This is what happened:
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
So Trump's new AI chatbot? Creepy. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social saw this on Bluesky and gave the prompt "play minecraft" a test. This is what happened:
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026
The bare-throated bellbird and the red-legged seriema join the white bellbird in the winner’s circle of the loudest birds on Earth, with calls exceeding 120 decibels—louder than a chainsaw or jackhammer.
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Two New Birds Louder Than Jackhammers Just Dropped
The bare-throated bellbird and the red-legged seriema join the white bellbird in the winner’s circle of the loudest birds on Earth, with calls exceeding 120 decibels—louder than a chainsaw or jackhammer.
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026
UPDATE: On Monday, Krebs on Security reported authorities in the Netherlands had arrested a 23-year-old on suspicion of aiding ShinyHunters. The representative told 404 Media “the Dutch police are incompetent. That individual has no association with us. Frankly, we are laughing.”
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FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data
ShinyHunters, the group that stole data on “all FBI employees” including addresses and details on their spouses, told 404 Media on Monday “Since the very beginning we had made our decision that we wou...
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026
Some tech workers in San Francisco hooked up ChatGPT to a Toyota Corolla and got it to drive around a parking lot. Here's what happened: Read about the experiment here: www.404media.co/these-tech-w...
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026
CEO who wants to add facial recognition to Flock cameras says it's "the way the world will have to be."
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Surveillance Finds a Way
CEO who wants to add facial recognition to Flock cameras says it's "the way the world will have to be."
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026
“VIDIZMO Intelligence Hub closes that gap. It brings Flock Safety data, Axon body worn camera footage, and any other evidence source into one searchable platform. Investigators search across all of it simultaneously —  by face, vehicle, or object in seconds.”
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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026
In a May email to Johnson City, Tennessee, deputy police chief Michael Adams, a salesperson from VIDIZMO wrote that the company’s product could do facial recognition on both Flock and Axon data in “one searchable platform.”
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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some tech workers in San Francisco hooked up ChatGPT to a Toyota Corolla and got it to drive around a parking lot “We just thought: ‘Is there a way we can get LLMs to drive a car now?” www.404media.co/these-tech-w...
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These Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla
The team used frontier LLMs with no prior training data navigate a simple parking lot course.
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026
The team used frontier LLMs with no prior training data navigate a simple parking lot course.
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These Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla
The team used frontier LLMs with no prior training data navigate a simple parking lot course.
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
NEW: ShinyHunters, the group that stole data on “all FBI employees” including addresses and details on their spouses, told 404 Media on Monday “Since the very beginning we had made our decision that we would never publish this data," they told us exclusively. Read now:
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FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data
ShinyHunters, the group that stole data on “all FBI employees” including addresses and details on their spouses, told 404 Media on Monday “Since the very beginning we had made our decision that we wou...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from 404 Media: the group that hacked the FBI and stole data on "all FBI employees" says it won't publish the data. The group gave the FBI a one week countdown. Now says won't publish at all. Still represents a massive national security/counterintelligence risk www.404media.co/fbi-hackers-...
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FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data
ShinyHunters, the group that stole data on “all FBI employees” including addresses and details on their spouses, told 404 Media on Monday “Since the very beginning we had made our decision that we wou...
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, 404 Media has learned. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Sccop here by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Facial recognition is everywhere. It’s in surveillance cameras; it’s soon going to be in Meta’s RayBan pervert glasses, and some students modded did that. @josephcox.bsky.social spoke to NYT journalist and author @kashhill.bsky.social about what that means for us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUFn...
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Facial recognition is everywhere. It’s in surveillance cameras; it’s soon going to be in Meta’s RayBan pervert glasses, and some students modded did that. @josephcox.bsky.social spoke to NYT journalist and author @kashhill.bsky.social about what that means for us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUFn...
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, 404 Media has learned. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Sccop here by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Facial recognition is everywhere now. Soon it's going to be right in your face, too.
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The End of Privacy Is Here (with Kashmir Hill)
Facial recognition is everywhere now. Soon it's going to be right in your face, too.
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