We start this week with Joseph’s articles about a hacking group that doxed DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. The group then sent us the personal data of officials from the NSA and a bunch of other government agencies. After the break, Emanuel revisits Wikipedia’s AI problem. In the subscribers-only section, Sam explains OpenAI’s inevitable path to an AI sex bot.0:00 - Intro0:50 - How Artists Are Keeping 'the Lost Art' of Neon Signs Alive4:42 - Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
13:53 - Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials
31:58 - Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
SUBSCRIBER'S SEGMENT: OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny
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Meta Tells Workers to ‘Go 5x Faster’ with AI
We start this week with Jason’s article about an internal Meta message telling workers to increase their output by 5x with AI. That’s five times, not five percent. After the break, Joseph and Sam tell us all about the catastrophic Discord breach. In the subscribers-only section, Joseph explains what happened when AI came for craft beer (nothing is sacred).
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Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America
Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’
The Discord Hack is Every User’s Worst Nightmare
What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer
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0:51 - Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America
3:57 - Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’
19:44 - The Discord Hack is Every User’s Worst Nightmare
SUBSCRIBER'S STORY: What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer
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The End of Windows 10 Support Is an Environmental Disaster (With Nathan Proctor)
Jason is joined by US PIRG's right to repair campaign director Nathan Proctor, who explains why the imminent end of free support for Windows 10 computers is a ticking timebomb, with millions of computers slated for recycling centers and landfills. Nathan and Jason discuss the state of right to repair legislation all over the United States, the progress that has been made, and the next areas that right to repair experts are going to be focusing on.
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The Final Boss of AI Slop
We start this week with a couple of our articles about Sora 2, OpenAI’s new AI slop app. People are already using tools to remove watermarks from its AI-generated videos. Great! After the break, we talk about Apple and Google removing various ICE-spotting apps from their app stores, with Apple doing it after direct pressure from the U.S. government. In the subscribers-only section, we have a substantial update to a story concerning Flock and a woman who self-administered an abortion.
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4:55 - OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus
14:30 - People Are Farming and Selling Sora 2 Invite Codes on eBay
25:27 - Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web
29:08 - ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
37:39 - Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’
BONUS STORY: Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime
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Landlords Demand Your Workplace Logins to Scrape Paystubs
We start this week with Joseph’s article about landlords and income verification companies demanding login details from potential renters so the companies can log in and scrape their paystubs. That has some potential legal issues for everyone involved! After the break, 18 lawyers tell us why they used AI. In the subscribers-only section, Emanuel breaks down the massive drama around Ruby.
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Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs
18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It
How Ruby Went Off the Rails
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