Google announced its AI discovered 'millions of new materials.' This was v hyped.

A new analysis argues it actually 'does not report any new materials.' One researcher said 'there are many examples of predicted materials that are clearly nonsensical'

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Democracy in action: Apple announced it magically figured out how to do something it argued it couldn't do weeks after Oregon passed a law banning its current repair practices illegal

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Instagram is rolling out nude detection in private DMs; will automatically blur images it believes are nudes, including in end-to-end encrypted chats because the processing is done on device, Meta says 404media.co/instagram-will…

We tried out what one researcher calls 'the poor man's SIM port', where instead of tricking a telco to SIM swap, you send a malicious link to the target which then dials to setup call forwarding. 2FA calls then go to the hacker. Crude but could work 404media.co/how-hackers-ca…

a 'world war' of increasingly violent acts has been sweeping across Com, the nebulous online crime culture linked to some of the world's most high-profile hacks. Joseph Cox watched it unfold in real time: 404media.co/inside-the-com…

The 404 Media Podcast is up!
- grifters deepfaking Instagram influencers
- porn finally on the Apple Vision Pro (in this clip)
- the NYC chicken shop using a cashier over Zoom

Apple/Spotify: 404media.co/404-media-podc…

A loose group of teenage hackers who largely grew out of Roblox and Minecraft communities have been kidnapping, robbing, and bricking each other's homes in an increasingly violent internal 'world war'

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Musk confirms in deposition that a disturbing burner account that Joseph Cox and I reported was most likely Musk’s was, in fact, his. Hilarious stuff.

Burner (unclear if he’s still posting from it): x.com/ermnmusk

Original story: vice.com/en/article/v7b…

A bunch of guys are stealing videos of real women, deepfaking AI-generated faces on them, and sharing them on Instagram to funnel users to bogus OnlyFans-type subscription sites 404media.co/ai-influencers…

Quick note to anyone on the editorial staff of the Information: My DMs are open if you’d like to talk about the myriad benefits of organizing your newsroom — we can even discuss how it will definitely represent the workers of tomorrow!

'Diana likes to look into my eyes when we have sex, not the digital eyes that gaze back at her from the headset, or worse, the ominous, pulsating glow that means it’s recording.' 404media.co/apple-vision-p…