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0	0	0			'House of Dynamite' Is About the Zoom Call that Ends the World The general who advised Netflix’s nuclear Armageddon movie doesn’t believe in abolishing nuclear weapons. 2025-10-27 18:39:31 UTC
0	0	0			Con Edison Refuses to Say How ICE Gets Its Customers’ Data Court records show Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a part of ICE, and the FBI obtained Con Edison user data. The utility provider refuses to say whether law enforcement needs a warrant to access its data. 2025-10-27 15:32:37 UTC
0	0	0			Con Edison Refuses to Say How ICE Gets Its Customers’ Data Court records show Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a part of ICE, and the FBI obtained Con Edison user data. The utility provider refuses to say whether law enforcement needs a warrant to access its data. 2025-10-27 15:32:37 UTC
0	0	0			Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia. 2025-10-27 13:45:53 UTC
0	0	0			Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia. 2025-10-27 13:45:53 UTC
0	0	0			What Really Doomed Napoleon’s Army? Scientists Find New Clues in DNA DNA from the teeth of French soldiers that died in the disastrous 1812 retreat from Moscow revealed previously unidentified pathogens. 2025-10-25 13:00:15 UTC
0	0	0			AI Dataset for Detecting Nudity Contained Child Sexual Abuse Images The Canadian Centre for Child Protection found more than 120 images of identified or known victims of CSAM in the dataset. 2025-10-24 20:11:10 UTC
0	0	0			AI Dataset for Detecting Nudity Contained Child Sexual Abuse Images The Canadian Centre for Child Protection found more than 120 images of identified or known victims of CSAM in the dataset. 2025-10-24 20:11:10 UTC
0	0	0			a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform. 2025-10-24 17:55:27 UTC
0	0	0			a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform. 2025-10-24 17:55:27 UTC
0	0	0			Behind the Blog: Making Things for Humans This week, we discuss Pavlovian Chartbeat response, when to say "cum," and the wave of making things for humans, by humans. 2025-10-24 17:02:18 UTC
0	0	0			DHS Tries To Unmask Ice Spotting Instagram Account by Claiming It Imports Merchandise There is no evidence the Instagram and Facebook account, called Montcowatch, sells anything. Lawyers from the ACLU say the move is "wildly outside the scope" of DHS' authority. 2025-10-24 15:31:52 UTC
0	0	0			Breathing Through Our Butts Declared Safe After First Human Trial The first application of enteral ventilation—aka breathing through the bum—to humans proved the technique is safe. 2025-10-23 15:51:23 UTC
0	0	0			New Research Shows Deepfake Harassment Tools Spread on Social Media and Search Engines An analysis of how tools to make non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes spread online, from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, shows X and search engines surface these sites easily. 2025-10-23 13:10:37 UTC
0	0	0			A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country. 2025-10-23 12:55:53 UTC
0	0	0			Apple Removes Women Dating Safety App from the App Store The app, which went viral before facing multiple data breaches, is currently unavailable on the Apple App Store. 2025-10-22 17:20:41 UTC
0	0	0			The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting with the heat turned all the way up. 2025-10-22 13:40:03 UTC
0	0	0			Podcast: Hackers Dox ICE Hackers targeting ICE and other agencies; Wikipedia's AI problem now has some data; and OpenAI's inevitable pivot to sex bot. 2025-10-22 13:00:50 UTC
0	0	0			Anthropic Promises Trump Admin Its AI Is Not Woke After condemnation from Trump’s AI czar, Anthropic’s CEO promised its AI is not woke. 2025-10-21 16:49:29 UTC
0	0	0			OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny Just two months ago, Sam Altman acknowledged that putting a “sex bot avatar” in ChatGPT would be a move to “juice growth.” Something the company had been tempted to do, he said, but had resisted. 2025-10-21 15:11:50 UTC
0	0	0			News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop. 2025-10-20 16:45:01 UTC
0	0	0			How Artists Are Keeping 'The Lost Art' of Neon Signs Alive Watch 404 Media’s first short documentary, about an artist keeping real neon signs alive. 2025-10-20 15:47:58 UTC