Multiple Democrat, Republican, and Independent lawmakers have introduced new pieces of legislation that, if passed, would dramatically curb federal agencies’ access to Flock cameras, with the lawmakers referencing reporting by 404 Media in their explanations for why the legislation is needed. On Friday Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ...
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Meta Rushed to Fix Muse ‘VM Escape’ Vulnerability Soon Before LaunchMeta Rushed to Fix Muse ‘VM Escape’ Vulnerability Soon Before Launch
In the immediate weeks before Muse’s launch, Meta engineers found several security vulnerabilities in the company’s viral AI agent product, at least one of which could have allowed malicious users to break outside of Muse’s intended environment and access Meta’s own sensitive databases and services, 404 Media has learned. The ...
arXiv Is Rate Limiting Submissions Because It Can’t Keep up With AI SloparXiv Is Rate Limiting Submissions Because It Can’t Keep up With AI Slop
arXiv, an open-access repository where researchers publish preprint academic research, has announced it will rate limit submissions because it has been inundated with AI-written papers. A researcher can now only send in two pieces per calendar month and have a total of three active submissions at any given time. In ...
Muse escapes containmentMuse escapes containment
Good Monday morning, I’m on my second coffee of the day already so please excuse any jitters that come through today’s newsletter. We’ve got a big constitutionality ruling on Flock, a scoop about a major fire Meta needed to put out pre-Muse launch, and a lot more from trawling the ...
Our Solar System Is Terminally Unstable and Will Be Completely Destroyed, Study FindsOur Solar System Is Terminally Unstable and Will Be Completely Destroyed, Study Finds
Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that searched for the ur-animals, wandered the poles, rained on Mars, and destroyed the solar system. First, scientists present new evidence that the first animals appeared more than 800 million years ago, a truly ancient origin that suggests our ...
Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and UnconstitutionalFederal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled Thursday that a police officer violated the Fourth Amendment rights of a woman accused of meth trafficking when he searched her license plate in Flock’s automated license plate reader system simply because her license plate was from California, then used her travel history as ...
Behind the Blog: Freaking OutBehind the Blog: Freaking Out
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss inbox slop, Claude cults, and more. JOSEPH: This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while. Jason and Emanuel covered iLands, ...
Podcast: The FBI Was Hacked. We’ve Seen the DataPodcast: The FBI Was Hacked. We’ve Seen the Data
We start this week with Joseph’s stories on the massive FBI hack. 404 Media broke this news and continued to cover the breach of data on all FBI employees and their spouses. After the break, Jason tells us how a surveillance company is telling cops it wants to add facial ...
‘Everything but censorship’‘Everything but censorship’
Student journalists meet the moment, as we’ve seen most recently this week. As the Cornell University sexual abuse case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets. Claire Woodcock talked to students and legal experts about how censorship from above impacts ...