Notices by 404 Media (404mediaco@mastodon.social)

This chatbot roleplay and image generator platform left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social media.

https://www.404media.co/ai-porn-secret-desires-chatbot-face-swap/

A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.

https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/

With OpenAI investment, Disney will officially begin putting AI slop into its flagship streaming product.

https://www.404media.co/disney-invests-1-billion-in-the-ai-slopification-of-its-brand/

The Department of War aims to put Google Gemini 'directly into the hands of every American warrior.'

https://www.404media.co/pete-hegseth-says-the-pentagons-new-chatbot-will-make-america-more-lethal/

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”

https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-effort/

Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.

https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-spend-180-million-on-bounty-hunters-to-stalk-immigrants/

Software engineer Hector Dearman built a zoomable map of every issue of BYTE magazine.

https://www.404media.co/byte-magazine-zoomable-map-archive/

New research “suggests that dark energy may no longer be a cosmological constant” and that the universe’s expansion is slowing down.

https://www.404media.co/a-fundamental-constant-of-the-universe-may-not-be-constant-at-all-study-finds/

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

https://www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to-unmask-owner-of-infamous-archive-is-site/

NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.

The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here: https://www.404media.co/army-tells-soldiers-to-go-to-german-food-bank-then-deletes-it/

A university in Milwaukee is stuck with ICE as its tenant after the agency refused to leave a building the university intended to renovate. Now, the building is being used as an office for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, who lead Trumps deportations.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-university-building-as-a-deportation-office-and-the-university-says-it-cant-do-anything-about-it/

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a $60 to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/how-to-disable-meta-rayban-led-light/

A division of ICE, the Secret Service, and the Navy’s criminal investigation division all had access to Flock’s nationwide network of tens of thousands of AI-enabled cameras that constantly track the movements of vehicles, and by extension people.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/

Reddit’s conversational AI product, Reddit Answers, suggested users who are interested in pain management try heroin and kratom

🔗 https://www.404media.co/reddit-answers-ai-suggests-users-try-heroin/

On October 2—just a few minutes shy of 11 PM in Portland, Oregon—a federal agent shot peppery spray into the vent hole of Seth Todd’s inflatable frog costume. Todd was protesting ICE outside of Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-surreal-practicality-of-protesting-as-an-inflatable-frog/

An attorney in a New York Supreme Court commercial case got caught using AI in his filings, and then got caught using AI again in the brief where he had to explain why he used AI, according to court documents filed earlier this month.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/lawyer-using-ai-fake-citations/

Help us investigate book bans across the USA.

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/help-us-investigate-book-bans-and-educational-censorship-around-america/

A data hoarder on Reddit used AI to create a searchable database of more than 8,100 files about Jeffrey Epstein released by the House Oversight Committee, making it one of the easiest ways to search through a very messy batch of files.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/data-hoarder-uses-ai-to-create-searchable-database-of-epstein-files/

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-discord-hack-is-every-users-worst-nightmare/

Sora 2, Open AI’s new AI video generator, puts a visual watermark on every video it generates. But the little logo meant to help people distinguish between reality and AI-generated bullshit is easy to remove via multiple websites.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/sora-2-watermark-removers-flood-the-web/