BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

🔗 https://www.404media.co/apple-banned-an-app-that-simply-archived-videos-of-ice-abuses/

Podcast: We talk all about Sora 2, Apple and Google removing ICE-spotting apps, and a massive update to our Flock reporting.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-final-boss-of-ai-slop/

New leaked documents show how the FBI convinced a judge to let its partners collect a mass of encrypted messages from thousands of phones around the world.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/cocaine-in-private-jets-and-sex-toys-what-the-fbi-found-on-its-secretly-backdoored-chat-app/

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/

Police used Flock cameras to search for a woman who self-administered an abortion. They said it was for her safety.

But new court documents show they considered charging her with a crime as part of a 'death investigation'. And the search was weeks after the abortion

🔗 https://www.404media.co/police-said-they-surveilled-woman-who-had-an-abortion-for-her-safety-court-records-show-they-considered-charging-her-with-a-crime/

What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/how-ruby-went-off-the-rails/

A hacking group claims to have pulled data from a GitLab instance connected to Red Hat’s consulting business, scooping up 570 GB of compressed data from 28,000 customers.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/red-hat-investigating-breach-impacting-as-many-as-28-000-customers-including-the-navy-and-congress/

The federal government shut down on Wednesday, as Republican legislators refuse to budge on their desired cuts to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act healthcare subsidies. The last government shutdown was in 2018, also under President Donald Trump, and lasted 35 days.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/government-shutdown-visa-applications/

Earth Is Getting Darker, Literally, and Scientists Are Trying To Find Out Why

🔗 https://www.404media.co/earth-is-getting-darker-literally-and-scientists-are-trying-to-find-out-why/

People are farming and selling invite codes for Sora 2 on eBay, which is currently the fastest and most reliable way to get onto OpenAI’s new video generation and TikTok-clone-but-make-it-AI-slop app.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/people-are-farming-and-selling-sora-2-invite-codes-on-ebay/

Kodak is officially selling their own film again for the first time in many years and will be selling directly to photography stores now.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/kodak-is-selling-its-own-film-again-for-the-first-time-in-a-decade/

404 Media and the Freedom of the Press Foundation are suing DHS, demanding that it hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/404-media-and-freedom-of-the-press-foundation-sue-dhs/

BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-that-tracks-locations-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones-every-day/

Reddit mods sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein are fighting a subpoena designed to unmask their real identities. They fear "sexual violence, extortion, fans showing up to their home, and endless years of harassment," asking judge to not grant it

🔗 https://www.404media.co/reddit-mods-sued-by-youtuber-ethan-klein-fight-efforts-to-unmask-them/

An appeals court in California issued a blistering decision and record $10,000 fine against a lawyer who submitted a brief in which “nearly all of the legal quotations in plaintiff’s opening brief “are fabricated” through use of AI.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/18-lawyers-caught-using-ai-explain-why-they-did-it/

Landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing"

🔗 https://www.404media.co/landlords-demand-tenants-workplace-logins-to-scrape-their-paystubs/

Earth Was Mysteriously Thrown Off-Kilter In 2015. Now, Scientists Think They Know Why.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/earth-was-mysteriously-thrown-off-kilter-in-2015-now-scientists-think-they-know-why/

The Secret Service said it “dismantled a network” of “300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites.” which was "within 35 miles" of the United Nations.

CNN reported it was used to SWAT members of congress.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-sim-farm-hardware-seized-by-the-secret-service-is-also-popular-with-ticket-scalpers/

Surveillance companies justify helping ICE and Trump with ‘democracy’

“It's not my job to play the ethics game because our elected officials will eventually figure that out. I have full faith in the American people to decide who to elect and what to vote on.”

🔗 https://www.404media.co/how-surveillance-firms-use-democracy-as-a-cover-for-serving-ice-and-trump/

With “Find My Parking Cops,” technologist Riley Walz reverse engineered San Francisco’s parking ticket system to place cops on a map seconds after they issue parking citations—in theory, helping people avoid ticketing spots.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/find-my-parking-cops-tracks-officers-handing-out-tickets-all-around-san-francisco/