Jason Koebler
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Journalist @404mediaco, former EIC @motherboard Signal: jason.404 // email: [email protected]
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NEW: ICE is using a facial recognition smartphone app that pulls faces from CBP's database of people who cross the border:.
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RT @parismarx: The United States wants the unilateral authority to decide who should use certain technologies. In a new piece, I go from I….
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if you missed our FOIA Forum last week, where we talk about how we do public records reporting and how you can too, the archive is here:.
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Was very excited when Last Week Tonight asked @404media.co to help out with research/fact checking for an AI Slop segment that ran last night. I thought it turned out very good! Here's a few mentions of our reporting, and the full segment:
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he’s hitting a home run every 10 at bats lol. It is not going to kill his development or the team’s development to catch 2-3 times a week and DH the other games.
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stupid and also not true. I get that managers and GMs give nonanswers and evasive answers but pisses me off they just lie. “We haven’t talked about” promoting a 20 year old who is leading AAA in HR is a lie.
Interim manager Tony Mansolino said the #Orioles haven't discussed Samuel Basallo (club's No. 1 prospect and @MLBPipeline's No. 15 overall) as an option for if Adley Rutschman (left abdomen tightness) misses extended time. Mansolino's full response on Basallo's development:
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Spending the next 2-3 hours shipping merch! If you order now your order will ship today. Tank tops and horse shirts back in stock!.
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In 15 mins we're doing a FOIA FORUM about how we reported a story about cops using AI-powered sockpuppet bots on social media. This is for subscribers only, we'll be taking questions about FOIA, showing examples of our requests, etc. Come hang out!.
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NEW: Here's an internal police email thread where. 1) Local police performs a license plate lookup for ICE HSI.2) Local police in an informal "analyst group" offer each other, ICE's HSI, and the FBI help with a variety of surveillance tools.
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New: A judge refuses to throw out the FTC's repair monopoly lawsuit against John Deere. Means two major antitrust suits over its repair practices are going to trial, which is a big deal:.
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AI spammers took control of domains owned by Nvidia, the CDC, Stanford and other major companies/government entities and overloaded them with blogs with headlines "Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games" and "Gay Firry Porn".
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Scoop: GitHub code shows Trump administration is building a platform to "accelerate" AI across the government called that is supposedly going to launch on the Fourth of July.
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Airlines sell passenger data to the feds through a separate data broker they spun up and put in the contract that DHS is not allowed to tell anyone that it comes from the airlines:.
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I spoke to two former govt workers who helped create IRS's Direct File software, which is set to be killed by DOGE/Trump/Intuit but thankfully just got open sourced. Both of them seem optimistic about what people are going to be able to do with the code:.
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Extremely interesting story: the Ukraine drones that did this weekend’s massive attack were powered by free open source pilot assistance software.
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I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:.
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Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety".
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proliferation of nudify apps and the app store / social media complicity in promoting and platforming them is an absolute nightmare:
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