Olivia Rodrigo presale broke Ticketmaster. This is almost definitely a function of the fact that

1) she has lots of fans
2) scalpers now use specialized, $500-per-month browsers designed to hit the virtual waiting room hundreds of times per computer

https://www.404media.co/ticketmaster-crashes-during-olivia-rodrigo-presale-heres-why/ 

 New: Google banned one of the most destructive deepfake/nudify apps, which was masquerading as a normal face swap app on the store but was advertising itself as a deepfake porn app on porn sites

This follows our reporting on damage these apps are doing

https://www.404media.co/google-bans-face-swap-app-for-advertising-deepfakes-on-porn-sites/ 

 We are very very excited to announce that 404 Media now has full text RSS feeds for our paying subscribers!!! Get your feed link here and learn more about why and how we did this: 

https://www.404media.co/404-media-now-has-a-full-text-rss-feed/ 

 Oh good: Ideological LLM companies are releasing them as magnet links/torrents now: Because Mistral released the model as a torrent, it will be hosted in a decentralized manner by anyone who chooses to seed it, making it essentially impossible to censor or delete from the internet, and making it impossible to make any changes to that specific file as long as it’s being seeded by someone somewhere on the internet.

https://www.404media.co/260-million-ai-company-releases-chatbot-that-gives-detailed-instructions-on-murder-ethnic-cleansing/ 

 Behold, the worst gadget we have ever tested: An HDMI cord that demands your location, browsing data, and spams you with ads. 

Really amazing

https://www.404media.co/i-tested-an-hdmi-adapter-that-demands-your-location-browsing-data-photos-and-spams-you-with-ads/ 

 The food delivery robots that are zipping across Los Angeles are also providing camera footage they capture to the LAPD. https://www.404media.co/serve-food-delivery-robots-are-feeding-camera-footage-to-the-lapd-internal-emails-show/ 

 A study of 20,000 computer vision papers and patents show the technology is mostly developed to do one thing: surveillance of human bodies. The authors of the study also found that it’s common for AI researchers to use language that obfuscates what the technology actually does, like “object detection,” which literally dehumanizes people. 

https://www.404media.co/how-the-surveillance-ai-pipeline-literally-objectifies-human-beings/ 

 A Taylor Swift fan account on TikTok with millions of views is doxing completely random people who have done nothing wrong using Pimeyes and other off-the-shelf facial recognition tech, showing you can no longer exist in public without potentially getting doxed for no reason at all

https://www.404media.co/the-end-of-privacy-is-a-taylor-swift-fan-tiktok-account-armed-with-facial-recognition-tech/ 

 Payment processor Stripe bans sex work of any kind, but is currently allowing companies that sell tools that people use to make nonconsensual AI-generated porn to use its platform:

https://www.404media.co/stripe-forbids-sex-work-but-profits-from-non-consensual-porn/ 

 Game devs are calling the new pricing structure the "enshittification of Unity," and it's hard to argue with them:

https://www.404media.co/unity-new-fees-prices/