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ICE's AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster

ICE's AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster3+ hour, 57+ min ago   (361+ words) Published Jan 15, 2026 5:03 PM EST As headlines teem with stories of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers beating protestors, holding children hostage, and murdering people in cold blood, you might be wondering: who the hell hired these guys? As it turns…...

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Engineers Deploy "Poison Fountain" That Scrambles Brains of AI Systems

Engineers Deploy "Poison Fountain" That Scrambles Brains of AI Systems3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (436+ words) Published Jan 12, 2026 3:15 PM EST To push back against AI, some call for blowing up data centers." If that's too extreme for your tastes, then you might be interested in another project, which instead advocates for poisoning the resource that the…...

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Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit

Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit4+ week, 11+ hour ago   (435+ words) Published Dec 18, 2025 9:01 AM EST You know those memes about how there's no such thing as a free VPN? Here's the ultimate cautionary tale. A recent investigation by Tel Aviv-based security firm Koi uncovered a massive data harvesting operation tied to…...

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Hacker Busts Startup Running Huge Web of AI-Generated "Influencers" on Instagram

Hacker Busts Startup Running Huge Web of AI-Generated "Influencers" on Instagram4+ week, 1+ day ago   (354+ words) Published Dec 17, 2025 6:01 PM EST Back in October, stories of an AI startup called Doublespeed began making the rounds. Backed by tech venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Doublespeed offers customers a unique service: access to a massive phone farm that could…...

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Top Spy Says Tech Corporations Are Closer to Running Entire World Than Governments

Top Spy Says Tech Corporations Are Closer to Running Entire World Than Governments4+ week, 1+ day ago   (537+ words) Published Dec 17, 2025 7:00 AM EST When it comes to toppling governments from behind the scenes, not many know the business better than MI6. Since the end of World War II, British covert operatives have executed 42 coup attempts in 27 countries throughout the world,…...

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Literal Teens Are Losing It All at Crypto Casinos

Literal Teens Are Losing It All at Crypto Casinos1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (326+ words) Published Dec 13, 2025 11:15 AM EST Kids grow up so fast these days: they're getting hooked on high-stakes gambling younger than ever. According to new reporting from the New York Times, teenagers and young adults are blowing their fortunes on shady online…...

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AI "Companion Bots" Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims

AI "Companion Bots" Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (594+ words) Published Dec 12, 2025 9:15 AM EST If you're one of the 28 percent of Americans who've shared an intimate relationship with an AI chatbot, we might have some bad news. Freshly reported testimony from the Data Worker's Inquiry " an international research initiative empowering…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > ai-surveillance-flock-philippines

AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents

AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (252+ words) Published Dec 7, 2025 12:45 PM EST What does it take to become the most successful AI surveillance company in 2025? If you're anything like Flock, the startup selling automatic license plate readers and facial recognition tech to cops, you don't really need much…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > ai-researchers-dangerous-prompts

AI Researchers Say They've Invented Incantations Too Dangerous to Release to the Public

AI Researchers Say They've Invented Incantations Too Dangerous to Release to the Public1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (475+ words) Published Dec 7, 2025 8:15 AM EST With great power comes great dupe-ability. Last month, we reported on a new study conducted by researchers at Icaro Lab in Italy that discovered a stupefyingly simple way of breaking the guardrails of even cutting-edge AI…...

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Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft's Embrace of AI Slop

Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft's Embrace of AI Slop1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (746+ words) Published Dec 6, 2025 7:30 AM EST Earlier this year, Microsoft officially yanked the cord on Windows 10, ending support for an operating system that had been superseded by Windows 11 four years earlier. But the tech giant's controversial attempts to shoehorn AI into every…...