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On Sunday Mahmoud Khalil’s wife was unable to find the protester at the New Jersey facility he was allegedly detained in. ICE’s system now says he is in Louisiana.

WikiPortraits, a group of volunteer photographers, has been covering festivals and shooting celebrities specifically to improve images in the public domain.

They are cute, but are they mammoths? No. They are mice.

This week, we discuss a Supreme drop, a visit to a local Risograph printer, and what is up with Big Car.

An example of AI attempting to summarizing nuanced reviewed of Hitler's Nazi manifesto turned into an example of algorithms eating themselves.

A new crop of AI video generators is producing an endless stream of nonconsensual AI generated porn.

The program, called ‘safe place for science,’ offers American scientists funding to continue their research in France.

fly.pieter.com was initially made in just 30 minutes with AI tools and is now generating thousands of dollars a month. The future of AI-assisted game development will not be that simple.

The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.

We talk Cybertruck protests; IDs from Palau; and the big Instagram bug.

The proliferation of AI through law enforcement tools already has civil liberties experts concerned. “When you have results from an AI, they are not transparent. Often you cannot trace back where a conclusion came from, or what information it is based on. AIs hallucinate," one said.

A Facebook group for Cybertruck owners is full of videos of people flicking off Cybertrucks.

Another lawyer was caught using AI and not checking the output for accuracy, while a previously-reported case just got hit with sanctions.

U.S. traders are buying 'digital residency' in Palau to skirt restrictions on the amount of cryptocurrency they can withdraw and the exchanges they can use. Major exchanges have already banned the ID, fearing abuse.

He was hanging out in an ancient Roman port town 2,000 years ago, when something struck him (a deadly volcanic eruption).

This week, we discuss stunt blogging, Signal pains, and murderous Reels.

DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too.

It took about 24 hours for Alibaba’s Wan 2.1 to become popular in the AI porn community.

“Today’s algorithm showed me around 70 murders, 100+ accidents, and around 115 violence videos, is anyone on Instagram noticing it?”

A court document reviewed by 404 Media says Cameron John Wagenius also searched for “U.S. military personnel defecting to Russia.”