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Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is 'all' the Vegas warehouse does

404 Media placed an AirTag inside a shipment of 1,000 books, which landed at an Amazon facility that reportedly spends all day cutting the spine off of, and scanning, books.

Tom’s Hardware

Rare Books Shipment Tracked to Amazon AI Facility Where Books Are Allegedly Scanned and Destroyed

Amazon faces criticism for allegedly destroying books to digitise them for AI training, raising concerns about the preservation of physical culture and the ethics of AI data sourcing.

International Business Times UK

The privacy myth crumbles: Inside the iCloud+ flaws threatening Apple's most valuable promise

Recently uncovered bugs in Private Relay and Hide My Email have exposed a glaring truth: no single company can act as your sole privacy shield

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Plaintiff busted trying to use AI prompt injection to win court case, hides text instruction in filing — demands AI model reviewing the text should side with him, rumbled because of strange white spaces in text

A self-represented plaintiff in a Connecticut court added a hidden AI prompt injection attack in their filing in a failed attempt to influence a decision. The court bars them from submitting documents electronically and instead must print them and hand to the clerk of court.

Tom’s Hardware

The Flock uprising is just the beginning

People are sick of tech billionaires trying to control our lives

Salon

What Are Flock Cameras? Inside the ALPR Network Sparking a Viral TikTok and Instagram DeFlock Backlash

Flock cameras, used for vehicle surveillance, are at the centre of a US privacy debate. The DeFlock movement opposes their use, sparking national protests and law enforcement scrutiny.

International Business Times UK

Flock reportedly planned to co-opt Uber and Lyft vehicles to expand its surveillance network

Flock planned to partner with Nexar to turn dash cams in Uber and Lyft vehicles into mobile license plate readers, leaked documents show.

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Kansas town silences public comment on gigawatt AI data center after receiving death threats, moves to virtual meetings — shift follows physics teacher's arrest for clapping at data center hearing

Emporia, Kansas, switched to virtual city council meetings after death threats intensified against city leaders. The move also canceled public comments, prompting some members of the public to ask why it was affected, too.

Tom’s Hardware

'Tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for': Microsoft tells engineer to calm down on AI usage

Microsoft engineers told to chill out when it comes to AI token usage.

TechRadar

Company that said it could scan and destroy books for AI data-harvesting has deleted that part of its website: 'no such service was ever brought to life'

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PC Gamer

A cultural crime against humanity? AI firms are destroying ultra-rare books so nobody else can read them

AI firms buy and destroy rare pre-2022 books to create clean training data, concealing purchases through NDAs while courts approve the practice.

TechRadar

AI Has Run Out Of Clean Internet Data. Now It’s Coming For Physical Books

AI companies are buying physical books in bulk to train chatbots, then destroying the copies. Here’s what’s going on.

Pedestrian.tv

LinkedIn’s newest feature: A ‘Seems Like AI Slop’ button

LinkedIn is also removing its ‘enhance with AI’ option for users and replacing it with an option for proofreading that does not significantly re-write posts

The Independent UK

AI's hunger for data is now consuming rare books and booksellers are cashing in

Artificial intelligence firms are purchasing vast quantities of physical books. These books are scanned to train large language models and then destroyed. Rare and out-of-print titles are particularly sought after for this purpose. Booksellers report a significant surge in demand for these older publications. This practice raises concerns about the…

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International Business Times UK

Cops Tracked Woman's Abortion Across 83,000 Cameras for Her 'Safety'; Court Records Show They Eyed Criminal Charges

A Texas sheriff's office used over 83,000 ALPR cameras to track a woman post-abortion, sparking federal scrutiny, state legislation, and charges against the sheriff. The case highlights surveillance and reproductive rights issues.

PC Gamer

AI companies are anonymously buying and destroying millions of books through middleman services to avoid headlines about AI companies buying and destroying millions of books

Booksellers say they're facing a sudden surge of orders for seemingly random rare books—and fear they might be profiting from their destruction.

Tom’s Hardware

AI companies are reportedly shredding millions of books after using them to train AI models — tech giants outsource to middlemen to secretly buy up books for training material

New report reveals that AI companies are buying up physical books to train their LLMs and destroying them in the process.

International Business Times UK

'Modern Poisoning Tools': AI Firms Buying and Destroying Thousands of Books To Feed AI Models

AI companies are buying and scanning printed books for training data, raising copyright and cultural preservation concerns as rare volumes are destroyed in the process.

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Latin Times

Leaked Document Reveals How ICE Tracks Phones, Cars and Social Media at Scale

A leaked 2024 ICE inventory lists 115 surveillance and data tools, from phone tracking to facial recognition — and shows what's since been added.

MusicRadar

Suno scraped millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer and stock music libraries, according to hacked data

404 Media reports that in training its models, the AI music generation platform lifted at least "2,013,545 music clips" from YouTube Music alone

Player One

AI Game Clones Are Threatening Indie Developers Before Their Games Even Launch

AI-generated game clones are making it harder for indie developers to succeed by copying original ideas before launch and flooding digital stores.

Pedestrian.tv

We Finally Know How To Spot AI In Fiction (Hint: It’s Boring As Sh*t)

A new study finds AI-written fiction is easy to spot raising fresh questions about creativity and copyright.

Tom’s Guide

Apple’s ‘Hide My Email’ reportedly exposing real email addresses

Apple’s Hide My Email privacy feature is under fire after a new vulnerability revealed it was exposing, not hiding iCloud users’ real email addresses.

Tom’s Hardware

Apple's Hide My Email service reportedly reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — Cupertino has seemingly known about the problem for a year but has yet to fix it

Apple's Hide My Email service still reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — even though it's been a year since the company was notified about problem.

Tom’s Hardware

Age of Empires II’s goats used as AI building blocks to build a neural network — goaty experiment mocks the idea of chatbot consciousness, Microsoft AI researcher’s project makes an absurdist point about AI consciousness

People seem all-too-ready to anthropomorphize LLMs and AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, reckons a Microsoft AI researcher.

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