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The list includes budget claims like "$3.4 million for Malaysian drug-fueled gay sex app" and "Disbursed $15,000 to 'queer' Muslim writers in India."

FDA and HHS sites now note that “The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology and condemns the harms it causes to children.”

This week, we discuss Apple's iCloud, Wikipedia as a miracle of humankind, and good soup.

"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."

The attorneys filed court documents referencing eight non-existent cases, then admitted it was a "hallucination" by an AI tool.

The creator of a viral "true crime" series where the murders were all invented by AI explains how he did it.

Musk told reporters all of DOGE's actions are "maximally transparent." The website tracking waste is currently about an imaginary architecture firm.

This week we discuss a new Microsoft study that finds using generative AI is "atrophying" people's cognition and critical thinking skills, the right's war on Wikipedia, and, in the subscriber's section, the idea of posting against fascism.

Motivational videos on TikTok using AI-generated voices of Trump, Musk, and other celebrities are racking up millions of views.

A Florida data broker told a US senator it obtained sensitive data on US military members in Germany from a Lithuanian firm, which denies involvement—revealing the opaque nature of online ad surveillance.

After health agencies responded to Trump's executive order deeming there to be only "two sexes" by scrubbing sites of important resources, a judge ordered they have until midnight Tuesday to bring them back online.

Senator Dick Durbin presses Meta to explain why it can’t stop sending traffic to nonconsensual AI image generators that violate its policy.

The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.

Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.

A 1,600-foot-wide asteroid has a 0.037% chance of impacting Earth on September 24, 2182. What if we punch that unlucky ticket?

“This evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited."

This week: getting "political" and what it means to be technology journalists in this day and age.

"This is the most 1984 email I've ever seen," one worker said.

The current Archivist of the United States held an all-hands this week in which she still seemed to be in charge, 404 Media has learned.

“The internet is a dangerous place for children, rife with sexual material that is harmful to minors," the Republican lawmakers wrote. "The ease of access to this material is downright scary."