
404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it and draw connections between people.

Not a bad theory. The Anonymous that we know is long gone, so the new blood has to be from somewhere.
Love seeing all these client updates!!
Another day, another stupid 180 from our mercurial king đ
when the markets are this chaotic, only the wealthy can afford to trade futures. The rest of us can't afford the risk to our life savings.
God he fell off so hard. Though if these allegations are true, I guess he's always been a POS, he was just doing a better job at hiding it.
Even the regret rate for having children is higher. Lol
thank you for the work you do! Quick question: why was the icon changed to a black background vs the previous blue one? I have noticed many roku apps seem to be shifting to a black background, maybe it's just a strange coincidence but curious if there was any specific reason for that change.
Don't they use quantum dots in some OLEDs? Isn't that what QD-OLED is?
The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring
404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it and draw connections between people.
Today in "The US Government is looking for ways to imprison political opponents":
A contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and many other U.S. government agencies has developed a tool that lets analysts more easily pull a target individualâs publicly available data from a wide array of sites, social networks, apps, and services across the web at once, including Bluesky, OnlyFans, and various Meta platforms, according to a leaked list of the sites obtained by 404 Media.
The news comes after ICE detained Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Columbia University protester and green card holding legal permanent resident of the U.S., on Saturday with the intention of deporting him. It also comes as Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reportedly launching an AI-fueled âCatch and Revokeâ effort to scan the social media accounts for tens of thousands of student visa holdersâ social media accounts, looking for what Axios reported as foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or ot
seems strange for you to criticize the quality of Wikipedia, then? you have personal experience that demonstrates why these volunteers are putting their time towards this instead of towards editing articles - editing articles is a difficult and sometimes contentious process.
honestly you aren't wrong. I'd guess it's just a case of the Wikipedia photo being a bottom priority for them, but then you would think "update Wikipedia photo" would be somewhere on every publicist's to-do list. Maybe this project will encourage more publicists to explore how to do this.
and none of those are the ones currently used on his article lol
Wikipedia focuses on those other issues as well, they just happen to be a group of volunteers trying to manage the most comprehensive repository of information that the world has ever seen. If you see issues with articles, you are always welcome to sign up and edit the articles yourself!
Wikipedia does such a solid, unmitigated GOOD service for the world, especially the English speaking world.
Lol EXCELLENT example of the kind of photo Wikiportraits is trying to replace. It's hilarious, but not great for the internet's most reliable resource.
Photographers Are on a Mission to Fix Wikipedia's Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits
WikiPortraits, a group of volunteer photographers, has been covering festivals and shooting celebrities specifically to improve images in the public domain.
WikiPortraits, a group of volunteer photographers, has been covering festivals and shooting celebrities specifically to improve images in the public domain.
Since last January, WikiPortraits photographers have covered around 10 global festivals and award ceremonies, and taken nearly 5,000 freely-licensed photos of celebrity attendees. And the celebrity attendees are often quite excited about it. Dixit, for example, found Jeremy Strong of Succession at a New York showing of the new The Apprentice and asked to take a new headshot of him for Wikipedia.
âHis publicist said no,â Dixit said. âBut Jeremy said, âWait, youâre from Wikipedia? For the love of God, please take down that photo. Youâd be doing me a service.â So he stood and posed, and I got a shot of him.â Strongâs old photo was from 2014.
I hate how likely this is. I can't imagine any scenario where the Trump DOJ does something like this unselfishly, and Google has already kowtowed to the Trump admin. There must be a specific Trump ally they have in mind that would buy that from Google, Musk is just the most likely.
thank you for sharing!
i would feel okay about it if the energy cost of AI wasn't so astronomical. It would be a fun quirk to play an open-world game full of characters that can sort of hold a conversation with you like this. But if we have to boil oceans to do it (and we still do as of this writing), then it just seems beyond frivolous. I love video games, but nothing in a video game is important enough to justify that energy cost.
Pi Holes are awesome! Blocking ads at the router level is a great idea. However, I have heard they can be a bit finicky, so not the best solution for all.
Sounds like a fun romp, though I will admit to being more partial to the STALKER style.
Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse
The video game chat platform is reportedly exploring a Wall Street IPO
hell yeah the rumors is true. Well it LOOKS solid, but i don't know how much actual info there was to glean out of that video. This is coming from a different studio than the people that brought you THPS 1+2, so it remains to be seen if Iron Galaxy can pull off the same kind of loving remake that Vicarious Visions gave us in 1+2. I think Iron Galaxy was responsible for the Killer Instinct reboot, so we know they have some cred on bringing old games back to life.
More than 40% of all US PS5 and Xbox play time last month was spent on 10 live service games
Players are trying fewer new games because of live servicesâŚ
he's about to go Big Willie Style
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You Canât Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
You Canât Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.
did Nazi that coming
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Hundreds to wed as Thai same-sex marriage law comes into force
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review & Benchmarks: Gaming, Thermals, & Power
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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/18143916
TL;DW: At 4K, the RTX 5090 hits 20-50% uplifts in raster as compared to the RTX 4090, and 27-35% uplifts in RT as compared to the RTX 4090. Power efficiency is roughly equivalent to the 4090. The new dual flowthrough cooler design seems to perform exactly as advertised, providing remarkable cooling for a card that is only two slots thick.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review & Benchmarks: Gaming, Thermals, & Power
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TL;DW: At 4K, the RTX 5090 hits 20-50% uplifts in raster as compared to the RTX 4090, and 27-35% uplifts in RT as compared to the RTX 4090. Power efficiency is roughly equivalent to the 4090. The new dual flowthrough cooler design seems to perform exactly as advertised, providing remarkable cooling for a card that is only two slots thick.
The U.S. Constitution Delivers a 404 Now
Instagram users encounter blocked political hashtags in search results
Instagram users encounter blocked political hashtags in search results
A Pivot To Indie wonât save us
An indie dev's response to NYT's "Games Canât Afford To Look This Good" and the meme of "I want smaller games with less graphics and I'm not kidding".
Tencent and Guillemot family considering new venture with Ubisoft assets - report
Chinese conglomerate Tencent and Ubisoft's founding Guillemot family are reportedly considering a new venture using a foundation of Ubisoft assets.
There Is No Safe Word: How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
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There Is No Safe Word: How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
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Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes
Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.
Meta deleted nonbinary and trans themes for its Messenger app this week, around the same time that the company announced it would change its rules to allow users to declare that LGBTQ+ people are âmentally ill,â 404 Media has learned.