Marvin Milatz
@milatz.bsky.social
I work on digital methods in journalism | #OSINT and digital forensics researcher at DER SPIEGEL Dokumentation
New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
Absolutely essential reading about the impact of vibe coding on open source and the practice of software development generally, by @samlearner.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/cec8...
Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
ft.com
No surprise, but my father fell for ANOTHER AI-powered scam targeting the elderly. He saw an ad for something on IG. He ended up purchasing the snake oil they are selling. They made an AI manipulated video of Laura Ingram and Elon Musk. Folks, it's not even a good video.
Also true for my Digital archaeology approach to web archives 😆
Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg@bnluxembourg.bsky.social · 2mo ago🌊
More than some truth in this. In the end it’s just stats. Highly complex, but still statistics. Has anyone coined the term ‘Statistical responsibility’ yet?
Kim Hu@kim-hu.com · 2mo agoI am forced to use AI for a job (I teach and I have to keep up with the developments and I hate it) and it's hand on heart way too bland and boring to ever use it lol It by design will always pivot to the most mediocre output. It's just how it works. I'm truly sorry for you if you think it's useful
i was reminded that i made a helpful tool if you're somebody who files FOIA requests for email logs (as a spreadsheet) upload them to GraphEmails.com and you can generate network graphs of who's emailing each other, which you can style and filter (or use to filter the log)
Un-mythosising Anthropic‘s Mythos - this cyber frontier dispatch from Cloudflare helps to put hype into context. blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-fronti...
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what t...
blog.cloudflare.com
Enshittification at work … „Curl’s creator Daniel Stenberg wrote in a blog post that the “never-ending slop” had taken “a serious mental toll to manage and sometimes also a long time to debunk”.“ www.ft.com/content/dbec...
‘Never-ending’ AI slop strains corporate hacking reward schemes
‘Bug bounty’ programmes have seen a jump in spurious AI-generated submissions
ft.com
Come work with me! A really cool job just opened up on our international investigations team at The New York Times for a reporter specializing in OSINT, with lots of room for different skillsets job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
Open Source Intelligence Reporter
Berlin, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; London, United Kingdom; Madrid, Spain; Paris, France; Rome, Italy; Warsaw, Poland
job-boards.greenhouse.io
Tampere University offers a 3-year fully funded PhD position on the use of open source investigation in relation to the Ukraine and Palestine conflicts. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
Doctoral Researcher (U-KNOW-project, focus on open-source investigation in the Ukraine or Palestine conflicts) / Väitöskirjatutkija
tuni.rekrytointi.com
This is worth your time. Puts in perspective the impact of fakes on our society. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/e...
1. Fake it. Make it. Podcast it.
Podcast-Folge · Everything Is Fake · S2 F1 · 29 Min.
podcasts.apple.com
Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved. Today, some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk. Tell publishers: don’t block the #WaybackMachine. Sign the petition ➡️ www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/
Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!
The news isn’t getting preserved in the Wayback Machine anymore because major media outlets are blocking it.
savethearchive.com
Neu von uns: Collien Fernandes beschuldigt Christian Ulmen, sie »virtuell vergewaltigt« zu haben. Der SPIEGEL enthüllte den Fall, Ulmen ging dagegen vor. Nun hat das Landgericht Hamburg entschieden: Über die Vorwürfe zu berichten, war rechtmäßig und angemessen. www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/net...
Fall Collien Fernandes: Christian Ulmen scheitert vor Gericht – SPIEGEL-Bericht bleibt praktisch unangetastet
Collien Fernandes beschuldigt Christian Ulmen, sie »virtuell vergewaltigt« zu haben. Der SPIEGEL enthüllte den Fall, Ulmen ging dagegen vor. Nun hat das Landgericht Hamburg entschieden: Über die Vorwü...
spiegel.de
Let's say you love journalism that pisses off the powerful. Let's also say, totally theoretically, you don't always love reading lots and lots of words of it. Well, you're in luck! There's a new podcast to treat that affliction: www.propublica.org/series/paper...
Paper Trail
Investigative reporters at ProPublica chase down evidence of wrongdoing and bring it to light. Each episode, you’ll ride along as we talk to reporters and their sources, uncover hidden facts and show ...
propublica.org
this 2-3 year reporting fellowship for the paper in Martha's Vineyard (comes with a furnished 2-bedroom guesthouse!) looks like it ruuuules vineyardgazette.com/henry-beetle...
Henry Beetle Hough Enterprise Fellowship Reporter
The Vineyard Gazette, an award-winning newspaper on Martha’s Vineyard with a reputation for rigorous, in-depth reporting, is seeking an experienced journalist for a newly created fellowship. Working w...
vineyardgazette.com
This paper was retracted from the @nejm.org because the images of bronchial branching after smoke inhalation were obviously and transparently manipulated by generative AI. Look at the ruler. I don't even know what lesson to draw from this. www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
By the way, this was really great. #osint folks, check out @netpreserve.bsky.social and get in touch with the web archivists from your respective National Library. They have interesting sources to tab into. Happy to connect, feel free to reach out.
Marvin Milatz@milatz.bsky.social · 4mo agoJust about to catch a super early flight to Brussels to add some thoughts on #osint, forensics and digital archives to this expert conference. Looking forward to mingle among web archivists from all over the globe. 👋 #iipcWAC26
🚨Job🚨 at @data.ft.com: We're hiring a data journalist in the US, based in New York or Washington #ddj: job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
US Data Journalist
New York; Washington DC
job-boards.greenhouse.io
Just about to catch a super early flight to Brussels to add some thoughts on #osint, forensics and digital archives to this expert conference. Looking forward to mingle among web archivists from all over the globe. 👋 #iipcWAC26
@netpreserve.bsky.social · 4mo agoReady for #iipcWAC26: Sustainable #WebArchiving & the BelgicaWeb Symposium at KBR, Royal Library of Belgium. 🟢 netpreserve.org/ga2026/
BREAKING: You checked the weather this morning. And you just told a surveillance company where you sleep. Meet #Webloc, used by ICE, cops & foreign govs to track 500m+ phones. No warrant required. Our @citizenlab.ca investigation + how to protect yourself 🧵/1 citizenlab.ca/research/ana...
Hey @rasmushelles.bsky.social, funny coincidence: you seem to have a German retro pic for image header. I have a retro Danish 😆 Great style Have a good one! archive.org/details/dani...
Danish Foreign Office Journal 1960-11: Iss 35 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
archive.org
New on @indicator.media: With @mattburgess1.bsky.social at @wired.com, I built a map of the reported cases where AI was used to create nonconsensual intimate imagery within schools around the globe.
More than 640 students have been targeted by AI nudifiers across 28 countries
Indicator’s map of school-related incidents shows the global reach of these tools of abuse
indicator.media
See Also: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04... #archives #journalists @fightforthefuture.org @archive.org
100+ Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record
Rachel Maddow declares the Archive a “national treasure” as uncertainty mounts on whether today’s journalism will be preserved for future generations. Photos by Kenyatta Thomas Over 100 journalists in...
fightforthefuture.org
The Internet's Most Powerful #Archiving Tool Is in Peril (via @wired.com) www.wired.com/story/the-in... #archives #webarchives #digipres #publishers @archive.org
OpenAI: don’t visit publisher’s websites!! let our chatbot summarize the reviews to help you shop!! ChatGPT: i frew up
Reece@thiccreese.bsky.social · 4mo ago“As more people experiment with generative AI as a search tool, mistakes like these can damage reader trust when they believe they are going with a publisher’s top pick—and then purchasing a TV that’s not even part of their recommendations.” www.wired.com/story/i-aske...
Der Stand der Dinge - von @julianeloeffler.bsky.social, @maxhoppenstedt.bsky.social und Lukas Eberle. www.spiegel.de/panorama/ges...
(S+) Collien Fernandes: Die wichtigsten Fragen zum Fall und den Vorwürfen
Fakeprofile, mutmaßliche Gewalt, Ermittlungen in zwei Ländern: Die Vorwürfe von Collien Fernandes gegen Christian Ulmen sind vielschichtig – und ständig gibt es neue Entwicklungen. Der Überblick.
spiegel.de
Gefälschte Nacktfotos von realen Frauen: Unter der dubiosen KI-App Clothoff leiden vor allem junge Mädchen. Hier packt ein Whistleblower über das skrupellose Geschäft aus.
Deepfakes: Perfides Geschäft mit künstlicher Intelligenz
Gefälschte Nacktfotos von realen Frauen: Unter der dubiosen KI-App Clothoff leiden vor allem junge Mädchen. Hier packt ein Whistleblower über das skrupellose Geschäft aus.
spiegel.de
