Cyrus Farivar

Forbes Staff|Innovation

I'm always interested in tips re fraud, waste, abuse, shenanigans, & sketchiness ongoing in the tech world.

Get in touch: cfarivar@forbes.com or +1-341-758-0888 (Signal/WhatsApp)

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PREMIUM10,479 viewsApr 30, 2024

Chinese Shopping App Temu Censors Searches For ‘Trump’ And ‘Biden’

American users also won’t get search results for Xi Jinping, Uyghur, CCP, Palestine and Israel, among many other terms.

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PREMIUM4,191 viewsApr 22, 2024

Why Baltimore And 2 Other Cities Sued America’s Largest Body Camera Maker

A trio of East Coast cities are hoping to do what the Feds could not: successfully show that Axon forced their police departments to overpay.

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PREMIUM11,536 viewsApr 4, 2024

How TikTok Shop Became The Internet’s Favorite New Dollar Store

Six months after its launch, TikTok Shop has sold more than $1 billion worth of products — some of questionable quality, including counterfeits.

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PREMIUM2,149 viewsMar 26, 2024

Suspect Charged After Allegedly Using AI To Create Images Of Child Sexual Abuse

In one of the first criminal cases of its kind, prosecutors have charged a Wisconsin man after he allegedly showed AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery to a child.

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PREMIUM26,401 viewsMar 13, 2024

Teen Boys Deepfaked Her Daughter. Then The School Made It Worse, One Mom Says.

In testimony to Congress, the mother of a deepfake porn victim says the students accused of creating the AI-made nude images continue to share class with her daughter.