Articles: 167
28 Jun 2025, 13:00
Technology
It’s the first observed instance of a marine mammal manufacturing tools.
27 Jun 2025, 17:16
This week, we discuss wrestling over a good headline, what to read this summer, and Super 8 film.
27 Jun 2025, 14:06
Researchers took inspiration from r/AmITheAsshole to find out if chatbots are likely to demonstrate an exaggerated version of human beings’ “bias for inaction.”
26 Jun 2025, 17:26
People are self treating themselves and other community members in subreddits like character_ai_recovery, ChatBotAddiction, and AIAddiction.
26 Jun 2025, 16:41
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is using it in the field.
26 Jun 2025, 14:07
An unprecedented study reveals maternal lineages, female-centered practices, and a “surprising shift” in a 9,000-year-old settlement associated with a goddess cult.
26 Jun 2025, 13:50
404 Media spoke to Dave McNamee, the original creator of the babyface Vance meme, about free speech, our rights, and how it feels to see the thing you created being blamed for someone's denial of entry to the U.S.
26 Jun 2025, 13:31
It’s a legal requirement for data brokers to register in the state of California. ARC, the airlines-owned data broker that has been selling your flight information to the government for years, only just registered after being contacted by the office of Senator Ron Wyden.
26 Jun 2025, 12:53
An Ohio man is accused of making violent, graphic deepfakes of women with their fathers, and of their children. Device searches revealed he searched for "undress" apps and "ai porn."
25 Jun 2025, 15:08
Following 404 Media’s reporting and in light of new legislation, automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock has stopped agencies reaching into cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia.
25 Jun 2025, 13:48
A software engineer made a version of the game that runs off code printed onto a small card.
25 Jun 2025, 13:00
A tool that uses facial recognition to reveal cops' names, a big and complicated AI ruling, and the AI slop between Iran and Israel.
24 Jun 2025, 18:17
LLMs are not familiar with “ate that up,” “secure the bag,” and “sigma,” showing that training data is not yet updated to Gen Alpha terminology.
24 Jun 2025, 15:31
A judge rules that Anthropic's training on copyrighted works without authors' permission was a legal fair use, but that stealing the books in the first place is illegal.
24 Jun 2025, 14:19
Blaming payment processor restrictions, Fansly—a platform creators flocked to after OnlyFans announced it'd ban sex—announced it's changing the rules for multiple types of content.
24 Jun 2025, 13:43
A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.
24 Jun 2025, 13:00
New Session publishes poetry via Telnet, rejecting the internet’s fast-paced enshittification.
23 Jun 2025, 17:54
Researchers found Meta’s popular Llama 3.1 70B has a capacity to recite passages from 'The Sorcerer's Stone' at a rate much higher than could happen by chance.
23 Jun 2025, 14:57
Here is the video archive for our FOIA Forum where we explained how we got records about Massive Blue, a company selling AI personas to cops.
23 Jun 2025, 14:11
Details about how Meta's nearly Manhattan-sized data center will impact consumers' power bills are still secret.
21 Jun 2025, 13:00
A preprint study found that participants who used an LLM to write essays performed worse “at all levels” than those who didn’t.
20 Jun 2025, 15:26
This week, we discuss Deadheads and doxxing sites.
20 Jun 2025, 12:00
According to the FBI, a Texas man talked about killing christians on Roblox and searched for ‘are suicide attacks haram in islam’ on his iPhone.
18 Jun 2025, 13:47
Scientists have spotted the universe’s “missing matter” hiding in a vast cosmic web with some help from fast radio bursts from deep space.
18 Jun 2025, 13:40
Tens of thousands of security cameras in businesses, CCTV cameras, and cameras from commonplace internet-connected devices were found vulnerable to dark web actors, a new report shows.
18 Jun 2025, 13:00
There’s a lack of footage from the conflict and AI-generated content is filling the void.
Airlines selling detailed flight data to DHS; how AI scrapers are hammering open archives; and the casual surveillance relationship between ICE and local cops.
17 Jun 2025, 15:15
New data obtained by 404 Media also shows California cops are illegally sharing Flock automatic license plate reader (ALPR) data with other agencies out of state, who in turn are performing searches for ICE.
17 Jun 2025, 14:47
In an industry full of grifters and companies hell-bent on making the internet worse, it is hard to think of a worse actor than Meta, or a worse product that the AI Discover feed.
17 Jun 2025, 14:23
The list of sites in the suspect's notebook, which can easily reveal where someone lives, are a simple Google search away, have been for years, and lawmakers could make changes if they wanted. They have before.
17 Jun 2025, 10:00
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
16 Jun 2025, 16:36
I got a confirmation email saying I'll get another confirmation when it's shipped. But I haven't provided a shipping address.
