New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed www.404media.co/apple-banned...

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE 🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails 🔗 www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

Podcast: We talk all about Sora 2, Apple and Google removing ICE-spotting apps, and a massive update to our Flock reporting. 🔗 www.404media.co/podcast-the-...

New leaked documents show how the FBI convinced a judge to let its partners collect a mass of encrypted messages from thousands of phones around the world. 🔗 www.404media.co/cocaine-in-p...

NEW: Cops in Texas told 404 Media in May they used Flock to find a woman who self-administered an abortion out of concern for her safety. Documents now show police were conducting a “death investigation” and discussed whether they could charge her with a crime: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

The Trump administration’s tariff regime and the elimination of fee exemptions for items under $800 is limiting resource sharing between university libraries, trapping some books in foreign countries, and reversing long-held standards in academic cooperation. 🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

Got a tip recently about how Trump's tariffs are preventing libraries from sharing books, and causing their loaned books to get stuck or lost in other countries: www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

Sora 2, Open AI’s new AI video generator, puts a watermark on every video. But the logo meant to help people distinguish between reality and AI-generated bullshit is easy to remove and there are half a dozen websites that will help anyone do it in a few minutes. 🔗 www.404media.co/sora-2-water...

On top of all of this, and separately: Since we published this story, the Sheriff I talked to and who has been the main figure in this has been arrested for allegedly sexually harassing his employees and for aggravated perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury about it

New from 404 Media: police used a nationwide network of Flock cameras to search for a woman who self-administered an abortion, said it was for her 'safety'. But new docs show they considered charging her with a crime as part of a 'death investigation' into the fetus www.404media.co/police-said-...

The court records show that the facts of the case are far worse than we initially reported. It was a "death investigation" into a "nonviable fetus," the police asked the district attorney if they could charge her for taking the pills. The search happened TWO WEEKS after she took the pills

NEW: Cops in Texas told 404 Media in May they used Flock to find a woman who self-administered an abortion out of concern for her safety. Documents now show police were conducting a “death investigation” and discussed whether they could charge her with a crime: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Red Hat told 404 Media it's aware of the breach. The list of clients potentially affected include the US Navy, Congress, Walmart, and several telecoms.

an "Anti-social Democrat" is running for congress with a bold no posting strategy www.404media.co/can-you-win-...

New: Google removed an ICE-spotting app after calling ICE agents a vulnerable group. A immigration support group on the ground in Chicago, the current focus of ICE, said they were using the app to source tips, called Red Dot. Apple removed that app too www.404media.co/google-calls...

Google has determined that ICE agents are a vulnerable group and has used this designation as pretext to delete an app that helped communities determine where ICE raids were happening www.404media.co/google-calls...

New from 404 Media: Google removed an ICE-spotting app too. Called Red Dot, an immigration support group on the ground in Chicago told me it was using it. Google now removed, just like Apple did with ICEBlock after DOJ pressure. Google calls ICE vulnerable group www.404media.co/google-calls...

New from 404 Media: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells me "we are determined to fight this." "Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move." www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 🔗 www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this." "Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move." www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Beloved writer Kaleb Horton passed away recently. Then suddenly, an AI-generated "biography" of Horton appeared for sale on Amazon. AI slop capitalizing on someone's death. "I cannot overstate how disgusting I find this kind of AI dog shit." www.404media.co/ai-generated...

The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material www.404media.co/openais-sora...

What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure. 🔗 www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...

ICE has a one-stop shop tool for searching massive amounts of social media and location data, including data remotely harvested from peoples’ smartphones www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

Within moments of opening OpenAI’s new AI slop app Sora, I am watching Pikachu steal Poké Balls from a CVS. Then I am watching SpongeBob-as-Hitler give a speech about the “scourge of fish ruining Bikini Bottom.” 🔗 www.404media.co/openais-sora...

A hacking group claims to have pulled data from a GitLab instance connected to Red Hat’s consulting business, scooping up 570 GB of compressed data from 28,000 customers. 🔗 www.404media.co/red-hat-inve...

Earth Is Getting Darker, Literally, and Scientists Are Trying To Find Out Why 🔗 www.404media.co/earth-is-get...

The federal government shut down on Wednesday, as Republican legislators refuse to budge on their desired cuts to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act healthcare subsidies. The last government shutdown was in 2018, also under President Donald Trump, and lasted 35 days. 🔗 www.404media.co/government-s...

Kodak is officially selling their own film again for the first time in many years and will be selling directly to photography stores now. 🔗 www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...

"I can't say what I think should happen to thieves like this.” @404media.co asked me what I thought about this shit. www.404media.co/ai-generated...

Within moments of opening OpenAI’s new AI slop app Sora, I am watching Pikachu steal Poké Balls from a CVS. Then I am watching SpongeBob-as-Hitler give a speech about the “scourge of fish ruining Bikini Bottom.” 🔗 www.404media.co/openais-sora...

AI-Generated Biography on Amazon Tries to Capitalize on the Death of a Beloved Writer Kaleb Horton 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

Alongside @404media.co, we sued DHS demanding they hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE. We believe it’s important for the public to see this unprecedented data sharing agreement.

People are farming and selling invite codes for Sora 2 on eBay, which is currently the fastest and most reliable way to get onto OpenAI’s new video generation and TikTok-clone-but-make-it-AI-slop app. 🔗 www.404media.co/people-are-f...

Kodak is officially selling their own film again for the first time in many years and will be selling directly to photography stores now. 🔗 www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...

404 Media and the Freedom of the Press Foundation are suing DHS, demanding that it hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE. 🔗 www.404media.co/404-media-an...

Last week, thousands of people in Texas were suddenly knocked offline. The cause? A bullet. The outage hit cities all across the state, including Dallas, Irving, Plano, Arlington, Austin, and San Antonio. 🔗 www.404media.co/a-bullet-cra...

The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week: - landlords demanding workplace logins to scrape your paystubs - 18 lawyers explain why they used AI (after getting caught) - subscribers: the Ruby drama Apple/Spotify/YouTube: www.404media.co/podcast-land...

How companies working for landlords are scraping data inside corporate environments; lawyers explain why they used AI 🔗 www.404media.co/podcast-land...

BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media. 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

People on r/twinpeaks flooded the subreddit with AI slop images of FBI agent Dale Cooper and ChatGPT generated scripts after the community’s moderators opened the door to posting AI art. 🔗 www.404media.co/pissed-off-f...

A cancer patient lost $32,000 in crypto after installing a Steam game on his computer containing malware that drained one of his crypto wallets. 🔗 www.404media.co/steam-hosted...

New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth called America’s Generals to Quantico to meet for an unknown reason. America’s top civilian military leader calling the generals home all at once is strange. It’s the kind of move that often presages something like a major war. www.404media.co/in-unhinged-...

An appeals court in California issued a blistering decision and record $10,000 fine against a lawyer who submitted a brief in which “nearly all of the legal quotations in plaintiff’s opening brief “are fabricated” through use of AI. 🔗 www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...

Google’s Ad Transparency tool no longer shows political online advertisements that ran on its platforms, in the past or present, from any countries in the European Union, making seven years of data from 27 different countries inaccessible. 🔗 www.404media.co/google-ad-tr...

Surveillance companies justify helping ICE and Trump with ‘democracy’ “It's not my job to play the ethics game because our elected officials will eventually figure that out. I have full faith in the American people to decide who to elect and what to vote on.” 🔗 www.404media.co/how-surveill...