the future of labor is armies of gig workers babysitting robots? www.404media.co/waymo-is-get...

This tech is pretty common now but I don't think people fully understand what it means that anyone including police can use it www.404media.co/cops-are-buy...

had a great time talking with @patrickklepek.bsky.social about parenting, screen time, roblox, and more. Please listen so I can do more mommy blogging on 404 Media www.404media.co/the-screen-t...

what we loved about Dan McQuade defector.com/what-we-love...

It's been really lovely reading all the tributes to Dan. Many people have asked if they can contribute to support his wife and son. You can do so here: everloved.com/life-of/dan-...

The FBI can’t get into a Washington Post reporter’s phone, in part because it was set to Lockdown Mode. www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

we're releasing a PDF of our zine about ICE's tech for free. we also translated it to Spanish. Please share far and wide! www.404media.co/icezine/

c o o l www.404media.co/musk-to-epst...

this gets an lol from me: www.404media.co/erotic-parod...

SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. The full user guide here:

One of the most popular AI chatbot apps in the app stores exposes millions and millions of user conversations: www.404media.co/massive-ai-c...

Jon is joined by @josephcox.bsky.social and @radleybalko.bsky.social to discuss Palantir's advanced targeting technology and how federal agencies like ICE are using it.

we get into it on this week's (not three hours long) 404 Media podcast: youtu.be/EFv0rD9F9es?...

it's hard to explain how horrible and dangerous this app and the people who made it are but I tried: www.404media.co/app-for-quit...

Jon, @radleybalko.bsky.social, and @josephcox.bsky.social are discussing the latest news from Minnesota and who’s really to blame for ICE policy on an all-new podcast, out tomorrow.

Thank you @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social and @samleecole.bsky.social for speaking with adult creators like myself who are concerned about the way things are going on ManyVids

"unexplained pauses" are making dozens of critical CDC databases go dark under RFK www.404media.co/dozens-of-cd...

the meta for AI-generated influencers is getting very weird and dark www.404media.co/two-heads-th...

People are freaked out. Everyone @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social and I talked to for this story brought up AI psychosis. “It concerns me that access to my earnings, and more importantly my personal information, is in the hands of someone seemingly out of touch with reality.”

NEW: The porn platform ManyVids which once looked to champion sex workers is now suffering from what many creators on the platform say is "AI psychosis." From posts about imaginary convos with aliens, AI-generated videos of UFOs, and other cryptic quotes about AI, some creators are leaving.

The FAA has altered a no fly zone designation that was originally created for US military bases to apply to DHS units.

extremely broad and alarming drone no fly zone designed to protect ICE agents just dropped. notable in part because some folks have used drones to film law enforcement abuses: www.404media.co/feds-create-...

One of the first things anyone learns about facial recognition is that it is often wrong and that it is biased. And yet ICE is using it all day every day to determine legal status & who to detain. And now we have a high-profile example of it being flat out wrong: www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

I wonder how long it will take for some of these celebs to go after Meta directly www.404media.co/instagram-ai...

New: Police have released info about millions of surveillance targets nationwide from thousands of different police departments because of a public records redaction error in Flock data. Reveals active police investigations, border patrol & ICE targets, lots more: www.404media.co/police-unmas...

the headline is crazy but my favorite part of this story is even the police looking at Flock's claims and saying "uhhhh you guys are nuts and need to calm down" www.404media.co/police-unmas...

what people are able to do with Grok at the moment is far far far worse than putting people in bikinis www.404media.co/inside-the-t...

Grok is being used to remove clothes from random peoples' photos. Journalists think they got the chatbot to 'apologize'. What are you doing? An LLM cannot apologize. It doesn't know what is happening. A journalist doing this is a form of AI psychosis. Full ep here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9l...

mass migration to GitGoon now www.404media.co/github-ban-s...

I am a day too late but I guess I will ring in the new year by highlighting what I think are the best stories I published last year. The Tea hack and its origin story could only happen in 2025, and says a lot about privacy, virality, love etc: www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...

Flock left a bunch of its AI cameras exposed on the internet. We used them to track Jason www.404media.co/flock-expose...

This was such a fun pod to do!!!! Come for the aliens, stay for...Maimonides? www.404media.co/why-are-we-o...

ICE's deportation operation has a contract with a company that makes AI agents for bounty hunters www.404media.co/ice-contract...

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

this is like Neo waking up in the pod

a16z gave a million dollars to a phone farm that's flooding TikTok with AI-generated influencers. A hacker contacted 404 Media to reveal what these accounts are and what products they're promoting www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

a very revealing story about how the execs at these AI companies think about their products, and their users www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

openai has just been marked for death bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-08/disney-said-to-double-investment-in-vice-media-to-400-million

nightmare: Developer downloads reputable AI training data which no one knew contained CSAM. He uploads it to Google Drive, tripping an alarm, and his Google accounts are banned. He does everything right but was banned for months until I reached out for comment www.404media.co/a-developer-...

Updated this post with comment from Meta, which confirmed it recently started using AI recently started using AI to generate these headlines. As some readers have noted, LinkedIn and TikTok have also been doing this.

Instagram is creating 2014 Buzzfeed-style SEO headlines for your Instagram posts and guess what? They're often misleading. Thanks to @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and @mrdang.photos for flagging this to me www.404media.co/instagram-is...

Instagram is creating 2014 Buzzfeed-style SEO headlines for your Instagram posts and guess what? They're often misleading. Thanks to @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and @mrdang.photos for flagging this to me www.404media.co/instagram-is...

Border patrol agents are clearly recording raids with Meta glasses www.404media.co/border-patro...

404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it: www.404media.co/404-media-is...

How to make "monetized USA Accounts" and how to populate them with content is an incredibly popular global YouTube side hustle type of content. Look at this:

X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this: www.404media.co/americas-pol...

For @404media.co this morning: a group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild. And I got to see it. www.404media.co/ice-defense-...

I'm looking to talk to Tea users who were impacted by the hack we covered a few months ago. If you're one of those people please email me at [email protected] or hit me up on signal at @emanuel.404 www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...

Russia once hyped the Kinzhal as an invincible superweapon. Now Ukraine is downing them by blasting it with music and making it think it's in Peru

the CEO of OnlyFans posted earlier this month on LinkedIn that the platform is partnering with Checkr to check criminal records of new creators, as part of the onboarding process www.404media.co/onlyfans-bac...