today in yikes www.404media.co/openais-sora...

is a hot dog a sandwich? is cereal soup? is ravioli, dumplings? are glasses iphones????

Meta PR has been challenging us to philosophical debates about the difference between its AI glasses harassment machine and an iPhone, this is my answer www.404media.co/whats-the-di...

PSA from 404 Media: you can opt-out of a data broker selling your flight travel data to the government to be searched without a warrant. Here's how I did it. This is ARC, the data broker owned by major U.S. airlines like United, Delta, American, etc www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

Meta's AI plan is to automatically create personalized advertisements for companies that are different for different users, further siloing people Zuckerberg says advertisers will "be able to give us a business objective and a credit card" and AI will do the rest www.404media.co/the-future-o...

Hugely important academic paper repository arXiv says it will no longer accept Computer Science papers that are still under review due to the wave of AI-generated ones it has received. This will radically change preprint and open access scientific research www.404media.co/arxiv-change...

imagine being in charge of the deadliest weapons ever know to the world, not getting paid, and finding out from social media that you're gonna have to resume testing said weapons

despite the shutdown, the Secretary of Energy said he was able to find SOMETHING to pay contractors .... just not federal employees.

"There is no upside" - @mattkorda.bsky.social

several people have emailed us to say that the sudden shut down of a giant book distributor is making public libraries scramble for books www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

could not agree more

“pure dystopian creep.” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

People are using Meta's Ray-Ban glasses to secretly film themselves asking massage parlor workers for sex work. This is incredibly dangerous and sadly a trend across social media www.404media.co/metas-ray-ba...

the 2025 cohort of a16z-backed AI startups is a forecast for all the ways AI is going to ruin your life in the near future www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund...

grokipedia is not going to make it because it lacks everything that made wikipedia useful and popular www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...

On Friday a Goodreads mod went rogue and called the site out for censoring reviews of Eric Trump's new book

this convinced me to watch it www.404media.co/house-of-dyn...

new pfp for @mjgault.bsky.social imo www.404media.co/zennis-anti-...

thank you @mjgault.bsky.social for doing some fashion blogging for us www.404media.co/zennis-anti-...

Another case of a widely used dataset for AI training containing child sexual abuse material www.404media.co/ai-dataset-f...

Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

this is what scientific progress is all about www.404media.co/breathing-th...

Update: Apple confirms it removed the viral Tea app from the Apple App Store. Apple says it received an excessive number of negative complaints about it (including people posting the info of minors on the app) and that apps need a way to report content. App now gone www.404media.co/women-dating...

the women dating safety app Tea, which was breached multiple times, has been delisted from the Apple App Store www.404media.co/women-dating...

if you're feeling down today, I have some Reddit threads for you

According to Wikipedia, today is the 20th anniversary of The 1UP Show. I choose to believe this is true. I miss this work. More, I miss my old coworkers. Still the best and most fun job I ever had. I’ll let Jane and Eric’s killer tune race through my mind today.

Anthropic promises Trump its AI is not woke www.404media.co/anthropic-pr...

404 Media's position was and remains that the human need to nut remains a primary driver of AI growth. Open AI is now desperate enough to grow that it can admit to it www.404media.co/openai-sam-a...

(screaming at my computer) IT'S POOP! SAY POOP! www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...

New from 404 Media: the same hackers who doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, and FBI officials say they have personal data of tens of thousands more government officials, including thousands NSA, more in intel community. They sent me data from a dizzying list of agencies www.404media.co/hackers-say-...

this is so so so funny www.404media.co/creator-of-i...

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Reddit's AI product provided dangerous advice in medical subreddits and moderators can't turn it off www.404media.co/reddit-answe...

New from 404 Media: ICE, the Secret Service, and NCIS all had access to Flock's nationwide network of AI-enabled cameras, letter reveals. Shows many more federal agencies had access to network that authorities typically use without a warrant to search whole country www.404media.co/ice-secret-s...

Senators warn that Saudi Arabia will use EA acquisition for "foreign influence" www.404media.co/senators-war...

very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos www.404media.co/apple-banned...

It's laughably easy to remove the watermark from Sora 2 generated videos. 404 Media found dozens of websites and pieces of software that will do it.

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...

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

Yesterday I wrote about an AI-generated biography of the writer Kaleb Horton, who recently passed, which outraged his friends and colleagues www.404media.co/ai-generated...

404 Media has sued DHS. Last week we sued ICE. Will keep you updated: www.404media.co/404-media-an...

New from 404 Media: ICE to buy tool that tracks locations of hundreds of millions of phones every day. Billions of pieces of location data. ICE previously stopped using data remotely harvested from smartphones. Now it's buying it again. Usually used w/o warrant www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

you have to read this. A collection of "the dog ate my homework" excuses www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...

Spent many (many!) hours pulling legal explanations and apologies from lawyers who were caught using AI that hallucinated in which they explained to a judge why they used AI. The explanations are astonishing and extremely good: www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...

Department of War policy is no fatties, and all in on AI www.404media.co/in-unhinged-...

New from 404 Media: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. I was 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...

Spent a lot of time talking to people in the Ruby controversy about the ousting of contributors by Ruby Central and what the entire episode says about open source development www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...

a golden age for doing bullshit and creating problems for your coworkers www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...