The AirKamuy 150 is a cheap pre-fab cardboard drone meant to die on the battlefield and it comes shipped in a flatpack like an IKEA shelf. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/japan-cardbo...

in a call this morning, Aylo announced that it's officially un-blocking its network of sites the UK — if you're watching porn on your iPhone or iPad, at least: www.404media.co/uk-iphone-ip...

sut . . . da fuck up

every year

They can squeeze that class between lunch and "responsible gambling", sponsored by bet365

inspired by a post I saw on here and have since lost, I've started reading "AI companies" as "cigarette manufacturers," so something like this becomes "maker of Newports backs bill to fund smoking literacy in schools"

the biggest tech companies in the world are endorsing a new bill that would shove AI onto kids in school www.404media.co/literacy-in-...

is it the new cool guy thing to reply to social videos asking why people hold the little wireless lapel mics? I hold it 9 times out of 10 because I tried clipping it to my shirt and it made me feel like a huge dweebus. what's the issue

It was great to talk cyber with Joseph like in the old days. If you’re interested in zero-days, offensive cybersecurity, and one of the worst leaks of hacking tools ever, check this pod out. And subscribe to @404media.co too!

behold the flatpack fixed wing drone

it's.... @lorenzofb.bsky.social :)

“I think it would go a long way if you just showed up with even a little bit of willingness beyond public comment to listen to people who actually know what they’re talking about …would you put their camera in your child's bedroom?” www.404media.co/city-learns-...

Finally, the AI feature we all wanted and needed: Amazon now creates an AI “podcast” about products where two AI “hosts” discuss the product and take your questions as if it’s a call-in show. www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ai-ge...

An Atlanta suburb learned Flock was using livestreams from a children's gymnastics studio, a pool, and a playground in sales pitches to other cities. Residents are furious but the city renewed its contract with Flock anyway: www.404media.co/city-learns-...

Here’s @samleecole.bsky.social describing exactly how awful ASUAtomic makes ASU look: www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...

just google boobs please. so many boobs available to simply google. for god's sake please just go to any browser and type "boobs"

Zambia's Ministry of Information suddenly "postponed" RightsCon over "thematic issues" and concerns regarding some of the proposed speakers

Apple pushed an update that stopped deleted Signal messages being stored in the iPhone’s notification database. This comes directly in response to 404 Media finding the FBI was using this technique to recover deleted Signal messages. No longer an issue now www.404media.co/apple-fixes-...

NEW: Seven new lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI by families of Tumbler Ridge school shooting victims. The families say OpenAI was negligent in its failure to report the shooter's disturbing ChatGPT interactions — and has since misled the public about safeguards. futurism.com/artificial-i...

ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials. @samleecole.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

“You’re allowed to use a company’s name to talk about the company.” - Cara Gagliano, @eff.org In my first byline for @404media.co, I investigated how @sxsw.com used an "AI-powered" trademark protection tool to silence dissenting voices on social media. www.404media.co/sxsw-used-ai...

extremely good things happening in America right now www.404media.co/did-a-time-t...

no credit to the lecturers, no names, no sources, no links or references to outside work. just AI summaries, including built-in errors. this one repeatedly references the "riscus" community as a mistranslation of "riskers"

ASU's new AI tool cannibalizes nuanced, thoughtful faculty lectures into sound bites and chatbot junk text: www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

ASU's new AI tool cannibalizes nuanced, thoughtful faculty lectures into sound bites and chatbot junk text: www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

We're launching a bundled subscription with three other independent outlets, @neverpo.st, @aftermath.site, and @rogue.site, to give you 50% off access to all four websites for 30 days. The Independent Media Collective Bundle is now live: trustfnd.com/collaboratio...

AI-generated sites are flooding the internet, swallowing all in their wake

Research like this shows that big tech is capable of making safer products. The problem they’ve created, and are now in some cases are attempting to iterate around, is literally life or death. @samleecole.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/delusion-usi...

this captures something that's been simultaneously funny & infuriating. if you ask UM admin, they're emphatically like "OBVIOUSLY we won't do nuclear weapons research here" and then you ask LANL staff and they're like "lmao hell yeah we will, what are you, stupid? ever heard of LANL? Nuclear babyyy"

yesterday meta announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce, the latest tech company to use the "headwinds" of AI adoption to justify mass layoffs. we got into this in the supporters' section of the @404media.co podcast this week:

“…all I can tell you is that it is a failure when you ask people to adapt to computers. Computers should adapt to people. Asking people to make themselves more legible to software —to turn themselves into a database — is a doomed idea.”

good news! for once! www.404media.co/community-vo...

super interesting series of experiments here, where researchers cosplayed as a vulnerable user in various scenarios, like romance-seeking or delusions of grandeur, and watched how chatbots responded over the course of 100+ turns: www.404media.co/delusion-usi...

very important content from @404media.co: www.404media.co/emergency-br...

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Trump's proposed 2027 budget almost doubles spending on new plutonium pits. New factories, new designs .... new weapons

all the very smart people saying "you should have just thrown your phone away and had a pizza party" I tried. I did try. if I went to chuck e cheese and they found out it was for a wedding they would have charged me $50k base for the venue

New startups are bragging that they're taking money they would have normally spent hiring new employees and are instead spending it on AI compute www.404media.co/startups-bra...

on the podcast this week: I get into how social media algorithms tried to manipulate my emotions around big-ass diamond rings, white dresses and babies. then @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social gets into AI-powered "clean rooms" and the world of open source. www.404media.co/podcast-how-...

subscribers just got a spontaneous surprise BREAKING NEWS podcast sesh where we rant about tim cook's legacy for 14 minutes

This site uses "AI clean rooms" to bypass copyright to "liberate" open source projects of the need to credit or support open source projects. It's satire, but it also works and is something that the open source community is already dealing with: www.404media.co/this-ai-tool...

hearing @midimyers.com explain how they landed on their pricing structure felt exactly like this

got to talk indie media shop, feminism in games writing, and being baby journalists at alt-weeklies with @midimyers.com in this week's interview episode! www.404media.co/maddy-myers-...

"What I did not account for—shamefully, considering how much time I spend writing about technology in my professional life—[was how the algorithm] was perfecting the art of making me feel weird, broke, and ugly." @samleecole.bsky.social on getting married in 2026. www.404media.co/wedding-plan...

Being “bad” at art is good, actually! My favorite excerpt from my appearance with @emilymbender.bsky.social on the @404media.co podcast with @samleecole.bsky.social in the episode “The Marketing Tricks of ‘Artificial Intelligence’”.

allow me to take you on a journey into the yawning maw of Weddingtok: www.404media.co/wedding-plan...

Ukraine is telling the world that Russians are surrendering to ground robots

difficult to overstate how not interested I am in what your ai agent is doing, or how quickly I mark emails from agents as spam