Talked about what death of Sora means for Hollywood, Disney, and slop on What Next: slate.com/podcasts/wha...

extremely funny: www.404media.co/paul-mccartn...

Reddit blamed a technical glitch for the removal of the living legend’s concert footage.

Over the weekend, Paul McCartney’s Reddit account attempted to share pictures from a show at Fonda Theatre to the site via a Dropbox link. Shortly afterwards the account was banned. www.404media.co/paul-mccartn...

not the onion

Ridicule as praxis. That's the advice from Dr. Alex Hanna and Dr. Emily M. Bender, authors of "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want," when it comes to Big Tech bros. @samleecole.bsky.social talks to them for the 404 pod. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwBZ...

starting soon, slop and war, war and slop. together at last

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.

pov participating in society

Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used ICE. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/how-thomson-...

Ridicule as praxis. That's the advice from Dr. Alex Hanna and Dr. Emily M. Bender, authors of "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want," when it comes to Big Tech bros. @samleecole.bsky.social talks to them for the 404 pod. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwBZ...

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.

Thomson Reuters, known for the Reuters news agency but is a data broker, powers ICE tools. Includes a system Palantir made for ICE, according to former Palantir employee. DHS sources also believe Thomson Reuters data in ELITE, the ICE tool for targeting neighborhoods www.404media.co/how-thomson-...

"The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not inevitable, but that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people." www.404media.co/rip-metavers...

Initially, the judge said the videos should be taken down as they could cause "reputational harm." Now, she's walked it back. It's a win for the "First Amendment," the plaintiffs say. www.404media.co/judge-allows...

An AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught. “The talk page is silent now. I can’t reply.”

MLB's ABS system somehow feels extremely human. It's not human vs robot, it's human vs human as judged by a robot.

ABS is good because it's not human v robot. It's one human's judgment v another human's judgment and the robot is the judge. I think it's highlighting baseball's human element & adding new strategy. Side effect is the umpires get humiliated, but it's cinema. no notes www.404media.co/you-cant-def...

ICYMI, I got to talk to dynamic duo @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social for the 404 Media podcast. we get into what keeps us hopeful, why Emily is done with the word "democratizing" in AI, and ridicule as praxis. listen wherever you get your pods! www.404media.co/ridicule-as-...

Georgia state troopers used Flock to issue a traffic ticket. Sounds minor but is a new use. Most police depts say they will not use the system for this purpose. Fact that they're all networked means possibly more people subjected to lookups/surveillance etc www.404media.co/police-used-...

Come for the fun interview, stay for the experience of watching me struggle to form basic thoughts after several months of parental leave and no sleep.

guys wake up there are humans getting bots to angry blog about humans who don’t want slop online

An unapproved bot was caught by editors and banned from publishing and adding to Wikipedia pages. Then, it angrily blogged about it. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/an-ai-agent-...

The AIs are complaining now: An AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught. www.404media.co/an-ai-agent-...

good thing we've enabled robots that spam human communities then harass those communities after they get banned www.404media.co/an-ai-agent-...

An AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught. “The talk page is silent now. I can’t reply.”

From web developer to journalist and technologist at Bloomberg, @dmehro.bsky.social sits down with @josephcox.bsky.social to talk about how he got into reporting, including using tech tools to track the phones of visitors to Epstein's private island. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut1n...

I spoke to Dhruv Mehrotra, the journalist who tracked visitors to Epstein's island with location data, about how he got into that space, how he founds data in stories, and more Watch/subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut1n...

This week Joseph talks to journalist and technologist Dhruv Mehrotra. Among many other things, Mehrotra tracked visitors to Epstein's island through location data.

According to court records, the CEO followed ChatGPT over his legal counsel. Now, he's set to lose. www.404media.co/ceo-ignores-...

Tuesday was a disastrous day for that future, and the complete and utter failure of both Sora and Disney’s dalliance with AI garbage suggests AI slop is indeed not the future of Hollywood. www.404media.co/disneys-open...

Initially, the judge said the videos should be taken down as they could cause "reputational harm." Now, she's walked it back. It's a win for the "First Amendment," the plaintiffs say. www.404media.co/judge-allows...

"The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not inevitable, but that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people." www.404media.co/rip-metavers...

When Todd Rademacher hosted a Zoom call for educators on how to protect kids from ICE, he intentionally didn't record the webinar to protect the attendees. It was found on WebinarTV anyway. www.404media.co/this-company...

"I foresee a domino effect, empowering communities on other platforms to decide whether AI should be welcome. On their own terms.” www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

“It’s known by Minnesotans as a place where executives and CEOs live. Famously Walter Mondale is from North Oaks, but also like United Healthcare executives and Target executives.” www.404media.co/mapping-goog...

Earth’s magnetic field has created a huge void of galactic cosmic rays in space, which could help protect astronauts from radiation exposure.

It turns out when you try to serve slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it. www.404media.co/disneys-open...

To be clear, it speaks to how bad things are online that we need to analyze whose AI disinformation. And yet, the stuff Iran is making is resonating and spreading online in a way that Trump’s is not. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/iran-is-winn...

In this week's roundup: Iran's slopaganda, WebinarTV, and RIP Sora.

reactions from the Trump admin have also been strange to me, in part because they're so telling

NEW: An AI-generated LEGO movie out of Iran depicting Trump as a war hungry pedophile has gone viral online and in the US. It's one of many. Meanwhile, Trump's AI slop isn't resonating with anyone but his own base. And yes, to be clear, this just speaks to how bad things are.

I have been watching propaganda all week and I've got some thoughts

Don’t leave the spunk in your junk. Evacuate the ejaculate. This has been sperm news. www.404media.co/why-its-good...

happy friday. read @beckyferreira.bsky.social's story here: www.404media.co/why-its-good...

The move isn't surprising, but shows what data is available to authorities when paying Apple customers use the Hide My Email feature.

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

The fact that police in Georgia did use Flock cameras for traffic enforcement highlights yet again that, essentially, law enforcement agencies are able to use these cameras for whatever they want. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/police-used-...

NEW: Apple provided the FBI with the real iCloud email address hidden behind Apple’s ‘Hide My Email’ feature, which lets paying iCloud+ users generate anonymous email addresses, according to a recently filed court record.

In something you don't see everyday, the Apple gave the FBI the real name and email address of one of its customers using Apple's 'Hide My Email' feature. This lets you generate random email addresses to protect your privacy www.404media.co/apple-gives-...