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2026-04-15 14:30:08 UTC

Internal Space Force emails obtained by 404 Media show the work it takes to have a government agency make a new theme song. A general even wanted to start the whole thing over again.
https://www.404media.co/emails-reveal-space-forces-hardest-mission-is-writing-a-song/

2026-03-29 15:53:00 UTC

"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."
https://www.404media.co/rip-metaverse-an-80-billion-dumpster-fire-nobody-wanted/

2026-03-24 18:01:55 UTC

A Serve Robotics robot crashed through a Chicago bus shelter.
https://www.404media.co/delivery-robot-drives-through-bus-stop-sh-shattering-glass-everywhere/

2026-03-19 18:01:39 UTC

Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone?
https://www.404media.co/rip-metaverse-an-80-billion-dumpster-fire-nobody-wanted/

2026-03-04 15:30:11 UTC

AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.
https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/

2026-03-03 15:30:16 UTC

An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools.
https://www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-into-the-online-advertising-ecosystem-to-track-peoples-movements/

2026-02-23 01:37:01 UTC

The site, camgirlfinder, is explicitly built as a tool to let people find a model's presence on other streaming platforms. The creator says “If that is a problem for you then the sad reality is this job is not for you.”
https://www.404media.co/underground-facial-recognition-tool-unmasks-camgirls/

2026-02-22 00:36:00 UTC

Don't do this at home. Please.
https://www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutrition-chatbot-recommends-best-foods-to-insert-into-your-rectum/

2026-01-07 22:40:00 UTC

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
https://www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying-to-you-about-ice-shooting-a-woman/

2026-01-02 23:00:41 UTC

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.”
https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-effort/

2025-12-29 15:30:06 UTC

Don’t worry, we’re not changing our website. But we’re finally the owners of the real deal: a .com domain.
https://www.404media.co/we-bought-404media-com/

2025-10-21 16:07:36 UTC

OpenAI is following a trend we’ve known about for years: There are endless theorized applications of AI, but in the real world many people want to use LLMs for sexual gratification.
🔗 https://www.404media.co/openai-sam-altman-interview-chatgpt-erotica/

2025-10-09 15:36:33 UTC

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives.
🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-discord-hack-is-every-users-worst-nightmare/

2025-06-24 15:41:10 UTC

Fansly Just Banned Furries
🔗 https://www.404media.co/fansly-ban-furries-new-rules/

2025-06-19 20:24:54 UTC

Podcast: Airlines Sold Your Flight Data to DHS—And Covered It Up
🔗 https://www.404media.co/podcast-airlines-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs-and-covered-it-up/

2025-06-18 16:34:47 UTC

The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel
🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-fight-between-iran-and-israel/

2025-06-17 21:40:12 UTC

Meta Users Feel Less Safe Since It Weakened ‘Hateful Conduct’ Policy, Survey Finds
🔗 https://www.404media.co/meta-users-feel-less-safe-since-it-weakened-hateful-conduct-policy-survey-finds/

2025-06-17 20:33:49 UTC

California Cops Investigate ‘Immigration Protest’ With AI-Camera System
🔗 https://www.404media.co/california-cops-investigate-immigration-protest-with-ai-camera-system/

2025-06-17 17:01:43 UTC

The list of sites in the suspect's notebook, which can easily reveal where someone lives, are a simple Google search away, have been for years, and lawmakers could make changes if they wanted. They have before.
🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-people-search-sites-in-the-suspected-minnesota-killers-notebook-are-a-failure-of-congress/

2025-06-17 15:20:39 UTC

Emails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and Local Police
🔗 https://www.404media.co/emails-reveal-the-casual-surveillance-alliance-between-ice-and-local-police/

2025-06-17 15:05:57 UTC

Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI
🔗 https://www.404media.co/meta-invents-new-way-to-humiliate-users-with-feed-of-peoples-chats-with-ai/

2025-06-12 15:47:10 UTC

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say
🔗 https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-complaint/

2025-06-12 15:25:21 UTC

Meta Sues Nudify App That Keeps Advertising on Instagram
🔗 https://www.404media.co/meta-sues-nudify-app-that-keeps-advertising-on-instagram/

2025-06-11 23:35:14 UTC

Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
🔗 https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash/

2025-06-11 21:40:16 UTC

Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?
🔗 https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/

2025-06-03 14:13:16 UTC

The Entire Earth was Mysteriously Shaking Every 90 Seconds.
Now, Scientists Know Why.
Subscribe to 404media to get the Abstract newsletter!
🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-entire-earth-was-mysteriously-shaking-every-90-seconds-now-scientists-know-why/

2025-05-31 01:32:47 UTC

We put DOOM on a shirt, and you should buy it.
It's cool.
🔗 https://404media.myshopify.com/products/doom-code-404-tank-top-pre-order
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2025-05-31 01:26:34 UTC

Flock Decides Not to Use Hacked Data in People Search Tool
🔗 https://www.404media.co/flock-decides-not-to-use-hacked-data-in-people-search-tool/

2025-05-29 21:15:42 UTC

A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion
🔗 https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/

2025-05-29 15:36:17 UTC

Podcast: ICE's 'Backdoor' Into a Nationwide AI Surveillance Network
🔗 https://www.404media.co/podcast-ices-backdoor-into-a-nationwide-ai-surveillance-network/

2025-05-28 22:16:10 UTC

Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live
🔗 https://www.404media.co/texas-solicitor-general-judd-stone-resigned/

2025-05-28 16:37:45 UTC

Texas Solicitor General Resigned After Fantasizing Colleague Would Get 'Anally Raped By a Cylindrical Asteroid'
🔗 https://www.404media.co/texas-solicitor-general-judd-stone-resigned/

2025-05-27 15:24:15 UTC

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
🔗 https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/

2025-05-27 00:13:26 UTC

The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site
🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-cia-secretly-ran-a-star-wars-fan-site/

2025-05-23 14:32:23 UTC

Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts In their Novels
🔗 https://www.404media.co/authors-are-accidentally-leaving-ai-prompts-in-their-novels/

2025-05-22 19:24:36 UTC

Pocket, One of the Only Apps I Ever Liked, Is Shutting Down
🔗 https://www.404media.co/pocket-app-shutting-down-mozilla/

2025-05-22 15:48:53 UTC

Why Does Google’s New Veo 3 AI Video Generator Love This Dad Joke?
🔗 https://www.404media.co/why-does-googles-new-veo-3-ai-video-generator-love-this-dad-joke/

2025-05-22 15:00:04 UTC

Hacker Conference HOPE Says U.S. Immigration Crackdown Caused Massive Crash in Ticket Sales
🔗 https://www.404media.co/hacker-conference-hope-says-fewer-people-buying-tickets-because-u-s-immigration-crackdown/

2025-05-21 17:44:56 UTC

Sweden Expands Anti-Sex Work Law to Criminalize Paying for Custom OnlyFans Clips and Camming
🔗 https://www.404media.co/sweden-sex-work-internet-law-nordic-model/

2025-05-20 16:44:09 UTC

Kansas Mom Sues PØrn Sites Because Her Son Visited Chaturbate 30 Times
🔗 https://www.404media.co/kansas-lawsuit-chaturbate-age-verification-old-laptop/

2025-05-20 15:42:30 UTC

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
🔗https://www.404media.co/chicago-sun-times-prints-ai-generated-summer-reading-list-with-books-that-dont-exist/

2025-05-14 17:53:12 UTC

Podcast: AI Avatar of Killed Man Testifies in Court
🔗 https://www.404media.co/podcast-ai-avatar-of-killed-man-testifies-in-court/

2025-05-14 15:51:21 UTC

Star Wars Shows the Future of AI Special Effects and It Sucks
🔗 https://www.404media.co/star-wars-shows-the-future-of-ai-special-effects-and-it-sucks/

2025-05-14 14:49:13 UTC

License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows
🔗 https://www.404media.co/license-plate-reader-company-flock-is-building-a-massive-people-lookup-tool-leak-show

2025-05-13 20:22:12 UTC

Unity Is Threatening to Revoke Licenses From DayZ Developer Dean Hall
🔗 https://www.404media.co/unity-is-threatening-to-revoke-licenses-from-dayz-developer-dean-hall/

2025-05-13 14:50:06 UTC

How Video Game Sex Scenes Are Made
🔗 https://www.404media.co/how-video-game-sex-scenes-are-made/

2025-05-12 20:16:16 UTC

AI-Powered Coca-Cola Ad Celebrating Authors Gets Basic Facts Wrong
🔗https://www.404media.co/ai-powered-coca-cola-ad-celebrating-authors-gets-basic-facts-wrong/

2025-05-12 18:44:33 UTC

900 People Are Collectively Driving an 'Internet Roadtrip' on Google Street View
🔗 https://www.404media.co/900-people-are-collectively-driving-an-internet-roadtrip-on-google-street-view/

2025-05-09 17:35:15 UTC

Meta previously lost its shit at 404 Media when we reported that someone had paired facial recognition tech with the company's smart glasses. Now Meta is building the invasive technology itself.
🔗https://www.404media.co/well-well-well-meta-to-add-facial-recognition-to-glasses-after-all/

2025-05-07 21:12:38 UTC

'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident
🔗 https://www.404media.co/i-loved-that-ai-judge-moved-by-ai-generated-avatar-of-man-killed-in-road-rage-incident

2025-05-07 15:20:48 UTC

The AI Slop Presidency
🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-presidency/

2025-05-05 21:03:07 UTC

Man Who Hacked Disney With Malicious AI Tool Pleads Guilty
🔗 https://www.404media.co/man-who-hacked-disney-with-malicious-ai-tool-pleads-guilty/

2025-05-02 02:13:16 UTC

Army Will Seek Right to Repair Clauses in All Its Contracts
🔗 https://www.404media.co/army-will-seek-right-to-repair-clauses-in-all-its-contracts/

2025-05-01 17:22:34 UTC

Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer
🔗 https://www.404media.co/mark-zuckerberg-ai-chatbot-friends-interview-podcast/

2025-05-01 14:15:02 UTC

Researchers Say the Most Popular Tool for Grading AIs Unfairly Favors Meta, Google, OpenAI
🔗 https://www.404media.co/chatbot-arena-illusion-paper-meta-openai/

2025-04-29 18:48:45 UTC

Reddit Issuing 'Formal Legal Demands' Against Researchers Who Conducted Secret AI Experiment on Users
🔗 https://www.404media.co/reddit-issuing-formal-legal-demands-against-researchers-who-conducted-secret-ai-experiment-on-users/

2025-04-24 14:59:13 UTC

This Website Is Running on a Wii
🔗 https://www.404media.co/this-website-is-running-on-a-wii/

2025-04-23 15:16:23 UTC

'They Sometimes Worry That I’m Dead Already:' Deep-Sea Fishers Fight for Wi-Fi
Distant-water fishers are out on the ocean for up to 10 months at a time, with no contact to the outside world.
🔗https://www.404media.co/they-sometimes-worry-that-im-dead-already-deep-sea-fishers-fight-for-wi-fi/

2025-04-22 21:40:22 UTC

Behind the Blog: Chat, Are We Cooked?
🔗 https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-chat-are-we-cooked/

2025-04-18 17:55:39 UTC

AI Slop Is Breaking the Internet as We Know It (404 Media Live at SXSW)
https://www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-breaking-the-internet-as-we-know-it-404-media-live-at-sxsw/

2025-04-17 16:44:09 UTC

Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People
🔗 https://www.404media.co/leaked-palantirs-plan-to-help-ice-deport-people/

2025-04-17 15:00:34 UTC

SCOOP: Internal Palantir Slack messages obtained by @nprofile…f9kf show the company did a recent sprint to build a tool that helps ICE find the physical locations of people who have been marked for deportation.
https://www.404media.co/leaked-palantirs-plan-to-help-ice-deport-people/

2025-04-16 19:48:35 UTC

Police are starting to realize they can demand footage from driverless cars.
LAPD Publishes Crime Footage It Got From a Waymo Driverless Car.
🔗 https://www.404media.co/lapd-publishes-crime-footage-it-got-from-a-waymo-driverless-car/

2025-04-16 19:36:23 UTC

New: LAPD demanded footage from a Waymo, whose cameras saw a hit-and-run. Shows the police are seeing these are roving surveillance cameras:
https://www.404media.co/lapd-publishes-crime-footage-it-got-from-a-waymo-driverless-car/

2025-04-16 18:11:15 UTC

Podcast: Inside the ICE Deportation Tool
https://www.404media.co/podcast-inside-the-ice-deportation-tool/

2025-04-15 17:51:41 UTC

A Russian guy made tens of thousands of dollars posting AI disinfo and misery porn about the LA Wildfires to Instagram:
https://www.404media.co/inside-the-economy-of-ai-spammers-getting-rich-by-exploiting-disasters-and-misery/

2025-04-15 16:41:27 UTC

4chan Is Down Following What Looks to Be a Major Hack Spurred By Meme War
Hackers claim to have obtained 4chan's code, emails of moderators, and internal communications.
🔗 https://www.404media.co/4chan-is-down-following-what-looks-to-be-a-major-hack-spurred-by-meme-war/

2025-04-15 15:59:39 UTC

Google DeepMind Is Hiring a 'Post-AGI' Research Scientist
🔗 https://www.404media.co/google-deepmind-is-hiring-a-post-agi-research-scientist/

2025-04-14 16:59:21 UTC

I Tested The AI That Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can't Be Bothered
🔗 https://www.404media.co/i-tested-the-ai-that-calls-your-elderly-parents-if-you-cant-bothered/

2025-04-11 17:32:16 UTC

How a $2,000 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured
https://www.404media.co/how-a-2-000-made-in-the-usa-liberty-phone-phone-is-manufactured/

2025-04-10 18:12:11 UTC

I spoke at length to the creator of the Liberty Phone, a US-manufactured smartphone, about the challenges of sourcing US-made components, tariffs, and the lack of product engineering expertise in US. The Chinese version costs $700, the US version costs $2,000.
https://www.404media.co/how-a-2-000-made-in-the-usa-liberty-phone-phone-is-manufactured/

2025-04-10 15:05:49 UTC

Meta’s Llama 4 model is worried about left leaning bias in the data, and wants to be more like Elon Musk’s Grok.
https://www.404media.co/facebook-pushes-its-llama-4-ai-model-to-the-right-wants-to-present-both-sides/

2025-04-09 16:18:47 UTC

NEW: 404 Media has seen parts of a Palantir-powered ICE database that allows for highly specific filtering of people, which allows for searches of students, people with tattoos, from specific countries, by visa status, etc:
https://www.404media.co/inside-a-powerful-database-ice-uses-to-identify-and-deport-people/

2025-04-09 15:13:55 UTC

Podcast: The FBI Secretly Ran a Massive Money Laundering Ring
🔗 https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-fbi-secretly-ran-a-massive-money-laundering-ring/

2025-04-08 21:40:01 UTC

'Careless People' Is the Book About Facebook I've Wanted for a Decade
https://www.404media.co/careless-people-is-the-book-about-facebook-ive-wanted-for-a-decade/

2025-04-08 19:10:28 UTC

Elon Musk Is Hounded by Haters in Path of Exile 2 Chat
https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-is-hounded-by-haters-in-path-of-exile-2-chat/

2025-03-20 19:22:57 UTC

How three alleged Tesla vandals got caught
Automatic license plate readers, Instagram captions, and fingerprints.
https://www.404media.co/how-three-alleged-tesla-vandals-got-caught/

2025-03-01 15:30:03 UTC

AT&T Hacker Tried to Sell Stolen Data to Foreign Government
https://www.404media.co/at-t-hacker-tried-to-sell-stolen-data-to-foreign-government/

2025-02-27 17:37:19 UTC

Alibaba Releases Advanced Open Video Model, Immediately Becomes AI Porn Machine
https://www.404media.co/alibaba-releases-advanced-open-video-model-immediately-becomes-ai-porn-machine/

2025-02-26 16:49:22 UTC

The Rise of AI Book Ripoffs
Podcast: https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-rise-of-ai-book-ripoffs/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smx3xHTEZiE

2025-02-25 18:40:00 UTC

All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation
https://www.404media.co/all-50-states-have-now-introduced-right-to-repair-legislation/

2025-02-20 19:35:01 UTC

Public Library Ebook Service to Cull AI Slop After 404 Media Investigation
https://www.404media.co/public-library-ebook-service-to-cull-ai-slop-after-404-media-investigation-3/

2025-02-18 21:04:45 UTC

Musk ally demands admin access to system that lets government text the public.
https://www.404media.co/musk-ally-demands-admin-access-to-system-that-lets-government-text-the-public/

2025-02-14 19:35:49 UTC

A German researcher captured the contents of "DEI.gov" before it was put behind a password wall. It contained a list of things USAID was funding filtered through the worst possible light:
https://www.404media.co/dei-waste-gov-doge-list-behind-password/

2025-02-14 18:37:05 UTC

New: A court ordered Trump administration to restore CDC, HHS, & FDA health websites. It did, but added a note to some pages saying the info is "extremely inaccurate" & "this page does not reflect biological reality and therefore the Administration reject[s] it"
https://www.404media.co/trump-admin-adds-note-rejecting-gender-ideology-on-sites-court-ordered-them-to-restore/

2025-02-14 06:59:24 UTC

Scoop: The databases powering doge. gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:
https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/

2025-02-12 16:28:53 UTC

The entire contents of Waste. gov, the website tracking government "waste" are from a default WordPress theme about an imaginary architecture firm.
Musk said yesterday DOGE is "maximally transparent" and all actions are being tracked on website:
https://www.404media.co/elon-musks-waste-gov-is-just-a-wordpress-theme-placeholder-page/

2025-02-12 15:37:57 UTC

New from 404 Media: we've identified which specific company is powering the surveillance of U.S. military personnel through location data. It's Eskimi, an Adtech company you've probably never heard of but which has a massive presence in the advertising ecosystem
https://www.404media.co/eskimi-2/

2025-02-12 15:37:11 UTC

"Motivational" AI Slop of Elon Musk and Donald Trump is wildly viral on TikTok. Researchers identify videos with a total of more than 700 million views:
https://www.404media.co/ai-slop-of-musk-and-trump-on-tiktok-racks-up-700-million-views/

2024-11-26 19:45:07 UTC

X's legal filing in the InfoWars bankruptcy case is both batshit crazy and also what you'd expect. It asserts that X owns every account, can do whatever it wants with them, and can inject itself into legal proceedings that have nothing to do with it.
This is why it's incredibly important that people invest in platforms that they own, and move toward federated/decentralized/portable, noncorporate social media as rapidly as possible
https://www.404media.co/xs-objection-to-the-onion-buying-infowars-is-a-reminder-you-do-not-own-your-social-media-accounts/

2024-10-02 17:54:50 UTC

New: Two men stole more than $1 million from DoorDash workers by impersonating them with customer service, getting access to their accounts, then draining them. In some cases customer service workers were complicit, indictment says:
https://www.404media.co/men-stole-over-1-million-from-doordash-delivery-drivers-by-impersonating-them-to-customer-service/

2024-08-26 14:58:46 UTC

New: We got the pitch dek for the company that wants to target ads by listening to your devices. Google has cut them off in response to our reporting:
https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-listening-ad-targeting/

2024-06-20 23:06:14 UTC

Olivia Rodrigo presale broke Ticketmaster. This is almost definitely a function of the fact that
1) she has lots of fans
2) scalpers now use specialized, $500-per-month browsers designed to hit the virtual waiting room hundreds of times per computer
https://www.404media.co/ticketmaster-crashes-during-olivia-rodrigo-presale-heres-why/

2024-04-02 17:43:56 UTC

New: Google banned one of the most destructive deepfake/nudify apps, which was masquerading as a normal face swap app on the store but was advertising itself as a deepfake porn app on porn sites
This follows our reporting on damage these apps are doing
https://www.404media.co/google-bans-face-swap-app-for-advertising-deepfakes-on-porn-sites/

2024-03-26 13:42:24 UTC

We are very very excited to announce that 404 Media now has full text RSS feeds for our paying subscribers!!! Get your feed link here and learn more about why and how we did this:
https://www.404media.co/404-media-now-has-a-full-text-rss-feed/

2023-09-29 16:10:22 UTC

Behold, the worst gadget we have ever tested: An HDMI cord that demands your location, browsing data, and spams you with ads.
Really amazing
https://www.404media.co/i-tested-an-hdmi-adapter-that-demands-your-location-browsing-data-photos-and-spams-you-with-ads/