Nostr notes by 404 Media

Internal Space Force emails obtained by 404 Media show the work ...

2026-04-15T14:30:08Z

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/

"The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a ...

2026-03-29T15:53:00Z

"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/

A Serve Robotics robot crashed through a Chicago bus shelter. ...

2026-03-24T18:01:55Z

A Serve Robotics robot crashed through a Chicago bus shelter.

https://www.404media.co/delivery-robot-drives-through-bus-stop-sh-shattering-glass-everywhere/

Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone? ...

2026-03-19T18:01:39Z

Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone?

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

AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced ...

2026-03-04T15:30:11Z

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/

An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the ...

2026-03-03T15:30:16Z

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/

The site, camgirlfinder, is explicitly built as a tool to let ...

2026-02-23T01:37:01Z

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/

Don't do this at home. Please. ...

2026-02-22T00:36:00Z

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

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a ...

2026-01-07T22:40:00Z

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/

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to ...

2026-01-02T23:00:41Z

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/

Don’t worry, we’re not changing our website. But we’re ...

2025-12-29T15:30:06Z

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/

OpenAI is following a trend we’ve known about for years: There ...

2025-10-21T16:07:36Z

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/

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data ...

2025-10-09T15:36:33Z

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/

Fansly Just Banned Furries 🔗 ...

2025-06-24T15:41:10Z

Fansly Just Banned Furries

🔗 https://www.404media.co/fansly-ban-furries-new-rules/

Podcast: Airlines Sold Your Flight Data to DHS—And Covered It ...

2025-06-19T20:24:54Z

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/

The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel 🔗 ...

2025-06-18T16:34:47Z

The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel

🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-fight-between-iran-and-israel/

Meta Users Feel Less Safe Since It Weakened ‘Hateful Conduct’ ...

2025-06-17T21:40:12Z

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/

California Cops Investigate ‘Immigration Protest’ With ...

2025-06-17T20:33:49Z

California Cops Investigate ‘Immigration Protest’ With AI-Camera System

🔗 https://www.404media.co/california-cops-investigate-immigration-protest-with-ai-camera-system/

The list of sites in the suspect's notebook, which can easily ...

2025-06-17T17:01:43Z

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/

Emails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and ...

2025-06-17T15:20:39Z

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/

Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's ...

2025-06-17T15:05:57Z

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/

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' ...

2025-06-12T15:47:10Z

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say

🔗 https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-complaint/

Meta Sues Nudify App That Keeps Advertising on Instagram 🔗 ...

2025-06-12T15:25:21Z

Meta Sues Nudify App That Keeps Advertising on Instagram

🔗 https://www.404media.co/meta-sues-nudify-app-that-keeps-advertising-on-instagram/

Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash ...

2025-06-11T23:35:14Z

Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash

🔗 https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash/

Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting ...

2025-06-11T21:40:16Z

Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?

🔗 https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/

The Entire Earth was Mysteriously Shaking Every 90 Seconds. Now, ...

2025-06-03T14:13:16Z

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/

We put DOOM on a shirt, and you should buy it. It's cool. ...

2025-05-31T01:32:47Z

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

Flock Decides Not to Use Hacked Data in People Search Tool 🔗 ...

2025-05-31T01:26:34Z

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/

A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman ...

2025-05-29T21:15:42Z

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/

Podcast: ICE's 'Backdoor' Into a Nationwide AI ...

2025-05-29T15:36:17Z

Podcast: ICE's 'Backdoor' Into a Nationwide AI Surveillance Network

🔗 https://www.404media.co/podcast-ices-backdoor-into-a-nationwide-ai-surveillance-network/

Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to ...

2025-05-28T22:16:10Z

Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live

🔗 https://www.404media.co/texas-solicitor-general-judd-stone-resigned/

Texas Solicitor General Resigned After Fantasizing Colleague ...

2025-05-28T16:37:45Z

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/

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows ...

2025-05-27T15:24:15Z

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows

🔗 https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/

The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site 🔗 ...

2025-05-27T00:13:26Z

The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site

🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-cia-secretly-ran-a-star-wars-fan-site/

Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts In their Novels 🔗 ...

2025-05-23T14:32:23Z

Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts In their Novels

🔗 https://www.404media.co/authors-are-accidentally-leaving-ai-prompts-in-their-novels/

Pocket, One of the Only Apps I Ever Liked, Is Shutting Down 🔗 ...

2025-05-22T19:24:36Z

Pocket, One of the Only Apps I Ever Liked, Is Shutting Down

🔗 https://www.404media.co/pocket-app-shutting-down-mozilla/

Why Does Google’s New Veo 3 AI Video Generator Love This Dad ...

2025-05-22T15:48:53Z

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/

Hacker Conference HOPE Says U.S. Immigration Crackdown Caused ...

2025-05-22T15:00:04Z

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/

Sweden Expands Anti-Sex Work Law to Criminalize Paying for Custom ...

2025-05-21T17:44:56Z

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/

Kansas Mom Sues PØrn Sites Because Her Son Visited Chaturbate 30 ...

2025-05-20T16:44:09Z

Kansas Mom Sues PØrn Sites Because Her Son Visited Chaturbate 30 Times

🔗 https://www.404media.co/kansas-lawsuit-chaturbate-age-verification-old-laptop/

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With ...

2025-05-20T15:42:30Z

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/

Podcast: AI Avatar of Killed Man Testifies in Court 🔗 ...

2025-05-14T17:53:12Z

Podcast: AI Avatar of Killed Man Testifies in Court

🔗 https://www.404media.co/podcast-ai-avatar-of-killed-man-testifies-in-court/

Star Wars Shows the Future of AI Special Effects and It Sucks ...

2025-05-14T15:51:21Z

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/

License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People ...

2025-05-14T14:49:13Z

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

Unity Is Threatening to Revoke Licenses From DayZ Developer Dean ...

2025-05-13T20:22:12Z

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/

How Video Game Sex Scenes Are Made 🔗 ...

2025-05-13T14:50:06Z

How Video Game Sex Scenes Are Made

🔗 https://www.404media.co/how-video-game-sex-scenes-are-made/

AI-Powered Coca-Cola Ad Celebrating Authors Gets Basic Facts ...

2025-05-12T20:16:16Z

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/

900 People Are Collectively Driving an 'Internet ...

2025-05-12T18:44:33Z

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/

Meta previously lost its shit at 404 Media when we reported that ...

2025-05-09T17:35:15Z

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/

'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of ...

2025-05-07T21:12:38Z

'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

The AI Slop Presidency 🔗 ...

2025-05-07T15:20:48Z

The AI Slop Presidency

🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-presidency/

Man Who Hacked Disney With Malicious AI Tool Pleads Guilty 🔗 ...

2025-05-05T21:03:07Z

Man Who Hacked Disney With Malicious AI Tool Pleads Guilty

🔗 https://www.404media.co/man-who-hacked-disney-with-malicious-ai-tool-pleads-guilty/

Army Will Seek Right to Repair Clauses in All Its Contracts 🔗 ...

2025-05-02T02:13:16Z

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/

Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His ...

2025-05-01T17:22:34Z

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/

Researchers Say the Most Popular Tool for Grading AIs Unfairly ...

2025-05-01T14:15:02Z

Researchers Say the Most Popular Tool for Grading AIs Unfairly Favors Meta, Google, OpenAI

🔗 https://www.404media.co/chatbot-arena-illusion-paper-meta-openai/

Reddit Issuing 'Formal Legal Demands' Against Researchers ...

2025-04-29T18:48:45Z

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/

This Website Is Running on a Wii 🔗 ...

2025-04-24T14:59:13Z

This Website Is Running on a Wii

🔗 https://www.404media.co/this-website-is-running-on-a-wii/

'They Sometimes Worry That I’m Dead Already:' Deep-Sea ...

2025-04-23T15:16:23Z

'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/

Behind the Blog: Chat, Are We Cooked? 🔗 ...

2025-04-22T21:40:22Z

Behind the Blog: Chat, Are We Cooked?

🔗 https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-chat-are-we-cooked/

AI Slop Is Breaking the Internet as We Know It (404 Media Live at ...

2025-04-18T17:55:39Z

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/

Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People 🔗 ...

2025-04-17T16:44:09Z

Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People

🔗 https://www.404media.co/leaked-palantirs-plan-to-help-ice-deport-people/

SCOOP: Internal Palantir Slack messages obtained by ...

2025-04-17T15:00:34Z

SCOOP: Internal Palantir Slack messages obtained by nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqffslylv039n5sy0eddj3cmsdgmmpshh9wa40yfp9avn4zl2fn77qsjf9kf (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/

Police are starting to realize they can demand footage from ...

2025-04-16T19:48:35Z

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/

New: LAPD demanded footage from a Waymo, whose cameras saw a ...

2025-04-16T19:36:23Z

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/

Podcast: Inside the ICE Deportation Tool ...

2025-04-16T18:11:15Z

Podcast: Inside the ICE Deportation Tool

https://www.404media.co/podcast-inside-the-ice-deportation-tool/

A Russian guy made tens of thousands of dollars posting AI ...

2025-04-15T17:51:41Z

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/

4chan Is Down Following What Looks to Be a Major Hack Spurred By ...

2025-04-15T16:41:27Z

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/

Google DeepMind Is Hiring a 'Post-AGI' Research Scientist ...

2025-04-15T15:59:39Z

Google DeepMind Is Hiring a 'Post-AGI' Research Scientist

🔗 https://www.404media.co/google-deepmind-is-hiring-a-post-agi-research-scientist/

I Tested The AI That Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can't ...

2025-04-14T16:59:21Z

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/

How a $2,000 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured ...

2025-04-11T17:32:16Z

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/

I spoke at length to the creator of the Liberty Phone, a ...

2025-04-10T18:12:11Z

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/

Meta’s Llama 4 model is worried about left leaning bias in the ...

2025-04-10T15:05:49Z

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/

NEW: 404 Media has seen parts of a Palantir-powered ICE database ...

2025-04-09T16:18:47Z

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/

Podcast: The FBI Secretly Ran a Massive Money Laundering Ring ...

2025-04-09T15:13:55Z

Podcast: The FBI Secretly Ran a Massive Money Laundering Ring

🔗 https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-fbi-secretly-ran-a-massive-money-laundering-ring/

'Careless People' Is the Book About Facebook I've ...

2025-04-08T21:40:01Z

'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/

Elon Musk Is Hounded by Haters in Path of Exile 2 Chat ...

2025-04-08T19:10:28Z

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/

How three alleged Tesla vandals got caught Automatic license ...

2025-03-20T19:22:57Z

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/

AT&T Hacker Tried to Sell Stolen Data to Foreign Government ...

2025-03-01T15:30:03Z

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/

Alibaba Releases Advanced Open Video Model, Immediately Becomes ...

2025-02-27T17:37:19Z

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/

The Rise of AI Book Ripoffs Podcast: ...

2025-02-26T16:49:22Z

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

All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation ...

2025-02-25T18:40:00Z

All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation

https://www.404media.co/all-50-states-have-now-introduced-right-to-repair-legislation/

Public Library Ebook Service to Cull AI Slop After 404 Media ...

2025-02-20T19:35:01Z

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/

Musk ally demands admin access to system that lets government ...

2025-02-18T21:04:45Z

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/

A German researcher captured the contents of "DEI.gov" ...

2025-02-14T19:35:49Z

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/

New: A court ordered Trump administration to restore CDC, HHS, ...

2025-02-14T18:37:05Z

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/

Scoop: The databases powering doge. gov are insecure, and people ...

2025-02-14T06:59:24Z

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/

The entire contents of Waste. gov, the website tracking ...

2025-02-12T16:28:53Z

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/

New from 404 Media: we've identified which specific company ...

2025-02-12T15:37:57Z

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/

"Motivational" AI Slop of Elon Musk and Donald Trump is ...

2025-02-12T15:37:11Z

"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/

X's legal filing in the InfoWars bankruptcy case is both ...

2024-11-26T19:45:07Z

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/

New: Two men stole more than $1 million from DoorDash workers by ...

2024-10-02T17:54:50Z

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/

New: We got the pitch dek for the company that wants to target ...

2024-08-26T14:58:46Z

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/

Olivia Rodrigo presale broke Ticketmaster. This is almost ...

2024-06-20T23:06:14Z

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/

New: Google banned one of the most destructive deepfake/nudify ...

2024-04-02T17:43:56Z

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/

We are very very excited to announce that 404 Media now has full ...

2024-03-26T13:42:24Z

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/

Behold, the worst gadget we have ever tested: An HDMI cord that ...

2023-09-29T16:10:22Z

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/