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U.S. Army Says It Could Acquire Targets Faster With ‘Advanced AI’ 🔗 www.404media.co/u-s-army-say...

Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People 🔗 www.404media.co/inside-a-pow...

Meta’s Llama 4 model is worried about left leaning bias in the data, and wants to be more like Elon Musk’s Grok. 🔗 www.404media.co/facebook-pus...

A new report from SentinelOne exposed the inner workings of AkiraBot, a program that bypassed CAPTCHAs and used AI-generated messages to target 420,000 websites. 🔗 www.404media.co/scammers-use...

How a $2,000 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured 🔗 www.404media.co/how-a-2-000-...

Behind the Blog: The Economy, Robot Umpires, and Monsters 🔗 www.404media.co/behind-the-b...

A 'US-Made iPhone' is pure fantasy "The army of millions and millions of people screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America." 🔗

New 'Rape and Incest' Game Tests the Limits of Steam’s Sex Policy 🔗 www.404media.co/new-rape-and...

A new report from SentinelOne exposed the inner workings of AkiraBot, a program that bypassed CAPTCHAs and used AI-generated messages to target 420,000 websites. 🔗 www.404media.co/scammers-use...

Meta’s Llama 4 model is worried about left leaning bias in the data, and wants to be more like Elon Musk’s Grok. 🔗 www.404media.co/facebook-pus...

Economists say Trump tariffs will raise price of Switch 2 and everything else 🔗 www.404media.co/sea-of-idioc...

This Device Translates Thoughts into Real-Time Speech 🔗 www.404media.co/this-device-...

Framework Stops Selling Some of Its Laptops in the U.S. Due to Tariffs The manufacturer says it would now have to sell its laptops at a loss. 🔗 www.404media.co/framework-st...

Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People 🔗 www.404media.co/inside-a-pow...

Podcast: The FBI Secretly Ran a Massive Money Laundering Ring 🔗 www.404media.co/podcast-the-...

U.S. Army Says It Could Acquire Targets Faster With ‘Advanced AI’ 🔗 www.404media.co/u-s-army-say...

it's the big horrible things, but it's also the small stupid shit www.404media.co/doge-gsa-mag...

'Careless People' Is the Book About Facebook I've Wanted for a Decade

It is crazy that the FBI became dark web money launders for more than a year before it started making arrests. US law enforcement is just regularly running criminal operations sometimes for years before actually doing arrests, enabling lord knows what in the meantime www.404media.co/elon-musk-wa...

'Benzinga' News Service That Falsely Reported a Possible 90-Day Break in Tariffs Blames X 🔗 www.404media.co/benzinga-new...

A 'US-Made iPhone' is pure fantasy "The army of millions and millions of people screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America." 🔗

DOGE moves from secure, reliable tape archives to hackable digital records 🔗 www.404media.co/doge-gsa-mag...

Elon Musk Is Hounded by Haters in Path of Exile 2 Chat ‘YOU WILL ALWAYS FEEL INSECURE IT WILL NEVER GO AWAY,’ 🔗 www.404media.co/elon-musk-is...

New from 404 Media: 'Elon Musk' was a prolific money launderer for drug traffickers & hackers. It was secretly the FBI. I've found the FBI ran one of the biggest online money laundering rings for a year. The full story of the takeover here: www.404media.co/elon-musk-wa...

Big Tech backed Trump for acceleration. They got a decel President instead Effective accelerationists didn’t just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot. They methodically blew off each of their toes with a .50 caliber sniper rifle. 🔗 www.404media.co/big-tech-bac...

Framework Stops Selling Some of Its Laptops in the U.S. Due to Tariffs The manufacturer says it would now have to sell its laptops at a loss. 🔗 www.404media.co/framework-st...

Wikipedia Editors Call It: It’s the “2025 Stock Market Crash” 🔗 www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...

This Device Translates Thoughts into Real-Time Speech 🔗 www.404media.co/this-device-...

Massive, unarchivable datasets of cancer, covid, and Alzheimer's research could be lost forever 🔗 www.404media.co/nih-archives...

PSA from @johncusack.bsky.social: Democracy is under attack — and paywalls shouldn’t stand in the way of accessing vital public records. News outlets, it’s time to drop the paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. @wired.com did it. @404media.co did it. Now, it’s your turn.

Behind the Blog: Ancient Civilizations and Modern-Day Driving 🔗 www.404media.co/behind-the-b...

Big Tech backed Trump for acceleration. They got a decel President instead Effective accelerationists didn’t just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot. They methodically blew off each of their toes with a .50 caliber sniper rifle. 🔗 www.404media.co/big-tech-bac...

Massive, unarchivable datasets of cancer, covid, and Alzheimer's research could be lost forever 🔗 www.404media.co/nih-archives...

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How the FBI Tracked, and Froze, Millions Sent to Criminals in Massive Caesars Casino Hack 🔗 www.404media.co/how-the-fbi-...

T-Mobile shows users the names, pictures, and exact locations of random children 🔗 www.404media.co/t-mobile-sho...

Podcast: OpenAI's Studio Ghibli AI Is 'An Insult to Life Itself' 🔗 www.404media.co/podcast-open...

Economists say Trump tariffs will raise price of Switch 2 and everything else 🔗 www.404media.co/sea-of-idioc...

Like many others, she searched her own name and discovered scads of degrading AI-generated abuse imagery. She's spent the last year finding and taking down the content. It's a look at the mind of a deepfake harasser, and a glimpse into the fallout their targets endure www.404media.co/deepfakes-ha...

OnlyFans sued after two guys realized they might not actually be talking to models 🔗 www.404media.co/onlyfans-sue...

Y Combinator partner proudly shares vibe coded AI recipe app that tells people how to make hot cum soup www.404media.co/vibe-coded-a...

If you have a Nextdoor account and have time (5 minutes) to help me with some reporting, can you please email or signal me? email: [email protected] signal: jason.404

T-Mobile shows users the names, pictures, and exact locations of random children 🔗 www.404media.co/t-mobile-sho...

How one woman confronted her deepfakes harasser 'I Want to Make You Immortal:' 🔗 www.404media.co/deepfakes-ha...

A Y Combinator partner proudly launched an AI recipe app that told people how to make “Actual Cocaine” and a “Uranium Bomb.” 🔗 www.404media.co/vibe-coded-a...

The Mozilla Foundation says 30 companies should block web scrapers from ShadowDragon, an ICE contractor. 🔗 www.404media.co/mozilla-foun...

Podcast: The DNA of 15 Million People Is For Sale 🔗 youtu.be/OLh0IDigwAM

OnlyFans sued after two guys realized they might not actually be talking to models 🔗 www.404media.co/onlyfans-sue...

Meet the Fish That Doesn’t Want to Be Met 🔗 www.404media.co/meet-the-fis...