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2026-06-20 15:20:01 UTC

The known cases of police stalking are almost certainly a vast underreporting of the overall abuse, because they largely include only cases in which the behavior was so egregious that it led to police officers being fired, arrested, or both.
https://www.404media.co/cops-keep-getting-arrested-for-using-flock-to-stalk-people/

2026-06-04 23:01:04 UTC

Microsoft's CEO seems unaware of what's going on at his own company.
https://www.404media.co/satya-nadella-not-sure-who-said-microsoft-wanted-to-make-addictive-ai-is-looking-for-guy-who-did-this/

2026-05-14 14:30:06 UTC

"I hoarded a large database of something valuable, just not what you expect… 150k stools images."
https://www.404media.co/ai-poop-analysis-app-offered-to-sell-me-access-to-its-users-poops/

2026-05-08 17:02:13 UTC

This week, we discuss storage, RSS, and a big reporting project.
https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-storage-woes-and-rss/

2026-05-05 14:30:06 UTC

The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.
https://www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-drive-shortage-is-making-it-more-expensive-and-harder-to-archive-the-internet/

2026-05-04 15:02:17 UTC

A new bill introduced by Senators Adam Schiff and Mike Rounds would award grants to the National Science Foundation—which has endured massive funding cuts under the Trump Administration for science research—to put “AI literacy” in schools.
https://www.404media.co/literacy-in-future-technologies-artificial-intelligence-act-adam-schiff-mike-rounds/

2026-05-02 22:30:04 UTC

“It’s pretty shocking that Flock employees are watching children in Dunwoody. Like, isn’t that mind boggling?" https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sales-pitch-demo-renews-contract-anyway/

2026-04-29 14:30:11 UTC

The move comes directly in response to 404 Media’s coverage about how the FBI was able to recover incoming Signal messages from an iPhone because the messages were saved in the device’s notification storage.
https://www.404media.co/apple-fixes-bug-that-let-fbi-extract-deleted-signal-messages-after-404-media-coverage/

2026-04-26 14:15:05 UTC

Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers. https://www.404media.co/this-ai-tool-rips-off-open-source-software-without-violating-copyright/

2026-04-26 00:30:04 UTC

The remnants of a bizarre long-lost world that fell apart before our planet was fully formed are falling to Earth in the form of meteorites, according to a new study in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
https://www.404media.co/the-destroyed-remnants-of-a-lost-world-are-falling-to-earth-scientists-discover/

2026-04-25 15:20:01 UTC

The webXray California Privacy Audit viewed web traffic on more than 7,000 popular websites in California in the month of March and found that most tech companies ignore when a user asks to opt-out of cookie tracking.
https://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/

2026-04-21 14:30:06 UTC

Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers.
https://www.404media.co/this-ai-tool-rips-off-open-source-software-without-violating-copyright/

2026-04-20 20:01:24 UTC

Salmon exposed to cocaine and its byproduct swam farther than unexposed fish, raising alarms about drug pollution in aquatic ecosystems.
https://www.404media.co/scientists-gave-a-bunch-of-salmon-cocaine-this-is-what-happened-next/

2026-04-18 14:30:09 UTC

Reproductive technologies have enabled children to be posthumously conceived from the frozen eggs and sperm of deceased parents, raising legal, ethical, and practical questions.
https://www.404media.co/babies-born-from-dead-parents-will-increase-with-new-tech-are-we-ready/

2026-04-18 14:17:01 UTC

"It must be their interpersonal social bonds and daily conflicts, reconciliations, and avoidances—all those dynamics. If that's the case with chimps, to what extent is it the case in humans? It’s a hypothesis to be tested.”
https://www.404media.co/worlds-largest-group-of-chimps-waging-deadly-civil-war-scientists-discover/

2026-04-16 17:02:14 UTC

Findings from the Tech Transparency Project claim that Google and Apple’s app stores not only host harmful apps that can undress images of women, but encourage users to find them.
https://www.404media.co/app-stores-apple-google-nudify-undress-deepfakes/

2026-04-16 01:01:01 UTC

The shareholders explicitly cited multiple 404 Media investigations, including one that showed Thomson Reuters' CLEAR is integrated with a tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to target.
https://www.404media.co/thomson-reuters-shareholders-demand-investigation-into-ice-contracts/

2026-04-14 20:01:05 UTC

“When I saw evidence that our products were being used to harm people and undermine the law, I did what anyone should do—I raised the alarm. Thomson Reuters’ response was to fire me.”
https://www.404media.co/thomson-reuters-fired-worker-for-speaking-out-about-ice-former-employee-says/

2026-04-14 14:30:09 UTC

“This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”
https://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/

2026-04-09 19:01:23 UTC

At least 24 chimpanzees have been killed in a war that has split the Ngogo group of wild chimpanzees in two, turning former kin into enemies.
https://www.404media.co/worlds-largest-group-of-chimps-waging-deadly-civil-war-scientists-discover/

2026-04-09 14:30:17 UTC

The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.
https://www.404media.co/fbi-extracts-suspects-deleted-signal-messages-saved-in-iphone-notification-database-2/

2026-04-07 16:05:18 UTC

The proposed legislation would be the first of its kind passed in the country, but there are similar bills popping up everywhere this year.
https://www.404media.co/maine-datacenter-construction-bill-ld-307/

2026-04-07 14:30:06 UTC

Cisco, IBM, and major lobbying groups are trying to exempt "critical infrastructure" from an existing Colorado law.
https://www.404media.co/data-center-tech-lobbyists-fearmonger-in-attempt-to-retroactively-roll-back-right-to-repair-law/

2026-04-05 23:05:01 UTC

Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used by ICE.
https://www.404media.co/how-thomson-reuters-powers-ice-and-palantir/

2026-04-02 15:02:21 UTC

In space, no one can hear you scream at Microsoft’s legacy software.
https://www.404media.co/artemis-2-astronauts-microsoft-outlook-livestream/

2026-04-01 19:01:46 UTC

The proof-of-concept system produces psilocybin, DMT, and other compounds in leaves of the tobacco plant, potentially easing pressure on wild species and preserving Indigenous traditions.
https://www.404media.co/scientists-create-plant-that-produces-ayahuasca-shrooms-and-toad-psychedelics-all-at-once/

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/

2026-03-28 22:53:00 UTC

Lonely young people are likely better off texting a random stranger than talking to a chatbot, according to a new study.
https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-loneliness-study-college-students-random-strangers-texting/

2026-03-28 17:03:01 UTC

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

2026-03-25 17:02:35 UTC

Masturbation has long been a scientific “mystery,” but a massive cross-species study shows that increased ejaculation has fertility benefits.
https://www.404media.co/why-its-good-to-jack-off-frequently-according-to-science/

2026-03-24 14:30:05 UTC

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.
https://www.404media.co/this-company-is-secretly-turning-your-zoom-calls-into-ai-podcasts/

2026-03-23 21:40:01 UTC

“We are pleased to see today's ruling in defense of the First Amendment rights of all Americans,” one of the plaintiffs in the DOGE-related lawsuit said. The videos previously went viral when a DOGE member was unable or unwilling to define DEI.
https://www.404media.co/judge-allows-doge-deposition-videos-back-online/

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/

2026-03-16 23:01:04 UTC

The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.
https://www.404media.co/ceo-ignores-lawyers-asks-chatgpt-how-to-void-250-million-contract-loses-terribly-in-court/

2026-03-16 17:02:22 UTC

A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.
https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-loneliness-study-college-students-random-strangers-texting/

2026-03-15 20:01:03 UTC

From Flock's nationwide surveillance to ICE tools, we are being watched. Is there anyway to go back now? A 404 Media guide to surveillance in 2026:
https://www.404media.co/flock-ice-surveillance-technology-reddit-ama/

2026-03-15 15:10:01 UTC

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/

2026-03-14 17:01:36 UTC

On Friday a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.
https://www.404media.co/the-removed-doge-deposition-videos-have-already-been-backed-up-across-the-internet/

2026-03-14 01:01:00 UTC

The government asked a judge to stop the spread of the videos on YouTube. The judge agreed, and ordered their immediate removal.
https://www.404media.co/doge-deposition-videos-taken-down-after-judge-order-and-widespread-mockery/

2026-03-08 20:41:00 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/

2026-03-06 23:25:00 UTC

A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.
https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/

2026-03-05 21:01:06 UTC

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 22:40:01 UTC

AI is a “game changer” for what the FBI calls remote access operations, an FBI official said in response to a 404 Media question on Tuesday.
https://www.404media.co/the-fbi-is-using-ai-to-hack-targets/

2026-03-01 18:02:01 UTC

An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.
https://www.404media.co/man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/

2026-02-24 16:02:05 UTC

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”
https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/

2026-02-23 16:01:59 UTC

Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”
https://www.404media.co/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox/

2026-02-22 15:32:00 UTC

Yeah so that Ring ad that aired at the Super Bowl about 'Search Party?" 404 Media now has proof that it won't just be used to locate dogs...
https://www.404media.co/leaked-email-suggests-ring-plans-to-expand-search-party-surveillance-beyond-dogs/

2026-02-21 18:33:01 UTC

Mainstream media and the Trump administration praised Alpha School, an "AI-powered private school" that can cost up to $65,000 a year. 404 Media has learned that the school is AI-generating faulty lesson plans.
https://www.404media.co/students-are-being-treated-like-guinea-pigs-inside-an-ai-powered-private-school/

2026-02-19 20:01:20 UTC

2026-02-18 14:02:14 UTC

We got leaked documents about Alpha School. We also talk about what happens when someone decides to make an AI OnlyFans in your name, and the AI tool cops are buying to geolocate photos.
https://www.404media.co/podcast-inside-an-ai-powered-school/

2026-02-15 21:01:01 UTC

A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.
https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/

2026-02-11 19:01:30 UTC

A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage has reached new levels of absurdity.
https://www.404media.co/government-loses-hard-drives-it-was-supposed-to-put-ice-detention-center-footage-on/

2026-02-11 17:03:11 UTC

A new study indicates that vast oceans of hydrogen are locked deep inside our planet, helping to explain a strange “density deficit” and shedding light on the origin of life.
https://www.404media.co/a-mystery-inside-earths-core-has-finally-been-solved-with-a-mind-boggling-discovery/

2026-02-10 15:30:11 UTC

Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/

2026-02-09 20:01:22 UTC

Patrick Klepek on the reality of parenting in the age of Roblox and YouTube.
https://www.404media.co/the-screen-time-panic-sets-parents-up-to-fail/

2026-02-09 17:03:31 UTC

Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn't ready to take on the role of the physician.”
https://www.404media.co/chatbots-health-medical-advice-study/

2026-02-05 15:30:07 UTC

In a kleptocracy, there is no reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet.
https://www.404media.co/the-washington-post-is-no-longer-useful-to-jeff-bezos/

2026-02-04 16:02:25 UTC

Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking someone's device. At least for now.
https://www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-get-into-wapo-reporters-iphone-because-it-had-lockdown-mode-enabled/

2026-02-02 16:01:47 UTC

Download a PDF of our first ever zine here.
https://www.404media.co/icezine/

2026-02-01 01:01:01 UTC

'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'
https://www.404media.co/exposed-moltbook-database-let-anyone-take-control-of-any-ai-agent-on-the-site/

2026-01-28 16:02:02 UTC

Hundreds of thousands of users told the app intimate details about their sexual urges, which are now exposed.
https://www.404media.co/app-for-quitting-porn-leaked-users-masturbation-habits/

2026-01-25 23:30:04 UTC

https://www.404media.co/comic-con-bans-ai-art-after-artist-pushback/

2026-01-21 15:30:14 UTC

The famed convention's organizers have banned AI from the art show.
https://www.404media.co/comic-con-bans-ai-art-after-artist-pushback/

2026-01-20 15:30:05 UTC

The FAA has altered a no fly zone designation that was originally created for US military bases to apply to DHS units.
https://www.404media.co/feds-create-drone-no-fly-zone-that-would-stop-people-filming-ice/

2026-01-18 22:30:05 UTC

Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.
https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/

2026-01-13 16:02:14 UTC

Flock is going after a website called HaveIBeenFlocked.com that has collated public records files released by police.
https://www.404media.co/police-unmask-millions-of-surveillance-targets-because-of-flock-redaction-error/

2026-01-12 17:02:39 UTC

Jason interviews YouTuber Benn Jordan about his security research on Flock.
https://www.404media.co/how-benn-jordan-discovered-flocks-cameras-were-left-streaming-to-the-internet/

2026-01-10 16:15:03 UTC

https://www.404media.co/researchers-are-hunting-america-for-hidden-datacenters/

2026-01-08 16:02:28 UTC

With xAI's Grok generating endless semi-nude images of women and girls without their contest, it follows a years-long legacy of rampant abuse on the platform.
https://www.404media.co/grok-ai-sexual-abuse-imagery-twitter/

2026-01-08 14:01:42 UTC

404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/

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/

2026-01-02 20:01:06 UTC

After years of debate, scientists found a telltale sign that an ancient ape walked on two legs, making it the oldest known human relative.
https://www.404media.co/scientists-identify-the-remains-of-the-earliest-human-ancestor/

2025-12-30 00:15:02 UTC

This year marked the first time the AI avatar of a victim—in this case, a dead man—has ever addressed a court, and it raises many questions about the use of this type of technology in future court proceedings.
https://www.404media.co/i-loved-that-ai-judge-moved-by-ai-generated-avatar-of-man-killed-in-road-rage-incident/

2025-12-29 18:45:04 UTC

404 Media is making a print zine about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and the ways people are resisting this technology. https://www.404media.co/404-media-is-making-a-zine/

2025-12-28 02:30:03 UTC

2025-12-27 16:30:10 UTC

also, this happened this year:
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.
https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/

2025-12-26 17:30:18 UTC

This year, Grok was reprogrammed to say Elon Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-could-drink-piss-better-than-any-human-in-history-grok-says/

2025-12-25 20:45:01 UTC

Things can feel hopeless but this year, people fought back. Here's how the town of Ypsilanti, Michigan is taking on the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
https://www.404media.co/a-small-town-is-fighting-a-1-2-billion-ai-datacenter-for-americas-nuclear-weapon-scientists/

2025-12-24 15:30:06 UTC

In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.
https://www.404media.co/why-i-quit-streaming-and-got-back-into-cassettes/

2025-12-17 16:02:11 UTC

A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/

2025-12-16 15:30:06 UTC

“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot.
https://www.404media.co/anthropic-exec-forces-ai-chatbot-on-gay-discord-community-members-flee/

2025-12-13 14:01:35 UTC

Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a U.S. citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go.
https://www.404media.co/how-a-us-citizen-was-scanned-with-ices-facial-recognition-tech/

2025-12-10 00:01:01 UTC

The Department of War aims to put Google Gemini 'directly into the hands of every American warrior.'
https://www.404media.co/pete-hegseth-says-the-pentagons-new-chatbot-will-make-america-more-lethal/

2025-11-24 15:01:24 UTC

In August, we revealled how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her community.
If you've been impacted by the Tea hack, we'd love to hear from you. Hit us up at [email protected] https://www.404media.co/how-teas-founder-convinced-millions-of-women-to-spill-their-secrets-then-exposed-them-to-the-world/

2025-11-17 15:48:01 UTC

How do journalists get records from government agencies through public records requests? Is that something anyone can access?
404 Media is gonna teach you how to FOIA🫵
Join our LIVE session happening on Nov. 19, 1pm ET:
https://www.404media.co/our-new-foia-forum-11-19-1pm-flock/

2025-11-13 15:30:08 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. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”
https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-effort/

2025-11-11 17:03:16 UTC

Software engineer Hector Dearman built a zoomable map of every issue of BYTE magazine.
https://www.404media.co/byte-magazine-zoomable-map-archive/

2025-11-07 16:02:37 UTC

X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
https://www.404media.co/openais-sora-2-floods-social-media-with-videos-of-women-being-strangled/

2025-11-06 15:30:04 UTC

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
https://www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to-unmask-owner-of-infamous-archive-is-site/

2025-11-05 18:06:29 UTC

NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here: https://www.404media.co/army-tells-soldiers-to-go-to-german-food-bank-then-deletes-it/

2025-10-30 17:14:56 UTC

One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is shutting down causing major issues for libraries.
🔗 https://www.404media.co/libraries-scramble-for-books-after-giant-distributor-shuts-down/

2025-10-28 21:45:34 UTC

The Trump administration used a picture of Halo’s Master Chief to call for the destruction of immigrants. Something about seeing the stalwart hero of a beloved video game twisted into an anti-immigrant super soldier hit people pretty hard.
🔗 https://www.404media.co/trump-admins-racist-halo-memes-are-a-new-level-of-dehumanization-of-immigrants/

2025-10-23 18:52:59 UTC

Breathing Through Our Butts Declared Safe After First Human Trial
🔗 https://www.404media.co/breathing-through-our-butts-declared-safe-after-first-human-trial/

2025-10-16 19:14:30 UTC

Reddit’s conversational AI product, Reddit Answers, suggested users who are interested in pain management try heroin and kratom
🔗 https://www.404media.co/reddit-answers-ai-suggests-users-try-heroin/

2025-10-16 15:24:51 UTC

We found websites that use facial recognition to let partners, stalkers, etc uncover specific peoples’ Tinder profiles, reveal their approximate physical location at points in time, and track changes to their profile including their photos.
🔗 https://www.404media.co/viral-cheater-buster-sites-use-facial-recognition-to-let-anyone-reveal-peoples-tinder-profiles/

2025-10-14 18:39:10 UTC

On October 2—just a few minutes shy of 11 PM in Portland, Oregon—a federal agent shot peppery spray into the vent hole of Seth Todd’s inflatable frog costume. Todd was protesting ICE outside of Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office.
🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-surreal-practicality-of-protesting-as-an-inflatable-frog/

2025-10-14 15:23:06 UTC

An attorney in a New York Supreme Court commercial case got caught using AI in his filings, and then got caught using AI again in the brief where he had to explain why he used AI, according to court documents filed earlier this month.
🔗 https://www.404media.co/lawyer-using-ai-fake-citations/

2025-10-14 14:51:27 UTC

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network
🔗 https://www.404media.co/man-stores-ai-generated-robot-porn-on-his-government-computer-loses-access-to-nuclear-secrets/