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2026-09-03 18:38:41 CEST

Flock taught cops how to monitor No Kings Protests, you can see it in this video.
More here: https://www.404media.co/flock-taught-cops-how-to-surveil-no-kings-protesters/
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/117/208/089/164/040/510/original/e1fb54de043f98ff.mp4

2026-08-28 16:06:23 CEST

New: ICE plans to spend millions of dollars on Boston Dynamics dog robots. ICE says this is to improve "officer safety." The robots can open doors, pick up objects, have 360 cameras, infrared vision, etc. Boston Dynamics didn't respond to question on its stance on ICE https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-spends-millions-on-boston-dynamics-dog-robots/

2026-08-26 15:45:56 CEST

New: in leaked audio, Flock's CEO Garrett Langley tells cops that a story we wrote about Flock being used to track a woman who self-administered an abortion is "entirely false." He's lying. The audio shows how Flock speaks when doesn't think comments will be public
https://www.404media.co/flocks-ceo-is-lying-to-cops-about-404-medias-reporting-on-abortion-case/

2026-08-25 18:53:28 CEST

A cop made a fake Flock camera with a 3D printer in his own time, then cops staked it out to catch someone who vandalized it. It was bait, a trap. Now facing charges of property damage of over $1,000. But... it's a piece of cheap plastic, it's basically worth nothing
https://www.404media.co/man-charged-with-3-felonies-for-breaking-3d-printed-decoy-flock-camera/

2026-08-25 16:32:16 CEST

We spoke to Darth Vader https://www.404media.co/darth-vader-flock-san-diego-city-council-interview/

2026-08-17 15:23:30 CEST

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI.
We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/

2026-08-14 16:19:58 CEST

New from 404 Media: Meta just published a patent showing what it might use for its AI smart glasses. Patent is to use facial recognition to identify specific people, record them, make a highlight reel of your night. Example given is clips from a dinner party.
https://www.404media.co/meta-patents-ai-glasses-to-use-facial-recognition-to-identify-people-make-highlight-reels-of-your-dinner-party/

2026-08-12 22:41:41 CEST

New from 404 Media: here is the manual for ICE's electric shock gloves.
ICE plans to spend tens of millions on gloves that give electric shocks to incapacitate people. But I found the user manual online, and it says the gloves can contribute to "sudden death"
https://www.404media.co/heres-the-manual-for-ices-electric-shock-gloves/

2026-08-11 01:28:14 CEST

New from 404 Media: ICE to spend millions to buy data from LexisNexis to then feed into a Palantir system. ICE has long bought data from LexisNexis, which feds use to map out a person's addresses, location, assets, etc. But now explicitly want to use with Palantir https://www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-lexisnexis-millions-for-data-to-feed-to-palantir/

2026-08-06 21:14:44 CEST

Software giant SAP stopped most hires and travel because of AI's soaring cost, and a current employee tells me those freezes are still in place a month later. That is, unless the travel or hires are to do with AI, of course.
https://www.404media.co/software-giant-sap-stops-most-travel-and-hiring-because-of-ais-soaring-cost/

2026-08-05 15:48:03 CEST

New from 404 Media: Apple's 'Private Relay' is exposing users' real IP addresses. Private Relay is supposed to protect all your browsing in Safari. But researchers found a bunch of issues that are exposing real IPs. I verified they do. Not fixed, a live issue
https://www.404media.co/apples-private-relay-is-exposing-users-real-ip-addresses/

2026-08-04 18:46:04 CEST

New: Microsoft has introduced new limits to how much its engineers can spend on AI tools at work and told employees that maximizing AI use internally is not the company’s goal, according to an internal Microsoft email obtained by 440 Media.
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-tells-engineers-tokenmaxxing-is-not-what-we-are-optimizing-for/

2026-08-03 19:36:11 CEST

New: we've obtained the guide Flock makes for police to try to convince cities to buy Flock cameras, even when there is widespread opposition to it. Encourages police to "own the narrative before someone else does," need to have a "carefully scripted presentation"
https://www.404media.co/own-the-narrative-leaked-flock-guide-shows-how-it-teaches-cops-to-promote-its-tech/

2026-07-31 18:06:40 CEST

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles.
This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused
https://www.404media.co/google-earths-new-ai-lets-anyone-fabricate-completely-bullshit-satellite-images/
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/117/015/442/345/184/964/original/8b9827320cd9d900.mp4

2026-07-30 16:36:41 CEST

New: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says.
The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown
https://www.404media.co/linkedin-introduces-a-seems-like-ai-slop-button/

2026-07-28 19:29:14 CEST

New: I spoke to Samuel Tunick, the man the U.S. is charging with allegedly wiping his GrapheneOS phone before CBP could search it.
“I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people against protecting their data and their privacy.” https://www.404media.co/the-government-hopes-to-set-a-precedent-an-interview-with-the-man-charged-for-allegedly-wiping-his-grapheneos-phone/

2026-07-28 18:21:57 CEST

Substack introduced a feature that detects AI writing. Well, because a ton of people on Substack use AI to write their newsletters, they're now calling the feature a "witch hunt"
“I’m not going to apologize for using AI in the creation process.”
https://www.404media.co/substackers-say-new-ai-detection-tool-is-a-witch-hunt/

2026-07-27 15:49:57 CEST

Tons of peoples' Claude chats are exposed on Google. Cryptocurrency keys, API keys, login credentials, legal discussions, more.
This happened with ChatGPT last year. And Claude too. There's clearly an ongoing issue with search engines indexing peoples' AI chats https://www.404media.co/tons-of-peoples-claude-chats-and-creations-are-exposed-on-google/

2026-07-27 15:12:25 CEST

"I first met the Luddites a week earlier in Tompkins Square Park, for a press conference hosted by their official spokesperson: a puppet made of garbage."
https://www.404media.co/luddite-events-nyc-off-tech-summer-of-ludd/

2026-07-23 15:56:55 CEST

New from 404 Media: a leaked document shows the surveillance tech at ICE's fingerprints.
We obtained the document, called "ICE Wide Analytical Tools" and are publishing it in full here. It includes everything from phone location data, to facial rec, to tracking cars https://www.404media.co/leaked-document-shows-the-surveillance-tech-at-ices-fingertips/

2026-07-22 16:00:40 CEST

Here is how Flock cameras are tracking people, not cars
Watch more and subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xSes4VMVyo
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/963/985/691/500/418/original/b2525755683ddbf7.mp4

2026-07-22 15:19:34 CEST

You opened a credit card. ICE now knows where you live.
Here's how when you open a credit card your address leaves your bank, goes through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE. ICE plans to use this data for immigration and 'voter fraud'. No warrant
More: https://www.404media.co/you-opened-a-credit-card-ice-now-knows-where-you-live/

2026-07-21 17:35:16 CEST

New from 404 Media: a company is selling tons of old books specifically to AI companies and says they have a strong NDA to never reveal which AI company bought all of the books. They don't want headlines of 'we scanned and destroyed millions of books for AI'
https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/

2026-07-17 17:37:47 CEST

New from 404 Media: ICE plans to pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for data to investigate what it calls 'voters fraud'. News comes day after Trump laying the groundwork to undermine the midterms. ICE says Thomson Reuters can continuously track millions of people.
https://www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-thomson-reuters-125-million-to-find-voter-fraud/

2026-07-16 15:59:55 CEST

New: cops are using Flock to track people, not cars. We reviewed Flock search data and found many, many cases of cops searching for people based on their appearance, race, tattoos, etc. Some searches are so vague like "tall man" that innocent people likely swept up
https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/

2026-07-15 16:06:10 CEST

New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator-scraped-youtube-deezer-and-genius/
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2026-07-02 14:28:10 CEST

New from 404 Media: we've got leaks from Amazon, GitHub, Adobe, Citi, and more. The big takeaway is that companies in all industries are suddenly throttling their employees' AI use because AI is actually too expensive. Cutting off access to some models entirely https://www.404media.co/companies-are-throttling-employees-ai-use-because-its-too-expensive/

2026-06-29 18:09:53 CEST

This is how easy it is to poison Google's AI search with Reddit comments
Watch here and subscribe for more of this every single week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uG8ohZHOD8
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/834/263/266/254/396/original/6e64288cb7ce413f.mp4

2026-06-25 16:32:52 CEST

Watch: we got the bodycam footage from a data center community meeting where cops arrested a man for speaking slightly too long. We spoke to him too: “I continue to maintain that my arrest was retaliatory, as I was engaging in protected speech at a public meeting.”
https://www.404media.co/bodycam-footage-video-claremore-oklahoma-data-center-meeting/

2026-06-24 15:23:51 CEST

New: here's how hackers broke into Madison Square Garden. As I was going through the data, I noticed a lot came from a specific OneDrive. I found that employees identity in the dump, found their LinkedIn. They work at MSG. Hackers confirmed they voice-phished them https://www.404media.co/how-hackers-broke-into-madison-square-garden/

2026-06-18 15:26:35 CEST

New: Salesforce's internal AI leaderboard has teams competing for little trophies. The dashboards we've seen also track each team's use of specific AI tools. Employees worried use of AI, or lack thereof, will be used in their performance reviews because execs pushing
https://www.404media.co/salesforces-internal-ai-leaderboard-has-teams-competing-for-little-trophies/

2026-06-15 16:29:07 CEST

New: A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words long is often enough to manipulate the AI agents that power tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI search. Shows trivially easy for companies/brands to manipulate ChatGPT results by posting on Reddit, Quora, etc https://www.404media.co/it-is-trivially-easy-to-use-reddit-to-manipulate-ai-search-research-suggests/

2026-06-11 21:39:21 CEST

New: a software update to Amazon delivery vans is automatically turning off the vans' AC after 10 minutes or even 30 seconds in certain cases. Just as summer arrives and temperatures are getting dangerously hot
https://www.404media.co/software-update-automatically-turns-off-amazon-delivery-drivers-ac-during-dangerous-summer-heat/

2026-06-11 17:22:54 CEST

New: Flock exposed the license plate cops were searching for in its system and the reason for doing so. The URLs of these lookups were then cached in search engines like DuckDuckGo and Bing, meaning anyone could see them
https://www.404media.co/flock-leaked-cops-license-plate-searches-via-duckduckgo-bing/

2026-06-11 16:06:24 CEST

This is wild: essentially every LLM—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—keeps using the same character when asked to make up a story, a guy called 'Elias Thorne'. He appears so much it's impacting Google Trends data and the self-published book market. Now we might know why https://www.404media.co/elias-thorne-chatbots-llms-chatgpt-lighthouse-keeper-story/

2026-06-10 15:43:59 CEST

Some really crazy cases in here
- cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times
- cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason
- cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired
Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people
https://www.404media.co/cops-keep-getting-arrested-for-using-flock-to-stalk-people/

2026-06-10 15:21:42 CEST

DHS just confirmed the plan to roll out a facial recognition app for local cops to scan peoples' faces to verify their immigration status. Agency said this is related to the 287(g) program; more than a thousand local and regional police departments are part of that https://www.404media.co/ices-plan-to-let-cops-around-the-country-scan-faces-to-verify-immigration-status/

2026-06-09 17:14:30 CEST

New: the FCC is trying to ban burner phones by forcing all telecoms to store ID information on all new and renewing customers. That includes a government issued ID number. Massive privacy-impacting change
“We never thought that would happen here,” the ACLU says https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/

2026-06-08 21:10:40 CEST

New: this company will add tech to track phones, AirPods, smartwatches, pet tags, and more to license plate readers. The idea is to link devices' identifiers to specific cars and where those people were. It "bridges [LPR] data with sensor-captured device identifiers" https://www.404media.co/this-company-will-add-phone-airpod-and-smartwatch-trackers-to-license-plate-readers/

2026-06-08 17:52:23 CEST

New: Microsoft was compromised to deliver malware to users of AI coding agents like Claude and Gemini. In response, Microsoft took the highly unusual step of shutting down dozens and dozens of its own GitHub repos. The malware would steal login credentials from users
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-hacked-to-deliver-malware-to-claude-and-gemini-users/

2026-06-08 15:05:52 CEST

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center
https://www.404media.co/a-farmer-donated-land-to-turn-into-a-park-the-city-is-building-a-massive-data-center-instead/

2026-06-03 21:08:45 CEST

We spoke to the creators of a repairable, no tech tractor, which is a direct response to agriculture giant John Deere making it essentially impossible for farmers to repair the tractors themselves. This puts power back in their hands
Watch more and subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqwdvFz1Xeo
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/687/746/663/557/402/original/46c7307e2341911c.mp4

2026-06-03 02:19:25 CEST

New: Google has quietly been offering to buy access to code written by developers who have released Android apps on the Play Store in order to help the company train its AI coding tools. Email offers chance to “join a confidential content offer pilot.”
https://www.404media.co/google-is-quietly-buying-code-from-play-store-developers-to-train-ai/

2026-06-02 21:00:41 CEST

New from 404 Media: we've seen internal documents that show Microsoft is explicitly planning to "make people addicted" to its new AI assistant 'Scout' which the company just announced. It is a clear goal according to the documents, with addiction being the first phase https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/

2026-06-01 19:18:22 CEST

New: Amazon had an internal leaderboard for tracking employees' AI usage. We spoke to multiple Amazon employees who acknowledged they cheated to rise on the leaderboard; one did so after a manager said they weren't using AI enough. Amazon has now closed the rankings
https://www.404media.co/amazon-shuts-down-internal-ai-leaderboard-after-employees-cheated/

2026-06-01 19:05:41 CEST

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue
https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/

2026-06-01 17:04:34 CEST

We've sued ICE and received documents about its $2 million spyware contract. But there's more to come.
Read the documents here: https://www.404media.co/we-sued-ice-to-get-its-spyware-contract-the-agency-is-redacting-essentially-everything/
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/675/462/093/333/756/original/dd964984a77ea13c.mp4

2026-06-01 16:01:18 CEST

New: we sued ICE for its $2 million spyware contract. The agency is redacting everything.
We've started getting docs from our lawsuit. While we have hundreds more to go, ICE is withholding why it bought spyware to remotely break into encrypted messaging apps https://www.404media.co/we-sued-ice-to-get-its-spyware-contract-the-agency-is-redacting-essentially-everything/

2026-05-28 16:41:19 CEST

Today Oura announced the Ring 5, a nearly $500 wearable which locks you into a monthly subscription fee to even really use the data generated about your own health. Or, you could use Cracked Oura, which someone made to bypass the need for a monthly sub https://www.404media.co/cracked-oura-can-you-use-oura-without-monthly-subscription/

2026-05-28 16:10:15 CEST

Therapy platform Headway is forcing patients to scan their faces to keep getting care. Is using Persona, the Peter Thiel funded company, to do the face scanning
https://www.404media.co/headway-therapy-facial-scan-biometric-data-identity-verification/

2026-05-27 18:26:44 CEST

Here's how a company plans to turn school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles, constantly scanning the license plates of all vehicles they pass and make that searchable data available to law enforcement
Watch the full conversation and subscribe here: https://youtu.be/5bWevtJjlkc?si=pWW6mLb70OYkikh5
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/647/472/995/743/331/original/f076add1dfd974f5.mp4

2026-05-27 18:24:37 CEST

Ads everywhere. Usage limits. Frustrating guardrails. Less model choice. Users of the Character.AI chatbot app are revolting after a series of changes they say have made the app worse. This is what the future of AI actually looks like https://www.404media.co/lobotomized-character-ai-is-showing-what-ai-enshittification-looks-like/

2026-05-26 17:34:39 CEST

millions of people are using malware to spy on their partners' phones. I spoke with @nprofile…gvek about the truly staggering scale of the stalkerware/spouseware problem
Watch, subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLb46310iLs
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/641/606/481/233/060/original/074fa029fce59295.mp4

2026-05-26 15:51:56 CEST

NEW: 'BusPatrol' put AI cameras in tens of thousands of school buses to catch people who overtake parked buses. Now, according to leaked documents, BusPatrol plans to scan all license plates buses pass and give that data to law enforcement. Think, Flock on wheels https://www.404media.co/buspatrol-put-ai-cameras-in-tens-of-thousands-of-school-buses-now-they-want-to-give-cops-access/

2026-05-22 23:04:44 CEST

NEW: we got the bodycam footage of the Cybertruck the drove intentionally into a lake. Hours of footage, authorities deployed jet skis, owner tried to get back into the car, claimed this is the third time he's got a Cybertruck stuck in water actually
https://www.404media.co/heres-the-bodycam-footage-of-the-cybertruck-that-drove-into-a-lake/

2026-05-21 16:55:00 CEST

New from 404 Media: in December a freshman boy allegedly made AI explicit videos of five 9th grade girls. Soon, the whole school had heard. Read this deeply reported account of how deepfakes tore a high school apart
“The entire school knows about it.”
https://www.404media.co/radnor-high-school-pennsylvania-ai-deepfakes-child-sexual-abuse-material/

2026-05-20 17:31:26 CEST

The owner of an app that uses AI to scan peoples' poop is now trying to sell the database of peoples' poop
Watch, subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE0EtqQLcgY
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/607/617/498/822/242/original/f663b761e0496daf.mp4

2026-05-20 16:38:31 CEST

After a town banned Flock, a councilmember crashed out and said he would be introducing measures to ban cell phones, the internet, cameras, and nearly all technology in the town of roughly 900 people.
https://www.404media.co/after-town-bans-flock-councilmember-crashes-out-proposes-internet-and-phone-ban/

2026-05-20 16:37:21 CEST

“I’m submitting my resignation effective May 29th. I can’t take it anymore. The threats. The ‘I’m gonna tar and feather you.’ I hope you get bit by ah […] it’s so disgusting,” treasurer Jennifer Zink said between sobs at the end of a two hour township meeting.
https://www.404media.co/township-leader-resigns-in-tears-over-openai-data-center-death-threats/

2026-05-19 19:51:28 CEST

New from 404 Media: a realtime video deepfake app marketed to streamers lets them instantly turn into George Floyd, Jeffrey Epstein, and even other streamers. In this case, a streamer turned themselves into Mr. Beast and said “I love touching little boys’ pee pees.” https://www.404media.co/streamer-realtime-deepfakes-himself-into-mr-beast-says-he-loves-touching-little-boys/

2026-05-19 16:01:12 CEST

The guy who sued 27 women, one man, and several platforms after users in a Facebook group called him “clingy” and “psycho” had his case against Meta dismissed after a judge suggested that his attorney filed AI-generated errors and non-existent citations 👍 https://www.404media.co/are-we-dating-the-same-guy-lawsuit-ai-attorney-nikko-dambrosio/

2026-05-18 20:36:52 CEST

People are winning the fight against AI data centers
Watch, subscribe here for more conversation like this every single week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5twr0EUo2YE
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/597/023/337/288/330/original/fc57a1b0975e3db3.mp4

2026-05-18 20:21:15 CEST

New from 404 Media: the FBI says it wants to buy nationwide access to license plate readers. This would likely mean the FBI could track vehicles, and by extension people, without a warrant. FBI offering $36m. Only really two companies could do it: Flock and Motorola https://www.404media.co/the-fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-license-plate-readers/

2026-05-18 15:21:22 CEST

New from 404 Media: researchers planned to stick cameras on preschool teachers to then train AI models. Cameras would capture everything the teacher saw, including, obviously, the children. Here's the document given to parents, left many questions, like how to opt out https://www.404media.co/researchers-wanted-preschool-teachers-to-wear-cameras-to-train-ai/
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2026-05-15 23:18:31 CEST

New from 404 Media: at a "private conference" tomorrow at Uber headquarters, tech companies will discuss the future of Iran. The guest list also includes the son of Iran’s former leader who was deposed almost 50 years ago.
https://www.404media.co/tech-companies-to-discuss-irans-future-during-private-conference-at-uber-hq/

2026-05-15 18:06:44 CEST

ArXiv is going to ban researchers for a year if they are caught submitting AI slop. ArXiv told us it's a one strike rule: do it once, you're out.
https://www.404media.co/new-arxiv-rules-ai-generated-papers-ban/

2026-05-15 15:02:36 CEST

Mayo Clinic is using AI to listen to emergency room visits. Spoke to someone who recently took their elderly parent to hospital. Only later saw the disclosure on the wall: everything recorded so AI could take notes. It's opt-out, not opt-in, if you even see the notice https://www.404media.co/mayo-clinic-is-using-ai-to-listen-to-emergency-room-visits/

2026-05-14 20:34:27 CEST

DOGE's impact: a new study looks at “the earliest evidence of the impact of cuts to USAID on the incidence of violent events” which suggests that “the radical cuts […] led to an increase in conflict in the regions that received the most aid from the United States.”
https://www.404media.co/doge-cuts-unleashed-a-deadly-wave-of-violence-across-africa-study-finds/

2026-05-14 15:51:45 CEST

An app that uses AI to analyze photos of your poop and give a "daily gut health score" is now trying to sell that dataset of annotated photos of peoples' poop. Highlights the underground sale of highly sensitive, app-collected user data for AI training
https://www.404media.co/ai-poop-analysis-app-offered-to-sell-me-access-to-its-users-poops/

2026-05-13 19:44:30 CEST

"The podcast is not going well. Watching a few minutes of several of the videos immediately gave me flashbacks to the videos I was in at U.S. News, and served as a stark reminder that the executives running these media companies have zero clue what they’re doing." https://www.404media.co/washington-post-make-it-make-sense-opinion-podcast/

2026-05-13 16:53:18 CEST

Fiber-optic cable has become a staple of drone war. Pilots are flying quadcopters with kilometer-long lengths of cable that stop the drone from being knocked from the sky. But now that cost of fiber-optic cable is going up
https://www.404media.co/war-and-data-centers-are-driving-up-the-cost-of-fiber-optic-cable/

2026-05-13 15:43:05 CEST

All the developers 404 Media talked to were excited to try using LLMs at work at first, or were at least curious about them. Their feelings about the tools, based on their personal experience, are now overwhelmingly negative. AI is rotting their brains https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/

2026-05-13 15:14:27 CEST

This is what it's like seeing your own face on a deepfake, in realtime, on a video call.
Watch here for more on how we bought this software 'Haotian AI' and linked it to the ecosystem powering scam compounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_d1VxuBdAU
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/567/443/823/437/025/original/6a6c44641f5a5012.mp4

2026-05-12 15:27:47 CEST

New from 404 Media: spoke to four people who attended a trade show where senior ICE officials spoke about how much Palantir is supercharging their arrests. List of 20 million people on ICE agents phones now; increased chance of successful arrest from 28 to 80% https://www.404media.co/ice-agents-have-list-of-20-million-people-on-their-iphones-thanks-to-palantir/

2026-05-11 16:18:50 CEST

Jason sat down to write an article, and instinctively, accidentally, did the “it’s not just x, it’s y” AI style of writing. He stopped typing, freaked out, deleted the sentence.
Your AI use is breaking our brains https://www.404media.co/your-ai-use-is-breaking-my-brain/

2026-05-11 15:08:14 CEST

Speaking to graduating humanities students, a commencement speaker said AI is the “next industrial revolution,” and was met with thousands of booing graduates.
https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/

2026-05-08 18:20:54 CEST

Here I explain why we sometimes buy shady services from the digital underground. In this case Haotian AI, a Chinese-language piece of realtime video deepfake software. It cost a total of around $2,500. We won't make a 'profit' on this article. But that's not the point https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-storage-woes-and-rss/
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2026-05-08 18:13:46 CEST

2026-05-08 18:08:22 CEST

The Canvas hack is "the biggest student data privacy disaster in history." For years critics have been warning about the centralization of EdTech. Well, millions of students being locked out is what happens when you do exactly that https://www.404media.co/the-biggest-student-data-privacy-disaster-in-history-canvas-hack-shows-the-danger-of-centralized-edtech/

2026-05-07 23:06:34 CEST

New from 404 Media: ICE plans to develop its own smart glasses to "supplement" its facial recognition app, according to a DHS official told about the plans in a meeting. A second person who attended a conference this week heard a senior ICE official discuss the plans https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-develop-own-smart-glasses-to-supplement-its-facial-recognition-app/

2026-05-07 18:02:35 CEST

Recently I opened up Microsoft Teams and was greeted with a deepfaked version of my own face. Here's how we got the Chinese-language software being marketed to scammers, and which can be used on WhatsApp, Zoom, other platforms. This is where fraud is right now
More: https://www.404media.co/hello-boss-inside-the-chinese-realtime-deepfake-software-powering-scams-around-the-world/
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2026-05-07 15:16:48 CEST

New from 404 Media: we've obtained a copy of the Chinese-language realtime deepfake software powering scams around the world. For weeks I spoke to these scammers, sent them photos of my face to build a deepfake. We reveal how it works. Impacts WhatsApp, Teams, Zoom https://www.404media.co/hello-boss-inside-the-chinese-realtime-deepfake-software-powering-scams-around-the-world/

2026-05-06 17:21:32 CEST

This week we spoke about how Flock used cameras at a children's gymnastics club for a sales pitch
Watch, subscribe here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLR8MOOhRCo
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2026-05-06 17:11:49 CEST

This week we spoke about how Flock used cameras at a children's gymnastics club for a sales pitch
Watch, subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLR8MOOhRCo

2026-05-06 15:24:00 CEST

This is an insane story of a man who found $1 million worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster. Speculation about how the person found these cards started spreading after he dripped them bit by bit on eBay. Konami not happy. Then the seller's mom got involved https://www.404media.co/man-finds-1-million-worth-of-yu-gi-oh-cards-in-a-dumpster/

2026-05-05 18:07:33 CEST

UK iPhone and iPad users can watch porn again, now that Apple devices are verify users' ages. Great.
https://www.404media.co/uk-iphone-ipad-ios-users-porn-age-verification/

2026-05-05 17:26:21 CEST

New from 404 Media: Skyrocketing hard drive and storage costs caused by the AI data center boom are making it more expensive and more difficult for digital archivists, academics, Wikipedia, and hobby data hoarders to save data and archive the internet https://www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-drive-shortage-is-making-it-more-expensive-and-harder-to-archive-the-internet/

2026-05-04 19:59:48 CEST

Nature has retracted a paper that claimed AI had a positive impact on student learning. “The Editor has decided to retract this paper owing to concerns regarding discrepancies in the meta-analysis.” The researchers did not respond to questions about the issues
https://www.404media.co/nature-retracts-paper-on-the-benefits-of-chatgpt-in-education/

2026-05-01 19:54:45 CEST

Wrote about seeing a Predator drone IRL https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-big-questions-of-consciousness/
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2026-04-30 18:19:57 CEST

A manager working for a top surveillance company sold a bunch of powerful hacking tools to a Russian company. Those tools then ended up being used by the Russians. Here's what happens when hacking tools spiral out of control
Watch, subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWxLqopMo5o
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/494/564/922/482/968/original/6b670921f3437357.mp4

2026-04-30 17:12:56 CEST

Japan is building cardboard suicide drones
https://www.404media.co/japan-cardboard-drones-air-kamuy/

2026-04-30 15:52:37 CEST

To even get a chance to fight Marathon's last boss, you have to solve six vaults. To even get a chance to do those, you have to find keys. To even get a chance to get keys, you have to kill other bosses.
Or, you could pay a guy on eBay to do it for you.
https://www.404media.co/buy-marathon-compiler-kill/

2026-04-30 15:31:26 CEST

Sales employees at Flock have been accessing sensitive cameras in a town to demonstrate the company’s surveillance technology to police around the country. Includes in a children’s gymnastics room, a playground, a school, a Jewish community center, and a pool. https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sales-pitch-demo-renews-contract-anyway/

2026-04-29 18:56:26 CEST

RightsCon was suddenly delayed because Zambia's Ministry of Information has issues with the speakers. Several participants reached by 404 Media said they were unsure what they were going to do, and weren’t sure if they were going to get on their flights to Lusaka https://www.404media.co/rightscon-human-rights-conference-suddenly-postponed/

2026-04-29 16:50:05 CEST

apple fixed an issue in which iPhones were saving deleted Signal messages after we found the FBI was leveraging the technique to get peoples' chats
Watch, subscribe here for more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOo0ZpIagP0
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2026-04-29 16:49:06 CEST

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2026-04-29 16:36:25 CEST

New from 404 Media: CBP is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to expand its fleet of high-powered MQ-9 spy drones. But the documents also show another component of DHS may soon start its own fleet of Predator-style drones (CBP previously flew drones for ICE) https://www.404media.co/dhs-plans-to-buy-more-predator-style-drones/

2026-04-29 15:14:56 CEST

Apple pushed an update that stopped deleted Signal messages being stored in the iPhone’s notification database. This comes directly in response to 404 Media finding the FBI was using this technique to recover deleted Signal messages. No longer an issue now https://www.404media.co/apple-fixes-bug-that-let-fbi-extract-deleted-signal-messages-after-404-media-coverage/

2026-04-16 18:49:02 CEST

Apple's and Google's app stores are pushing people towards downloading AI nudify apps
https://www.404media.co/app-stores-apple-google-nudify-undress-deepfakes/

2026-04-16 15:12:14 CEST

This is a great (and horrifying?) piece about how Sam, in preparation for her marriage, was pulled into the bridal algorithm. Her experience of social media changed completely overnight https://www.404media.co/wedding-planning-algorithm-weddingtok/