News
Apple Is Selling iPad Repair Parts for Astronomical Prices
“I believe Apple is charging this because they know if the price is high enough no one will buy it."
Meta
Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests
"This is more representative of the developer environment that our future employees will work in."
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Don't Record Me, Bro
This week, we discuss smart glasses for frat bros, Amazon comms messiness, and more.
AI Slop
LeBron James' Lawyers Send Cease-and-Desist to AI Company Making Pregnant Videos of Him
Viral Instagram accounts making LeBron 'brainrot' videos have also been banned.
Pentagon
Military Says It Will ‘Continuously’ Monitor Bathrooms to Comply With Anti-Trans Order
An internal memo obtained by 404 Media also shows the military ordered a review hold on "questionable content" at Stars and Stripes, the military's 'editorially independent' newspaper.
Spanish
ICE accede a una red nacional de cámaras con inteligencia artificial, según datos
Las cámaras lectoras de patentes de Flock están instaladas en más de 5000 comunidades en EE.UU. y las policías locales usan el sistema nacional para realizar búsquedas el ICE.
Spanish
Manifiestos de vuelo revelan que casi 40 personas no identificadas fueron enviadas en tres vuelos de deportación a El Salvador
Información filtrada mediante hackeos y obtenida por 404 Media revela que en los vuelos de deportación a El Salvador hubo decenas de personas adicionales no registradas oficialmente.
Spanish
Un vistazo a la colosal base de datos que usa el ICE para identificar y deportar personas
La base de datos permite crear filtros según cientos de categorías distintas, incluidos estatus migratorio, "características físicas específicas" (cicatrices, marcas, tatuajes), "afiliación criminal"; datos de lectores de patentes y más.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: High Stakes Data Dumps
This week, we discuss data dumps, high stakes, and lizard brain screen time.
events
Come Party With Us In Los Angeles July 30
404 Media is throwing a live podcast and party at RIP.SPACE in the Arts District.
1201
The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia
Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
GlobalX
Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador
Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even they don’t know," one lawyer said.