News
The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.
open source
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
News
Anthropic CEO Says Limiting China’s Access to AI Chips Is 'Existentially Important'
Dario Amodei argues we must limit China’s access to AI chips so we can live under all powerful American-owned AI as opposed to all powerful Chinese-owned AI.
OpenAI
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.
Podcast
Podcast: The Truth Behind DeepSeek
We talk all about DeepSeek, the U.S. government memo metadata, and how GitHub is showing the U.S. government's transformation in real time.
LinkedIn Removes Accounts of AI 'Co-Workers' Looking for Jobs
An AI LinkedIn profile was "open to work," boasting it’s a better worker than a human.
Donald Trump
Memos to Federal Employees Were Written By People With Ties to Project 2025, Metadata Shows
James Sherk and Noah Peters appear as the authors of memos sent by the Office of Personnel Management.
News
Hackers Mined AT&T Breach for Data on Trump's Family, Kamala Harris
Hackers behind the breach of “nearly all” of AT&T customers’ metadata searched for records associated with members of the Trump family, Kamala Harris, and Marco Rubio’s wife.
porn
Oklahoma Senator Introduces Bill to Make Porn Completely Illegal
In a slate of several bills restricting reproductive rights and divorce, Oklahoma senator Dusty Deevers suggests anyone making anything even vaguely pornographic should go to jail.
News
DeepSeek Mania Shakes AI Industry to Its Core
Why a relatively unknown Chinese-developed AI model has turned the AI industry on its head.
Podcast
Podcast: Pornhub Exec Discusses Pulling Out of the South, Trad Wives, and Feet Pics
In this special interview episode of the 404 Media Podcast, Sam talks to Alexzandra Kekesi, VP of Brand and Community at Pornhub, about age verification laws and what she's hearing from adult performers.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Zuckerberg's Kook-ness and Trump Week One
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Nazis celebrating Elon Musk’s salute, Zuckerberg as a kook, dictating your own threat model and a good block/mute ethos.