Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Resisting Demoralization
This week, we discuss history repeating itself, a phone wipe scandal, Meta's relationship with links and more.
News
Payment Processors Force AI Site Civitai to Remove Incest and Diapers
Civitai is also demonetizing content featuring the likeness of real people and making it harder to find.
hardware
This Website Is Running on a Wii
Alex Haydock found a dusty old Wii console at a hardware swap and modded it to run his website.
Data Hoarding
Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump
PrepperDisk is a mini internet box that comes preloaded with offline backups of some of the content that is being deleted by the administration.
News
Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water
A new government illuminates the environmental impact of generative AI.
News
The Man Who Wants AI to Help You ‘Cheat on Everything’
Roy Lee used AI to beat challenging technical interviews, now he wants people to do the same thing with every human interaction. We tested the tool and it kinda sucks.
unions
'They Sometimes Worry That I’m Dead Already:' Deep-Sea Fishers Fight for Wi-Fi
Distant-water fishers are out on the ocean for up to 10 months at a time, with no contact to the outside world.
Podcast
Podcast: Cops Are Using AI Bots to Surveil People
A company selling cops AI undercover bots; a visit to the millennial saint; and the state of 404 Media.
News
Hackers are Injecting Mass Shooting Videos Into Random StarCraft 2 Matches
Players are reporting seeing graphic videos and hate symbols hacked into the game.
News
Business Insider Founder Creates AI Exec For His New Newsroom, Immediately Hits On Her
‘Did the same rules apply to AI colleagues and native-AI workplaces? I didn’t know yet. That was one of the things I needed to figure out.’
PSA
How 404 Media Is Navigating 'Economic Headwinds'
The economy is bad. Here's how we're doing, and how you can help us.
News
The FBI Can't Find ‘Missing’ Records of Its Hacking Tools
The FBI bought multiple hacking tools for $250,000. Despite that, the FBI says it can't find any more records about the tools.
News
ICE Plans Central Database of Health, Labor, Housing Agency Data to Find Targets
A document viewed by 404 Media describes ICE's plans to incorporate data from the Department of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) into a tool called ATrac.