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News

Man ‘Disappeared’ by ICE Was on El Salvador Flight Manifest, Hacked Data Shows
472 posts

AI

Watch an AI-Generated Recruiter Make a Job Interview Even Worse
118 posts

Podcast

Podcast: The Trump Admin's Signal Clone Was Hacked
90 posts

Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Brainrot and Brain Power Hours
88 posts

FOIA

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
49 posts

Features

The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
34 posts

Privacy

DeleteMe Helps Companies Fight the Growing Threat From Data Brokers
31 posts

The Abstract

Ancient Poems Record the Decline of a Special Porpoise
30 posts

Hacking

The Viral Smart Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Not Real
29 posts

Facebook

'Careless People' Is the Book About Facebook I've Wanted for a Decade
28 posts

repair

Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton
23 posts

Right to Repair

All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation
19 posts

Impact

Senator Demands Investigation into Trump Admin Signal Clone After 404 Media Investigation
18 posts

Google

Google's AI Overview Tells Adults to Use 'Magic Wand' With Kids
18 posts

Donald Trump

AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs
18 posts

Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer
15 posts

Surveillance

Researcher Turns Insecure License Plate Cameras Into Open Source Surveillance Tool
14 posts

TikTok

TikTok Says It’s Not Censoring ‘Free Palestine’ Comments. Users See Something Different
14 posts

Amazon

Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust
12 posts

Twitter

Afghanistan Resistance Account Says ‘Tour of Booty’ Porn Scene Is The Taliban
12 posts

OpenAI

OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
12 posts

Artificial Intelligence

Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation
12 posts

Elon Musk

Former Heritage Foundation Staffer Orders Treasury Employees to Respond to Elon Musk’s Email
11 posts

Instagram

Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence
11 posts

age verification

Texans Might Soon Have to Show Photo ID to Buy a Dildo Online
10 posts

Reddit

Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X
10 posts

Announcements

404 Media Objects to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's Subpoena to Access Our Reporting
9 posts

Apple

Green Bubble Vindication: DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Says Apple Is Causing Android Users 'Social Stigma'
9 posts

Deepfakes

'I Want to Make You Immortal:' How One Woman Confronted Her Deepfakes Harasser
9 posts

pornhub

Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South
8 posts

wall

8 posts

lawsuits

Woman Sues Sex Toy Retailer Adam and Eve, Claims It Shared Data About Her Dildos
8 posts

Generative AI

AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality
8 posts

iPhone

A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy
7 posts

Ticketmaster

Ticketmaster Used Revolving Barcodes to Control Ticket Resale Market and Surveil Customers, DOJ Alleges
7 posts

Social media

Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy
7 posts

X

7 posts

Labor

CEO Attempted to Navigate Anti-LGBT Hate Incident By Telling Employees His Mentor Was a KKK Member
7 posts

YouTube

Unionized YouTube Workers Learn Google Laid Them All Off During City Council Meeting
7 posts

girls do porn

'She Turned Ghost White:' How a Ragtag Group of Friends Tracked Down a Sex Trafficking Ringleader
7 posts

Security

Do Spencer’s Vibrators Have Malware on Them? An Investigation
7 posts

FOIA Forum

Here's the Video for Our Fourth FOIA Forum: PACER with Seamus Hughes
7 posts

wordpress

Following Layoffs, Automattic Employees Discover Leak-Catching Watermarks
7 posts

AI Slop

Zuckerberg 'Loves' AI Slop Image From Spam Account That Posts Amputated Children
7 posts

advertising

WTF Is Stake, the Online Casino Using Viral Posts to Advertise Its Gambling Site
6 posts

science

Paper-Crumpling Study About the Nature of Anger Is the Best Thing I've Read in a Long Time
6 posts

chatbots

Instagram Is Blocking Minors from Accessing Chatbot Platform AI Studio
6 posts

DOGE

Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
6 posts

Ticket Scalping

5 posts

Ticket Brokers

5 posts

Palestine

5 posts

Workers

5 posts

Music

These Songs Are Still Legal in Chechnya
5 posts

ChatGPT

OpenAI, Mass Scraper of Copyrighted Work, Claims Copyright Over Subreddit's Logo
5 posts

sex

Analysis of 34 Hours of Orgasm Recordings Finds People Cum Quietly
5 posts

open source

Here's a PDF Version of the CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism
5 posts

Car Repair

It Is Now Legal to Hack McFlurry Machines (and Medical Devices) to Fix Them
5 posts

union

5 posts

archives

Trump Fires National Archives Director Colleen Shogan
5 posts

John Deere

4 posts

Tractors

Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers' Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season
4 posts

Internet of Shit

4 posts

Drones

The No-Win 'Mystery Drone' Clusterfuck
4 posts

Lost Media

Long Lost Song Hunted By Thousands Found in 80s Porno
4 posts

archiving

Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe
4 posts

Adblock

YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users
4 posts

porn

Oklahoma Senator Introduces Bill to Make Porn Completely Illegal
4 posts

Taylor Swift

Typewriter Community Braces for Influx of Taylor Swift Fans Inspired by Tortured Poets Department
4 posts

sex toys

4 posts

publishing

4 posts

texas

4 posts

automattic

A WordPress ‘Firehose’ Allows AI Companies to Buy Access to a Million Posts a Day
4 posts

copyright

Shein Is Suing Temu For Copyright Infringement
4 posts

Crime

4 posts

work

LinkedIn Descends Into Madness Over ‘WORK From HOME’ Copypasta
4 posts

Zoom

Watch Man Park His Car On Zoom While Appearing Before a Judge For Suspended License Trial
4 posts

Delivery Drivers

4 posts

LinkedIn

LinkedIn Removes Accounts of AI 'Co-Workers' Looking for Jobs
4 posts

AI Images

Met Gala AI Images of Katy Perry and Rihanna Show Relentless Spread of AI Junk
4 posts

AI Spam

Viral 'Challah Horse' Image Zuckerberg Loved Was Originally Created as a Warning About Facebook's AI Slop
4 posts

Court Watch

Tipster Arrested After Feds Find AI Child Exploit Images and Plans to Make VR CSAM
4 posts

Telegram

Podcast: Is the Arrest of Telegram Founder Pavel Durov an Attack on Encryption?
4 posts

Internet Mysteries

'The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet' Has Finally Been Identified
4 posts

election

This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages
4 posts

Bluesky

Bluesky Deletes AI Protest Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes, Calls It 'Non-Consensual Explicit Material'
4 posts

wired

The Murky Ad-Tech World Powering Surveillance of US Military Personnel
4 posts

Tariffs

Your Children’s Children Will Die in Our Factories
4 posts

Good Enough

I Have Studied the Blade for 3 Years With the Bob Kramer Sharpening Kit
3 posts

ifixit

3 posts

Olivia Rodrigo Tickets

3 posts

Internet of Things

3 posts

Photography

Developing and Scanning My Own Color Film: A Rewarding, Infuriating Hobby
3 posts

Threads

3 posts

film

3 posts

adblockers

3 posts

scams

Why Does Wildlife Photographer Paul Nicklen Have Dozens of Catfish Scam Impersonators?
3 posts

Cameras

Traffic Camera 'Selfie' Creator Holds Cease and Desist Letter in Front of Traffic Cam
3 posts

23andMe

DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy
3 posts

China

Leaked Emails Show Hugo Awards Self-Censoring to Appease China
3 posts

platforms

Pornhub Wants Proof of Consent From Every Single Performer on Its Platform
3 posts

Wikipedia

Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies
3 posts

Search

3 posts

Data Brokers

Woman Got Cremation Ads in the Mail After Getting Chemotherapy
3 posts

Courtwatch

Men Stole Over $1 Million From DoorDash Delivery Drivers By Impersonating Them to Customer Service
3 posts

nypd

NYPD Produces Propaganda Instead of Legally Required Public Records
3 posts

Los Angeles

LA Car Culture Warriors In Shambles After Overwhelming Vote for New Bike Lines
3 posts

Flock

Let’s Talk About the Flock Study That Says It Solves Crime
3 posts

automation

3 posts

LAPD

LAPD Publishes Crime Footage It Got From a Waymo Driverless Car
3 posts

warehouse

3 posts

Github

‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases
3 posts

Microsoft

How a Microsoft App is Powering Employee Surveillance
3 posts

Tesla

Elon Musk Uses Cybertruck Explosion to Show Tesla Can Remotely Unlock and Monitor Vehicles
3 posts

Content Moderation

3 posts

Redbox

The Redbox Removal Team
3 posts

Mark Zuckerberg

3 posts

Wildfires

An Amazon Delivery Confirmation Photo Is the Last Time a Palisades Resident Saw Her Burnt Down House
3 posts

repairability

2 posts

aliens

2 posts

Nothing, Forever

2 posts

Olivia Rodrigo

Ticketmaster Crashes During Olivia Rodrigo Presale—Here's Why
2 posts

FTC

FTC Sues John Deere Over Its Repair Monopoly
2 posts

Antitrust

2 posts

Games

2 posts

Programming

Male Tech Conference Founder Is Behind Popular Woman Coding Influencer Account
2 posts

Piracy

Major Private Music Torrenting Site Suffers ‘Massive Peer Scraping Attack’
2 posts

Mastodon

Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance
2 posts

Israel

Elon Musk Broke All the Tools Historians Need to Archive Tweets About Israel-Gaza War
2 posts

Crypto

‘Poof You’re a Millionaire’: Scammer Convinced Investors to Send Him $1.5 Million to Build Magic Money Making Bot
2 posts

cars

Car Rental Service Replaces Desk Agents With People On Video Chat
2 posts

Autonomous Vehicles

2 posts

Letter to America

2 posts

Streaming

The Digital Packrat Manifesto
2 posts

Garth Brooks

Garth Brooks’ New, Bass Pro Shops-Exclusive CD: The 404 Media Review
2 posts

Film Cameras

2 posts

Deepmind

2 posts

DNA

2 posts

Poland

2 posts

kink

2 posts

health

Judge Orders CDC and FDA to Restore Pages Removed by Trump Admin Before Midnight
2 posts

Advertisements

2 posts

Scoops

2 posts

Video Games

13-Year-Old Becomes First Person to Ever Beat Tetris
2 posts

Court Records

‘Russian Economist’ Had Passports Confiscated at Airport, Was Allowed to Sneak Onto Flight to LAX Without a Ticket Anyway
2 posts

online dating

2 posts

SEO

2 posts

Investigations

2 posts

Russia

2 posts

Apple Vision Pro

A ‘$3,500 Chastity Belt’: Early Apple Vision Pro Adopters Alarmed to Learn VR Porn Doesn't Work
2 posts

4chan

Internet Sleuths Finally Find Origin of 'The Backrooms' Creepypasta Image
2 posts

finance

2 posts

sex work

2 posts

malware

'Sydney Sweeney Leak' Malware is All Over Twitter
2 posts

writing

2 posts

Books

2 posts

tumblr

Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
2 posts

nyc

Governor Says National Guard, More Surveillance Coming to NYC Subways
2 posts

podcasts

AI Slop Is Breaking the Internet as We Know It (404 Media Live at SXSW)
2 posts

paypal

Paypal Opted You Into Sharing Data Without Your Knowledge
2 posts

Journalism

2 posts

xz backdoor

The Xz Backdoor Highlights the Vulnerability of Open Source Software—and Its Strengths
2 posts

conspiracy theories

The Editor's Note on Kate Middleton Cancer Announcement Video Doesn't Mean It's Fake
2 posts

Cryptography

2 posts

Lawyers

2 posts

layoffs

Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs
2 posts

virtual reality

How Amateur Performers Are Making Porn in the Apple Vision Pro
2 posts

Chemicals

2 posts

Spam

2 posts

UK

2 posts

Gender

2 posts

Humane

The Humane AI Pin: A $700 Brick of E-Waste
2 posts

AI Pin

2 posts

research

2 posts

student protests

2 posts

Facebook Spam

2 posts

Billie Eilish tickets

How Resellers Are Transferring Billie Eilish's 'Untransferable' Tickets
2 posts

AI Porn

2 posts

replika

2 posts

stable diffusion

2 posts

csam

2 posts

All Eyes on Rafah

Viral ‘All Eyes on Rafah’ Image Came From Facebook Group to Make ‘AI Industry Prosper’
2 posts

Suno

2 posts

influencers

I Went to See ‘God’s Influencer,’ the Millennial Saint Carlo Acutis
2 posts

DHS

2 posts

DMCA

2 posts

machine learning

2 posts

AI Scraping

2 posts

Gig work

2 posts

Robots.txt

2 posts

nvidia

Nvidia Sued for Scraping YouTube After 404 Media Investigation
2 posts

hackers

2 posts

politics

2 posts

Gaming

Steam Removes Forced Arbitration Clause, Gamers Can Now Sue Valve
2 posts

waymo

Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic
2 posts

DeFlock

Flock Threatens Open Source Developer Mapping Its Surveillance Cameras
2 posts

Luigi Mangione

Copyright Abuse Is Getting Luigi Mangione Merch Removed From the Internet
2 posts

wp engine

2 posts

unions

'They Sometimes Worry That I’m Dead Already:' Deep-Sea Fishers Fight for Wi-Fi
2 posts

TikTok Ban

2 posts

government

2 posts

Trump administration

2 posts

jobs

2 posts

organizing

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
2 posts

cdc

2 posts

dei

Ziff Davis, Owner of Sites Including IGN and CNET, Quietly Removed DEI Language From Its Website
2 posts

Data Hoarding

Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump
2 posts

Manufacturing

2 posts

iPhone 15

iPhone 15 Pro

iPhone 15 keynote

Mexico Congress

alien mummies

mexico

Nazca Mummies

AI Shows

Serve Robotics

Credit Cards

Credit Card Churning

travis scott

utopia tour

Cords

Cables

Dongles

Vintage computing

Pokemon

CineStill

CineStill 800T

Movies

Seinfeld

UAW

UAW Strike

ublock origin

RAM

In Defense of RAM

MacBook Pro

Fourth Amendment

maine

ballot initiatives

SETI

Qualcomm Cofounder Leaves $200 Million Gift to SETI Institute in His Will

Jezebel

Brand Safety

Rivian

Trucks

Electric trucks

Cruise

AVs

Driverless Cars

Guardian

The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden's 'Letter to America' Because It Went Viral on TikTok

Osama Bin Laden

The Guardian

Extremism

Emmett Shear

Firefox

Mozilla

EightSleep

Smart Devices

IoT

Sam Altman

Gadgets

New Kodak Super 8 Film Camera Thought to Be Vaporware Is Actually Coming Out, Costs $5,495, Charges With MicroUSB

Kodak

Plex

Pickleball

patreon

‘The Community Is Scrambling:’ Patreon Banned a Ton of 'Adult Baby/Diaper Lover' Furries

furries

23andMeHack

bing

inflation

Hackers Popped a Porn Site for Inflation Fetishists

fetish

medicine

Freezing My Eggs Felt Like Spinning a Slot Machine With My Ovaries

math

Ubiquiti

Wifi

clowns

trains

cinema

Watch Peloton Instructor Dunk on ‘Tenet’ to Christopher Nolan’s Face

Joe Rogan

Andrew Tate

Steve Harvey

dating

Man Sues 27 Women After Facebook Users Call Him ‘Clingy’ and ‘Psycho’

Bass Pro Shops

Time Traveler

Kayak

KAYAK Lets Users Filter Out Boeing 737 Max 9 Flights After Door Blows Off Plane

Boeing

Boeing Flights

legislation

Oklahoma Bill Would Rewrite Long-Accepted Obscenity Standards

Vision Pro

trad

Stract

This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time

payment processors

Stripe Cuts Off Platform Used by Dominatrixes

Oregon

Taliban

Afghanistan

Iowa

Satanic Temple

viruses

vibrator

sex tech

Darknet

Drugs

Book banning

midjourney

etsy

Fanfiction Community Rocked By Etsy Sellers Turning Their Work Into Bound Books

fanfic

fandom

Cat Janice

doom

Watch This Guy Play ‘Doom’ on a Toothbrush

toothbrush

cosplay

HLA

mta

subway

Wordle

NYTimes Files Copyright Takedown Against Hundreds of Wordle Clones

NYTimes

Young Indian Method

moderation

tinder

I Tried a Bot That Swipes Tinder For Me

Baseball

How a Foul Ball From 2014 Became Part of a Russian Disinformation Campaign

OSINT

stripe

Gumroad Celebrates Sales Spike While Adult Creators Panic

gumroad

Shrimp Jesus

Kate Middleton

'Enhanced' Photos of Kate Middleton Are Just More AI Bullshit

WheresKate

Princess Kate

stalking

The FBI Charged a Man With Cyberstalking Nude Erotic Wrestlers

fbi

harassment

wrestling

Deadspin

Deadspin Is Becoming a Gambling Referral Site

Gambling

Court documents

Here's the U.S. Government's Antitrust Case Against Apple

android

doj

RSS

404 Media

Baltimore

The Amateur Bridge Engineers Have Logged On

Bridge

Dali

computing

Scientific Journal Bans Images of ‘Lena,’ Researchers’ Favorite Centerfold

lena

playboy

Evolv

Eric Adams

FOSS

Kagi

Friendship Ended With GOOGLE Now KAGI Is My Best Friend

Google Search

Zodiac Killer

Cryptographers Who Solved Zodiac Killer Cipher Publish Paper About How They Did It

FDroid

best buy

geek squad

vr

chicken

adult

arizona

Materials

TV

The Dystopian Future of TV Is AI-Generated 'FAST' Garbage

Humane Pin

MKBHD

meme

remote work

Nudify

orgasms

algorithms

TTPD

Tortured Poets Department

Typewriters

manga

Manga Site Blocks Adult Content, But Only for US and UK Users

japan

art

healthcare

nurse

Putin

censorship

Livestream

GPT

columbia

Bike Lock NYPD Insists Is 'Industrial' Protest Tool Is a Normal Lock Recommended by Columbia University

protests

gaza

New York City

Columbia University

Columbia Protests

utah

An Open Database Leaked Submissions to Utah’s Transphobic ‘Bathroom Bill’ Snitch Form

bathroom bills

google maps

'Kendrick's Pool:' People Are Tagging Drake's House With Insults on Google Maps

drake

kendrick

Katy Perry

Met Gala

Billie Eilish

Coffee

Scientists Use Ultrasound to Make Cold Brew Coffee in 3 Minutes Instead of 24 Hours

Cold Brew

Bots

Solar Storm

tractor repair

mental health

UT Austin

Streisand Effect

Samsung

Google AI

laion

Live Nation

law enforcement

Rafah

All Eyes on Rafah’s Virality Creates Market for AI Spam About Palestine

awdtsg

'Are We Dating the Same Guy' Guy Imprisoned for Tax Fraud

tax fraud

lostmedia

the backrooms

Robotics

airtags

A Suspected Human Smuggler Used AirTags to Track and Control The Woman He Brought Into the U.S.

abuse

kpop

newjeans

Tamagotchi

A 27-Year Old Tamagotchi Mystery Has Been Solved

Mothra

Mysteries

The Gateway Pundit

Media

Gateway Pundit Bankruptcy Is a 'Delay Tactic,' Election Workers Suing the Company Say

Activision

Perplexity

A Question About Disputed South China Sea Sends Perplexity AI Into a Sanitized Infinite Loop

Amazon Rainforest

‘Remote’ Amazonian Tribes Have Been Using the Internet for a Long Time

SpaceX

Starlink

Investing

You Probably Unwittingly Voted to Give Elon Musk a Huge Raise

Passive Investing

Library

drag queen

pride

lgbtq

citation

California

Saunas

Game Development

DJI

The DJI Drone Ban: A Uniquely American Clusterfuck

DJI Ban

Skydio

Udio

Listen to the AI-Generated Ripoff Songs That Got Udio and Suno Sued

RIAA

EPA

ebay

Stingray

Zoom Bombing

'Local Residents' Terrorizing City Council Meetings Were Actually Overseas, Feds Allege

Tickets

Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets

Scalpers

Ticketmaster Hack

nato

The '25-Year-Old Bachelor Living In Washington, D.C.' Is a NATO Influencer Now

reels

fraud

GenAI

Goldman Sachs

StickerMule

Sticker Mule in Marketing Email: ‘Donald Trump Was Shot … Btw, get 1 Shirt for $4 (normally $19)’

Trump

reviews

Dunking on J.D. Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Is ‘Unusual Behavior,’ Goodreads Says

events

You're Invited: 404 Media's First Anniversary Party

technology

I Tried to Vape the Internet

1201

CrowdStrike

To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says

Crowdstrike Outage

BSOD

Blue Screen of Death

runway

training data

Anthropic

Navy

Counterfeiting

Rabbit

Rabbit Says Breach 'Not Caused by a Breach,' Is Fault of Malicious Employee, 'Hacktivists,' Journalists

Rabbit R1

def con

DEF CON Badge Maker Pulled Off Stage Amid Claims of Non-Payment and Failed Work

fun

I Gazed Lovingly Into Strangers’ Eyes on ‘Eyechat’

video chatting

truth social

shein

temu

Pavel Durov

military

nanowrimo

LobbyMatic

Big Tech ‘Clients’ of Jacob Wohl’s Secret AI Lobbying Firm Say They've Never Heard of It

Jacob Wohl

AI Lobbying

DIY

‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine

Four Thieves Vinegar Collective

Internet

Leticia Sarda

Oracle

Larry Ellison's AI-Powered Surveillance Dystopia Is Already Here

Starship

Delivery Robot Knocked Over Pedestrian, Company Offered ‘Promo Codes’ to Apologize

Delivery Robots

Lebanon

Experts: Lebanon Pager Explosions Likely Not Lithium Batteries Alone

Hezbollah

Batteries

Battery Fires

Torrenting

Torrents

ncii

DeleteMe

Steam

Forced Arbitration

Projects

Hidden ‘BopSpotter’ Microphone Is Constantly Surveilling San Francisco for Good Music

Bopspotter

hurricanes

biolab

North Korea

Hurricane Helene

AI Hawk

National Archives

NARA

Reverse engineering

Data Journalism

Twister

McFlurry

northwell

hospitals

Progress 2028

Elon Musk-Funded PAC Supercharges ‘Progress 2028’ Democrat Impersonation Ad Campaign

Disney

Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information

Fex

Subways of Your Mind

EagleAI

Inside the Plan to Use AI to Purge Voter Rolls

fcc

harpercollins

ISIS

Graphic Design for ISIS Is His Passion, FBI Alleges in Filing

llms

mit press

spotify

Spotify Has A Pirated Software Problem

stake

Overemployment

Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing?

Black Friday

Happy Affiliate Marketing Day to All Who Celebrate

Affiliate Marketing

Zipcar

‘A Total Meltdown’: Black Friday Zipcar Outage Strands Customers in Random Places

insurance

Major Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder of United Healthcare CEO

Unitedhealthcare

New Jersey drones

WTF Is Going on With the New Jersey Mystery Drones? Maybe Mass Panic Over Nothing

mystery drones

christmas

Nothing Is Sacred: AI Generated Slop Has Come for Christmas Music

Ownership

ALPR

ai overview

California Fire

Palisades Fire

grok

LA Fires

Pixelfed

avn

Porn Performers Conflicted Over Crossing the Picket Line to Attend AVN

vegas

retro

Nokia’s Weird Y2K Designs Show the Future We Could Have Had

design

nokia

AI bots

medical repair

project 2025

DeepSeek

Public Domain

Data Deletion

Data.gov

Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov

Harvard University

nasa

Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites

FEMA

'For Immediate Compliance': FEMA Workers Responding to Wildfires Ordered to Say 'Alien' Instead of 'Immigrant'

Wikimedia Foundation

fda

Waste.gov

Elon Musk's Waste.gov Is Just a WordPress Theme Placeholder Page

White House

True Crime

law

Ewaste

Recycling

y combinator

ALPRs

Surveillance cameras

Cybertruck

Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery

Tesla Protest

Pokemon Go

Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data

tsa

TSA Says Its Credit Cards for Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Are Cut Off

JFK

Why All of the JFK Assassination Documents Haven’t Been Released Yet

JFK Assassination

Tucker Carlson

Clearview AI

Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database

Clearview

Facial Recognition

Genetic databases

Signal

When Your Threat Model Is Being a Moron

Pete Hegseth

AOL

pikachu

Pikachu Spotted Fleeing Police Crackdowns During Turkey Protests

turkey

Erdoğan

Genetics

Open Source Genetic Database Shuts Down to Protect Users From 'Authoritarian Governments'

OpenSNP

onlyfans

OnlyFans Sued After Two Guys Realized They Might Not Actually Be Talking to Models

class action

agencies

T-Mobile

T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children

Syncup

Switch 2

'Sea of Idiocy:' Economists Say Trump Tariffs Will Raise Price of Switch 2 and Everything Else

Careless People

Sarah Wynn-Williams

Framework

ICE

Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People

Immigration

Interviews

How a $2,000 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured

Purism

Liberty Phone

Massive Blue

PSA

How 404 Media Is Navigating 'Economic Headwinds'

wi-fi

internet acces

hardware

This Website Is Running on a Wii

modding

wii

XBAND

The Infamous ‘You Wouldn’t Steal a Car’ Anti-Piracy Font Was Pirated. But By Who?

Tourism

Recession Indicator: Bookings for the German Tour Bus in Los Angeles Are Down 30%

Avatar

avatars

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