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How the FBI Is Hunting North Korean Hackers Who Attacked U.S. Healthcare System
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AI Video Generator Runway Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission
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Behind the Blog: Winning Awards and Cranky Babies
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DHS Has a DoS Robot to Disable Internet of Things ‘Booby Traps’ Inside Homes
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Inside a Kidnapping Planned on the FBI's Secret Chat App
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Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to Share Customer Data, Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts, Leaked Contract Shows
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Court Allows K-Pop Group to Subpoena YouTuber's Identity from Google
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Has Facebook Stopped Trying?
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FTC Fines Avast $16.5 Million For Selling Browsing Data Harvested by Antivirus
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The Walls Are Closing in on John Deere’s Tractor Repair Monopoly
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OpenAI’s GPT-4o Isn’t ‘Her,’ It’s ‘Metropolis’
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California Fines Amazon $6 Million for 59,017 Separate Warehouse Violations
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The U.S. Wants to Ban TikTok for the Sins of Every Social Media Company
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The Viral Smart Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Not Real
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Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation
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Chaturbate Will Pay Texas $675,000 for Violating New Porn Age Verification Law
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r/SecurityClearance Is the Best Subreddit
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The Ticketmaster Hack Is Becoming a Logistical Nightmare for Fans and Brokers
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eBay Removes Listing for StingRay Cellphone Spying Tech
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‘You Will Lose Access To Pornhub:’ Kentucky and Indiana Face a Porn Countdown
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Do Spencer’s Vibrators Have Malware on Them? An Investigation
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An Astronomy Technique Could Detect Deepfakes Through People’s Eyes
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Introducing the First 404 Media Fellow: Jules Roscoe
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iFixit Drastically and Retroactively Reduces ‘Repairability Score’ of the Current iPhone
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Elon Musk Is Making His Advertising Crisis a Problem for Sex Workers
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Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family
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Girls Do Porn Ringleader Pleads Not Guilty
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OpenAI, Mass Scraper of Copyrighted Work, Claims Copyright Over Subreddit's Logo
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Instagram Experiments With Injecting Pop Up Ads Into Your Friends’ Stories
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Unionized YouTube Workers Learn Google Laid Them All Off During City Council Meeting
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YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users
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Paper-Crumpling Study About the Nature of Anger Is the Best Thing I've Read in a Long Time
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Leaked Emails Show Hugo Awards Self-Censoring to Appease China
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Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable
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Typewriter Community Braces for Influx of Taylor Swift Fans Inspired by Tortured Poets Department
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Pornhub Wants Proof of Consent From Every Single Performer on Its Platform
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NYPD Produces Propaganda Instead of Legally Required Public Records
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Game Studio's Job Requirement: 'Non Negotiable' Nude Sauna Sessions
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Met Gala AI Images of Katy Perry and Rihanna Show Relentless Spread of AI Junk
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Ticketmaster Crashes During Olivia Rodrigo Presale—Here's Why
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Male Tech Conference Founder Is Behind Popular Woman Coding Influencer Account
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Mastodon Is the Good One
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Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance
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Elon Musk Broke All the Tools Historians Need to Archive Tweets About Israel-Gaza War
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‘Poof You’re a Millionaire’: Scammer Convinced Investors to Send Him $1.5 Million to Build Magic Money Making Bot
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Car Rental Service Replaces Desk Agents With People On Video Chat
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Garth Brooks’ New, Bass Pro Shops-Exclusive CD: The 404 Media Review
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‘Russian Economist’ Had Passports Confiscated at Airport, Was Allowed to Sneak Onto Flight to LAX Without a Ticket Anyway
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Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original
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A ‘$3,500 Chastity Belt’: Early Apple Vision Pro Adopters Alarmed to Learn VR Porn Doesn't Work
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Internet Sleuths Finally Find Origin of 'The Backrooms' Creepypasta Image
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'Sydney Sweeney Leak' Malware is All Over Twitter
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Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
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A WordPress ‘Firehose’ Allows AI Companies to Buy Access to a Million Posts a Day
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Governor Says National Guard, More Surveillance Coming to NYC Subways
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The Xz Backdoor Highlights the Vulnerability of Open Source Software—and Its Strengths
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Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability
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Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs
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How Amateur Performers Are Making Porn in the Apple Vision Pro
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‘FUCK the LAPD' Shirt Maker's Entire Shop Sold Out After Cops Threaten Him
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How Resellers Are Transferring Billie Eilish's 'Untransferable' Tickets
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‘No Bot is Themselves Anymore:’ Character.ai Users Report Sudden Personality Changes to Chatbots
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Viral ‘All Eyes on Rafah’ Image Came From Facebook Group to Make ‘AI Industry Prosper’
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Microsoft QA Contractors Say They Were Laid Off for Attempting to Unionize
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In Defense of RAM
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Qualcomm Cofounder Leaves $200 Million Gift to SETI Institute in His Will
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The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden's 'Letter to America' Because It Went Viral on TikTok
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New Kodak Super 8 Film Camera Thought to Be Vaporware Is Actually Coming Out, Costs $5,495, Charges With MicroUSB
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‘The Community Is Scrambling:’ Patreon Banned a Ton of 'Adult Baby/Diaper Lover' Furries
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Annual Reminder: 23andMe Is a Dangerous Christmas Gift That Could Have Unforeseen Impacts on Your Entire Family, Your Children, Etc.
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Hackers Popped a Porn Site for Inflation Fetishists
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Freezing My Eggs Felt Like Spinning a Slot Machine With My Ovaries
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Watch Peloton Instructor Dunk on ‘Tenet’ to Christopher Nolan’s Face
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Man Sues 27 Women After Facebook Users Call Him ‘Clingy’ and ‘Psycho’
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KAYAK Lets Users Filter Out Boeing 737 Max 9 Flights After Door Blows Off Plane
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Oklahoma Bill Would Rewrite Long-Accepted Obscenity Standards
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This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time
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Stripe Cuts Off Platform Used by Dominatrixes
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Darknet Drug Dealers Arrested After Packages of Meth-Laced Adderall Repeatedly Returned to Sender
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Fanfiction Community Rocked By Etsy Sellers Turning Their Work Into Bound Books
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Watch This Guy Play ‘Doom’ on a Toothbrush
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LA Car Culture Warriors In Shambles After Overwhelming Vote for New Bike Lines
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NYTimes Files Copyright Takedown Against Hundreds of Wordle Clones
NYTimes
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I Tried a Bot That Swipes Tinder For Me
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How a Foul Ball From 2014 Became Part of a Russian Disinformation Campaign
OSINT
stripe
Gumroad Celebrates Sales Spike While Adult Creators Panic
paypal
gumroad
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Kate Middleton
'Enhanced' Photos of Kate Middleton Are Just More AI Bullshit
WheresKate
Princess Kate
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Let’s Talk About the Flock Study That Says It Solves Crime
stalking
The FBI Charged a Man With Cyberstalking Nude Erotic Wrestlers
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Deadspin Is Becoming a Gambling Referral Site
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Here's the U.S. Government's Antitrust Case Against Apple
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The Amateur Bridge Engineers Have Logged On
Bridge
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Scientific Journal Bans Images of ‘Lena,’ Researchers’ Favorite Centerfold
lena
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The Editor's Note on Kate Middleton Cancer Announcement Video Doesn't Mean It's Fake
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Friendship Ended With GOOGLE Now KAGI Is My Best Friend
Google Search
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Cryptographers Who Solved Zodiac Killer Cipher Publish Paper About How They Did It
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The Dystopian Future of TV Is AI-Generated 'FAST' Garbage
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Manga Site Blocks Adult Content, But Only for US and UK Users
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Bike Lock NYPD Insists Is 'Industrial' Protest Tool Is a Normal Lock Recommended by Columbia University
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An Open Database Leaked Submissions to Utah’s Transphobic ‘Bathroom Bill’ Snitch Form
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'Kendrick's Pool:' People Are Tagging Drake's House With Insults on Google Maps
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Scientists Use Ultrasound to Make Cold Brew Coffee in 3 Minutes Instead of 24 Hours
Cold Brew
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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
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airtags
A Suspected Human Smuggler Used AirTags to Track and Control The Woman He Brought Into the U.S.
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newjeans
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A 27-Year Old Tamagotchi Mystery Has Been Solved
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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
Meta
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‘Remote’ Amazonian Tribes Have Been Using the Internet for a Long Time
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You Probably Unwittingly Voted to Give Elon Musk a Huge Raise
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The DJI Drone Ban: A Uniquely American Clusterfuck
DJI Ban
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Listen to the AI-Generated Ripoff Songs That Got Udio and Suno Sued
Suno
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'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
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Sticker Mule in Marketing Email: ‘Donald Trump Was Shot … Btw, get 1 Shirt for $4 (normally $19)’
Trump
Donald Trump
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Dunking on J.D. Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Is ‘Unusual Behavior,’ Goodreads Says
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You're Invited: 404 Media's First Anniversary Party
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I Tried to Vape the Internet
DHS
1201
DMCA
CrowdStrike
To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says
Crowdstrike Outage
BSOD
Blue Screen of Death
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training data
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Anthropic
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