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If Kohler can view the user’s toilet data, as it admits to doing in this email exchange with technologist Simon Fondrie-Teitler, then it’s not—by definition—using end-to-end encryption. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:
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December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
If Kohler can view the user’s toilet data, as it admits to doing in this email exchange with technologist Simon Fondrie-Teitler, then it’s not—by definition—using end-to-end encryption. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:
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Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:
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Guys… it looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets. @evystadium.bsky.social gets into it.
Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:
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Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:
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December 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Guys… it looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets. @evystadium.bsky.social gets into it.
Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:
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Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:
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At 404 Media, we also talk to experts and those impacted by policies like book bans while the US government continues to push through safeguards on AI with tech giants.
Here, author @maggietokudahall.bsky.social and president of @authorsabb.bsky.social gives us perspective.
Here, author @maggietokudahall.bsky.social and president of @authorsabb.bsky.social gives us perspective.
December 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
At 404 Media, we also talk to experts and those impacted by policies like book bans while the US government continues to push through safeguards on AI with tech giants.
Here, author @maggietokudahall.bsky.social and president of @authorsabb.bsky.social gives us perspective.
Here, author @maggietokudahall.bsky.social and president of @authorsabb.bsky.social gives us perspective.
Resistance takes many forms. So does our storytelling.
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
Read here:
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Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
Read here:
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Resistance takes many forms. So does our storytelling.
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
Read here:
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
Read here:
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
Flock exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using overseas workers. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Story by @josephcox.bsky.social:
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Story by @josephcox.bsky.social:
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December 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Flock exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using overseas workers. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Story by @josephcox.bsky.social:
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
Story by @josephcox.bsky.social:
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Guess who's behind X accounts like RedPilledNurse or Ivanka Trump News? People outside the US. And social media companies are rewarding the creators for it. @evystadium.bsky.social has more:
Full story by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social: www.404media.co/americas-pol...
Full story by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social: www.404media.co/americas-pol...
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Guess who's behind X accounts like RedPilledNurse or Ivanka Trump News? People outside the US. And social media companies are rewarding the creators for it. @evystadium.bsky.social has more:
Full story by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social: www.404media.co/americas-pol...
Full story by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social: www.404media.co/americas-pol...
An AI chatbot roleplay and image generator platform left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social media. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full scoop by @samleecole.bsky.social
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Full scoop by @samleecole.bsky.social
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November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
An AI chatbot roleplay and image generator platform left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social media. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full scoop by @samleecole.bsky.social
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Full scoop by @samleecole.bsky.social
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.” @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.” @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
The lawsuit says that people detained at the ICE facility are being held in abhorrent, “inhumane” conditions. Despite a request for surveillance video, a DHS report says footage has been “irretrievably destroyed.” @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.
Story: www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
Story: www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
November 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The lawsuit says that people detained at the ICE facility are being held in abhorrent, “inhumane” conditions. Despite a request for surveillance video, a DHS report says footage has been “irretrievably destroyed.” @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.
Story: www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
Story: www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
The latest trend in Facebook’s ever downward spiral down the AI slop toilet are AI deportation videos. And the Facebook algorithm is rewarding creators for it. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The latest trend in Facebook’s ever downward spiral down the AI slop toilet are AI deportation videos. And the Facebook algorithm is rewarding creators for it. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AI’s massive power demands—and Trump’s done a lot to make it easier for them. Heidy Khlaaf, the head AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, tells us why that’s dangerous.
@mjgault.bsky.social has the story:
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@mjgault.bsky.social has the story:
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November 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AI’s massive power demands—and Trump’s done a lot to make it easier for them. Heidy Khlaaf, the head AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, tells us why that’s dangerous.
@mjgault.bsky.social has the story:
www.404media.co/power-compan...
@mjgault.bsky.social has the story:
www.404media.co/power-compan...
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
Today in #404DeepDive: People are modding Meta Ray-Bans to spy on you. Already, there are videos with millions of views of men using the glasses to film massage workers, asking for happy endings. What's Meta's response? @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Today in #404DeepDive: People are modding Meta Ray-Bans to spy on you. Already, there are videos with millions of views of men using the glasses to film massage workers, asking for happy endings. What's Meta's response? @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible,” Aaron Tsui, an activist with Cycling Solidarity, and who has been printing whistles, told 404 Media. “Whistles are an easy way to bring awareness for when ICE is in the area." www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible,” Aaron Tsui, an activist with Cycling Solidarity, and who has been printing whistles, told 404 Media. “Whistles are an easy way to bring awareness for when ICE is in the area." www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
This town has officially decided to fight against the construction of an AI data center that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
Amber Fellows, a Ypsilanti Township councilmember, tells us why:
Story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/a-small-town...
Amber Fellows, a Ypsilanti Township councilmember, tells us why:
Story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/a-small-town...
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This town has officially decided to fight against the construction of an AI data center that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
Amber Fellows, a Ypsilanti Township councilmember, tells us why:
Story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/a-small-town...
Amber Fellows, a Ypsilanti Township councilmember, tells us why:
Story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/a-small-town...
CBP has publicly released an app that Sheriff Offices, police departments, and other local law enforcement can use to scan someone’s face as part of immigration enforcement. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
Full scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
November 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
CBP has publicly released an app that Sheriff Offices, police departments, and other local law enforcement can use to scan someone’s face as part of immigration enforcement. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
Full scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
Ticketmaster's personalized AI slop ads on Facebook are just a glimpse at the future of social media advertising. And Mark Zuckerberg? He's a fan.
Welcome to the dystopic world of AI generated (and personalized) ads. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports:
Read more: www.404media.co/the-future-o...
Welcome to the dystopic world of AI generated (and personalized) ads. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports:
Read more: www.404media.co/the-future-o...
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Ticketmaster's personalized AI slop ads on Facebook are just a glimpse at the future of social media advertising. And Mark Zuckerberg? He's a fan.
Welcome to the dystopic world of AI generated (and personalized) ads. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports:
Read more: www.404media.co/the-future-o...
Welcome to the dystopic world of AI generated (and personalized) ads. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports:
Read more: www.404media.co/the-future-o...