How a Network of Volunteers Is Liberating Critical Court Records for Everyone
404 Mediaby Madeleine O'Neill·2h ago
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'Darth Vader' Wants Flock in San Diego
404 Mediaby Samantha Cole·4d ago
During the public comment portion of a recent San Diego city council meeting, the council called for the next comment to take the podium: "Darth Vader?"
Subtlefakes: Slightly Altered Nonconsensual AI Images Are Taking Over X
404 Mediaby Emanuel Maiberg·4d ago
I can clearly remember the first time I saw a deepfake. I was waiting for the train on my way to the Vice office in 2017 when I got a Twitter DM from someone who saw it posted to Reddit.
Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure
404 Mediaby Matthew Gault·4d ago
Ypsilanti Township in Michigan passed a six month moratorium on “major electric utility infrastructure” on Tuesday night.
Lifeforms Can Survive on ‘Significant’ Regions of the Moon, Study Finds
404 Mediaby Becky Ferreira·4d ago
Microbes from Earth could survive on parts of the Moon for at least a week, a discovery that suggests that the lunar surface is not as hostile as previously assumed and has implications for...
'I Saw a Shiny Thing': Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler·5d ago
Body camera footage obtained by 404 Media shows a police officer explaining why he used police databases and license plate reader cameras to research, stalk, and pull over a woman he met on the set...
Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler·6d ago
Earlier this month, Anthropic announced that future versions of Claude will generate text that includes watermarks showing it was AI-generated.
X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds
404 Mediaby Matthew Gault·6d ago
X’s algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed
404 Mediaby Joseph Cox·6d ago
The National Park Service (NPS), the agency tasked with managing the U.S. national parks and monuments, has purchased Flock cameras and had them installed at parks including in Yosemite.
Pornhub's Parent Company to Pay $120 Million to Settle Child Sexual Abuse Lawsuits
404 Mediaby Samantha Cole·6d ago
Pornhub's parent company will pay $120 million to settle claims that its platforms violated federal sex trafficking and child sexual abuse imagery laws.
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