404media.coadded August 2026
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler2h ago
Body camera footage obtained by 404 Media reveals the first Flock camera searches ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, and highlights how the system has turned otherwise mundane traffic stops...
404 Mediaby Becky Ferreira1d ago
Jonathan the tortoise, the world’s oldest living land animal, is still chugging along at the ripe age of roughly 194.
404 Mediaby Samantha Cole1d ago
Howdy, it's hump day and we're rolling along. Today we've got an update on a very strange case involving a man whose image was resurrected from the dead via AI and made to appear in front of a...
404 Mediaby Matthew Gault1d ago
A man convicted of manslaughter in Arizona will be resentenced because an AI-generated video of his victim speaking from beyond the grave was ruled to have carried “undue emotional weight” as an...
404 Mediaby Joseph Cox2d ago
Multiple Democrat, Republican, and Independent lawmakers have introduced new pieces of legislation that, if passed, would dramatically curb federal agencies’ access to Flock cameras, with the...
404 Mediaby Matthew Gault3d ago
arXiv, an open-access repository where researchers publish preprint academic research, has announced it will rate limit submissions because it has been inundated with AI-written papers.
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler3d ago
In the immediate weeks before Muse’s launch, Meta engineers found several security vulnerabilities in the company’s viral AI agent product, at least one of which could have allowed malicious users...
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler5d ago
A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled Thursday that a police officer violated the Fourth Amendment rights of a woman accused of meth trafficking when he searched her license plate in Flock’s automated...
404 Mediaby Samantha Cole7d ago
Student journalists meet the moment, as we’ve seen most recently this week. As the Cornell University sexual abuse case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how...
404 Mediaby Claire Woodcock7d ago
Student journalists, their advisors, and legal advocates say colleagues and administrators are attempting to undermine student reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, and other issues that public...
404 Mediaby Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai7d ago
A company that makes phone hacking devices claims to have developed a solution that freezes iPhones in a state that lets cops more easily access sensitive data inside them, according to a video...
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler7d ago
One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally...
404 Mediaby Samantha Cole8d ago
A lawyer used ChatGPT to generate briefs that included completely made-up witnesses and testimony while representing a man accused of shooting his wife.
404 Mediaby Joseph Cox8d ago
The United States Postal Service is running a pilot program to put cameras in its mail carrier trucks that continuously scan roads and signs, map roadways and sidewalks, and improve “community...
404 Mediaby Samantha Cole8d ago
Abusive, sexually explicit deepfakes have only become easier to make and more widespread in the last nine years.
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler8d ago
The Trump administration is using an anti-drug trafficking grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the country to funnel their ongoing collection of automated license plate reader data...
404 Mediaby Becky Ferreira9d ago
Scientists have identified two new contenders for the world’s loudest bird—the bare-throated bellbird and the red-legged seriema—both of which can exceed 120 decibels, which is louder than a...
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler9d ago
As Flock continues to be the center of a nationwide conversation about automatic license plate reading cameras, the company has said that it doesn’t, and won’t, do facial recognition: “We will not...
404 Mediaby Matthew Gault9d ago
Some tech workers in San Francisco hooked up ChatGPT to a Toyota Corolla and got it to drive around a parking lot.
404 Mediaby Joseph Cox9d ago
The hackers behind the massive FBI breach told 404 Media on Monday they do not intend to publish the data.
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