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404 Mediaby Matthew Gault1 Sept 2026
A city in Oklahoma tried to charge a farmer more than $17,000 to fulfill a public records request for information related to a proposed data center and the farmer’s arrest at a city council...
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler1 Sept 2026
I am standing in front of a camera that’s streaming to a giant video screen. The image recognition AI running on the camera puts a big green box around me. “PERSON,” it says.
404 Mediaby Joseph Cox31 Aug 2026
Erin West and Paul Raffile stepped out of their van about 45 minutes outside Lagos, Nigeria, and walked down a muddy hill.
404 Mediaby Samantha Cole30 Aug 2026
On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order demanding Lake Ontario be renamed to Lake America. At the signing of the order, he sat next to a big poster board map of the Great Lakes, with a big red...
404 Mediaby Emanuel Maiberg27 Aug 2026
“Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen have appeared as volcano experts, astronauts, thriller protagonists, podcast hosts, and academic co-authors across hundreds of independently produced AI-generated...
404 Mediaby Samantha Cole27 Aug 2026
Tech companies want you to believe that the chatbots they profit from are the always ready, never judgmental, constantly affirming friend in our pockets.
404 Mediaby Joseph Cox27 Aug 2026
In July, we wrote about the ‘ChatGPT flyer pandemic,’ in which, as you’ve surely seen, businesses everywhere are advertising themselves and their products with AI-generated posters that all look...
404 Mediaby Matthew Gault27 Aug 2026
Brevard County deputy sheriff Michael Fultz resigned from the force after an internal investigation detailed extreme cases of alleged sexual misconduct, racism, and abuse, including Fultz’s use of...
404 Mediaby Joseph Cox26 Aug 2026
A Chinese national studying in Canada allegedly crossed over into the United States earlier this year to take photos of facilities near the Chicago airport at the direction of a suspected Chinese...
404 Mediaby Becky Ferreira26 Aug 2026
Scientists have discovered a thermal “anomaly” deep underground on Mars that could help explain the red planet’s divided geography and shed light on whether it once hosted alien life, according to...
404 Mediaby Joseph Cox26 Aug 2026
In an August call with Ohio law enforcement and government officials, Flock’s CEO Garrett Langley repeatedly lied about his surveillance technology’s role in tracking a woman who had...
404 Mediaby Emanuel Maiberg26 Aug 2026
Last week we published a story that revealed an Amazon warehouse where the company scans and destroys thousands of books for AI training data.
404 Mediaby Matthew Gault25 Aug 2026
A synthetic Israel-funded think tank has published more than 100 articles since it launched less than a month ago.
404 Mediaby Joseph Cox25 Aug 2026
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking for a federal contractor to provide it with access to the country’s voter registration and voter history data, according to newly released...
404 Mediaby Matthew Gault25 Aug 2026
Emporia Kansas has dropped its criminal case against Lux Claridge, a high school teacher who was arrested for clapping during a city data center meeting.
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler25 Aug 2026
A police department in Florida used “decoy” Flock cameras that an officer 3D-printed at home to “bait” would-be vandals.
404 Mediaby Samantha Cole25 Aug 2026
Anthony Ralphs has been showing up to San Diego City Council meetings to speak against Flock's presence in his city for a year.
404 Mediaby Madeleine O'Neill24 Aug 2026
This article was republished from our friends over at Court Watch. Please consider subscribing to them if you want the early scoop on what's happening in our court system, from the concerning to...
404 Mediaby Samantha Cole20 Aug 2026
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?"
404 Mediaby Emanuel Maiberg20 Aug 2026
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.
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