New from 404 Media: Tea, that women's safety app that went viral this summer before multiple massive data breaches, has been removed from the Apple App Store. One comment on the company's Instagram simply says "App is gone."
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Apple Removes Women Dating Safety App from the App Store
The app, which went viral before facing multiple data breaches, is currently unavailable on the Apple App Store.
OpenAI is finally admitting what we've been saying but they didn't want to do: AI growth is in AI sex bots. They're finally doing it. More:
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Podcast: Hackers Dox ICE
Hackers targeting ICE and other agencies; Wikipedia's AI problem now has some data; and OpenAI's inevitable pivot to sex bot.
The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week: - hackers dox ICE officials - Wikipedia's human traffic is down due to AI - subscribers-only: OpenAI's inevitable pivot to sex chatbot Apple/Spotify/YouTube:
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Podcast: Hackers Dox ICE
Hackers targeting ICE and other agencies; Wikipedia's AI problem now has some data; and OpenAI's inevitable pivot to sex bot.
The AWS outage bricked people's $2,700 smartbeds, leaving them in a reclining position or with the heat up. People were unable to use them, basically. A GitHub repo exists that lets people operate their beds without reliance on the normal infrastructure
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The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds
When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting wit...
Major news outlets went really out of their way to avoid saying shit/poop. "Brown liquid," "appeared to be feces," "bursts of brown matter." Just say what it was: an AI video of Trump in a jet dumping shit on America, that's literally the video
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News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America
Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, ...
At 404 Media we're starting to experiment with some longer video stuff. Very excited about what we may do now. It turns out when you own the company you can just do stuff. Here's a short doc on the man keeping the lost art of neon glowing alive:
New from 404 Media: the same hackers who doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, and FBI officials say they have personal data of tens of thousands more government officials, including thousands NSA, more in intel community. They sent me data from a dizzying list of agencies
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Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials
The same hackers who doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, and FBI officials now say they have the personal data of tens of thousands of officials from the N...
Went on WNYC’s On the Media to talk about Apple and Google’s crackdown on ICE spotting apps, including one that just archived videos of ICE abuses to use as evidence later.
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Big Tech is Silencing the ICE Watchers. Plus, Why a Scholar of Antifa Fled the Country.
Podcast Episode · On the Media · 10/17/2025 · 51m
I wrote about using breached data to confirm the dox of DHS, ICE, FBI, DOJ officials that hackers posted
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Behind the Blog: Engaging the Public
This week, we discuss crowdsourced resistance and a big government data dump.
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Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking to the site
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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”