Meta's PR absolutely lost its shit at us a few months ago when we wrote about how a student added facial recognition to its Rayban smart glasses, the underlying implication being that it would not do that itself. Well Well Well. WELL WELL WELL [www.404media.co/well-well-we...]( ) [Well, Well, Well: Meta to Add ...]( )
NEW: GlobalX, the company doing many deportation flights for ICE, has been hacked. Hackers claim to have stolen flight manifest information and flight details, and have also defaced the website [www.404media.co/globalx-airl...]( ) https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cjfcz3t36f6nrprarkhkycxo&cid=bafkreiewwxxt3imbesdcghgzmfxbaukal7hvafooah7j4bzdeqllek4fee
Wrote about the nation's greatest living dystopian fiction salesman, Howard Lutnick, and the pathetic policies that are trying to bring this technofeudalist fever dream to life: [www.404media.co/your-childre...]( ) [Your Children’s Children Will ...]( )
New: Reddit is pursuing legal action against the researchers who secretly ran a massive AI persuasion experiment on its users: [www.404media.co/reddit-issui...]( ) [Reddit Issuing 'Formal Legal D...]( )
this article / headline / framing is malpractice. some of the worst I’ve ever seen [www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...]( ) [FSU shooting suspect's complex...]( )
Something I don’t do is walk into people’s jobs and ask them to do their work for free and demand that they do it for free for me or start yelling that they should reorient everything they do to appease me. Just saying
Seeing basically indecipherably fakeAI versions of this pop up in real time and go viral alongside the real thing is our new normal unfortunately [www.404media.co/pikachu-spot...]( ) [Pikachu Spotted Fleeing Police...]( )
An ICE contractor is currently monitoring more than 200 sites (including Bluesky) to draw connections between people and between accounts on different sites. Not good considering ICE is disappearing people at the moment [www.404media.co/the-200-site...]( ) [The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveill...]( )
New: All 50 states have now introduced right to repair legislation. A really amazing milestone for a grassroots movement. Wisconsin just became the last state to do it: [www.404media.co/all-50-state...]( ) [All 50 States Have Now Introdu...]( )
NEW: A government employee for Notify. gov, a system used by agencies to send mass texts to the public, has resigned in protest after an Elon Musk ally demanded root access to it. They said the system contains the public's phone numbers & private info: [www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...]( ) [Musk Ally Demands Admin Access...]( )