New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important
New from 404 Media: a CIA contractor used classified CIA systems as "his own personal Google," according to a court record we reviewed. The details are staggering: sold classified info to a foreign client accused of embezzlement. Sold info to U.S. lobbying firm
"Charlie Kirk's legacy should be that of someone who fought against free speech"
You have these very big media organizations "continuing his legacy by trying to inflict consequences against anyone who disagrees with them"
More on the podcast this week:
New from 404 Media: a TV channel run by Russia’s Ministry of Defense is airing a program it says is AI-generated. Says a neural network is picking the topics it wants to discuss, then uses AI to generate that video (Emmanuel Macron in hair curlers, for example)
The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week:
- hack of popular dashcam maker; exposed videos of someone repeatedly visiting CIA headquarters
- the sentencing of GirlsDoPorn creator
- subscribers-only: the wave of firings after Charlie Kirk's assassination
Listen:
New from 404 Media: the DOJ quietly deleted a study that showed domestic terrorists are most often right wing. Unclear why deleted, but comes after Kirk assassination. One of the study's co-authors declined to comment.
New: ChatGPT is now going to guess user ages, tailor the content users receive based on that, and may demand ID for age verification. This comes after a wave of teen suicides. “We know this is a privacy compromise for adults but believe it is a worthy tradeoff.”
New from 404 Media: some sellers on eBay and Etsy have jacked up their shipping costs, sometimes to $2,000, just to American buyers don't purchase the products and the sellers don't have to deal with the headache of tariffs
By linking up an LLM to Animal Crossing, villagers are now organizing against Tom Nook: "did you know Tom Nook is practically robbing us blind with these houses?"
