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614 points by oidar | 623 comments
TechSpot article on a Pennsylvania woman jailed and facing up to six years in prison over a fraudulent Cash App account opened in her name by scammers.
104 points by anigbrowl | 42 comments
404 Media article presenting footage of a police search using Flock license plate reader data that a judge ruled unconstitutional.
36 points by Luc | 15 comments
A 404 Media article by Jason Koebler examining Character.ai's bankruptcy filings and what they reveal about the unsustainable economics of AI companies.
259 points by gumby | 148 comments
A 404 Media article about Jonathan, a tortoise believed to be the oldest living land animal, and what he might reveal about longevity and aging.
81 points by awoodbeck | 25 comments
A 404 Media article reporting that lawmakers introduced several bills to restrict Flock's license plate reader surveillance following the outlet's reporting.
24 points by airhangerf15 | 34 comments
A 404 Media article about a project that 'tortures' LLMs in a simulated robot prison and the online debate it sparked over AI sentience and welfare.
6 points by saikatsg | 1 comments
A 404 Media article on a study finding the solar system is dynamically unstable over long timescales and will eventually be destroyed.
224 points by speckx | 182 comments
404 Media article reporting a leaked video claiming police can bypass the iPhone's automatic inactivity reboot to access locked phones, reportedly using GrayKey.
64 points by ripe | 15 comments
404 Media article on how cities are required to share automated license plate reader data with the federal HIDTA surveillance program.
118 points by latexr | 60 comments
404 Media article reporting on a woman arrested and removed from a city council meeting after speaking about Flock surveillance cameras.
775 points by spenvo | 561 comments
404 Media article reporting hackers' claims that they breached the FBI and obtained data on all FBI employees.
54 points by pier25 | 35 comments
404 Media article reporting that workers hired to train OpenAI's models were fired for using AI tools to do the training work.
357 points by 01-_- | 153 comments
404 Media news article about Henrico County, Virginia, home to 37 data centers, asking schools to conserve electricity.
513 points by berlianta | 331 comments
404 Media article reporting that the FCC wants to require telecoms to collect ID from all customers, effectively ending anonymous burner phones.
375 points by greedo | 202 comments
A 404 Media article about a city building a massive data center on land a farmer donated for use as a park.
400 points by joshcsimmons | 104 comments
404 Media article reporting that a city learned Flock accessed cameras in a children's gymnastics room for a sales demo, yet renewed its contract anyway.
501 points by donohoe | 186 comments
404 Media article reporting that Microsoft terminated VeraCrypt's developer account, halting the encryption software's Windows updates.
347 points by sedatk | 161 comments
404 Media news article reporting that Proton Mail provided data that helped the FBI identify an anonymous Stop Cop City protester.
497 points by ece | 192 comments
404 Media article reporting that US Customs and Border Protection used data from the online advertising ecosystem to track people's locations and movements.
522 points by robin_reala | 436 comments
404 Media article reporting the FBI was unable to access a Washington Post reporter's iPhone because Apple's Lockdown Mode was enabled.
427 points by fajmccain | 378 comments
404 Media article about ELITE, a Palantir-built app that ICE uses to identify neighborhoods to target for immigration raids.
737 points by chaps | 448 comments
404 Media article reporting that Flock's AI-powered surveillance cameras were exposed to the internet, letting reporters track themselves through the feeds.
427 points by nh43215rgb | 290 comments
404 Media article reporting that a DHS document says people cannot refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition mobile app.
124 points by miiiiiike | 121 comments
483 points by gloxkiqcza | 621 comments
404 Media news article reporting that the women's dating safety app Tea was breached and users' ID photos were posted to 4chan.
429 points by bradac56 | 163 comments
A 404 Media news article reporting that a judge ruled blanket police searches of cell tower data unconstitutional.
340 points by jaredwiener | 406 comments
A 404 Media interview article by Jason Koebler on how the $2,000 'Made in the USA' Liberty Phone is manufactured.
244 points by Amorymeltzer | 82 comments
1037 points by mahkeiro | 940 comments
404 Media article reporting that the DOGE.gov website's database was left open, allowing anyone to push updates to the site.
425 points by soundworlds | 246 comments
404 Media article on a bill from Senator Josh Hawley that would impose penalties, including jail time, for downloading Chinese AI models like DeepSeek.
722 points by johnneville | 212 comments
A 404 Media article on archivists working to identify and preserve thousands of datasets disappearing from the US government's data.gov portal.
1184 points by latexr | 522 comments
404 Media article on OpenAI accusing DeepSeek of using its model outputs, noting OpenAI itself trained on others' data without permission.
34 points by mrzool | 5 comments