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2026

Mercury Is Shrinking Way Faster Than We Thought, Scientists Discoveroriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
Behind the Blog: How to Talk About AI Doomoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg Claims He’s Back 'In Control'original ↗
11 Sept 2026
‘We Did Not Invite You.’ Citizens Rage at Town Hall Over Proposed Nuclear AI Data Centeroriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'original ↗
9 Sept 2026
Doctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Camerasoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
The Remnants of a Lost ‘Supercontinent’ Just Rewrote the History of Life on Earthoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Smear Campaign Says Anti-Flock Movement Is Chinese Propagandaoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Podcast: DHS’ Secretive ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit Pulling People Overoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
First ‘Take It Down Act’ Sentencing Puts Man Behind Bars for 15 Yearsoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AIoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
The Man on a Quest to Digitally Preserve America’s Public Restroomsoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Channel 5 Gave Hunter Biden a List of Its Subscribers’ Emails for Some Reasonoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Overoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
We Are Going to Be Okay: A Three Year Anniversary Events Recaporiginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
Breakthrough Quantum Test Resolves a Major Cosmic Mysteryoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2026
Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protestersoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2026
How the Hell Did an Island Suddenly Appear, Then Vanish?original ↗
2 Sept 2026
A16z Says You Actually Love Social Media, Enshittification Isn’t Realoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortionoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
The Republican Nominee for New York Governor Made a Creepy, AI-Generated Video of Mamdani and Hochuloriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
Cops Are Asking Axon to Make Their Cameras Look Different From Flock So People Don't Destroy Themoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
Podcast: We Spoke to an Amazon Worker Destroying Books for AIoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
Oklahoma Tells City It Can't Charge $17,125.44 for a Records Request Related to Data Center Arrestoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
This 'Digital Camouflage' Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance Camerasoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
How Cyber Sleuths Tracked a Nigerian Scammer to His Doorsteporiginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
Google's Calling Lake Ontario 'Lake America' Noworiginal ↗
30 Aug 2026
Thousands of Interstellar Objects May Be Lurking in Our Solar Systemoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2026
Behind the Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Flamin' Hot Sloporiginal ↗
28 Aug 2026
Hack reveals Suno scraped YouTube, Deezer, Genius, and moreoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2026
Hackers asked Meta's AI for high-profile Instagram accounts. It worked.original ↗
2 Jul 2026
It is trivially easy to use Reddit to manipulate AI search, new research suggestsoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2026
I Must Attempt to Explain the LEGO Scandal Rocking YouTube, Entire State of Utahoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2026
Companies are using Reddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI searchoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2026
Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brainoriginal ↗
11 May 2026
“AI Is African Intelligence”original ↗
13 Mar 2026

2025

America’s polarization has become the world’s side hustleoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2025
404 Media: “The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes”original ↗
11 Sept 2025

2024

I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Moviesoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2024
Pokémon Go players have unwittingly trained an AI model to navigate the worldoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2024
When does Instagram decide a nipple becomes female?original ↗
31 Oct 2024
404 Media on the anarchist collective teaching people to DIY expensive medicineoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2024
Where Facebook’s AI Slop Comes Fromoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2024
Reddit blocks all crawlers in robots.txt, gives exclusive access to Google with AI dealoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2024
Hackers steal text and call records of “nearly all” AT&T customersoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2024
TUAW relaunched as zombie content farm with AI articles under the names of its old stafforiginal ↗
10 Jul 2024
Scalpers work with hackers to reverse-engineer Ticketmaster’s “non-transferable” ticketsoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2024
Internet sleuths find origin of the photo that inspired “The Backrooms”original ↗
30 May 2024
Pokémon Go players are vandalizing OpenStreetMap to cheat the gameoriginal ↗
7 May 2024
404 Media investigates the “zombie internet” of Facebook’s AI spamoriginal ↗
2 May 2024
Mystery 1980s pop song “Everyone Knows That” finally foundoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2024
404 Media on Spy Pet, an underground service secretly scraping thousands of Discord serversoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2024
404 Media adds full-text RSS feeds for subscribersoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2024
Online age verification laws are dragging us back to the dark ages of the internetoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2024
New York Times files copyright takedowns against hundreds of Wordle clonesoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2024
Inside the world of AI TikTok spammersoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2024
DOOM on a toothbrushoriginal ↗
29 Feb 2024
404 Media reports Tumblr and WordPress plan to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAIoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2024
YouTube deletes 1,000+ deepfake celebrity scam ads after 404 Media investigationoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2024
The NSA Furby Documentsoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2024
Researchers find Google search really has gotten worseoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2024
13-year-old becomes first person to ever “beat” Tetris for the NESoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2024

2023

Largest dataset powering AI images removed after discovery of child sexual abuse materialoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2023
Facebook is being overrun with stolen, AI-generated images people think are realoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2023
Omegle shuts down after 14 years over sexual abuse litigationoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2023
AI Seinfeld is broken, maybe foreveroriginal ↗
30 Oct 2023
SANANDREAS.TXToriginal ↗
24 Oct 2023
404 Media on a viral TikTok account doxing random people with facial recognition for cloutoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2023
Why Scalpers Can Get Olivia Rodrigo Tickets and You Can’toriginal ↗
21 Sept 2023
Harry Styles fans debate the authenticity of possibly AI-generated leaked demosoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2023
Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Saleoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2023
404 Media launchesoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2023