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404 Media is a digital media platform created by journalists dedicated to examining how technology influences our lives and how we, in turn, influence technology. Our content includes in-depth investigative articles, detailed features, insightful blogs, and exclusive stories covering a variety of subjects such as hacking, cybersecurity, cybercrime, sexuality, artificial intelligence, consumer rights, surveillance, privacy, and the democratization of the internet.

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Ancient Poems Record the Decline of a Special Porpoise

4 days ago | 404media.co | Becky Ferreira

Welcome back to the Abstract!First, a quick housekeeping note. We’ve been getting really positive feedback on The Abstract, so we are spinning it up as its own newsletter that we’ll continue to send every Saturday. If you are reading this, we hope you continue to want to receive The Abstract! But if you don’t want to get The Abstract email for whatever reason, go to 404media.co and log in via the “sign in” button in the top right corner.
Behind the Blog: Brainrot and Brain Power Hours

5 days ago | 404media.co | Samantha Cole

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss the death of Mr. Deepfakes, introducing kids to the Manosphere, and working on big, difficult, high-brain-power scoops. SAM: I’m gonna use my time to give a huge shoutout to Bellingcat, the CBC, and Danish publications Politiken and Tjekdet for this story, where they spent a ton of time and effort tracking down the guy behind Mr. Deepfakes.
Well, Well, Well: Meta to Add Facial Recognition To Glasses After All

5 days ago | 404media.co | Joseph Cox

On Wednesday, The Information reported that Meta is working on facial recognition for the company’s Ray-Ban glasses. This sort of technology—combining facial recognition with a camera feed—is something that big tech including Meta has been able to technically pull off, but has previously decided to not release.
Watch an AI-Generated Recruiter Make a Job Interview Even Worse

6 days ago | 404media.co | Samantha Cole

Job hunting can be a dehumanizing, demoralizing experience even if you’re interacting with an empathetic recruiter on the other end. For the 1.7 million people slogging through long-term unemployment in the U.S., the process is grueling at best. Add to this the advent of AI-generated recruiter avatars that glitch out on you before you even speak to a real person at the company you’re trying to work for, and now you’re truly in hell.
Signal Clone TeleMessage Deleted Video About How It Works-Here’s What It Said

1 week ago | 404media.co | Joseph Cox

Earlier this week TeleMessage, the company that creates modified versions of messaging apps like Signal and adds an archiving ability to them, made a video private on its YouTube channel that explained how its Signal message archiving tool worked, and how the company says it is able to copy messages securely.
Dora the Explorer Teaches About ‘Sigma,’ an Extremely Toxic Male Aspiration

1 week ago | 404media.co | Emanuel Maiberg

Dora the Explorer, the cute Nickelodeon cartoon character, is teaching kids what it means to be “Sigma,” a slang term describing an extremely toxic male archetype which originates in the darkest corners of the so-called “manosphere.”“Hola, grown-ups! Today I have a super cool word for you! Sigma,” a 3D rendered version of Dora says in a video uploaded to the official Dora the Explorer Instagram account yesterday.
Podcast: The Trump Admin's Signal Clone Was Hacked

1 week ago | 404media.co | Joseph Cox

We start this week's episode with our massive story on TeleMessage, the Signal clone the Trump administration uses to archive messages which was hacked. We have more detail than anyone else on that story. After the break, Jason tells us about another hack, this time GlobalX Air, one of the airlines used by ICE for deportation flights. In the subscribers-only section, Sam and Emanuel tell us about the shut down of Mr. Deepfakes, and what the lasting legacy of the site will be.
Senator Demands Investigation into Trump Admin Signal Clone After 404 Media Investigation

1 week ago | 404media.co | Joseph Cox

On Tuesday a Senator demanded the Department of Justice investigate “the serious threat to U.S. national security” posed by TeleMessage, a company that makes aa Signal clone used by the Trump administration which 404 Media revealed was hacked on Sunday, with the hacker obtaining the content of some users’ messages and group chats. The news is the latest piece of fallout from the TeleMessage hack and the Trump administration’s use of Signal, or insecure modified versions, more broadly.
Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X

1 week ago | 404media.co | Emanuel Maiberg

Elon Musk’s Grok, an AI chatbot that people can interact with via X, is being used to undress photos women are posting to the social media platform, as first flagged t0 404 Media by Kolina Koltai, a researcher and trainer at Bellingcat. All a user has to do is reply to an image someone has posted to X with a request to Grok to “remove her clothes.” Grok will then reply in-thread with an image of the woman wearing a bikini or lingerie.
GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked

1 week ago | 404media.co | Joseph Cox

Hackers have targeted GlobalX Air, one of the main airlines the Trump administration is using as part of its deportation efforts, and stolen what they say are flight records and passenger manifests of all of its flights, including those for deportation, 404 Media has learned.