In posts to the platforms news feed, ManyVids — and seemingly, its founder Bella French — wrote that the answer could be a three hour long conversation with podcasters like Joe Rogan or Lex Fridman. 

What happens when a platform operator changes their tune; the continuing mystery of deleted (or lost, who knows) DHS footage; and what police are being told to do about Flock.

Hundreds of thousands of users told the app intimate details about their sexual urges, which are now exposed.

Court records reveal the incredibly sad state of ICE's evidence retention systems.

Starting February 2, many people connecting from the UK will not be able to access the porn site and many others.

The documents show law enforcement sees themselves as being consistently and universally under threat from the people it is supposed to protect.

Nearly half of routinely-updated CDC databases have experienced delays or shutdowns in 2025, with vaccination-related systems disproportionately affected, according to a new study.

The algorithm is driving AI-generated influencers to increasingly weird niches.

Bellingcat's Kolina Koltai talks about OSINT investigations into synthetic abuse imagery sites, and seeing them go down because of her work.

What began as a joke got a little too real. So I shut it down for good.

A look at “necromemetics” and the meme economy in the aftermath of violence.

Veronika, a brown cow in Austria, uses sticks and brushes as multipurpose tools to scratch hard-to-reach spots

This week, we discuss stances on AI, a conference about money laundering, and signs about slavery coming down.

Why is the human penis so big? Scientists probed the evolution of penis size through sexual selection and mate competition in a first-of-its-kind study

“Ethical dilemmas about AI aside, the posts are completely disconnected with ManyVids as a site,” one ManyVids content creator told 404 Media.

We talk ELITE, the tool Palantir is working on; how AI influencers are defaming celebrities; and Comic-Con's ban of AI art.

"My local community is being systematically liquidated in what I can only describe as a targeted intellectual genocide."

The famed convention's organizers have banned AI from the art show.

The Wikimedia Foundation’s chief technology and product officer explains how she helps manage one of the most visited sites in the world in the age of generative AI.

On the same day he allegedly robbed a mail carrier, Jordan McCorvey posted photos of himself flipping through stacks of letters still in the USPS tray.

The FAA has altered a no fly zone designation that was originally created for US military bases to apply to DHS units.

In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said the app's results are a “definitive” determination of someone's immigration status.

Scientists sequenced the genome of an extinct woolly rhinoceros that was found in a wolf belly that lived 14,400 years ago.

This week, we discuss the staying power of surveillance coverage, the jigsaw of reporting, and eyestrain.

Frowned upon in video games, loot boxes are back in real life–and one’s in the Pentagon.

Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.

The proposed law would force DHS only use the app, called Mobile Fortify, at ports of entry; delete all photos of U.S. citizens taken by the app; and effectively kill the local law enforcement of the app.

Scientists have debated the origin of the dots for years. Now, researchers say they’re “cocoons” for the youngest black holes we’ve ever seen.

‘We have to make sure people are watching. We have to make sure we’re keeping track of our community members.’

"Nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it," the cop told her.