The leaked slide focuses on Google Pixel phones and mentions those running the security-focused GrapheneOS operating system.

Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

Why Grokipedia won't beat Wikipedia; the Windows 10 update; and a16z's plan for a wholly AI-generated internet.

“The shameless use of covert recording technology at massage parlours to gain likes, attention, and online notoriety is both disgusting and dangerous.”

"The White House just marked the end of the console wars; DHS is posting deep fried Halo memes. We are somewhere else entirely."

Do you want ‘AI-powered social orbits,’ ‘autonomous recruiting firms,’ and an ‘AI-powered credit card?’ Too bad, you’re getting them anyway.

Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.

“When we let powerful people’s books be protected from criticism, we give up the right to hold power accountable.”

The Milwaukee School of Engineering is largely powerless to kick ICE out of a building it wanted to turn into a new academic center, according to audio of a meeting obtained by 404 Media.

The family of a dead teen girl said she'd still be alive if Roblox did a better job moderating its platform.

The general who advised Netflix’s nuclear Armageddon movie doesn’t believe in abolishing nuclear weapons.

Court records show Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a part of ICE, and the FBI obtained Con Edison user data. The utility provider refuses to say whether law enforcement needs a warrant to access its data.

These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia.

DNA from the teeth of French soldiers that died in the disastrous 1812 retreat from Moscow revealed previously unidentified pathogens.

The Canadian Centre for Child Protection found more than 120 images of identified or known victims of CSAM in the dataset.

Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.

This week, we discuss Pavlovian Chartbeat response, when to say "cum," and the wave of making things for humans, by humans.

There is no evidence the Instagram and Facebook account, called Montcowatch, sells anything. Lawyers from the ACLU say the move is "wild outside the scope" of DHS' authority.

The first application of enteral ventilation—aka breathing through the bum—to humans proved the technique is safe.

An analysis of how tools to make non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes spread online, from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, shows X and search engines surface these sites easily.

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.

The app, which went viral before facing multiple data breaches, is currently unavailable on the Apple App Store.

When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting with the heat turned all the way up.

Hackers targeting ICE and other agencies; Wikipedia's AI problem now has some data; and OpenAI's inevitable pivot to sex bot.

After condemnation from Trump’s AI czar, Anthropic’s CEO promised its AI is not woke.

Just two months ago, Sam Altman acknowledged that putting a “sex bot avatar” in ChatGPT would be a move to “juice growth.” Something the company had been tempted to do, he said, but had resisted. 

Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop.

Watch 404 Media’s first short documentary, about an artist keeping real neon signs alive.

The same hackers who doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, and FBI officials now say they have the personal data of tens of thousands of officials from the NSA, Air Force, Defense Intelligence Agency, and many other agencies.