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404 Media: Hacker collective stegan0gram dismantles a Flock camera, recovering an encryption key and showing it runs ~20 apps on a midrange smartphone-grade processor — While people around the U.S. are tearing…
Becky Ferreira / 404 Media: Google researchers help develop the first complete digital map of an adult male fruit fly's brain, which modders programmed to play Doom, trade BTC, and more — How to make a fly play…
Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Internal OpenAI docs detail contractors evaluating anonymized prompts and chats to improve the models; model training is turned on by default for consumer plans — Humans are reading…
Samantha Cole / 404 Media: Slack messages: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says he has been put on paid leave after CFO Mark Davies “conspired” with board members and was voted interim CEO — Mullenweg…
Samantha Cole / 404 Media: Pornhub's parent company, Aylo, will pay $120M to settle two 2021 class action lawsuits in California and Alabama alleging it profited from child abuse material — The deal settles class…
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: Investigation: Amazon is buying huge quantities of rare books, scanning them for AI, and destroying them; a tracked Biblio order went to its Las Vegas facility — We placed a tracking…
Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Mysk: Apple's Private Relay tool can leak users' IP addresses due to issues in Apple's WebKit browser engine, also affecting OnionBrowser, a Tor browser for iOS — Researchers found a group…
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: Internal email: Microsoft introduces token budget limits for employees' AI use, saying “tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for” — Microsoft is introducing budget…
Joseph Cox / 404 Media: LinkedIn introduces a “seems like AI slop” button to allow users to report posts they think are AI-generated — Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI…
Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Apple says it fixed a vulnerability in its Hide My Email tool that let anyone see a user's real email address; researchers first reported the issue in June 2025 — For a year, Apple knew…
Jason Koebler / 404 Media: A hacker claims to have accessed Suno user info and source code, showing how it scraped music; Suno says no sensitive info was compromised in a November hack — Hacked source code…
Joseph Cox / 404 Media: A researcher says a vulnerability in Apple's Hide My Email tool lets anyone see a user's real email address; first reported in June 2025, Apple has not fixed it — “Hide My Email…
Jason Koebler / 404 Media: A US judge cancels a Mississippi trial and disqualifies and fines lawyers on both sides after finding their filings were filled with hallucinated case citations — When two AIs argue…
Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit claim that peptide companies are spamming their forum in hopes of getting their posts scraped and used by AI chatbots — Peptide companies have…
Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Source: Google asked Google Play app devs to join a “confidential content offer pilot”, offering to pay for access to codebases to use them to train AI tools — Google is…
Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Hackers say they used Meta's AI support chatbot to change emails tied to Instagram accounts amid a wave of high-profile account takeovers; Meta fixed the issue — The exploit shows the…