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Written by 404 Media on 2025-01-21 at 17:36

The last few weeks have really highlighted just how fragile corporate social media is, and just how beholden to political power it is. To build any sort of ground-up power we must continue to invest in decentralized alternatives that are resistant to intervention

https://www.404media.co/decentralized-social-media-is-the-only-alternative-to-the-tech-oligarchy/

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Written by 404 Media on 2025-01-16 at 17:08

Everything Zuckerberg is doing must be seen in context of the TikTok ban, the greatest gift the government could give Meta. We went through years of his testimony about China; he has been planting seeds for this for years, now desperately needs Trump to side with him:

https://www.404media.co/a-tiktok-ban-is-a-gift-to-meta-and-instagram/

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Written by 404 Media on 2025-01-15 at 16:58

New: The FTC has formally sued John Deere over its tractor repair monopoly, which is the strongest punitive action the federal government has ever taken against a company over restricting right to repair

https://www.404media.co/ftc-sues-john-deere-over-its-repair-monopoly/

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Written by 404 Media on 2025-01-13 at 18:24

The 404 Media RSS feed is down at the moment. We’re trying to figure out what’s going on and how to fix it asap. We think this is likely an outage or misconfiguration with the provider who manages this service for us but we’re looking into it. Sorry for the inconvenience!!

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Written by 404 Media on 2025-01-13 at 16:15

"It’s not really enjoyable to make music now… it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you have to get really good at an instrument... I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of time they spend making music."

https://www.404media.co/ceo-of-ai-music-company-says-people-dont-like-making-music/

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Written by 404 Media on 2025-01-13 at 16:01

An Amazon delivery confirmation photo is the last time a Palisades resident saw her house standing. Amazon drivers say they have been delivering in neighborhoods that were evacuated soon after they left, are delivering in adjacent neighborhood

https://www.404media.co/an-amazon-delivery-confirmation-is-the-last-photo-a-palisades-resident-has-of-her-burnt-down-house/

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Written by 404 Media on 2025-01-10 at 17:10

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill"

https://www.404media.co/meta-deletes-trans-and-nonbinary-messenger-themes/

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Written by 404 Media on 2025-01-09 at 21:02

New: Meta employees are furious about a new policy that allows users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill." Some have resigned in protest. Some LGBTQ+ employees have started saying they if they are 'mentally ill' they should get leaves of absence from work

https://www.404media.co/its-total-chaos-internally-at-meta-right-now-employees-protest-zuckerbergs-anti-lgbtq-changes/

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Written by 404 Media on 2025-01-07 at 17:20

Hundreds of police license plate cameras are misconfigured to stream unencrypted to the open internet.

A privacy researcher took these streams and turned them into a real-time database that tracks car movements & information, highlighting how invasive this tech is

https://www.404media.co/researcher-turns-insecure-license-plate-cameras-into-open-source-surveillance-tool/

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Written by 404 Media on 2025-01-06 at 23:16

New: Days after Meta had to kill its AI-generated profiles due to backlash, some Instagram users are now being shown AI-generated images of themselves that are being automatically created by Instagram and put in their feeds

https://www.404media.co/instagram-begins-randomly-showing-users-ai-generated-images-of-themselves/

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Written by 404 Media on 2025-01-03 at 17:12

The currently viral Meta AI profiles are old and are already inactive because they were such a colossal failure and were indistinguishable from AI spam. This 'inevitable' future Zuckerberg is trying to shove down our throats is being completely rejected

https://www.404media.co/metas-ai-profiles-are-indistinguishable-from-terrible-spam-that-took-over-facebook/

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Written by 404 Media on 2025-01-02 at 18:36

We also made a little video from my interview with Scotty Allen / Strange Parts. Editing skills leave something to be desired but working on doing more stuff like this in 2025:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TleBeMQU1nQ

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Written by 404 Media on 2025-01-02 at 18:30

This YouTuber painstakingly reverse-engineered the interior case of an iPhone, 3D printed his own, then released all the design files so you can do it too:

https://www.404media.co/how-and-why-a-reverse-engineer-3d-printed-an-iphone/

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Written by 404 Media on 2025-01-02 at 17:46

The surveillance and remote control techniques justified by a possible terror attack can, will, and are being normalized to use in more run-of-the-mill situations. What is rare today will be commonplace tomorrow

https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-uses-cybertruck-explosion-to-show-tesla-can-remotely-unlock-and-monitor-vehicles/

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Written by 404 Media on 2025-01-01 at 17:03

As of today, Pornhub is now blocked in almost all of the American South. The only place where it is still freely available is Georgia, where it will be blocked in July

https://www.404media.co/pornhub-is-now-blocked-in-almost-all-of-the-u-s-south/

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Written by 404 Media on 2024-12-19 at 18:55

nEw StuDY RePORtS thAt ThiS Is hOW YoU JaILBrEAK Ai

https://www.404media.co/apparently-this-is-how-you-jailbreak-ai/

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Written by 404 Media on 2024-12-19 at 16:20

Luigi Mangione fan art, merch, and photos are getting hit with bogus copyright takedown requests all over the internet. Artists and journalists affected. Very difficult to tell who is doing it, but one company says they received a request from United Healthcare:

https://www.404media.co/copyright-abuse-is-getting-luigi-mangione-merch-removed-from-the-internet/

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Written by 404 Media on 2024-12-19 at 00:15

New: At least 11 passenger planes were targeted with lasers above New Jersey last night amid drone panic, according to an analysis by @lemonodor and Air Traffic control audio we downloaded. Some audio snippets in article

https://www.404media.co/we-are-getting-lasered-nearly-a-dozen-planes-lasered-last-night-during-new-jersey-drone-panic/

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Written by 404 Media on 2024-12-16 at 16:24

good stuff out of wordpress, which is a very serious place

https://www.404media.co/wordpress-login-pineapple-on-pizza/

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Written by 404 Media on 2024-12-16 at 16:23

Very scary report out of Serbia: Cellebrite is now being used by cops to unlock the phones of journalists they take into custody, and to then infect those phones with tracking malware

https://www.404media.co/cellebrite-unlocked-this-journalists-phone-cops-then-infected-it-with-malware/

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