‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government
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‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government

404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves is an “illegal task.”
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Oklahoma Senator Introduces Bill to Make Porn Completely Illegal
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Oklahoma Senator Introduces Bill to Make Porn Completely Illegal

In a slate of several bills restricting reproductive rights and divorce, Oklahoma senator Dusty Deevers suggests anyone making anything even vaguely pornographic should go to jail.
DeepSeek Mania Shakes AI Industry to Its Core
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DeepSeek Mania Shakes AI Industry to Its Core

Why a relatively unknown Chinese-developed AI model has turned the AI industry on its head.
Podcast: Pornhub Exec Discusses Pulling Out of the South, Trad Wives, and Feet Pics
Podcast

Podcast: Pornhub Exec Discusses Pulling Out of the South, Trad Wives, and Feet Pics

In this special interview episode of the 404 Media Podcast, Sam talks to Alexzandra Kekesi, VP of Brand and Community at Pornhub, about age verification laws and what she's hearing from adult performers.
Peeing Is Socially Contagious in Chimps
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Peeing Is Socially Contagious in Chimps

A week of excrement and colors.
Behind the Blog: Zuckerberg's Kook-ness and Trump Week One
Behind The Blog

Behind the Blog: Zuckerberg's Kook-ness and Trump Week One

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 Nazis celebrating Elon Musk’s salute, Zuckerberg as a kook, dictating your own threat model and a good block/mute ethos.
GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time
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GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time

Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.
Trump’s Administration Is Taking Down Sites About Gender Identity All Over the Internet
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Trump’s Administration Is Taking Down Sites About Gender Identity All Over the Internet

After Trump signed an unscientific, transphobic executive order deeming there to be "two sexes," several informational websites about gender identity went offline.
Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots
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Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots

"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."
Viral 'Challah Horse' Image Zuckerberg Loved Was Originally Created as a Warning About Facebook's AI Slop
AI Spam

Viral 'Challah Horse' Image Zuckerberg Loved Was Originally Created as a Warning About Facebook's AI Slop

"Challah Horse" was a Polish meme warning about Facebook AI spam 'targeted at susceptible people' that was stolen by a spam page targeted at susceptible people.
Zuckerberg 'Loves' AI Slop Image From Spam Account That Posts Amputated Children
AI Slop

Zuckerberg 'Loves' AI Slop Image From Spam Account That Posts Amputated Children

Zuckerberg seems to enjoy the spam that has taken over his flagship product.
Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X
Reddit

Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X

Dozens of big subreddits have already banned all Twitter links, and posts about potential bans are some of the most popular on the site.
TikTok Says It’s Not Censoring ‘Free Palestine’ Comments. Users See Something Different
TikTok

TikTok Says It’s Not Censoring ‘Free Palestine’ Comments. Users See Something Different

When TikTok returned after being pulled from the U.S., hours before President Trump’s inauguration, users reported “free palestine” comments were being instantly removed.