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Google's AI search feature is telling people searching for answers about using vibrating sex toys during pregnancy that they should consider it for counseling children, instead.

Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users.

We're back after the holiday with a ton of stories. Meta, Pornhub, and FBI's witnesses are all in this episode.

Privacy advocate draws attention to the fact that hundreds of police surveillance cameras are streaming directly to the open internet.

"Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE."

Gravy Analytics has been one of the most important companies in the location data industry for years, collating smartphone location data from around the world selling some to the U.S. government. Hackers say they stole a mountain of data.

People are using AI video generator Runway to post extremely violent Minionfied videos to social media.

Meta AI put a Redditor into "an endless maze of mirrors" as part of a new AI feature it is testing.

The number of data requests fulfilled by Telegram skyrocketed, with the company providing data to U.S. authorities on 2,253 users last year.

Members of an underground criminal community are targeting U-Haul because of the wealth of non-public information it can hold on targets.

We begin 2025 with Amazonian garden cities, lost woods in the Rockies, battitude, and robot hoopers.

The Meta AI profiles everyone is mad about are old, were a colossal failure, and many are already dead.

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 talk more about magic links and building shelves offline. A light Behind the Blog today but we're back from the holiday on Monday.

Surveillance capabilities used and justified by extreme circumstances often trickle down to be used on lesser crimes.

Scotty Allen reverse-engineered the interior case of an iPhone and has released the files to people wanting to make their own.

As of today, three more states join the list of 17 that can't access Pornhub because of age verification laws.

We talk about the last year when it comes to AI, journalism, and more.

Some people don't love our magic link logins. But the best way for us to protect your password is to never ask for it.

Emails viewed by 404 Media show that the Secret Service did not verify that location data it was tracking people with was actually collected with consent, despite saying so.

We’re eating Suns and chillin’ in Moon caves for the last Abstract of 2024.