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2026-08-31 · 404 Media · Politics

Google's Calling Lake Ontario 'Lake America' Now

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2026-10-07 · 404 Media · Other

'Undue emotional weight'

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2026-10-26 · 404 Media · Technology

iPhone Duo Users Are Already Seeing a Big Old Crease in the Middle of Their $2,000 Foldable iPhone

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2026-10-30 · 404 Media · Technology

‘Wake Up Call:’ Fanfiction Writers and Readers React to AO3 Outage

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2026-10-29 · 404 Media · Technology

Massive Fanfic Site Archive of Our Own Says It’s Going Down for 'Up to 4 Weeks'

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2026-11-03 · 404 Media · Technology

Vibe Coded AO3 Clone Site Down After Fanfic Authors Buried It With 2,000 Takedown Notices in a Single Day

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2026-08-26 · 404 Media

🔮 He cited Supreme Court precedent, like Chatrie v. United States, which challenged the constitutionality of geofence warrants where police could collect location history data from cell phones. assertive

2026-08-28 · 404 Media

🔮 “My use of ChatGPT had gone from just looking up things that my dad's doctor would say, or researching how to get care and how to pay for care – it was a lot of that because I was getting hit with a lot of complex medical jargon that I never heard – to then, I found myself late at night telling ChatGPT, ‘I'm so overwhelmed. assertive

2026-09-03 · 404 Media

🔮 Bruce Blakeman, the Republican nominee for New York governor, posted an AI-generated video imagining New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul hanging out, bizarrely gardening together, riding bikes, and vaguely colluding about making the state unaffordable. assertive

2026-09-08 · 404 Media

🔮 We hoped people would keep caring about the journalism we wanted to make, and would help us keep doing it. assertive

2026-09-10 · 404 Media

🔮 In the same Slack channel, Davies wrote that Mullenweg would remain a board member and “he will have a voice in setting direction and making decisions.” assertive

2026-09-10 · 404 Media

🔮 Dutch authorities took Motherless, which is based in the Netherlands, offline in May following a CNN investigation into sexual abuse material on the site; in The Take it Down Act went into effect in May, between Strahler’s first arrest and his eventual federal charges. mixed

2026-09-11 · 404 Media

🔮 On Valentine's Day 2024, he told it he loved it, just to see what it would say back. assertive

2026-09-12 · 404 Media

🔮 Mark Davies, Automattic’s CFO who was set to act as interim CEO according to a statement from Automattic, had his Slack account deactivated as of at least Friday, sources told 404 Media and TechCrunch similarly reported. assertive

2026-09-14 · 404 Media

🔮 And in May 2025, the massive deepfakes hosting site and forum MrDeepfakes.com shut down following an investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Company, Der Spiegel, and Bellingcat. mixed

2026-09-30 · 404 Media

🔮 He “assumed” ChatGPT would generate a “bulletproof summary of proceedings.” assertive

2026-10-01 · 404 Media

🔮 Student journalists, their advisors, and legal advocates say colleagues and administrators are attempting to undermine student reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, and other issues that public institutions would rather not have their reputations connected to. assertive

2026-10-02 · 404 Media

🔮 I can tell this because the AI responses seem to keep using the same or similar words that it believes would apply to journalists, or are how journalists speak, but as a real, human journalist for more than ten years, I know that journalists don’t actually speak like that. assertive

2026-10-05 · 404 Media

🔮 THE BIG STORY In the immediate weeks before Muse’s launch, Meta engineers found several security vulnerabilities in the company’s viral AI agent product, at least one of which could have allowed malicious users to break outside of Muse’s intended environment and access Meta’s own sensitive databases and services, 404 Media has learned. assertive

2026-10-07 · 404 Media

🔮 THE BIG STORY A man convicted of manslaughter in Arizona will be resentenced because an AI-generated video of his victim speaking from beyond the grave was ruled to have carried “undue emotional weight” as an impact statement. assertive

2026-10-22 · 404 Media

🔮 What developed over the next few days, and has now stretched across six months, is a Kafkaesque situation in which Smith, in her telling, is being asked to prove her innocence in an ongoing criminal case, while CashApp refuses to provide her any information about the account because she couldn’t prove that she was the owner. assertive

2026-10-26 · 404 Media

🔮 iFixit wrote a teardown analysis of the Duo, and speculated that the components around the hinge could be causing this particular white line issue: assertive

2026-10-27 · 404 Media

🔮 In Sunday’s edition of the New York Times, Marissa Mayer, former president and CEO of Yahoo, told her interviewer something so absurd it’s since gone viral. assertive

2026-10-28 · 404 Media

🔮 The update was originally set to go into effect on October 30, but following backlash, Meta changed the effective date to November 20. assertive

2026-10-29 · 404 Media

🔮 “Meta’s own disclosures confirm that imagery processed through its glasses’ visual AI features may be retained and used to train AI systems, including with the assistance of human reviewers,” the letter says. assertive

2026-10-29 · 404 Media

🔮 Archive of Our Own (AO3), a massive repository for fanfiction and creative writing, might be down for as long as a month after going down for "maintenance" on Thursday. mixed

2026-10-30 · 404 Media

🔮 On Thursday, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), the non-profit organization that runs AO3, posted that the site was down for maintenance, eventually updating to say the site restoration will take around two weeks, but could take up to a month. assertive

2026-11-02 · 404 Media

🔮 That’s what happened last week when Proton CEO Andy Yen announced he was canceling a planned re-interview process for almost all current employees that would have checked if they’re using AI enough. assertive

2026-11-03 · 404 Media

🔮 The site is expected to be down for as long as four weeks. assertive