Today is the two year anniversary of 404 Media, which is hard to fathom. We wrote about how it's going, what we've done, what's next, and what we've learned. We cannot do this without the support of our subscribers and for that we are endlessly thankful:.

TikTok Shop is selling 'Silent' GPS trackers that are marketed to stalkers and domestic abusers. Many of the videos have millions of views and at least 100,000 of them have been sold. TikTok's algorithm endlessly puts these in front of you if you click:.

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SCOOP: ICE added a rando to their group chat about a manhunt they were conducting and sent updates in real time. They did this over MMS and called the chat "Mass Text".

RT @Vaquero2XL: Insane that DOE is saying that you need to email them to affirm you want FOIA documents because they told me last month tha….

Really crazy, from the Most Transparent Administration in History™: The Department of Energy says it will throw out FOIA requests from as recently as less than a year ago unless the requester affirmatively emails them to say they still want the documents.

An ICE sizzle reel recruiting video that used a Jay-Z song got hit with a copyright takedown and has been deleted off of X. Sound removed on Instagram and Facebook.

SCOOP: A CBP agent wore Meta's AI smart glasses to an immigration raid in Los Angeles. CBP has no deal with Meta so it's possibly his own personal device.

New: A Sheriff's Office in Texas has access to data from AI license plate reading cameras at hundreds of Home Depots (in Texas) and Lowe's (around the country).

Apple is now selling repair parts for iPads . but the prices are often astronomical and make repair totally untenable:.

RT @beckyferreira: It's never aliens? Stick with me & it'll be ALIENS ALL THE WAY DOWN .That's bc I'm announcing RIGHT NOW that my book FIR….

RT @dtnsshow: Meta is testing AI use in technical interviews, Apple is closing one of its stores in China for the first time, and Tom’s get….

Scoop: Meta is going to allow job candidates to use AI in coding interviews, which is part of a push across the whole company to have AI do more coding.

New: LeBron James’ lawyers sent a cease and desist to an AI tool & community that was using AI to make him pregnant, homeless, etc. One of the first known times a celeb threatens legal action over nonconsensual AI

The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this stuff is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive".

This is truly wild: @josephcox.bsky.social got the user manual for ICE's new facial recognition app, which appears to be one of the most powerful face rec systems because it is connected to tons of different government databases and surveillance systems.

SCOOP: The manifests for three legally contested deportation flights to El Salvador contain the names of dozens of people who have not been acknowledged in any way by the US government. Experts following the case say they don't know where these people are.

Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg did a two-minute interview about AI superintelligence but there were audio issues with the livestream, resulting in a completely silent video. I attempted to use the amazing, incredible power of AI to rescue this lost artifact:.

All American trains have a vulnerability where a hacker can remotely trigger the brakes over radio frequency. A researcher has been warning about this for 13 years and the government has FINALLY acknowledged it’s real and is making rail companies fix it:

Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it won't work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:.

NEW: ICE is using a facial recognition smartphone app that pulls faces from CBP's database of people who cross the border:.