New from 404 Media: Mr Deepfakes, the biggest deepfake nonconsensual porn site on the internet, say it's shutting down for good “A critical service provider has terminated service permanently. Data loss has made it impossible to continue operation.”
New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach
I wrote a bit more about the unanswered questions and issues raised by Mike Waltz's use of a Signal fork that archives messages, which we broke news of yesterday: image
New from 404 Media: Mike Waltz has inadvertently revealed the obscure app the government is using to archive Signal messages. Made by a company called TeleMessage. Use of the Signal clone raises questions about how messages being secured, what classification of info
New from 404 Media: the person who just acquired Polygon is the porn mogul who co-founded Brazzers
New in what might become a semi-regular 404 Media segment—RECESSION INDICATOR: Bookings for the German Tour Bus in My Neighborhood Are Down 30%
The infamous 'You Wouldn't Steal a Car' anti-piracy font was actually pirated itself. “I was aware of the campaign using my font, but not that they actually used the illegal clone,” the creator told us. “The irony is extremely funny indeed.”
The 404 Media Podcast is up! - Meta's AI chatbots are a disaster - the wildly unethical AI test on unsuspecting Reddit users - subscribers-only: the age of realtime deepfake fraud is here Apple/YouTube/Spotify:
New from 404 Media: the government registered 'TheTrillionDollarDinner.gov' around the time of Trump's pay-to-play memecoins dinner announcement. The top 220 investors in $TRUMP will get a chance to meet him. Domains show potential plans to use gov resources for it
Trump Demands Amazon Deny the Reality of What His Tariffs Are Doing to Prices