The White House has partnered with PragerU to make AI-slop of the founding fathers.
I went on Marketplace to talk about how ICE is accessing an insurance fraud database to assist in location targets to deport (the Associated Press just reported the Trump administration handed over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE) https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2025/07/17/why-ice-is-accessing-an-insurance-fraud-database
The instant, gleeful doxing of people now includes the utterly benign (dancing weird at a concert; standing in public; etc). It is incredibly unsettling that people feel it is worthwhile to dig into the lives of random ass people with little to no public interest
New from 404 Media: inside ICE's supercharged facial recognition app of 200 million images. After scanning someone's face, it can query DHS, CBP, FBI, State Department, and state databases at once. An unprecedented linking of government databases into a single tool.
New from 404 Media: hacked data we obtained reveal dozens of unknown people on deportation flights to El Salvador. No acknowledgement from DHS. "We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even they don’t know." We are publishing the names here:
The 404 Media Podcast is out! - the AI exodus triggered by payment processors - 'Save the Signs' campaign - subscribers-only: why AI won't save the media industry
This is the real future of AI: ordering mid chicken at Bojangles through an AI-powered assistant. "This is how a new technology takes over, what it feels like right before it becomes ubiquitous. One day you wake up and the cameras are everywhere"
New from 404 Media: many people turn to 3D-printed weapons because they are largely untraceable. But in a scientific field that's just getting started, it might be possible for police to link specific 3D-printed weapons to particular printers
The audio of a recent Mark Zuckerberg interview about AI went silent. So we used AI, some of which are supposed to be good at lip reading, to figure out what Zuckerberg said. Here's the transcript image
'ICE Block' is an app that lets users report sightings of ICE officials in their local area. The app says it doesn't collect peoples' location data, preserves their privacy, etc. A security researcher now corroborates that.