Los Angeles tomorrow: - July 30, 6PM - at RIP Space - free for 404 Media subscribers, $10 everyone else - free beer/wine - live pod recording about the tech behind ICE - tickets and subscriber code here:
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Come Party With Us In Los Angeles July 30
404 Media is throwing a live podcast and party at RIP.SPACE in the Arts District.
New: Tea has turned off DMs after we found it was possible for hackers to get them. We obtained a cache of more than a million DMs, discussing abortions, cheating, more. I told Tea about this issue on Saturday. Tea only disabled DMs after we published on Monday
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Tea App Turns Off DMs After Exposing Messages About Abortions, Cheating
404 Media first contacted Tea about the security issue on Saturday. The company disabled direct messages on Monday after our report.
New from 404 Media: Meta is going to let job candidates use AI during coding tests, according to internal Meta communications we've seen. "This is more representative of the developer environment that our future employees will work in."
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Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests
"This is more representative of the developer environment that our future employees will work in."
New from 404 Media: a second data breach at Tea has exposed more than a million direct messages between users that we obtained. Discussions of abortions, cheating. The other data was older. This is as recent as *last week*. Hard to overstate how sensitive this data is
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A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating
The more than one million messages obtained by 404 Media are as recent as last week, discuss incredibly sensitive topics, and make it trivial to un...
A former Chaturbate moderate is suing the live-streaming porn platform for psychological trauma after being exposed to "extreme, violent, graphic" content. We've all heard of Facebook, Instagram, etc moderators; rare insight into Chaturbate moderation
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Former Moderator Sues Chaturbate for 'Psychological Trauma'
“Without these safeguards, Mr. Barber eventually developed full-blown PTSD, which he is currently still being treated for,” the former mod's la...
Here's the letter Amazon sent us about "inaccuracies" it believed it found with our reporting showing a hacker put 'wipe' code into a version of Amazon's Q AI-powered assistant. The piece is accurate, we didn't update, Amazon wanted us to cut a lot. More here:
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Behind the Blog: Don't Record Me, Bro
This week, we discuss smart glasses for frat bros, Amazon comms messiness, and more.
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Tea, the viral women's safety dating app, has been breached: - 4chan found an exposed Firebase bucket - people starting taking Tea users' photos and IDs and posting them to 4chan - we verified it More here:
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Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan
“DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.
New from 404 Media: viral woman's dating safety app Tea breached. 4chan taking peoples' uploaded photos, used to verify its a woman-only app. App recently hit no. 1 in App Store. “DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!”
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Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan
“DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.
New: Grindr won’t allow users to add “no Zionists” to their profiles, but allows any number of other phrases that state political, religious, and ethnic preferences, according to 404 Media’s tests of the platform and user reports
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Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists'
An error message appears saying "The following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists" when users try to add the phrase to their bios, but any nu...
New from 404 Media: LeBron James' lawyers send cease-and-desist to AI company making pregnant videos of him. Marks one of the first known times that a celebrity has threatened legal action against an AI company for enabling nonconsensual AI imagery of their likeness
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LeBron James' Lawyers Send Cease-and-Desist to AI Company Making Pregnant Videos of Him
Viral Instagram accounts making LeBron 'brainrot' videos have also been banned.