Red Hat is investigating a breach impacting as many as 28,000 customers. We got some files related to it, shows impacted customers might include the Navy and Congress. Also Federal Aviation Administration, Bank of America, AT&T.
New from 404 Media: the government shutdown is causing even more confusion for U.S. visa applicants. The website employers use for labor certification and immigration applicants use to access documentation for their applications is down
Matthew Gault was interviewing a ABC correspondent about new podcast on the murder of US solder Vanessa GuillΓ©n. When brought up Hesgeth's recent speech, ABC PR interrupted, asked not to talk about that. Then asked Matthew to cut that part. Wild, wild stuff
Beloved writer Kaleb Horton passed away recently. Then suddenly, an AI-generated "biography" of Horton appeared for sale on Amazon. AI slop capitalizing on someone's death. "I cannot overstate how disgusting I find this kind of AI dog shit."
People are already farming and selling Sora 2 invite codes on eBay. We bought a code, they work
New from 404 Media: for the first time in a decade, Kodak is selling its own film. This sidesteps a bizarre distribution agreement that has been in place since its bankruptcy. Now it's direct.
New: 404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation are suing DHS. We're seeking a copy of a data agreement that is giving ICE the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients. This is on top of our other lawsuit seeking ICE's $2 million spyware contract
The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week: - landlords demanding workplace logins to scrape your paystubs - 18 lawyers explain why they used AI (after getting caught) - subscribers: the Ruby drama Apple/Spotify/YouTube:
New from 404 Media: ICE to buy tool that tracks locations of hundreds of millions of phones every day. Billions of pieces of location data. ICE previously stopped using data remotely harvested from smartphones. Now it's buying it again. Usually used w/o warrant
In an unhinged speech, Pete Hesgeth says he's tired of "fat troops" and says the U.S. military needs to go full AI