This week's Behind the Blog is out, where paid 404 Media subscribers get to go behind the scenes on what happened this week/our work
- Me and Emanuel on impact
- Jason on his desktop setup
- Sam on covering protests

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New: Discord has shut down a tool that was surveilling thousands of Discord channels and selling the data, and is considering legal action

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New: after 404 Media's investigation Discord shut down a mass of accounts used by 'Spy Pet', the service that was scraping & selling Discord data/server messages for as little as $5. Spy Pet domain also down. 404media.co/discord-shuts-…

New: after 404 Media's investigation, Apple has removed multiple nonconsensual AI nudify apps from the Apple App Store. This signals a shift at Apple: back in 2022, Apple (and Google) did not remove. Now there is a change in approach 404media.co/apple-removes-…

Good news! The bizarro AI-generated engagement bait that is rife on Facebook has now made its way to LinkedIn, with people perhaps being even more unhinged about the whole thing over there 404media.co/facebooks-biza…

‘Inside a Modern Murder-for-Hire Ring in NYC’

Bitcoin, Telegram, and Instagram. All were used in a recent murder-for-hire and extortion plot in New York City.

New piece with the ⁦404 Media⁩ folks. courtwatch.news/p/inside-a-mod…

The 404 Media Podcast is out!
- why we can, we must, dunk on the Humane Ai Pin forever
- how Instagram is advertising deepfake nudify apps
- subscribers-only: the tool that pollutes Reddit with AI-generated product placement

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New from 404 Media: Telegram, Insta, Bitcoin, drive-by shootings. This is how one murder-for-hire ring in New York City allegedly operated. Made three attempts on a target's life and demanded 5k BTC to stop trying to kill them 404media.co/inside-a-moder…

Microsoft released an LLM and immediately deleted it bc of safety protocol concerns. Backups of it are all over the internet:

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New from 404 Media: Microsoft Deleted Its LLM Because It Didn’t Get a Safety Test, But Now It’s Everywhere

Microsoft researchers released WizardLM 2, claimed is one of the most powerful open source LLMs to date. Then deleted; but it's already mirrored 404media.co/microsoft-dele…