We start this week with Jason and Joseph’s article about leaked audio from a private police conference. In that audio, Flock’s CEO made all sorts of wild claims about the backlash to his company not being real, and his wife’s advice to never apologize. After the break, Sam tells us ...
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Senators Demand Meta Answer for ‘Pervert Glasses’ Following 404 Media InvestigationSenators Demand Meta Answer for ‘Pervert Glasses’ Following 404 Media Investigation
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and Massachusetts Senator Edward Markey sent a letter to Meta on Wednesday demanding the company answer for the privacy concerns its smart glasses pose to the public. The letter cites 404 Media’s October 2025 investigation into how people use Meta’s smart glasses to harass massage parlor ...
If You’re In the UK or EU, Here’s How to Object to Meta’s AI TrainingIf You’re In the UK or EU, Here’s How to Object to Meta’s AI Training
Earlier this month, Meta updated its commercial terms of use for business accounts to allow it to “use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of” Meta’s products. Many artists and small business owners that rely on Instagram ...
Objection, your honorObjection, your honor
You’ve probably heard, at this point, about the big changes coming to Meta’s AI scraping terms for business accounts. Nieman Lab had that scoop, and since then, small businesses, journalists, and artists using Meta products like Instagram have been raising the alarm. But if you’re in the EU or UK, ...
Marissa Mayer Can’t Keep Pretending ‘Gender Doesn’t Matter’Marissa Mayer Can’t Keep Pretending ‘Gender Doesn’t Matter’
In Sunday’s edition of the New York Times, Marissa Mayer, former president and CEO of Yahoo, told her interviewer something so absurd it’s since gone viral. Struggling with the “impossible task” of naming three things that she loves about her own 10 year old daughter, the New York Times reports, ...
It’s not the bots, FlockIt’s not the bots, Flock
Flock CEO Garrett Langley says some interesting things to cops behind closed doors. He recently lied about his surveillance technology’s role in tracking a woman who had self-administered an abortion and 404 Media’s coverage of that incident, calling it “entirely false.” Now, in leaked audio obtained by 404 Media, Langley ...
Proton To ‘Re-Interview’ Staff About AI To See Who Gets To Keep Their JobProton To ‘Re-Interview’ Staff About AI To See Who Gets To Keep Their Job
Proton, the company behind ProtonMail and other privacy-focused products, told staff on Monday it would be ‘re-interviewing’ staff across the company about how they use AI in their jobs, with the implication that the interviews may decide whether staffers have “continued employment,” according to an internal Proton email obtained by ...
ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support ProblemsChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems
Last week, I got an email from a man in Russia whose Instagram account had been banned. “I have now lost access to 13 years of personal photos, videos and memories,” he wrote. “I am concerned that this may be another case of erroneous automated moderation […] However, Meta has ...
ChatGPT Says 404 Media Is Tech Support for Huge CorporationsChatGPT Says 404 Media Is Tech Support for Huge Corporations
“Draft an email to Jason Koebler at 404 Media.” ...
iPhone Duo Users Are Already Seeing a Big Old Crease in the Middle of Their $2,000 Foldable iPhoneiPhone Duo Users Are Already Seeing a Big Old Crease in the Middle of Their $2,000 Foldable iPhone
Apple’s $2,000 folding phone, the iPhone Duo, came out just two days ago and people are already seeing big fat creases down the middle of the folding screen, and some devices are cracked in the same specific spot too. People waited in line overnight at Apple stores to get this ...