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Automatic license plate readers, Instagram captions, and fingerprints.

Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.

Meta is preparing for the Australian election by working closely with the government and news outlets that Zuckerberg said were “clearly political” and dismissed in the US.

Instagram’s unwillingness to moderate AI-generated content finds a new low.

The sites an ICE contractor is pulling data from; why top scientists are considering leaving the U.S. for France, and why Super Nintendos are getting faster as they age.

FOIA documents show how agencies dropped everything to comply with Trump order—and that FOIA is still sort of working.

The site also has information on Tesla dealerships and members of DOGE. “At DOGEQUEST, we believe in empowering creative expressions of protest that you can execute from the comfort of your own home.”

"The conspiracies are funny, everyone is acting like not getting instant responses for complicated, broad searches is malice. A lot of it is just very unexciting."

Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.

The epic shark may have been a full 80 feet long with a slender build, according to new research.

The statement follows an alleged internal email which said requests for dog food and vet visits had been put on hold.

This week, we discuss companies' responses to being monitored by an ICE contractor, caring about the little things, weight loss drug ads, and how our SXSW shindig went.

Mahmoud Khalil, who ICE arrested on Saturday, and a group of other students from Columbia are suing the university to stop the release of disciplinary records.

Why is this speedrunner putting his Super Nintendo in the freezer? Science.

“We are witnessing a new brain drain.”

A company owned by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund just bought the most popular AR video game of all time.

Internal Spotify communications viewed by 404 Media show Spotify’s own employees complaining about Andrew Tate’s course being available on the platform.

404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it and draw connections between people.

We chat the lack of guardrails on China-based AI video models; how cops are using AI to summarize evidence from seized mobile phones; and the AI game that is making $50,000 a month.

The oversight and investigative body of NASA spent $16,000 on the technology, 404 Media previously reported.