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The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Dario Amodei argues we must limit China’s access to AI chips so we can live under all powerful American-owned AI as opposed to all powerful Chinese-owned AI.

OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.

We talk all about DeepSeek, the U.S. government memo metadata, and how GitHub is showing the U.S. government's transformation in real time.

An AI LinkedIn profile was "open to work," boasting it’s a better worker than a human.

James Sherk and Noah Peters appear as the authors of memos sent by the Office of Personnel Management.

Hackers behind the breach of “nearly all” of AT&T customers’ metadata searched for records associated with members of the Trump family, Kamala Harris, and Marco Rubio’s wife.

In a slate of several bills restricting reproductive rights and divorce, Oklahoma senator Dusty Deevers suggests anyone making anything even vaguely pornographic should go to jail.

Why a relatively unknown Chinese-developed AI model has turned the AI industry on its head.

In this special interview episode of the 404 Media Podcast, Sam talks to Alexzandra Kekesi, VP of Brand and Community at Pornhub, about age verification laws and what she's hearing from adult performers.

A week of excrement and colors.

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Nazis celebrating Elon Musk’s salute, Zuckerberg as a kook, dictating your own threat model and a good block/mute ethos.

Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.

After Trump signed an unscientific, transphobic executive order deeming there to be "two sexes," several informational websites about gender identity went offline.

"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."

"Challah Horse" was a Polish meme warning about Facebook AI spam 'targeted at susceptible people' that was stolen by a spam page targeted at susceptible people.

Zuckerberg seems to enjoy the spam that has taken over his flagship product.

Dozens of big subreddits have already banned all Twitter links, and posts about potential bans are some of the most popular on the site.

When TikTok returned after being pulled from the U.S., hours before President Trump’s inauguration, users reported “free palestine” comments were being instantly removed.

Hospitals are increasingly being forced into maintenance contracts with device manufacturers, driving up costs.