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2026-10-02 · 404 Media · Crime & Law

Podcast: The FBI Was Hacked. We’ve Seen the Data

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2026-09-28 · 404 Media · Crime & Law

FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data

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2026-10-06 · 404 Media · Politics

Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage

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2026-09-03 · 404 Media · Crime & Law

Cops Are Asking Axon to Make Their Cameras Look Different From Flock So People Don't Destroy Them

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2026-10-16 · 404 Media · Politics

Here’s What Telegram Giving Data to the U.S. Government Looks Like

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2026-10-15 · 404 Media · Technology

ChatGPT Ads Target Your Phone Number, Email

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2026-08-26 · 404 Media

🔮 But handling such a large volume of data in a clean and reliable manner could be a challenge. assertive

2026-08-27 · 404 Media

🔮 So the woman could never have been under investigation for having an abortion. assertive

2026-08-28 · 404 Media

🔮 “I would rather your event flyer look like this than see more AI slop,” one flyer posted to Instagram, written in pencil on a page of lined paper, reads. assertive

2026-08-31 · 404 Media

🔮 The baba lao was going to do a ritual designed to ensure a Nigerian scammer would make more money in his blackmailing or manipulation of an overseas victim, maybe back in the United States. assertive

2026-09-03 · 404 Media

🔮 The comments highlight how Axon is trying to take advantage of sustained opposition against Flock's license plate cameras, with one law enforcement customer suggesting a camera redesign would “help with the optics while we batten down the hatches” as the backlash spreads. assertive

2026-09-08 · 404 Media

🔮 Border Patrol is running secretive predictive policing units that analyze Americans’ financial activity and other data, then feed that intelligence to local police who pull people over who are not suspected of any specific crime, but which the government thinks may be worth searching, 404 Media has found. mixed

2026-09-09 · 404 Media

🔮 Apparently over the cross of that source and interviewer relationship, Biden “asked if he could use our mailing list whenever he launched a new product,” according to a statement posted by Channel 5 to X on Monday. assertive

2026-09-14 · 404 Media

🔮 The prompts these people review can include whole conversations between users and the chatbot, conversations that most of ChatGPT’s more than 900 million users probably don’t realize may be read by actual people. assertive

2026-09-17 · 404 Media

🔮 Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer given to a high profile activist who is currently fighting a case in which he allegedly wiped a security-focused Android phone before Customs and Border Protection (CBP) could search it. assertive

2026-09-21 · 404 Media

🔮 And the ALPR Hostlist Management Audit report details changes made to alerts the agency may receive. assertive

2026-09-28 · 404 Media

🔮 What is different in this latest Copilot episode, and 404 Media’s reporting on contractors at other AI companies like OpenAI, is that the content humans are reviewing are prompts and uploads that chatbot users may assume are private, and that the contractors are not looking at this material to train the models to filter out offensive images or for some other safety concern. assertive

2026-09-28 · 404 Media

🔮 Although any potential damage will be less if ShinyHunters doesn’t publish the data publicly, the theft happening at all still presents much of those same national security risks, with the data providing granular insight into how the FBI operates. “Since the very beginning we had made our decision that we would never publish this data. assertive

2026-10-06 · 404 Media

🔮 Multiple Democrat, Republican, and Independent lawmakers have introduced new pieces of legislation that, if passed, would dramatically curb federal agencies’ access to Flock cameras, with the lawmakers referencing reporting by 404 Media in their explanations for why the legislation is needed. assertive

2026-10-15 · 404 Media

🔮 This is pretty normal in the advertising world, but I seriously doubt that when most of ChatGPT’s many, many users see an ad, they realize that might be because someone, somewhere, uploaded their phone number into OpenAI’s systems. assertive

2026-10-16 · 404 Media

🔮 A letter written by Telegram, and providing a specific user’s phone number, user ID, and IP address, reads: Dear Sir or Madam, For this particular case, the following information was available: User #7149269705 : +201155664529 [Mahmoud Almohtadi] IP 184.186.72.239, 8 Oct 2025 2:08:12 We hope this information will be helpful in your investigation. Kind regards, The Telegram Team The letter says Telegram provided the data “voluntarily” and that by providing it, Telegram is “not conceding that we are subject to U.S. jurisdiction for this or any other request or any purpose.” assertive