“This evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited."#archives
This week: getting "political" and what it means to be technology journalists in this day and age.#BehindTheBlog
'For Immediate Compliance': FEMA Workers Responding to Wildfires Ordered to Say 'Alien' Instead of 'Immigrant'#FEMA #Trumpadministration #DonaldTrump
'For Immediate Compliance': FEMA Workers Responding to Wildfires Ordered to Say 'Alien' Instead of 'Immigrant'
"This is the most 1984 email I've ever seen," one worker said.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
The current Archivist of the United States held an all-hands this week in which she still seemed to be in charge, 404 Media has learned.#archives #DonaldTrump
“The internet is a dangerous place for children, rife with sexual material that is harmful to minors," the Republican lawmakers wrote. "The ease of access to this material is downright scary."#ageverification
Employees at Elon Musk's agency have been told "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now."
Employees at Elon Muskx27;s agency have been told "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now."#DOGE #ElonMusk
DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to a Records System Not Subject to FOIA
Employees at Elon Musk's agency have been told "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now."Jason Koebler (404 Media)
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.#organizing #Socialmedia #ElonMusk #DonaldTrump
We talk all about Musk's takeover of the federal government, including audio of a meeting we got touching a Musk ally's AI plans. Then, AI slop in libraries.
We talk all about Muskx27;s takeover of the federal government, including audio of a meeting we got touching a Musk allyx27;s AI plans. Then, AI slop in libraries.#Podcast
Podcast: Inside Musk’s Government Takeover
We talk all about Musk's takeover of the federal government, including audio of a meeting we got touching a Musk ally's AI plans. Then, AI slop in libraries.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves is an “illegal task.”#News
"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.#nasa
A 404 Media reader made a PDF version of the World War II-era manual that's going viral right now.
A 404 Media reader made a PDF version of the World War II-era manual thatx27;s going viral right now.#opensource
Here's a PDF Version of the CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism
A 404 Media reader made a PDF version of the World War II-era manual that's going viral right now.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.#News
According to the language of the proposed bill, people who download AI models from China could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both.#News
A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.#Github
The Air Force paid a company that is doing generative AI work for the government. The Air Force won't say what it did, though.
The Air Force paid a company that is doing generative AI work for the government. The Air Force wonx27;t say what it did, though.#FOIA
Air Force Documents on Gen AI Test Are Just Whole Pages of Redactions
The Air Force paid a company that is doing generative AI work for the government. The Air Force won't say what it did, though.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
“CDC’s website is being modified to comply with President Trump’s Executive Orders.“#News
“It’s simply just a non-woke version, offering employers an alternative approach to diversity and inclusion.”#News
Just how radioactive was that Saharan dust cloud that engulfed Europe in 2022?#TheAbstract
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 AI's boom or bust, trying Github's Copilot, and making time for good ideas.
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 AIx27;s boom or bust, trying Githubx27;s Copilot, and making time for good ideas.#BehindTheBlog
Behind the Blog: Boom, Bust, and Big Ideas
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 AI's boom or bust, trying Github's Copilot, and making time for good ideas.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
The pleas mean that “Afgoo,” the person who provided the FBI with the backdoored encrypted phone company in the first place, likely won’t have to testify and have their identity revealed in court.#News
"There are a bunch of things that I think are value-destroying for me to talk about, so I’m not going to talk about those."#Meta
More than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time.#Datagov #HarvardUniversity #archiving
Github is also revealing a widespread, scattershot effort to nuke not only "DEI" but things that have nothing to do with it.#archiving #DonaldTrump #DataDeletion
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.#opensource #PublicDomain
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.#News
OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.
OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone elsex27;s data without permission or compensation.#OpenAI #DeepSeek
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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.
We talk all about DeepSeek, the U.S. government memo metadata, and how GitHub is showing the U.S. governmentx27;s transformation in real time.#Podcast
Podcast: The Truth Behind DeepSeek
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.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
James Sherk and Noah Peters appear as the authors of memos sent by the Office of Personnel Management.#DonaldTrump #project2025
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.#News #Hacking
Hackers Mined AT&T Breach for Data on Trump's Family, Kamala Harris
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.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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.#porn
Why a relatively unknown Chinese-developed AI model has turned the AI industry on its head.#News
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.
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 shex27;s hearing from adult performers.#Podcast
Podcast: Pornhub Exec Discusses Pulling Out of the South, Trad Wives, and Feet Pics
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.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
Peeing Is Socially Contagious in Chimps#TheAbstract
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.#BehindTheBlog
Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.
Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agencyx27;s GitHub page.#Github #DonaldTrump #Trumpadministration
GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time
Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
After Trump signed an unscientific, transphobic executive order deeming there to be "two sexes," several informational websites about gender identity went offline.#DonaldTrump #Gender #government