Matthew Gault

Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses New videos and photos shared with 404 Media show a Border Patrol agent wearing Meta Ray-Bans glasses with the recording light clearly on. This is despite a DHS ban on officers recording with personal ...

New: A CBP agent in Charlotte wore Meta Ray Bans to an immigration raid and used it to record, based on photos shared with 404 Media. We've seen them wearing these glasses before but this is the first specific evidence we have of them recording

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Pete Hegseth Says the Pentagon's New Chatbot Will Make America 'More Lethal' The Department of War aims to put Google Gemini 'directly into the hands of every American warrior.'

this holiday season, the Pentagon is promising to put Google Gemini 'directly into the hands of every American warrior'

the secretary of war wants YOU to make AI slop

I'm an emotional masochist

well, for one, I'm about four hours into the American Canto audiobook

no one will stop me from putting trash in my body

Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts Instagram is generating headlines for Instagram posts that appear on Google Search results. Users say they are misrepresenting them.

Instagram is creating 2014 Buzzfeed-style SEO headlines for your Instagram posts and guess what? They're often misleading. Thanks to @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and @mrdang.photos for flagging this to me www.404media.co/instagram-is...

The Most Awful Responsibility – Alex Wellerstein

My new book, THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY goes on sale TODAY! It is a NEW argument about TRUMAN AND THE ATOMIC BOMB, from Hiroshima through the Korean War, from HarperCollins. alexwellerstein.com/writing/book...

2025 Delta Green Shotgun Scenario Contest 2025 Delta Green Shotgun Scenario Contest This contest is dedicated to the humble red dot, laser, and buckshot modifiers that make turn even the least proficient agent into a killing machine in Delta ...

If you want to read my #DeltaGreen shotties, they're over here! #40 and #41 respectively.

Do let me know what you think!

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chat is it good when the legal reporters whose work I've followed for over a decade all start sharing this at once

Headline from linked 404media article which reads '‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants' followed by a photo of a nuclear power plant.

"we’re developing advanced software systems capable of accelerating nuclear reactor deployments by enabling AI to... generate 3D models, [and] conduct rigorous failure mode analyzes with minimal human intervention”
#ChernobylAI 🍄☁️☢️
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*sobbing* do you want me to read Clausewitz or not!?! I can't tell anymore

404 Media Is Making a Zine We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.

I got a frog in here

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The Ones Who Lead Trust and Safety In Omelas

DHS’s Immigrant-Hunting App Removed from Google Play Store The app, called Mobile Identify, was launched in November, and lets local cops use facial recognition to hunt immigrants on behalf of ICE. It is unclear if the removal is temporary or not.

New from 404 Media: DHS’s immigrant-hunting app just got removed from the Google Play Store. Let’s local cops do facial recognition on people, app says to contact ICE or not. I’m told Google workers took issue with app in an internal report. We revealed app in Nov

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After we published this story, Kohler has removed all mentions of "end-to-end encryption" from its website.

Company PR said: "We used the term with respect to the encryption of data between our users (sender) and Kohler Health (recipient)."

If Kohler can view the user’s toilet data, as it admits to doing in this email exchange with technologist Simon Fondrie-Teitler, then it’s not—by definition—using end-to-end encryption. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:

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a still from "Me, You, and Everyone We Know"

no you're not

YouTube video by Carmageddon: Rogue Shift Carmageddon: Rogue Shift - Announcement Trailer

new Carmageddon game 30 years later but you're running down zombies?

absolute cowards

“I think everyone has a right to privacy, and in order for that to be realized people need to have an understanding of what's happening with their data,” Fondrie-Teitler said. “It's already so hard for non-technical individuals (and even tech experts) to evaluate the privacy and security of the software and devices they're using. E2EE doesn't guarantee privacy or security, but it's a non-trivial positive signal and losing that will only make it harder for people to maintain control over their data.”

thank you to @simon.overgrown.garden for sharing his story and research with me

Kohler's Smart Toilet Camera Not Actually End-to-End Encrypted Gives new meaning to the 'internet of shit.'

Kohler claims its smart toilets are end-to-end encrypted. They don't seem to understand what that phrase actually means

The US government will never do an explosive nuclear test again at the Nevada Test Site.

They have built an immense underground laboratory, costing billions of dollars. It contains particle accelerators and lasers that will not fare well with the shaking that comes with nuclear tests.

pantone's color of the year is medical bill

see you in 2030, Space Cowboy

Creative Assembly's GTA 6/ Elder Scrolls 6 just dropped

Guys… it looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets. @evystadium.bsky.social gets into it.

Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:

www.404media.co/unauthorized...

Launching the Genesis Mission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

some additional context that slipped by during the Holiday.

well it's gonna keep spinning