DuckDuckGo and Bing search results exposed police license plate searches from Flock Safety's automatic license plate reader system, revealing full plate numbers, case details, and investigation reason…
Automatic license plate reader company Flock exposed the reasons police conducted vehicle searches, including case numbers and search terms like "GTA," through common search engines such as DuckDuckGo…
A federal judge in Mississippi canceled a trial and disqualified all four lawyers involved after discovering that attorneys on both sides of a contractual dispute used artificial intelligence to gener…
Microsoft shut down over 70 of its own GitHub repositories, including those related to Azure and AI coding agents, after hackers planted malware designed to steal credentials when opened in AI coding …
A reader reported reading fewer articles than usual in week 23 of 2026, citing time spent catching up on recorded talks from re:publica 26 and personal struggles with depression. Notable reads include…
Meta confirmed yesterday that a bug in its Meta AI chatbot allowed attackers to hijack at least 20,225 Instagram accounts between April 17 and early June 2026. The vulnerability enabled the chatbot to…
Meta confirmed that hackers exploited a vulnerability in its AI chatbot to hijack at least 20,225 Instagram accounts, including 30 in Maine, between April 17 and this week. The attackers tricked the c…
Microsoft's internal strategy documents reveal the company plans to make users "addicted" to its new AI personal assistant, Scout, before expanding its capabilities. The documents outline a three-phas…
Microsoft's internal strategy document for its new AI assistant, Scout, explicitly lists "Make people addicted" as its Phase 1 goal, according to a leaked document obtained by 404 Media. The document,…
A journalist recreated memes shared by Google employees to protect sources who criticized the company's AI product internally. The reporter chose to rebuild the images from scratch rather than repost …
Attackers exploited Meta's AI customer support agent in June to hijack Instagram accounts, including the dormant Obama White House account, by simply asking the agent to link the accounts to attacker-…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told staff Thursday he is "not sure what this document is or who is writing and leaking this nonsense," referring to an internal Microsoft document that labeled Phase 1 of …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told staff Thursday he was "not sure what this document is or who is writing and leaking this nonsense" after an internal strategy document revealed the company aimed to "m…
An internal Microsoft document titled "ClawPilot: Overview and Plan with Project Lobster" obtained by 404 Media outlines a three-phase roadmap for the new AI assistant Scout, with the first phase labe…
Microsoft accidentally leaked internal documents revealing plans to make employees "addicted" to its new AI assistant, Scout, according to a memo obtained by 404 Media. The three-phase strategy explic…
Google's spokesperson asked 404 Media to publish a revised statement after the outlet's initial report on internal employee memes criticizing the company's AI. The updated statement removed the previo…
Google employees are internally sharing memes mocking the company's AI tools, including one that altered a presentation slide to read "I/O announces entirely new ways to slop," according to internal m…
Brands are increasingly posting on Reddit to manipulate AI search results, with a subreddit dedicated to biohacking recently banning peptide-related content due to corporate astroturfing. Meanwhile, t…
Hackers hijacked high-profile Instagram accounts over the weekend by asking Meta's AI customer support chatbot to change the account email address without verifying the requester's identity, allowing …
Microsoft unveiled Scout, a new "always-on personal agent" built on OpenClaw and integrated into Microsoft 365, at Build 2026. Internal documents obtained by 404 Media reveal the product's three-phase…