The Tumbler Ridge shooter created a mall shooting simulator in Roblox. “We have removed the user account connected to this horrifying incident as well as any content associated with the suspect,” Roblox told 404 Media https://www.404media.co/tumbler-ridge-shooter-created-mall-shooting-simulator-in-roblox/

New: Waymo is getting DoorDashers to close doors on self driving cars that people have left open. One Dasher got a job recently asking them to close a Waymo door. Reached out to company, they confirmed its a program in Atlanta. Even with AI, need a person here https://www.404media.co/waymo-is-getting-doordashers-to-close-doors-on-self-driving-cars/

New from 404 Media: we've confirmed cops are buying access to GeoSpy, an AI that can geolocate photos in seconds. Doesn't use metadata, but clues in the photo like soil, architecture, to pinpoint where social media photos taken. Being used in investigations https://www.404media.co/cops-are-buying-geospy-ai-that-geolocates-photos-in-seconds/

Discord recently announced that many more users will need to scan their face or upload ID, verifying their age so they can continue to access parts of the platform. Someone quickly made a tool that they say bypasses it with a simple 3D model you control

https://www.404media.co/free-tool-says-it-can-bypass-discords-age-verification-check-with-a-3d-model/

In the latest episode of 'what happened to that CCTV footage from within an ICE detention center', the government now says it lost hard drives it was supposed to put the footage on

https://www.404media.co/government-loses-hard-drives-it-was-supposed-to-put-ice-detention-center-footage-on/

Here's an interview with a woman targeted by AI-nudifiers using Grok, who then made an OnlyFans account of her

'The Most Dejected I’ve Ever Felt:' Harassers Made Nude AI Images of Her, Then Started an OnlyFans: https://www.404media.co/grok-nudify-ai-images-impersonation-onlyfans/

Inspiring: RFK Jr's nutrition chatbot recommends the best foods to insert into your rectum.

“Start — whole peeled carrot, straight shaft, narrow end for insertion, wider crown end as base.”

https://www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutrition-chatbot-recommends-best-foods-to-insert-into-your-rectum/

New: Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, just 'joked' ICE is watching Salesforce employees who travelled to the U.S. We got a bunch of internal Slacks.

'If you’re visiting from outside the United States, please stand … ICE is keeping track of that' https://www.404media.co/marc-benioff-jokes-ice-is-watching-salesforce-employees-who-traveled-to-the-u-s/

With Ring, American consumers built the surveillance dragnet. Ring's Super Bowl ad, which highlighted a feature to find lost dogs, showed Ring is still, again, and always will be in the business of leveraging its network of luxury surveillance consumers https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/

"The chatbots also generated information that was just wrong or incomplete, including focusing on elements of the participants’ inputs that were irrelevant, giving a partial US phone number to call, or suggesting they call the Australian emergency number." https://www.404media.co/chatbots-health-medical-advice-study/

404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts

https://www.404media.co/watch-404-medias-super-bowl-ad/

Wrote more about Lockdown Mode blocking the FBI from accessing a Washington Post reporter's phone, and how mobile forensics is the never-ending cybersecurity story https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-the-neverending-cybersecurity-story/

New: the oversight body for DHS is investigating agencies', including ICE's, use of surveillance tech/data for immigration enforcement. Comes directly after our reporting on multiple tools and pressure from lawmakers

https://www.404media.co/inspector-general-investigating-whether-ices-surveillance-tech-breaks-the-law/

Updated: the DOJ redacted a photo of the Mona Lisa in the Epstein files. Now DOJ tells us it contains a victim's face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image.

https://www.404media.co/the-doj-redacted-a-photo-of-the-mona-lisa-in-the-epstein-files/

A new tool lets you search the Epstein files for mentions of your LinkedIn contacts. Tried it out, does work. Outputs a report with links to the material on the DOJ website.

https://www.404media.co/this-tool-searches-the-epstein-files-for-your-linkedin-contacts/

The Washington Post is No Longer Useful to Jeff Bezos

https://www.404media.co/the-washington-post-is-no-longer-useful-to-jeff-bezos/

Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking someone's device. At least for now.

https://www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-get-into-wapo-reporters-iphone-because-it-had-lockdown-mode-enabled/

The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week
- how the latest Epstein dump is a disaster
- multiple vulns in Moltbot, Moltbook
- subscribers-only: a porn addiction app is exposing its users' data

Watch/subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDcOOP_Y9cU

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too https://www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-get-into-wapo-reporters-iphone-because-it-had-lockdown-mode-enabled/

At 12 ET today me and Jason are doing AMA on the main technology subreddit about the tech ICE is using, the nationwide network of AI Flock cameras around the U.S., and the state of surveillance in general. Get your questions in before then: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1qv9y8j/hi_were_404_medias_jason_koebler_and_joseph_cox/