How Sugar and Sedentary Lifestyle Affects Men
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Scientists Create Plant That Produces Ayahuasca, Shrooms, and Toad Psychedelics All At Once
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Scientists have engineered tobacco plants to produce five psychedelic compounds that are normally found in a wide range of natural sources, including psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, and toads, according to a study…
‘BLOCKADE’: The Right Is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning
This story was reported with support from the MuckRock foundation. Conservative parents’ advocacy groups have been experimenting with using commercially available artificial intelligence tools to help them flag more books they’ve deemed pornographic to be removed from public schools and libraries. Even though LLMs are notoriously error-prone, and the books in question aren’t pornographic, these groups…
Podcast: Inside the AI Slop Propaganda Wars
This week Matthew Gault joins us to discuss his article about Iran’s AI slop and LEGO-focused propaganda, and why the creators chose LEGO. After the break, Jason tells us all about the new automated system in baseball and the drama it’s causing. In the subscribers-only section, Sam walks us through perhaps one of the worst…
I Tried to Find the ‘Arousal Intelligence’ In An Animated, Augmented Reality Porn Star
Sometimes people—especially those in the field of public relations doing a pray-and-spray campaign, but also small-time developers, the occasional delusional vibe-coder, and local dipshits—deliver messages to my inbox like a cat dropping a dead mouse on my doorstep. For the most part, I resist the bait: often, bad press is still press to these people,…
Axios npm package compromised to deploy malware
Categories: Threat Research Tags: advisory, NPM, Axios
Paul McCartney Banned From Reddit After Promoting Himself in Paul McCartney Subreddit
Sir Paul McCartney was banned from Reddit after sharing pictures of a concert in the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Over the weekend, Paul McCartney’s Reddit account attempted to share pictures from a show at Fonda Theatre to the site via a Dropbox link. Shortly afterwards the account was banned. Why did this happen? That’s in dispute. At…
How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir
Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided underlying personal data for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. The…
The High Cost of Low Trust: Our Commitment to Radical Transparency
Only 5% of organizations fully trust their cybersecurity providers. Let’s do better. Categories: Products & Services, Sophos Insights Tags: Trust, Trust Center, Privacy
The Cybersecurity Trust Reality in 2026
New Sophos survey reveals only 5% of IT leaders say they fully trust their cybersecurity vendors Categories: Products & Services, Sophos Insights Tags: Trust, Privacy, Trust Center
Where AI in the SOC is actually delivering — and where it isn’t
“We’ll have a generation of security professionals who can supervise AI but can’t function without it.” Categories: AI Research, Sophos Insights Tags: AI, AI Cybersecurity, AI RESEARCH, Generative AI, SOC