The future of MFA is clear – but is it here yet?
Not all authentication is equal to the task in 2025, but there is a best choice within reach
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DeepSeek’s growing popularity renews concerns about protecting U.S. data from Beijing
Security concerns alone are enough for the biggest U.S. companies to pump the brakes on using DeepSeek’s models right now.
FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
The FBI has been unable to access a Washington Post reporter’s seized iPhone because it was in Lockdown Mode, a sometimes overlooked feature that makes iPhones broadly more secure, according to recently filed court records. The court record shows what devices and data the FBI was able to ultimately access, and which devices it could…
Air Force Documents on Gen AI Test Are Just Whole Pages of Redactions
📄 This article was primarily reported using public records requests. We are making it available to all readers as a public service. FOIA reporting can be expensive, please consider subscribing to 404 Media to support this work. Or send us a one time donation via our tip jar here. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL),…
President Trump Signs Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence Policy, Charting a Path for U.S. AI Leadership
President Trump has signed an executive order aimed at reshaping the United States’ approach to artificial intelligence (AI) policy.
‘Save Our Signs’ Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs
On Monday, a publicly-sourced archive of more than 10,000 national park signs and monument placards went public as part of a massive volunteer project to save historical and educational placards from around the country that risk removal by the Trump administration. Visitors to national parks and other public monuments at more than 300 sites across…
Google and Amazon AI Say Hitler’s Mein Kampf Is ‘a True Work of Art’
Google’s featured snippet is pulling in an Amazon AI summary of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf that calls it “a true work of art” in the latest AI-related fuckup affecting top search results. As of writing, searching for “mein kampf positive reviews” returned a result that was pulled from an AI-generated summary of an…
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
Doublespeed, a startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that uses a phone farm to manage at least hundreds of AI-generated social media accounts and promote products has been hacked. The hack reveals what products the AI-generated accounts are promoting, often without the required disclosure that these are advertisements, and allowed the hacker to take control…
Why DeepSeek Could Change What Silicon Valley Believe About A.I.
A new A.I. model, released by a scrappy Chinese upstart, has rocked Silicon Valley and upended several fundamental assumptions about A.I. progress.
Google DeepMind Is Hiring a ‘Post-AGI’ Research Scientist
None of the frontier AI research labs have presented any evidence that they are on the brink of achieving artificial general intelligence, no matter how they define that goal, but Google is already planning for a “Post-AGI” world by hiring a scientist for its DeepMind AI lab to research the “profound impact” that technology will…