Stargate: The $500B Message To China — The Future Of AI Regulation
Stargate: A $500B Message to China—Good for OpenAI, bad for Musk—just one piece in the race for data, AI, and global power. A glimpse into the future of U.S. regulation.
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Researchers Say the Most Popular Tool for Grading AIs Unfairly Favors Meta, Google, OpenAI
The most popular method for measuring what are the best chatbots in the world is flawed and frequently manipulated by powerful companies like OpenAI and Google in order to make their products seem better than they actually are, according to a new paper from researchers at the AI company Cohere, as well as Stanford, MIT,…
Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them
This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. Subscribe to them here. Critics of YouTuber Ethan Klein are pushing back on subpoenas that would reveal their identities as part of an ongoing legal fight between Klein and his detractors. Klein is a popular content creator whose…
Ransomware Targets ESXi Systems via Stealthy SSH Tunnels for C2 Operations
Threat actors exploit ESXi systems as C2 tunnels, leveraging SSH for stealthy persistence, Sygnia reports.
Podcast: 404 Media Live—NYC!
Here’s the podcast recorded at our recent second anniversary party in New York! We answered a bunch of reader and listener questions. Thank you to everyone that came and thank you for listening to this podcast too! SPONSORED Thanks again to DeleteMe, use code 404media for 20% off. Listen to the weekly podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube….
Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About ‘Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games’?
Web domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and the U.S. government are hosting pages full of AI slop articles that redirect to a spam marketing site. On a site seemingly abandoned by Nvidia for events, called events.nsv.nvidia.com, a spam marketing operation moved in and posted more than 62,000 AI-generated articles, many of them full of…
Microsoft expands testing of Windows 11 admin protection feature
Microsoft has expanded its Windows 11 administrator protection tests, allowing Insiders to enable the security feature from the Windows Security settings. […]
This Security Threat Hides In Plain Sight—The You Can’t See Me Hack
Email hackers have found ways to hide in plain sight, invisible to your security defenses, while they attack. Here’s what you need to know and do.
Earth’s Climate Has Passed Its First Irreversible Tipping Point and Entered a ‘New Reality’
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Climate change has pushed warm-water coral reefs past a point of no return, marking the first time a major climate tipping point has been crossed, according to a report released on…
It Looks Like a School Vape Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Become an Audio Bug
This article was produced with support from WIRED. A couple of years ago, a curious, then-16-year-old hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia was on his laptop at his Portland-area high school, seeing what computer systems he could connect to via the Wifi—“using the school network as a lab,” as he puts it—when he spotted a handful of mysterious devices…