Engineering giant Smiths Group discloses security breach
London-based engineering giant Smiths Group disclosed a security breach after unknown attackers gained access to the company’s systems.
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Watch This Guy’s Interactive Wooden Pixel Machine Make Art in Real Time
Sitting in my office in NYC, I sent a CNC machine in a guy’s workshop in Wisconsin a 40 by 25 pixel drawing and watched it flip hand painted wooden blocks across a grid, one by one, until the glorious smiling 404 Media logo appeared—then watched it slowly erase, like a giant Etch A Sketch,…
T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children
On Tuesday, some parents lost the ability to track the locations of their children using a T-Mobile tracking device and app and instead were shown the exact locations of random other children around the country, 404 Media has learned. T-Mobile sells a small GPS tracker for parents called SyncUP, which they can use to track…
Trump orders AI action plan and more work erasing Biden’s AI efforts
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order related to AI to “make America the world capital in artificial intelligence,” his aide told reporters in the White House’s Oval Office.
Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated
Researchers working with data from the Internet Archive have discovered that a third of websites created since 2022 are AI-generated. The team of researchers—which includes people from Stanford, the Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive—published their findings online in a paper titled “The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet.” The research also found…
Scientists Gave ‘Aggressive’ Fish Psychedelic Drugs. A Breakthrough Came Next
Move over, coked-up salmon. Fish dosed with psilocybin, the psychoactive component found in magic mushrooms, showed less aggression toward peers compared to their normal behavior in laboratory experiments, according to a study published on Thursday in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Scientists have studied the effects of psilocybin on humans and a variety of other mammals,…
AWS, Booz Allen Unveil Strategic Collaboration for Federal Digital Transformation
AWS, Booz Allen Unveil Strategic Collaboration for Federal Digital Transformation
Jim Cramer’s top 10 things to watch in the stock market Monday
The emergence of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is sending shockwaves on Wall Street.
People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes
A network of Instagram accounts is using AI to steal content from human creators and deepfake their faces to make them look like they have Down syndrome. 404 Media was able to determine the accounts are linked because they reuse Instagram bios, videos, and in some cases link to the same OnlyFans competitors pages where…
DeNexus report: 92% of industrial sites at risk of cyber threats, potential losses reach $1.5 million
DeNexus Report: 92% of Industrial Sites at Risk of Cyber Threats, Potential Losses Reach $1.5M—Calls for Stronger Remote Access Security.