We start this week’s episode with our massive story on TeleMessage, the Signal clone the Trump administration uses to archive messages which was hacked. We have more detail than anyone else on that story. After the break, Jason tells us about another hack, this time GlobalX Air, one of the airlines used by ICE for…
Trump has found an aesthetic to define his second term: grotesque AI slop. Over the weekend, the Trump administration posted at least seven different pieces of AI generated or AI altered media, ranging from Trump imagining himself as a pope and a Star Wars Jedi (or Sith?) to Obama-esque “Hope” posters featuring people the administration…
On Tuesday a Senator demanded the Department of Justice investigate “the serious threat to U.S. national security” posed by TeleMessage, a company that makes aa Signal clone used by the Trump administration which 404 Media revealed was hacked on Sunday, with the hacker obtaining the content of some users’ messages and group chats. The news…
Elon Musk’s Grok, an AI chatbot that people can interact with via X, is being used to undress photos women are posting to the social media platform. All a user has to do is reply to an image someone has posted to X with a request to Grok to “remove her clothes.” Grok will then…
A 25-year old hacker has agreed to plead guilty to hacking the Disney Corporation by compromising a tool for AI-generating art. According to a Department of Justice press release, the hacker, Ryan Mitchell Kramer—aka “NullBulge”— will admit to two felony charges related to the offense. As we reported last year, NullBulge specifically targeted AI users…
Hackers have targeted GlobalX Air, one of the main airlines the Trump administration is using as part of its deportation efforts, and stolen what they say are flight records and passenger manifests of all of its flights, including those for deportation, 404 Media has learned. The data, which the hackers contacted 404 Media and other…
A Telegram bot that does nothing but AI generate nonconsensual short videos of men ejaculating on women’s faces has more than 100,000 monthly active users. Telegram bots that produce nonconsensual pornography are common, but this particular bot is notable for amassing 115,016 users in just a few weeks and for making the bleeding edge of…
Mr. Deepfakes, the go-to site for nonconsensual deepfake porn, says it’s shutting down and not coming back because it lost a service provider and data. “A critical service provider has terminated service permanently. Data loss has made it impossible to continue operation,” a notice that appears when visitors go to the site now says. The…
A hacker has breached and stolen customer data from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages, 404 Media has learned. The data stolen by the hacker contains the contents of some direct messages and group chats sent using its Signal…
Welcome back to the Abstract! The news is so often dominated by big egos and noxious personalities, so I’m genuinely excited to lead the column with this chill lass who just seems like a good hang! What’s her secret? She’s not a human being. That goes a long way these days. Next, researchers have once…
