This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss crowdsourced resistance and a big government data dump. SAM: I don’t want to say it’s rare that we publish positive stories. We post more of those than…
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.
It’s that time of year when business tycoons and influential world leaders gather in Davos.
DeepSeek’s chatbot app tops Apple’s U.S. free chart, but malicious attacks force registration limits. Privacy concerns arise as data is hosted in Chin
📄 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. In February 2023, a brief national…
Nathan’s friends were worried about him. He’d been acting differently lately. Not just quieter in his high school classes, but the normally chatty teen was withdrawn in general. Was he sick, they wondered? He just didn’t get a good night’s sleep, he’d tell them. That was partially true. But the cause for his restless nights…
As cyber threats top a list of business risks for the fourth straight year, the dissolution of the Cyber Safety
DeepSeek, a new artificial intelligence company, is upending the industry.
A judge ruled that John Deere must face a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission and five states over its tractor and agricultural equipment repair monopoly, and rejected the company’s argument that the case should be thrown out. This means Deere is now facing both a class action lawsuit and a federal antitrust lawsuit over…
This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. Subscribe to them here. A former CIA official and contractor, who at the time of his employment dug through classified systems for information he then sold to a U.S. lobbying firm and foreign clients, used access to those…
