SignalTrace "links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate." It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.

https://www.404media.co/this-company-will-add-phone-airpod-and-smartwatch-trackers-to-license-plate-readers/

Microsoft took the highly unusual step of shutting down more than 70 of its own GitHub repositories after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from AI coding agent users.

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-hacked-to-deliver-malware-to-claude-and-gemini-users/

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

https://www.404media.co/a-farmer-donated-land-to-turn-into-a-park-the-city-is-building-a-massive-data-center-instead/

This is all to say that this is YouTube drama executed perfectly by all involved, and perhaps the most disastrous brand (and police) response one could imagine. https://www.404media.co/the-lego-bricks-and-minifigs-reckless-benyoutube-scandal-has-broken-containment-can-no-longer-be-ignored/

A Canadian company has seen that demand and came up with a radical thought: What if they made a new, repairable, “no-tech” tractor to solve what has become a gigantic pain point for farmers? Now, demand is booming. https://www.404media.co/demand-is-booming-for-ursa-ag-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor/

Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code are making memes about how bad it is.
https://www.404media.co/google-employees-internally-share-memes-about-how-its-ai-sucks/

Multiple Amazon employees told 404 Media they suspect the company shut down the leaderboard because it was easily cheated and because it encouraged wasteful and expensive use of AI tools. https://www.404media.co/amazon-shuts-down-internal-ai-leaderboard-after-employees-cheated/

Microsoft's CEO seems unaware of what's going on at his own company.

https://www.404media.co/satya-nadella-not-sure-who-said-microsoft-wanted-to-make-addictive-ai-is-looking-for-guy-who-did-this/

Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.

https://www.404media.co/companies-are-using-reddit-to-manipulate-chatgpt-and-google-ai-search/

Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/

There are hundreds of anti-data center Facebook pages churning out AI-generated slopaganda.

https://www.404media.co/ai-grifters-are-making-anti-data-center-slop-with-ai/

Paragon's software is capable of remotely breaking into phones and accessing messages from encrypted messaging apps. Our lawsuit aims to pry records about it from ICE.

https://www.404media.co/we-sued-ice-to-get-its-spyware-contract-the-agency-is-redacting-essentially-everything/