Meta previously lost its shit at 404 Media when we reported that someone had paired facial recognition tech with the company's smart glasses. Now Meta is building the invasive technology itself.
🔗https://www.404media.co/well-well-well-meta-to-add-facial-recognition-to-glasses-after-all/
X's legal filing in the InfoWars bankruptcy case is both batshit crazy and also what you'd expect. It asserts that X owns every account, can do whatever it wants with them, and can inject itself into legal proceedings that have nothing to do with it.
This is why it's incredibly important that people invest in platforms that they own, and move toward federated/decentralized/portable, noncorporate social media as rapidly as possible
Olivia Rodrigo presale broke Ticketmaster. This is almost definitely a function of the fact that
1) she has lots of fans
2) scalpers now use specialized, $500-per-month browsers designed to hit the virtual waiting room hundreds of times per computer
https://www.404media.co/ticketmaster-crashes-during-olivia-rodrigo-presale-heres-why/
New: Google banned one of the most destructive deepfake/nudify apps, which was masquerading as a normal face swap app on the store but was advertising itself as a deepfake porn app on porn sites
This follows our reporting on damage these apps are doing
https://www.404media.co/google-bans-face-swap-app-for-advertising-deepfakes-on-porn-sites/
We are very very excited to announce that 404 Media now has full text RSS feeds for our paying subscribers!!! Get your feed link here and learn more about why and how we did this:
https://www.404media.co/404-media-now-has-a-full-text-rss-feed/
Behold, the worst gadget we have ever tested: An HDMI cord that demands your location, browsing data, and spams you with ads.
Really amazing