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My polling place was handing out AI slop to midterm voters.

Big Tech is plowing their way into communities to get data centers built despite residents across all party lines speaking out against them. On this episode of the 404 Media podcast, professors Kyle Keeler and Nate Otjen talk @mjgault.bsky.social about it. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=andv...

Also: Consider the Apple slop, Texas data center troubles, and more from 404 and around the web.

Crackgate! www.404media.co/iphone-duo-c...

The leaked email says Andy Yen "interviewed more than 40 senior leaders across Engineering and Product to begin this process." Now, those interviews are extending across the company. www.404media.co/proton-to-re...

404 Media spoke to eight current and one former Proton employees and reviewed Slack chats, meeting recordings, and an AI manifesto written by the company's CTO. "stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more." www.404media.co/manifestos-f...

"This is crazy, these people are getting paid to say these things,'" he added, repeating a disproven theory that Ukraine's strikes on Russian data centers had a significant impact on internet bot activity. Listen here: www.404media.co/in-leaked-au...

Because big tech platforms essentially do not have customer support and make it impossible for their users to contact a human, many people experiencing run-of-the-mill tech problems have turned to ChatGPT, which told them to contact us... no... www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

Forget Halloween, this is actually scary asf :( www.404media.co/archive-of-o...

'Black October:' The PHP vulnerabilities and a series of other hacks and bugs have cybersecurity experts freaking out and unsure what happens next. www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...

It is the plagiarism machine being used for plagiarism, but also it is random people using AI to take control back over devices, like defunct exercise bikes. Welcome to the wild west of AI: www.404media.co/reverse-engi...

In a new study perfectly timed for Halloween, scientists dug into the chemical properties of a once-popular beverage with purported medicinal benefits: wine made with ground-up Egyptian mummies.

Here is Proton CTO's AI manifesto, that I obtained multiple copies of www.404media.co/manifestos-f...

Yen on AI across Proton: "The train is coming, get onboard or get crushed. Don't be the professional fax machine operator in the internet age." www.404media.co/manifestos-f...

"Perception is more important than truth, the truth doesn't matter if you don't win on perception." www.404media.co/manifestos-f...

"The CEO is in full AI psychosis and has been for a while now," one of the sources told 404 Media. Yen, a former CERN particle physicist, projects a measured approach in public, but internally he acts more like what one employee described as a "petulant child."

Oh, and also this piece from 3 days ago...

Leaked audio of Flock's CEO, why Marisa Mayer can't keep pretending, and a CashApp nightmare.

One employee told 404 Media, "Whatever persona Andy [Yen] has out of Proton, he's a straight up bully inside. He routinely breaks his little facade in Slack and calls people losers and stupid, often for stuff he's paying them for."

404 Media's @josephcox.bsky.social spoke to 8 current employees, got Slack chats, meeting audio, and an AI manifesto written by its CTO. "The CEO is in full AI psychosis and has been for a while now," one of the sources told 404 Media.

So on r/proton, CEO Andy Yen responded to our investigation into the company and him saying this to an employee who asked for a few days to test an AI product before going live: "That's bullshit and loser thinking." Read @josephcox.bsky.social scoop: www.404media.co/manifestos-f...

"Whatever persona [CEO] Andy [Yen] has out of Proton, he's a straight up bully inside. He routinely breaks his little facade in Slack and calls people losers and stupid, often for stuff he's paying them for," an employee told @josephcox.bsky.social. Scoop here: www.404media.co/manifestos-f...

SCOOP: Proton CEO Andy Yen to his staff: "Stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more." 404 Media saw these internal messages, in which he also said it was "loser thinking" to an employee who urged the company to at least take a few days to test newly written code before going live.

this story is extremely wild, major investigation from @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/manifestos-f...

inside your fave security company is a man calling his workers "losers" and who set up a narc email for workers to snitch on other workers who resist using AI

New: you think you know Proton, but you really don't. I spoke to 8 current employees, got Slack chats, meeting audio, and an AI manifesto written by its CTO. "That's bullshit and loser thinking," Yen wrote responding to an engineer who wanted to pentest new code www.404media.co/manifestos-f...

The former CEO of Yahoo! and current founder of a chatbot app is going viral for using AI to list things she loves about her daughter. But what she has to say about women in tech in 2026 is worth talking about. @samleecole.bsky.social breaks it down. Watch more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0uE...

"Meta's smart glasses have increasingly been implicated in disturbing invasions of users' and bystanders' privacy," a letter sent to Meta from Ron Wyden and Edward Markey says.

We got leaked audio of Flock's CEO talking at a private police conference, including the "never apologize" line. Watch more of it here, and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDwX...