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County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’
404media.coCompanies Are Making Claude and Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop AI’s Soaring Costs
404media.coBodycam Shows Moment Cops Arrested a Man for Speaking Too Long at Data Center Meeting
404media.coBodycam Shows Moment Cops Arrested a Man for Speaking Too Long at Data Center Meeting
In February, police in Claremore, Oklahoma arrested farmer Darren Blanchard for speaking a little too long during a community meeting about data centers. The city charged Blanchard with criminal trespass, a crime with a $200 penalty, but he’s vowed to fight the charge. He recently shared video of the bodycam footage for the first time with 404 Media and answered our questions about the moment cops arrested him for going over his time at a February 17 community meeting of the Claremore City Council.
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The Trump Administration’s New Census Data Rules Are a Policy Disaster
404media.coThe Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
404media.coMadison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition
404media.coAre Public Libraries Becoming Children’s Libraries?
404media.coSalesforce’s Internal AI Leaderboard Has Teams Competing for Little Trophies
404media.coICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants’ Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) appears to be purchasing records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers from a data broker, potentially skirting a court order that banned ICE from sourcing such information, according to Senator Ron Wyden and government procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.
The $10 million procurement reviewed by 404 Media indicates ICE is buying records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers. “It looks for all the world like Trump is trying to skirt the law and a court order to fuel his mass-deportation campaign,” Senator Ron Wyden said.
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Hackers Publish Knicks and Madison Square Garden Data Online
Hackers have published data stolen from Madison Square Garden online for anyone to download, including what they say is customers’ personal information. A sample reviewed by 404 Media includes files mentioning specific sports teams, and specifically Knicks-related personalities, with fields such as “address,” “claim to fame,” “cost of talent,” and sometimes contact information for them or their representatives.
The data contains a list of "talent," including former Knicks players and coaches, and whether other celebrities are considered "Low Risk" or "High Risk." The data also contains emails between customers and MSG.
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Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn
Strike 3 Holding first filed its lawsuit almost a year ago after internal Meta emails revealed in a different lawsuit showed that the company downloaded over 81 terabytes of data by scraping Anna’s Archive, a massive open search search engine for torrenting copyrighted material including books, movies, TV shows, and porn. A Strike 3 Holding investigation found that 47 IP addresses belonging to Meta were used to torrent 2,396 of its videos a total of 6,008 times between 2018 and 2025. On Thursday, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Judge Eumi K. Lee rejected Meta’s attempt to dismiss the lawsuit, allowing it to move forward.
Read now: https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-blacked-com-can-sue-meta-for-scraping-its-porn/