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 election outcomes and code as a human ...

Adult creators are left in the dark as content that they didn't believe broke the law disappears from clip sites.

The terms would have required business accounts to allow Meta to “use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to ...

Archaeologists have discovered the oldest direct evidence of psychoactive cannabis use in a Siberian tomb that was used for human and horse sacrifices, a finding that sheds light on ancient rituals ...

It turns out  you can’t post Malfoids and Anakin when diesel is $6 a gallon and expect America to vote for you.

Yuriy Nazarenko created ‘OnlyFake’, a site that let anyone churn out realistic fake IDs with AI. Then the North Koreans came ...

People across America rejected data centers during last night’s midterm election. Proposals related to data centers were ...

Last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Politico that “we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for ...

Slopfest 2k26 continues with an election, a fanfic fiasco, and World of Slopcraft.

The vibe-coded addon problem is getting so bad that Warcraft Logs is changing its API and developers are dealing with theft ...

ao3.life was scraping and repackaging fanfiction’ works and turning them into audiobooks for sale without the original authors’ permission.

Jason is a cofounder of 404 Media. He was previously the editor-in-chief of Motherboard. He loves the Freedom of Information Act and surfing.