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| 21.05.2026 | AI is turbocharging “wizards” on 4Chan who take orders to nudify images of women | 4chan has become a staging ground for AI image abuse, with anonymous users asking editors to turn ordinary photos of women into synthetic sexual images without consent.
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue reviewed 7,616 English-language po... |
| 13.04.2026 | Influencers and Ads Make Up 64% of Some Users’ Social Feeds | Less than one in five social media posts comes from people users actually know, according to a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research, which argues that platforms are prioritising influencers, adverts and brands over users... |
| 13.10.2025 | Ofcom Fines 4chan Through Online Safety Act Powers | Ofcom has fined 4chan £20,000 for failing to respond to its requests for its illegal harms risk assessment and its qualifying worldwide revenue.
The UK regulator is empowered to fine the company for these failures through powers in The Onli... |
| 11.09.2025 | Ctrl-Alt-Speech: It’s A Banned, Banned, Banned, Banned World | Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.
Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of cho... |
| 10.09.2025 | CNA Explains: What is incel culture and why does it sometimes lead to radicalisation? | Listen
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SINGAPORE: The Singaporean student first came across online content on “looksmaxxing” – an incel subculture which provides solutions on how to enhance... |
| 05.09.2025 | When Trolls Take On Tyrants: 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over Extraterritorial Censorship | Let’s be clear upfront: 4chan and Kiwi Farms are not the heroes of internet freedom. Both sites are notorious cesspools that have enabled harassment campaigns, doxxing, and some genuinely awful behavior over the years. They’re the kinds of ... |
| 29.08.2025 | Internet forum 4chan sues UK regulator in US over free speech | LONDON :U.S. internet forums 4chan and Kiwi Farms have filed a legal case in the United States against Britain's media regulator Ofcom, saying its enforcement of the country's online safety law violated Americans' right to freedom of speech... |
| 25.08.2025 | Do UK and EU Online Safety Laws Threaten US Freedoms? | A host of prominent American tech firms have been warned not to risk the data and privacy security of US consumers in their compliance with the growing body of UK and European regulations.
US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew F... |
| 22.08.2025 | 4chan Challenges Ofcom Fine Over Freedom of Speech | 4chan, the anonymous social media site, is refusing to pay daily fines issued by Ofcom under the Online Safety Act after the regulator said 4chan was not complying with information requests.
Ofcom investigated 4chan as part of its standard ... |
| 11.08.2025 | NY Appeals Court: Lol, No Of Course You Can’t Sue Social Media For The Buffalo Mass Shooting | When politicians immediately blamed social media for the horrific 2022 Buffalo mass shooting—despite zero evidence linking the platforms to the attack—it was obvious deflection from actual policy failures. The scapegoating worked: survivors... |
| 25.07.2025 | Tea, an app for women to safely talk about men they date, has been breached, user IDs exposed | “Tea is a must-have app, helping women avoid red flags before the first date with dating advice, and showing them who’s really behind the profile of the person they’re dating,” reads Tea’s app store description.
404 Media, which earlier rep... |
| 25.07.2025 | This viral, women-only app lets you anonymously ‘spill tea’ on men—it could actually make dating harder, relationship expert says | Women across social media are buzzing about Tea, an anonymous dating-safety app where they ‘spill tea’ — typically gossip, secrets and juicy information — on the men they’re dating. But the app has gone viral for all the wrong reasons.
Tea ... |
| 10.06.2025 | UK regulator investigates possible online safety breaches at 4chan and other platforms | LONDON :Britain's media regulator Ofcom on Tuesday launched nine investigations over possible breaches of online safety laws, including into internet messageboard 4chan and file-sharing services.
Britain's Online Safety Act, passed in 2023,... |
| 24.04.2025 | Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Red Pills & Blue Checks | Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.
Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of cho... |
| 22.04.2025 | The Digital Wild West: Hacking, Privacy, and the New Age of Surveillance | In the sprawling landscape of the internet, chaos reigns. Two recent events highlight this reality: the hacking of 4chan and Microsoft’s controversial “Recall” feature. Both incidents reflect a growing tension between anonymity, privacy, an... |
| 16.04.2025 | Notorious internet messageboard 4chan has been hacked, posts claim | WASHINGTON: The notorious internet messageboard 4chan has been hacked, according to posts circulating online, some of which said that the hacker involved had revealed identifying details of the site's moderators to the public.
The alleged h... |
| 18.02.2025 | The Elon DOGE Emperor Has No Clothes | Here’s a silly thing that happens sometimes: A powerful person says something obviously false, and everyone pretends not to notice. This is the plot of “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” where an entire kingdom maintains a collective delusion unt... |
| 15.02.2025 | The Surveillance State: Norfolk's ALPR Controversy and the Quest for Privacy | In the heart of Norfolk, Virginia, a storm brews over surveillance and privacy. The city, once a quiet community, now finds itself under the watchful gaze of nearly 200 automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) provided by Flock Safety. This ... |
| 14.02.2025 | DOGE’s ‘Genius’ Coders Launch Website So Full Of Holes, Anyone Can Write To It | If you want to write something on the U.S. government’s official DOGE website, apparently you can just… do that. Not in the usual way of submitting comments through a form, mind you, but by directly injecting content into their database. Th... |
| 12.02.2025 | The Digital Playground: Navigating the Social Media Landscape for Children | In the digital age, social media is a double-edged sword. It offers connection and creativity but also poses risks, especially for children. Recent surveys reveal a growing concern among parents, particularly in Indonesia, about the impact ... |
| 10.02.2025 | No, The People Didn’t Vote For This | A stunning 54% of Americans now believe we’re in a Constitutional crisis, according to recent YouGov polling. They’re right. As a tech billionaire effectively dismantles federal agencies without Congressional authority — agencies that Congr... |
| 01.12.2024 | Ломаем капчу 4Chan | Введение
Этот проект начинался как обучающий: я хотел углубить свои знания в машинном обучении, и в частности в TensorFlow. В конечном итоге мне хотелось получить работающую в браузере модель машинного обучения, которая смогла бы надёжным о... |
| 12.09.2024 | The Rise of Plant-Based Desserts and the AI Misinformation Battle | In a world where choices abound, two trends are emerging with force: plant-based desserts and the fight against AI misinformation. Both are reshaping our culture, one scoop at a time and one post at a time.
Klimon, a dairy-free frozen desse... |
| 11.09.2024 | Taylor Swift cites AI deepfakes in endorsement for Kamala Harris | Enlarge / A screenshot of Taylor Swift's Kamala Harris Instagram post, captured on September 11, 2024.
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On Tuesday night, Taylor Swift endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for US President on Ins... |
| 03.09.2024 | Crowd-Source OSINT: расследование умами масс | Авторы материала: STEIN & SCHWARZ
При всей привлекательности OSINT как оперативного и сравнительно недорогого инструмента для выполнения задач какого‑либо предприятия, всегда возникает две проблемы:
• Существуют нерешаемые задачи;
• Спе... |
| 13.08.2024 | Starfield Shattered Space DLC Leaks: Space Buggy Gameplay Revealed—Driving Coming Soon | By Isaiah Richard
Published Aug 13, 2024 8:49AM EDT
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The open-world space game from Bethesda, Starfield, faces another leak online for th... |
| 15.07.2024 | National Politics | After Trump rally shooting, conspiracy theories flood the internet, creating dangerous ‘spiral’ | But even some elected officials joined with false claims. “Joe Biden sent the orders,” Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) wrote on X, the social media platform.
Some claim their own detective work exposed the conspiracy theories.
“What’s always inte... |
| 08.07.2024 | Теория мертвого интернета: как конспирологи с 4chan предсказали власть ботов в киберпространстве | Интернет умер еще в 2016 году. Звучит странно? Не для сторонников теории мертвого интернета. Это, конечно, по большей части конспирология, которая включает в себя в том числе и коварное мировое правительство. Однако крупицы здравого смысла ... |
| 10.06.2024 | Злоумышленник похитил исходный код New York Times при помощи открытого токена GitHub | Злоумышленник похитил исходный код из закрытого репозитория New York Times на GitHub, используя открытый токен платформы. Утечка произошла в январе текущего года. Украденные данные появились на форуме 4chan.
На внутренние данные NYT обратил... |
| 18.03.2024 | SOL, BOME Trend on Social Media as Ether, Bitcoin Lag | SOL and BOME received the most crowd attention over the weekend, according to data tracked by Santiment.
Both cryptocurrencies have outperformed ETH, BTC and the broader market in the past seven days.
Increased crowd chatter may be a sign o... |
| 15.03.2023 | Best Reddit Alternatives That Are Worth Checking Right Now | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 15 March 2023, 10:03 am
With the recent Reddit outage, millions of users have left with just one option on the platform: wait until the issue gets solved.
If the most popular discussion website globally is down, whe... |
| 26.06.2020 | Weekly Wrap #8: TikTok, Trump and Conspiracy Theories | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
Trump punked - TikTok teen style
Have you pondered recently - if a global pandemic had hit while you were ... |
| 27.10.2019 | Bitcoin Price Prediction Posted by Prescient 4chan User Gets Picked Up by Edward Snowden. Will BTC Hit $16,000 in October? | American whistleblower Edward Snowden took to Twitter to post the viral Bitcoin price prediction that originated on a 4chan imageboard on Oct. 26.
pic.twitter.com/1jyrL2GFpA — ฿ITLORD 01 (@Crypto_Bitlord) October 26, 2019
An anonymous poste... |
| 06.11.2016 | Would you let an algorithm choose the next U.S. president? | Vyacheslav Polonski Contributor
Vyacheslav is a PhD candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. His research uses social psychology and machine learning to understand networks of people and networks of ideas.
Imagine a typical day in 2020: ... |
| 28.09.2015 | Who Is Chris Poole Without 4chan? | “Last year if you asked me if I wanted to start something, I would have said ‘fuckkkkk noooooo'” 4chan founder Chris Poole laughs. But he’s changed his tune and is ready to get back in the game. Poole, aka Moot, started the unruly anonymous... |
| 26.09.2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 9/26/15 | Google acqui-hired Oyster; 4chan was sold off; FanDuel bought AlphaDraft; Gartner acquired Capterra
Sterlite Technologies, a power & telecom products manufacturer, entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Elitecore Tec... |
| 21.09.2015 | Imageboard sites 4chan, 8chan announce new ownership arrangements | 4chan and 8chan's logos. No, the imageboard sites haven't merged into a single, super-chan—but their combined history only grew more tangled this week thanks to ownership shakeups. reader comments 44 with 35 posters participating
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| 21.09.2015 | 4chan Finds New Ownership – The Guy That Inspired The Site | The man who inspired Chris Poole to create 4chan now owns 4chan.
Poole, who stepped down in January, has announced that he sold the site to Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of Japanese message board site 2channel.
And according to Poole, the mai... |
| 23.01.2015 | This week on VentureBeat: Profanities, HoloLens, 4chan, & more | Every week, the news team at VentureBeat brings you a blitz of news day after day, but even for our most dedicated readers it can be a challenge to catch every single story.
So, we’ve decided to pull together a handful of the best stories f... |
| 21.01.2015 | 4chan Founder and Admin ‘moot’ Is Stepping Down | Chris Poole, 4chan founder and admin, is stepping down.
Known as “moot” on the site (anonymously until 2008), Poole says he is “humbled to have had the privilege of both founding and presiding over what is easily one of the greatest communi... |
| 21.01.2015 | The creator of 4chan tells us why he’s leaving the site for good (interview) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This morning Christopher Poole, better known to s... |
| 21.01.2015 | 4chan founder Chris “moot” Poole steps down | Chris Poole at XOXO in 2012.
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| 21.01.2015 | 4chan founder Christopher ‘moot’ Poole to depart the site after 11 years | Christopher Poole, best known by the moniker “moot” on the 4chan site he founded over 11 years ago, has announced plans to “move on.” The imageboard website was launched by moot on October 1, 2003, when he was just 15 years old.
Poole will ... |
| 21.01.2015 | Moot Reflects On 11 Years Running 4chan, The Web’s Wild West | Lolcats, Anonymous, and countless Internet memes all spawned from 4chan. You have Chris Poole, aka Moot, to thank (or blame) for that. There was never another full-time employee through 11.5 years, over 42 billion page views, and 20 million... |
| 21.01.2015 | The creator of 4chan tells us why he’s leaving the site for good (interview) | This morning Christopher Poole, better known to some as “Moot,” announced plans to step back from the site he created 11 years ago. That site is 4chan, a mega-popular message board known as the birthplace of everything from Lolcats to the A... |
| 21.01.2015 | 4chan founder Christopher ‘moot’ Poole to depart the site after 11 years | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Christopher Poole, best known by the moniker “moo... |
| 27.09.2014 | The Internet’s Missing Link | Stefan Thomas Contributor
Editor’s note: Stefan Thomas is the CTO of Ripple Labs where his overarching ambition is to weave a global value web by making it easy for the spectrum of developers — from individual entrepreneurs to financial ins... |
| 25.09.2014 | #GamerGate – An Issue With Two Sides | Allum Bokhari Contributor
Editor’s note: Allum Bokhari is a political consultant who plays far too many vidya games. After graduating from the University of Oxford with a BA in History & Politics, he spent some time interning with a Gov... |
| 08.09.2014 | Reddit Shuts Down Stolen Celebrity Photo Forum | Within hours of stating it would not shut down one of the major forums sharing nude celebrity photos, Reddit did just that.
Yishan Wong wrote in a Saturday blog post that the site would not shut down the r/thefappening (where fap is slang f... |
| 03.09.2014 | In The Fappening’s Wake, 4chan Intros DMCA Policy | Every now and again a phenomenon takes the Internet by storm. They’re situations that the term ‘going viral’ was made for. A couple of weeks ago it was ice buckets, and since the weekend its been leaked celebrity pictures.
The event, which ... |
| 01.09.2014 | Here’s What We Know So Far About The Celebrity Photo Hack | UPDATE: Clearly this post was written very early on in this incident and information has since come to light which suggests Apple has majorly dropped the ball.
Original post:
As you will by now have probably read, around 100 women celebriti... |
| 04.11.2013 | 4chan’s Christopher Poole: I Was A Teenage Coder—And Then I Stopped | ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.
Christopher Poole, known online as “moot,” founded the forum-based social network 4chan when he was 15. Coding in secret... |
| 03.07.2013 | 4chan Launches Self-Serve Ads To Stay Lean And Let Users Pay To Troll Each Other | 4chan, one of the wildest corners of the web, is growing up without losing its edge. The image board just opened a self-serve ads tool for scrappy businesses and trolls willing to pay for lulz. Founder Moot tells me “We’re already seeing us... |
| 18.04.2013 | 4chan strikes out in its attempt to crowdsource Boston Marathon bombing investigation | Shortly after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, the FBI called on the people of Twitter to submit photos, videos, and any other information about the scene.
Some said this would be the first crowdsour... |
| 18.12.2012 | Time’s Person of the Year: Tim Cook, Marissa Mayer, or the woman who led the biggest science experiment in history? | Tech execs Tim Cook and Marissa Mayer have joined the president of Egypt, Bill and Hilary Clinton, and yes, Barack Obama himself on the shortlist of people being considered for Time’s Person of the Year.
As has a little-known scientist who ... |
| 18.12.2012 | Time’s Person of the Year: Tim Cook, Marissa Mayer, or the woman who led the biggest science experiment in history? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Tech execs Tim Cook and Marissa Mayer have joined... |
| 08.11.2012 | Reddit CEO Asks Users To Buy Revamped Membership Because Ads Are “One Of The Reasons Digg Failed” | “We could theoretically load up our pages with ads and probably make enough to cover our costs. However, that would significantly degrade the experience of using the site,” said Reddit CEO Yishan Wong in a post asking users to “Invest in Go... |
| 29.10.2012 | What’s Behind The Public Shaming of Reddit’s King Troll Violentacrez? | When Gawker reporter Adrian Chen publicly outed troll and influential Reddit user Violentacrez as Michael Brutsch two weeks ago in what many are calling the “best story of the Web,” he changed the nature of the Internet forever. The resulti... |
| 05.09.2012 | The Future Of Memes: 4chan Hits 22M Monthlies, Unveils New API | 4chan, the often anonymously-used imageboard that’s spawned memes like Lolcats and hosts the weirdest porn you’ll ever see, just released an API and its first new features in five years for its 22 million unique monthly visitors. 4chan’s fo... |
| 09.08.2012 | Is Trolling Just A Form Of Practical Jokes? | As the news of 4chan hitting 1 billion posts has come out, it only seems appropriate that the Surprisingly Free podcast has a fascinating discussion with Stefan Krappitz, the author of the book Troll Culture: A Comprehensive Guide, in which... |
| 05.08.2012 | 4Chan, the Internet’s original meme source, hits 1B posts | Message/image board forum 4Chan has reached a record 1 billion posts, the site’s official Twitter account stated Friday.
4Chan is often known as the birth place of memes, ridiculous inside jokes that people share on the Internet that most p... |
| 05.08.2012 | 4Chan, the Internet’s original meme source, hits 1B posts | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Message/image board forum 4Chan has reached a rec... |
| 18.10.2011 | Tim O’Reilly Vs. Christopher Poole On The Future Of Web Identity | “Facebook and Google do identity wrong, Twitter does it better,” is the most oft repeated soundbite from 4Chan founder’s Christopher Poole’s Web 2.0 Summit talk today. Actually the truth is a bit more complex than that, when talking about s... |
| 17.10.2011 | Anonymity or identity? 4chan founder says we need both | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you were starting your own web service, would ... |
| 14.06.2011 | Canvas | I posted this on the USV blog yesterday but thought I should share it with the AVC community as well.
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We are big fans of communities at Union Square Ventures. The partners in our firm have been investing in Internet communities for almos... |
| 13.06.2011 | Canvas | We are big fans of communities at Union Square Ventures. The partners in our firm have been investing in Internet communities for almost 15 years and we are constantly reminded of the power of the community. Whenever we are presented with t... |
| 23.04.2011 | Hack Attack: Sony Confirms PlayStation Network Outage Caused By 'External Intrusion' | Unfortunately for PlayStation Network and Qriocity services users, it looks like the widespread network outages will continue.
Since Sony’s PlayStation and music networks went down two days ago, there has been a fair amount of public specul... |
| 22.04.2011 | Y U NO HAVE LAME BILLBOARD HIPCHAT? | Enterprise chat platform HipChat has entered the 101 Battle of the Billboards, putting up the above memetastic masterpiece on the 101 North after the Whipple exit this past Friday. For the uninitiated, the “Y U NO USE HIPCHAT?” billboard is... |
| 07.04.2011 | (Founder Stories) Christopher Poole: Build A Product Before You Build A Platform | One of the biggest startup cliches is that every other startup wants to become a platform for other startups to build on. But to Christopher Poole, the founder of Canvas and 4Chan, that is the wrong approach. “People get caught up in trends... |
| 05.04.2011 | (Founder Stories) Moot Reimagines The Image Board With A Fresh Canvas | When Christopher Poole (aka Moot) started 4chan, it was a very basic image board that attracted an incredibly active and vibrant community. But 4chan itself is not a pretty site. It is almost Craisglist-like in its barrenness. That is why P... |
| 02.04.2011 | (Founder Stories) Moot On The Origin Of 4Chan And The Evolution of Memes | When Christopher Poole (aka Moot) was 15 years old, he founded the 4chan image board on an IRC channel with 20 people. Today, the site attracts about 12 million people a month and is the font of many of the Internet’s most pervasive memes, ... |
| 13.03.2011 | 4chan founder: Zuckerberg is “totally wrong” about online identity | Christopher Poole, the founder of controversial online image board 4chan, outlined his vision for Web-based community today at the South by Southwest Interactive conference — and yes, his ideas are in pretty sharp contrast to those of Faceb... |
| 10.03.2011 | World of Warcraft Creator Turns 20: A Look Back | Blizzard Entertainment has reached the hip old-age of 20 and to celebrate they’ve released this retrospective on all they’ve accomplished in that time. This is the history of a company that has survived four presidencies, 56k dial-up modems... |
| 31.01.2011 | 4chan Founder Unleashes Canvas On The World | Canvas launches today for 4,000 or so lucky souls.
Seven year old 4chan, created by now-23 year old Christopher Poole, continues to delight and enrage the Internet. Major Internet memes were either created or spread on 4chan, as were more d... |
| 04.01.2011 | Anonymous Allegedly Targets Tunisia, Zimbabwe | The 4Chan-allied, Wikileaks-defending hacker group Anonymous has apparently launched a distributed denial of service attack against government sites in Tunisia and Zimbabwe. The official Tunisian government site and that of president Zine E... |
| 31.12.2010 | 4chan victim of DDoS as FBI investigates role in PayPal attack | Users of 4chan may have gotten a taste of their own medicine after the site was knocked offline by a DDoS attack from an unknown origin early Thursday morning. The attack came amid an FBI raid on a Texas collocation facility as part of a wi... |
| 29.12.2010 | Anonymous parent-site 4Chan hit by DDoS | The irony is not lost on anyone
The recent string of DDoS attacks against high profile companies like Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal continues. The latest victim: 4Chan, the message board group populated by anonymous users. Those familiar wit... |
| 27.12.2010 | Moot On 4Chan User Survey: "It's Total Garbage." | Over the weekend, a interesting demographic survey of over 6000 4Chan users made the rounds of 4Chan, Reddit and Hacker News. While if anyone is going to skew a survey it’s 4Chan users, the Google document with the responses given a lot of ... |
| 08.12.2010 | 4Chan's Moot Joins Lerer Ventures As An Advisor | Christopher Poole, aka Moot, the founder of 4chan and still stealthy Canvas Networks, is now a venture advisor. He just joined Lerer Ventures, the New York City seed fund started by Ken and Ben Lerer. While he is not a formal partner, he wi... |
| 08.12.2010 | DDoS Attacks Take Down Mastercard and Visa Websites, “Payback” for Their Stance on WikiLeaks | Mastercard’s website was down for several hours this morning, and now it appears as though Visa’s is offline as well, as these sites have become the targets of ongoing DDoS attacks.
And so the infowar rages on today with these latest shots ... |
| 07.12.2010 | 4chan’s hackers come to the defense of WikiLeaks by attacking its enemies | 4chan, an image web site with an active hacker membership that can marshal considerable cyber firepower, has begun to attack web sites that have cut ties with whistle-blower site WikiLeaks.
Known as Anonymous, the 4chan hackers have initiat... |
| 07.12.2010 | 4chan’s hackers come to the defense of WikiLeaks by attacking its enemies | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
4chan, an image web site with an active hacker me... |
| 06.12.2010 | Growing Pains: Tumblr’s Kittens Have Been Down All Night | This thing is the new fail whale.
UPDATE: Tumblr has been down for well over 18 hours, and its fans are getting restless, angry, bitter and fearful. Check out scenes from the blackout: Tumblr is Down: A Tweet Retrospective.
The increasingly... |
| 25.11.2010 | 4Chan Spoofs Wikipedia Founder's "Personal Appeal" | Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better than the Jimmy Wales Chrome extension, 4Chan founder Christopher Poole has taken the whole unintentionally hilarious Wikipedia donation thing one step further and done us a solid by posting a... |
| 14.11.2010 | Did Tumblr Just Reverse Take Down 4Chan? | Today was supposed to be the day that 4Chan took down Tumblr. Instead, it looks like 4Chan itself is down. Could Tumblr be behind it?
As you can see, 4Chan is down for everyone, not just me. And it has been that way for at least the past 15... |
| 22.09.2010 | Angelgate EXCLUSIVE: BIN38's Super Angel Menu And More | Apparently my boss crashed a picnic the other night and may or may not have exposed a meeting of the Silicon Valley Joy Luck Club, or something. I really don’t know what actually happened because I’ve been asleep for two days and besides I ... |
| 28.07.2010 | 4chan is Hiring – Unless It’s a Prank | Unless it’s an elaborate and pointless prank – and come on, how likely is that? – 4chan is hiring. To be more specific, a 4chan spin-off, called Canvas, is hiring for several New York-based technical positions.
Canvas has yet to be publicly... |
| 05.07.2010 | Bug no YouTube é explorado por usuários do 4chan | Nenhum site da internet está livre de bugs. Os que se dizem totalmente seguros são apenas aqueles que nenhum hacker se deu ao trabalho de procurar falhas. E até ontem o YouTube estava dentro dessa categoria de site, os que não tinham nenhum... |
| 25.05.2010 | How Can Brands Best Get In Front Of Digital Audiences? | We’re still here at the first TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York. Up on stage right now is an interesting group of people discussing how brands can best engage with digital audiences in this day and age.
This is an overview of what J... |
| 14.05.2010 | Founder of super-sick 4chan raises $625K for mystery startup | [Update: Dump.fm cofounder Ryder Ripps emailed to say that CNet’s screenshot was from dump.fm, and that there is no relationship between dump.fm and Poole’s new company.]
The young proprietor of the Internet’s politically incorrect meme gen... |
| 14.05.2010 | 4chan Founder ‘Moot’ Raises $625K For Stealth Startup Canvas Networks | According to an SEC filing, 4chan founder Christopher “Moot” Poole has raised $625,000 in funding for a stealth startup called Canvas Networks. We’ve emailed Poole to confirm the funding.
4chan is an online bulletin board where anyone can p... |
| 23.02.2010 | We Are Anonymous. We Are Legion. We Plead Guilty In Court. | On Thursday 8 January 2009, then 18-year old Mahoud Samed Almahadin (aka Matt Connor aka Agent Pubeit) took off his shirt, proceeded to rub vaseline all over his upper body and subsequently used it to hold toenail clippings and pubic hair. ... |
| 18.02.2010 | Google Buzz Offends, But Who Really Cares About Privacy? | As users inundate Google (GOOG) Buzz with complaints about privacy, they paradoxically seem willing to give up their true identities elsewhere online. What does Buzz teach business about online anonymity?
First, the rap sheet: launched seve... |
| 04.01.2010 | 4chan Presents: YouTube Porn Day (NSFW) | It looks like 4chan has found its first major target of 2010. In a message sent to what is presumably a huge amount of undisclosed receipients, 4chan is announcing that this coming Wednesday, January 6, is going to be a very special event: ... |
| 19.07.2009 | Musical Memes, Choosing A Netizen Anthem | There are a number of perfectly worthy anthems for the wired generation. Kraftwerk’s Computer Love might suffice, or the Ataris’ Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start captures the essence of devoted Konami Contra fans. But a real ... |
| 20.05.2009 | 4chan, eBaum’s World carpet bombing YouTube with porn videos (Updated) | reader comments 95 with 60 posters participating
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YouTube is the latest target for pranksters looking to amuse themselves. Today, May 20, has been deemed "Porn Day"... |
| 21.04.2009 | 4Chan Takes Over The Time 100 | Look closely at Time magazine’s online voting results so far for the Time 100 and you will see at the top someone called moot (aka 21-year-old Christopher Poole), the founder of 4chan, the notorious online bulletin board where hackers like ... |
| 08.04.2009 | Fox tells 4chan MOAR | Fox News has discovered 4chan.org and blames the odd community on a number of worldwide calamities including, but not limited to:
Ever get your MySpace page hacked into? Chances are it was 4chan’s fault.
Surfing YouTube and suddenly find yo... |
| 05.11.2008 | How robust are communities? | Redesigns almost always creates negative feedback
Wired has an article in its November issue about Urban Baby and You Be Mom. Urban Baby is an anonymous forum for Moms. Like 4chan, its anonymity makes for a mix of candid discussions, raw ho... |
