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Apr 26, 2025
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A 4chan screenshot in an Italian newspaper

The last rites were premature. 4chan, down for more than a week after hackers got in through an insecure script that handled PDFs, is back online. A blog post—the platform's first in years—keeps it simple: "Testing testing 123 123…" Wired's retrospective puts it all in context, though we now have the living site…

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