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404 Media is an independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.
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• Jason Koebler
How companies are burning through their AI tokens; and the fake AI-generated flowers all over Etsy, eBay, and Amazon.
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• Samantha Cole
The San Mateo Police Department posted on Facebook: “Parents do you know where your teens are? Waymo does!"
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• Becky Ferreira
Researchers found that a single dose left persistent changes to the genomes of neurons, a discovery that could have implications for treating addiction.
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• Jason Koebler
A Florida police officer met a woman on a TV set, surveilled her for weeks, stalked her, and nearly caused a head-on collision while chasing her to pull her over.
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• Becky Ferreira
A short-statured human relative that lived on a lush island probably didn’t wield fire or hunt big game, but it did walk in the footsteps of dragons, according to a new study.
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• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss the Supreme Court, the private jet, and AI on the TV.
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• Joseph Cox
Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to reign in AI use as costs spiral out of control.
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• Joseph Cox
How companies are burning through their AI tokens; and the fake AI-generated flowers all over Etsy, eBay, and Amazon.
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• Becky Ferreira
Researchers discovered that people found AI impersonators to be more authentic, coherent, and relevant than the real politicians, raising alarm bells around the potential for public deception.
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• Joseph Cox
”Hide My Email users deserve to know that it may be possible for attackers to discover their hidden email addresses,” the person who reported the issue said.
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• Samantha Cole
Meta's new Starfire AI glasses, made in partnership with Kylie Jenner, are giving me the creeps.
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• Matthew Gault
Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Ebay, Amazon, and Etsy are unable to stop the flood of AI-generated seed scams.
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• Joseph Cox
A senior OpenAI employee has contributed code to the project, simply called 'caveman.'
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• Jason Koebler
My journey inside the world of LARPing, where hustlebros pretend to be rich for TikTok.
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• Matthew Gault
Spotify competitor Tidal built a reputation by collaborating with musicians and focusing on audio quality. How will it handle the era of AI-generated slop?
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• Jason Koebler
Reporting from Microsoft Gardens, next to Salesforce Beach, Amazon Port, and the Canva Creative Cabana.
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• Becky Ferreira
Recordings of laughter from humans and other great apes suggest that the distinctive rhythm of "ha ha ha" emerged in a common ancestor that lived at least 15 million years ago.
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• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss talking aloud to computers, Cannes, and “Engineering Creativity: Guac Is Extra."
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• Matthew Gault
We spoke to Darren Blanchard, the man arrested while speaking out against data centers at a community meeting. He's sharing the bodycam footage of his arrest for the first time with 404 Media.
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• Becky Ferreira
Physicists have discovered that the dark matter structures that scaffold the universe—known as the “cosmic web”—are far larger and more persistent than expected, challenging a core assumption about the universe.
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• Samantha Cole
The new policy, which forbids "noise infusion" as a technique for anonymizing data, will "handcuff" the Census Bureau and limit what information becomes public, data experts say.
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• Jason Koebler
Snap's AR Specs glasses are indeed very heavy, very dorky.
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• Joseph Cox
A surreal but compelling LLM experiment with Age of Empires II; how a Texas city sold land meant for a park to a data center company; and the Madison Square Garden hack.
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• Joseph Cox
Hackers stole more than 45GB of data from Madison Square Garden, including data related to “talent” and the Knicks. Clues in the data point to how the hackers got in.
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• Joseph Cox
Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
“All he has done is try to start a right-wing/conservative pressure group within Wikipedia.”
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• Claire Woodcock
Public records show dozens of libraries have self-censored to avoid attracting negative attention.
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• Joseph Cox
The document, titled “Facial Recognition Activists.docx,” includes specific activists’ comments about MSG's facial recognition program and tweets criticizing it.
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• Matthew Gault
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and a proposed nuclear weapons AI data center in Michigan have earned the ire of community leaders.
