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404 Media is an independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
The move comes directly in response to 404 Media’s coverage about how the FBI was able to recover incoming Signal messages from an iPhone because the messages were saved in the device’s notification storage.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
A magic eye that isn't, an AI learning tool that sucks, and more in this week's podcast.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
Humans can’t hear low-frequency “infrasound,” but a new study demonstrates that it raises our stress levels and triggers an “unsettling” feeling that could be linked to people’s experiences in haunted locations.
404 Media
• Kit O'Connell
“You’re allowed to use a company’s name to talk about the company.”
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
More people having access to the courts is potentially good, but it’s not clear how the system can handle this increase in cases.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
Exploring the origins of an incredibly dumb, Magic Eye-themed WHCD conspiracy theory.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
Here's what happened when powerful hacking tools from one of the most trusted vendors ended up in the wrong hands.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
Philosophers said the paper’s argument is sound, but that “all these arguments have been presented years and years ago.”
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
The discovery of a bizarre golden object two miles under Alaskan waters flummoxed scientists, but a new study pins down the true nature of the “orb.”
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss Tim Cook, Meta layoffs, and a very bad ad.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
Venture capitalists can't subsidize cheap AI forever, and the hunger for more compute is affecting the labor market, the gadget market, and electricity prices.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
America’s nuclear scientists plan to break ground on an AI data center next week, but the Township where it’s being constructed just put a 365 day hold on providing it with water.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
Grok and Gemini encouraged delusions and isolated users, while the newer ChatGPT model and Claude hit the emotional brakes.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
The new proposed budget slashes money for environmental cleanup and calls to double the production of cores for nuclear weapons.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
A new class of AI startups say they are taking money that would normally be used to hire people and are spending it on AI compute instead.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
Lost in the wedding algorithm sauce, "clean rooms" for AI, and founders obsessed with "tokenmaxxing" in this week's 404 Media Podcast.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
Was Tim Cook GOOD or BAD?
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
Salmon exposed to cocaine and its byproduct swam farther than unexposed fish, raising alarms about drug pollution in aquatic ecosystems.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
Forbes launched ForbesPredict in January as part of an effort to reverse declining traffic from search engines and keep users on its website longer.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
Maddy and Sam get into the launch of Mothership and the importance of owning one's own work.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
Reproductive technologies have enabled children to be posthumously conceived from the frozen eggs and sperm of deceased parents, raising legal, ethical, and practical questions.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
You won’t go to jail for filming ICE with a drone, but the government may still shoot it down and it expanded the list of protected agencies to include the Department of Justice.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
A rare class of meteorites called angrites likely come from a strange protoplanet that was catastrophically destroyed in the early solar system, leaving only fragmentary remnants.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss the Madonna-whore algorithm, reader tips, and jazz.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
Findings from the Tech Transparency Project claim that Google and Apple’s app stores not only host harmful apps that can undress images of women, but encourage users to find them.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
As a #2026Bride, the constant, aggressive content started to make me feel like I was losing sight of what mattered. And I'm far from alone.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
The shareholders explicitly cited multiple 404 Media investigations, including one that showed Thomson Reuters' CLEAR is integrated with a tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to target.
