Subscribe
404 Media is an independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pitching his country as a global leader in robots for war and defense. Will the world listen?
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
Internal Space Force emails obtained by 404 Media show the work it takes to have a government agency make a new theme song. A general even wanted to start the whole thing over again.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
How a phone's notification database can store messages deleted elsewhere; the continued data center pushback; and Marathon, Marathon, Marathon.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
“When I saw evidence that our products were being used to harm people and undermine the law, I did what anyone should do—I raised the alarm. Thomson Reuters’ response was to fire me.”
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
An entire industry of companies offers Airbnb hosts AI to speak to guests on their behalf. 404 Media poked around the industry after one AI tool offered a guest a recipe for French toast.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
“This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
Doublespeed uses a phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated influencers. A hacker managed to get into a backend system of the company.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
‘The Ambivalent Internet’ and ‘The Shadow Gospel’ author Whitney Phillips on how online got so bad.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
WebinarTV scraped and shared 12 steps-based anonymous meetings for people recovering from addiction and other private support groups.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
A re-examination of a 300-million-year-old fossil that was long thought to be the earliest octopus revealed that the animal was actually part of the nautilus family.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss gun violence and chatbots and acceptance of depravity.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
At least 24 chimpanzees have been killed in a war that has split the Ngogo group of wild chimpanzees in two, turning former kin into enemies.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
Darren Blanchard went a few seconds over his three minute time limit and found himself in handcuffs.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
How Florida conservation police are tapping into Flock for ICE; Wikipedia's AI ban; and how the app TeleGuard uploads users' private keys.
404 Media
• Janus Rose
At a New York party, attendees spent Trans Day of Visibility dancing, DJing, and learning how to become less visible online.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
Marathon is a great game for uncs. As signs of a crash change the video game industry, there might not be a lot of those left.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
Updates to VeraCrypt, a popular and long-running piece of encryption, are now thrown into doubt because of a seemingly unexplained Microsoft decision.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
The proposed legislation would be the first of its kind passed in the country, but there are similar bills popping up everywhere this year.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
Cisco, IBM, and major lobbying groups are trying to exempt "critical infrastructure" from an existing Colorado law.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
At least three different people notified the popular app that wants to help men stop watching porn that it was jeopardizing user data.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
“I am vetoing this bill in its entirety because I object to this bill's intrusion into the personal privacy of Wisconsin residents,” Governor Tony Evers wrote.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
Ron DeSantis has empowered hundreds of Florida conservation police to work directly with ICE.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
Native Americans were playing dice and other games of chance many millennia before any known cultures elsewhere.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
This week, we discuss crypto, journalists using AI, and a cool photo of Earth.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
A Minnesota journalist is challenging a 3,000 foot restriction on flying near DHS assets on First Amendment grounds.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
In space, no one can hear you scream at Microsoft’s legacy software.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
TeleGuard is an app downloaded more a million times that markets itself as a secure way to chat. The app uploads users’ private keys to the company’s server, and makes decryption of messages trivial.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
The proof-of-concept system produces psilocybin, DMT, and other compounds in leaves of the tobacco plant, potentially easing pressure on wild species and preserving Indigenous traditions.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
I spent some time with a new browser-based augmented reality porn app.
