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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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• Emanuel Maiberg
Emanuel talks to Devindra Hardawar about AI in Hollywood and the state of the movie industry.
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• Matthew Gault
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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• Becky Ferreira
The north-south albedo symmetry may be fading as both hemispheres get darker.
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• Joseph Cox
ICE plans to give potentially more than a thousand agencies access to a facial recognition app that verifies a person's immigration status.
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• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss controversial memes, good times at Meta, and more.
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• Becky Ferreira
A random sequence in an innocuous GPS message field is likely encrypted traffic from the U.S. military's system for remotely updating cryptographic keys around the world.
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• Janus Rose
With some fans making sexualized AI-generated images and videos of idols, the rest of the fandom is standing up against the behavior.
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• Jason Koebler
Microsoft's CEO seems unaware of what's going on at his own company.
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• Jason Koebler
The Bricks & Minifigs / Reckless Ben beef is breaking containment and can no longer be ignored.
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• Joseph Cox
Just Futures Law is seeking a wealth of documents related to the tech Palantir provides to ICE.
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• Samantha Cole
“It's striking, concerning, disappointing, and saddening to think that members of the bar would forward cases to a court that don't exist, and to think that the lawyers on the other side of that didn’t read it for whatever reason, didn’t check it.”
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code say the AI they’re using is overhyped.
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• Jason Koebler
"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."
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• Joseph Cox
The insane Meta AI hack; Amazon's internal AI leaderboard; and our lawsuit against ICE.
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• Jason Koebler
Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.
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• Jason Koebler
Google is trying to buy code from some Android developers as part of a "confidential" program.
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• Jason Koebler
Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.
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• Matthew Gault
The researchers compared AI to the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo, who can’t see he’s stumbling through dangerous situations.
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• Joseph Cox
The API would make IRS data available to any app the agency wishes. The Criminal Investigation arm of the IRS is also modernizing its own systems.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.
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• Jason Koebler
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
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• Joseph Cox
Paragon's software is capable of remotely breaking into phones and accessing messages from encrypted messaging apps. Our lawsuit aims to pry records about it from ICE.
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• Matthew Gault
There are hundreds of anti-data center Facebook pages churning out AI-generated slopaganda.
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• Becky Ferreira
A new study suggests that bacteria dispersed through space on dust grains could potentially arrive intact and alive on Jupiter’s moon Europa.
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• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss going deeper and Google's search changes.
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• Samantha Cole
A new study by the Center for Democracy & Technology shows how chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Replika and more can lead users down paths they didn't intend.
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• Jason Koebler
Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
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• Becky Ferreira
Astronomers discovered that magnetic activity in the Sun is being squeezed into a more tightly confined area under its surface, which has implications for space weather forecasts and heliophysics.
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• Joseph Cox
On Thursday Oura announced the nearly $500 Ring 5. But what if you don't want to pay a monthly subscription to access your health data?
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• Samantha Cole
A popular virtual therapy platform is telling providers and patients they'll have to do facial scanning soon, forcing some to choose between handing over their data and continuing care.
