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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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• Becky Ferreira
“The question of whether humanity should reproduce beyond Earth is no longer hypothetical—it is a pressing ethical frontier,” researchers said.
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• Samantha Cole
In this week's roundup: Lockdown Mode FTW, why Bezos is killing WaPo, and more.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss AI bubble hysteria, "just go independent," and more.
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• Jason Koebler
DHS's inspector general is probing ICE's biometric and surveillance programs.
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• Samantha Cole
While Epstein’s victims endure the fallout of their photos and names being exposed in the Department of Justice’s latest tranche of files, investigators redacted the identity of the most famous portrait in the world.
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• Matthew Gault
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
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• Jason Koebler
Elon Musk's political projects are combining into a highly concerning megacompany.
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• Joseph Cox
EpsteIN—as in, Epstein and LinkedIn—searches your connections on the social network for names that match those in the released files.
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• Jason Koebler
In a kleptocracy, there is no reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet.
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• Becky Ferreira
The discovery of a Medieval tunnel built within a prehistoric burial ground adds to the mystery of hundreds of underground passages without a known purpose.
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• Joseph Cox
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking someone's device. At least for now.
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• Joseph Cox
This Epstein dump is probably the worst yet. Then we talk all about security issues in Moltbot and Moltbook. Then, even more security issues with some popular apps.
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• Joseph Cox
Hackers have targeted a spread of apps or sites that aim to track ICE activity, in one case even sending push notifications to users in an attempt to intimidate them.
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• Joseph Cox
‘Curator Live’, a popular photo booth company for weddings and other events, is exposing all sorts of unsuspecting people’s photos.
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• Samantha Cole
A note from investigators in the files said some images Epstein had were "POSSIBLE CSAM."
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• Jason Koebler
Download a PDF of our first ever zine here.
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• Joseph Cox
Usually telecoms keep customer's call and text logs for months if not years.
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• Joseph Cox
Joseph speaks to Samuel Bagg about all the ways identities dictate what people see, and how what they choose to believe is based much more on those identities than the evidence in front of them.
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• Matthew Gault
'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'
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• Jason Koebler
New emails show Musk has been lying about his relationship with Epstein.
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• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss a trip to Kenya, reconstructing images, and lying developers.
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• Matthew Gault
The AI agent once called ClawdBot is enchanting tech elites, but its security vulnerabilities highlight systemic problems with AI.
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• Becky Ferreira
The remains of a rich ancient ecosystem in China is so well-preserved that it contains guts, tentacles, and even an intact nervous system.
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• Joseph Cox
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
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• Matthew Gault
A Reddit-led protest is trying to push an eight year old erotic thriller to the top of Amazon’s sales charts.
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• Jason Koebler
Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine asked the inspector general of the DHS about a host of surveillance technologies, including Flock, mobile phone spyware, and location data.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.
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• Joseph Cox
Match Group says it is investigating claims that a mass of internal data was hacked from its popular dating apps.
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• Matthew Gault
The Doomsday Clock, a symbol of how close humanity is to destroying itself, has moved from 89 seconds to 85 seconds, four seconds closer to “doomsday.” That is the closest the Clock has ever been to midnight. That’s when, in the metaphor proposed by the keepers
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• Rosie Thomas
You can no longer fuck ICE on r/FuckingFascists.
