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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

Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says

Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says

Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.

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• Jason Koebler

ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued

ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued

The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."

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• Samantha Cole

OnlyFans Will Start Checking Criminal Records. Creators Say That's a Terrible Idea

OnlyFans Will Start Checking Criminal Records. Creators Say That's a Terrible Idea

OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair announced on LinkedIn that the platform partnered with Checkr to "prevent people who have a criminal conviction which may impact on our community's safety from signing up as a Creator on OnlyFans."

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• Matthew Gault

Ukraine Is Jamming Russia’s ‘Superweapon’ With a Song

Ukraine Is Jamming Russia’s ‘Superweapon’ With a Song

A few years ago, Putin hyped the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. Now electronic warfare is knocking it out of the sky with music and some bad directions.

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• Matthew Gault

Joe Rogan Subreddit Bans 'Political Posts' But Still Wants 'Free Speech'

Joe Rogan Subreddit Bans 'Political Posts' But Still Wants 'Free Speech'

Rogan's conspiracy-minded audience blame mods of covering up for Rogan's guests, including Trump, who are named in the Epstein files.

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• Samantha Cole

Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn

Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn

Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social media, at their workplaces, graduating from universities, taking selfies on vacation, and more.

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• Joseph Cox

Podcast: The Epstein Email Dump Is a Mess

Podcast: The Epstein Email Dump Is a Mess

We talk the terrible format of the latest Epstein dump; how a contractor is hiring randos on LinkedIn to physically track immigrants for $300; and a new code of conduct in the adult industry.

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• Becky Ferreira

Scientists Discover the Origin of Kissing — And It’s Not Human

Scientists Discover the Origin of Kissing — And It’s Not Human

Kissing is ubiquitous among many animals, especially primates, suggesting deep evolutionary roots of the behavior.

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• Jason Koebler

ACLU and EFF Sue a City Blanketed With Flock Surveillance Cameras

ACLU and EFF Sue a City Blanketed With Flock Surveillance Cameras

“Most drivers are unaware that San Jose’s Police Department is tracking their locations and do not know all that their saved location data can reveal about their private lives and activities."

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• Jason Koebler

HOPE Hacking Conference Banned From University Venue Over Apparent ‘Anti-Police Agenda’

HOPE Hacking Conference Banned From University Venue Over Apparent ‘Anti-Police Agenda’

"The lack of due process on its own is extremely disturbing," the conference said.

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• Joseph Cox

Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government

Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government

The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.

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• Joseph Cox

IRS Accessed Massive Database of Americans Flights Without a Warrant

IRS Accessed Massive Database of Americans Flights Without a Warrant

A bipartisan letter reveals the IRS searched a database of hundreds of millions of travel records without first conducting a legal review. Airlines like Delta, United, American, and Southwest are selling these records to the government through a co-owned data broker.

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• Jason Koebler

Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’

Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’

"Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025 and October 31, 2025 has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all."

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• Joseph Cox

Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE

Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE

“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.

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• Emanuel Maiberg

A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On

A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On

We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

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• Emanuel Maiberg

The Video Game Industry’s Existential Crisis (with Jason Schreier)

The Video Game Industry’s Existential Crisis (with Jason Schreier)

Video games are more popular than ever, but many of the biggest companies in the business seem like they are struggling to adapt and convert that popularity into stability and sustainability.

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• Joseph Cox

This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country

This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country

Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.

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• Becky Ferreira

Scientists Make Genetic Breakthrough with 39,000-Year-Old Mammoth RNA

Scientists Make Genetic Breakthrough with 39,000-Year-Old Mammoth RNA

The newly sequenced RNA is 25,000 years older than the previous record-holder, opening a new window into genetic evolution and revealing a surprise about a famous mammoth mummy.

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• Matthew Gault

Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants

Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants

Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.

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• Samantha Cole

Behind the Blog: Trolling on the Internet

Behind the Blog: Trolling on the Internet

This week, we discuss getting back on our AI slop bullshit, deepfakes in schools, and epistemic virtues.

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• Joseph Cox

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”

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• Jason Koebler

AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook

AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook

An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.

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• Joseph Cox

ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants

ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants

Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.

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• Emanuel Maiberg

OpenAI Can’t Fix Sora’s Copyright Infringement Problem Because It Was Built With Stolen Content

OpenAI Can’t Fix Sora’s Copyright Infringement Problem Because It Was Built With Stolen Content

OpenAI’s guardrails against copyright infringement are falling for the oldest trick in the book.

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• Samantha Cole

Major Porn Studios Join Forces to Establish Industry ‘Code of Conduct’

Major Porn Studios Join Forces to Establish Industry ‘Code of Conduct’

The newly-formed, first of its kind Adult Studio Alliance is founded by major porn companies including Aylo, Dorcel, ERIKALUST, Gamma Entertainment, Mile High Media and Ricky’s Room, and establishes a code of conduct for studios.

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• Joseph Cox

Podcast: Inside a Small Town's Fight Against a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter

Podcast: Inside a Small Town's Fight Against a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter

A fight against a massive AI data center; how people are 3D-printing whistles to fight ICE; and AI's war on knowledge.

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• Jason Koebler

Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone

Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone

A Washington judge said images taken by Flock cameras are "not exempt from disclosure" in public record requests.

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• Becky Ferreira

Remnants of Lost Continents Are Everywhere. Now, We Finally Know Why.

Remnants of Lost Continents Are Everywhere. Now, We Finally Know Why.

Waves within Earth’s mantle can carry traces of past continents across hundreds of miles, explaining why their chemical fingerprints appear in unlikely places.

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• Samantha Cole

Visualize All 23 Years of BYTE Magazine in All Its Glory, All at Once

Visualize All 23 Years of BYTE Magazine in All Its Glory, All at Once

Software engineer Hector Dearman built a zoomable map of every issue of BYTE magazine.

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• David Covucci

DHS Is Deploying a Powerful Surveillance Tool at College Football Games

DHS Is Deploying a Powerful Surveillance Tool at College Football Games

Public records show DHS is deploying the "Homeland Security Information Network" at college protests and football games.