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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
• Noelle Perdue
"Sex is human, sex is animal, sex is social," porn historian Noelle Perdue writes in her analysis of AI-powered erotic chatbots.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
Scientists discovered that some dogs, known as Gifted Word Learners, can passively pick up language and may possess toddler-level cognitive skills.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss viewing terrible images online and giving out zines at a benefit show.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
In an attempt to push more people toward a paying subscription, Grok now refuses to generate images in replies. The paywall is pretty leaky, though.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
With xAI's Grok generating endless semi-nude images of women and girls without their contest, it follows a years-long legacy of rampant abuse on the platform.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
"They're being told that this is inevitable," a member of the 806 Data Center Resistance told 404 Media. "But Texas is this other beast."
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
Putting people in bikinis is just the tip of the iceberg. On Telegram, users are finding ways to make Grok do far worse.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
In the aftermath of Github banning or suspending dozens of popular accounts, the erotic game modding community wonders if they should move to platforms like GitGoon instead.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
We talk about the organization mapping America's AI data centers; Grok's AI breakdown; and how we bought 404media.com.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
“It is a massive surprise,” said one astronomer who measured the high temperatures of gas in galaxy cluster that existed 12 billion years ago.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
The publisher is teaming with a company that claims its proprietary AI can ‘provide 2 to 3 times higher quality translations’ than other large language models.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
On Tuesday, ICE was allowed to continue using Medicaid data in deportation cases.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
The hotel told 404 Media in a statement “We are in touch with the impacted guests to ensure they are accommodated.”
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
We are experiencing world events like the kidnapping of Maduro through the lens of the most depraved AI you can imagine.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
The most effective surveillance-evading gear might already be in your closet.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
Hunter-gatherers cremated a small woman in Malawi 9,500 years ago, revealing a glimpse of their capabilities and practices.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
After years of debate, scientists found a telltale sign that an ancient ape walked on two legs, making it the oldest known human relative.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
The nonprofit research group Epoch AI is tracking the physical imprint of the technology that’s changing the world.
404 Media
• Ernie Smith
Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer WINE.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
Joseph talks to Craig Silverman about how open source intelligence (OSINT) has changed over the years, and his new outlet Indicator.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
Don’t worry, we’re not changing our website. But we’re finally the owners of the real deal: a .com domain.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
Astronomers think they may have captured starlight from the first generation of stars, which shone more than 13 billion years ago.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss history repeating itself, a phone wipe scandal, Meta's relationship with links and more.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
More than two miles under the Greenland Sea, tubeworms, snails, crustaceans, and microbes live on gas hydrate seeps that leak crude oil and methane.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
I am starting to think I will never receive my horny novelty holiday decorations.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
How we tracked ourselves with exposed Flock cameras; a year in review; and our personal recommendations on all sorts of things.
404 Media
• Janus Rose
In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
