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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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• Joseph Cox

The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles

The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles

Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”

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• Samantha Cole

Danish Redditor Charged for Posting Nude Scenes from Films

Danish Redditor Charged for Posting Nude Scenes from Films

A man running a Danish copycat of the r/WatchItForThePlot subreddit was assured of posting no less than 347 nude scenes from films, and downloading over 25 terabytes of data from copyrighted works.

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• Joseph Cox

Our New FOIA Forum! 11/19, 1PM ET

Our New FOIA Forum! 11/19, 1PM ET

Come learn how researchers and others learned what cops were using Flock's nationwide network of cameras for, including searches for ICE.

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• Samantha Cole

Podcast: A Massive Archiving Effort at National Parks (with Jenny McBurney and Lynda Kellam)

Podcast: A Massive Archiving Effort at National Parks (with Jenny McBurney and Lynda Kellam)

This week we have a conversation between Sam and two of the leaders of the independent volunteer archiving project Save Our Signs, an effort to archive national park signs and monument placards.

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• Becky Ferreira

A Fundamental ‘Constant’ of the Universe May Not Be Constant At All, Study Finds

A Fundamental ‘Constant’ of the Universe May Not Be Constant At All, Study Finds

New research “suggests that dark energy may no longer be a cosmological constant” and that the universe’s expansion is slowing down.

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• Samantha Cole

Behind the Blog: Paywall Jumping and Smart Glasses

Behind the Blog: Paywall Jumping and Smart Glasses

This week, we discuss archiving to get around paywalls, hating on smart glasses, and more.

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• Emanuel Maiberg

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled

X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.

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• Becky Ferreira

Advanced 2.5 Million-Year-Old Tools May Rewrite Human History

Advanced 2.5 Million-Year-Old Tools May Rewrite Human History

Early humans crafted the same tools for hundreds of thousands of years, offering an unprecedented glimpse of a continuous tradition that may push back the origins of technology.

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• Matthew Gault

A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists

A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists

Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.

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• Jason Koebler

One of the Greatest Wall Street Investors of All Time Announces Retirement

One of the Greatest Wall Street Investors of All Time Announces Retirement

Nancy Pelosi’s trades over the years have been so good that a startup was created to allow investors to directly mirror her portfolio. 

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• Samantha Cole

Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'

Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'

Automattic, the company that owns Wordpress.com, is asking Automatic.CSS to rebrand.

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• Jason Koebler

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge

"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

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• Jason Koebler

FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site

FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

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• Matthew Gault

US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It

US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It

The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.

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• Emanuel Maiberg

What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR

What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR

Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.

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• Joseph Cox

Podcast: People Are Modding Meta Ray-Bans to Spy On You

Podcast: People Are Modding Meta Ray-Bans to Spy On You

We talk all about our articles on Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, and AI-generated ads personalized just for you.

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• Joseph Cox

CBP Quietly Launches Face Scanning App for Local Cops To Do Immigration Enforcement

CBP Quietly Launches Face Scanning App for Local Cops To Do Immigration Enforcement

The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.

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• Joseph Cox

How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government

How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government

The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out of that data selling.

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• Jason Koebler

Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again

Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again

Kodak appears to be taking back control over the distribution of its film.

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• Joseph Cox

Flock Logins Exposed In Malware Infections, Senator Asks FTC to Investigate the Company

Flock Logins Exposed In Malware Infections, Senator Asks FTC to Investigate the Company

Senator Ron Wyden says AI-camera company Flock is violating federal law by not enforcing multi-factor authentication. 404 Media previously found Flock credentials included in infostealer infections.

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• Matthew Gault

arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers

arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers

Cornell University’s academic paper repository will no longer accept Computer Science papers still under review.

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• Jason Koebler

The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You

The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You

"Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else."

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• Joseph Cox

The Crackdown on ICE Spotting Apps (with Joshua Aaron)

The Crackdown on ICE Spotting Apps (with Joshua Aaron)

We speak to the creator of ICEBlock about Apple banning their app, and what this means for people trying to access information about ICE.

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• Becky Ferreira

There’s a Dinosaur ‘Mummy Zone.’ Here’s What Scientists Found There.

There’s a Dinosaur ‘Mummy Zone.’ Here’s What Scientists Found There.

The mummified remains of two duck-billed dinosaurs exposing skin, spikes, flesh, the first reptilian hooves ever discovered.

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• Joseph Cox

Behind the Blog: Ray-Bans Are No Longer Cool or Timeless

Behind the Blog: Ray-Bans Are No Longer Cool or Timeless

This week, we discuss keeping FOIA reporting in front of a paywall, Ray-Bans, and what pregnate Schoolhouse Rock bills say about our current AI-driven hellscape.

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• Joseph Cox

You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says

You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says

Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.

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• Matthew Gault

Andrew Cuomo Uses AI MPREG Schoolhouse Rock Bill to Attack Mamdani, Is Out of Ideas

Andrew Cuomo Uses AI MPREG Schoolhouse Rock Bill to Attack Mamdani, Is Out of Ideas

Uhh, is ChatGPT the dad or?

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• Becky Ferreira

Chimps Are Capable of Human-Like Rational Thought, Breakthrough Study Finds

Chimps Are Capable of Human-Like Rational Thought, Breakthrough Study Finds

In a series of experiments, chimpanzees revised their beliefs based on new evidence, shedding light on the evolutionary origins of rational thought.

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• Matthew Gault

Trump Orders Nuclear Testing As Nuke Workers Go Unpaid

Trump Orders Nuclear Testing As Nuke Workers Go Unpaid

Everyone loses and nobody wins if America decides to resume nuclear testing after a 30 year moratorium.

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• Joseph Cox

Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details

Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details

The leaked slide focuses on Google Pixel phones and mentions those running the security-focused GrapheneOS operating system.