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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
• Emanuel Maiberg
Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes do "more harm than good."
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• Joseph Cox
The site, camgirlfinder, is explicitly built as a tool to let people find a model's presence on other streaming platforms. The creator says “If that is a problem for you then the sad reality is this job is not for you.”
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• Emanuel Maiberg
A story about an AI generated article contained fabricated, AI generated quotes.
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• Becky Ferreira
Scientists have recreated a miniature laboratory version of the massive cyclonic storms that rage at Jupiter’s poles.
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• Joseph Cox
This week, we discuss support and saying RIP to FPDS.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Roblox said it’s “committed to fully supporting law enforcement in their investigation.”
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• Joseph Cox
The companies have launched a pilot program in Atlanta, where “during the rare event a vehicle door is left ajar, preventing the car from departing, nearby Dashers are notified, allowing Waymo to get its vehicles back on the road quickly.”
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• Joseph Cox
404 Media has obtained a cache of internal police emails showing at least two agencies have bought access to GeoSpy, an AI tool that analyzes architecture, soil, and other features to near instantly geolocate photos.
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• Joseph Cox
The tool presents users with a 3D model they can then manipulate to, the creator says, bypass Discord's age verification system.
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• Jason Koebler
A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage has reached new levels of absurdity.
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• Becky Ferreira
A new study indicates that vast oceans of hydrogen are locked deep inside our planet, helping to explain a strange “density deficit” and shedding light on the origin of life.
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• Samantha Cole
Kylie Brewer isn't unaccustomed to harassment online. But when people started using Grok-generated nudes of her on an OnlyFans account, it reached another level.
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• Joseph Cox
Ring is back with a feature for scanning your neighborhood; we bought a Super Bowl ad; and how Lockdown Mode stopped the FBI.
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• Jason Koebler
Realfood.gov will happily give you the worst possible advice.
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• Jason Koebler
"Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."
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• Jason Koebler
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Patrick Klepek on the reality of parenting in the age of Roblox and YouTube.
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• Samantha Cole
Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn't ready to take on the role of the physician.”
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• Jason Koebler
WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD.
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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.
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• 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.
