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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
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.
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• Samantha Cole
In posts to the platforms news feed, ManyVids — and seemingly, its founder Bella French — wrote that the answer could be a three hour long conversation with podcasters like Joe Rogan or Lex Fridman.
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• Joseph Cox
What happens when a platform operator changes their tune; the continuing mystery of deleted (or lost, who knows) DHS footage; and what police are being told to do about Flock.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Hundreds of thousands of users told the app intimate details about their sexual urges, which are now exposed.
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• Jason Koebler
Court records reveal the incredibly sad state of ICE's evidence retention systems.
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• Samantha Cole
Starting February 2, many people connecting from the UK will not be able to access the porn site and many others.
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• Jason Koebler
The documents show law enforcement sees themselves as being consistently and universally under threat from the people it is supposed to protect.
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• Becky Ferreira
Nearly half of routinely-updated CDC databases have experienced delays or shutdowns in 2025, with vaccination-related systems disproportionately affected, according to a new study.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
The algorithm is driving AI-generated influencers to increasingly weird niches.
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• Samantha Cole
Bellingcat's Kolina Koltai talks about OSINT investigations into synthetic abuse imagery sites, and seeing them go down because of her work.
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• Matthew Gault
What began as a joke got a little too real. So I shut it down for good.
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• Owen Carry
A look at “necromemetics” and the meme economy in the aftermath of violence.
