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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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• Samantha Cole

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation error.

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• Joseph Cox

Podcast: The Final Boss of AI Slop

Podcast: The Final Boss of AI Slop

We talk all about Sora 2, Apple and Google removing ICE-spotting apps, and a massive update to our Flock reporting.

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• Joseph Cox

Cocaine in Private Jets and Sex Toys: What the FBI Found on its Secretly Backdoored Chat App

Cocaine in Private Jets and Sex Toys: What the FBI Found on its Secretly Backdoored Chat App

New leaked documents show how the FBI convinced a judge to let its partners collect a mass of encrypted messages from thousands of phones around the world.

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• Matthew Gault

Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web

Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web

Bypassing Sora 2's rudimentary safety features is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation.

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• Jason Koebler

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

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• Emanuel Maiberg

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

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• Becky Ferreira

The Case for Alien Life on Saturn’s Moon Just Got a Boost

The Case for Alien Life on Saturn’s Moon Just Got a Boost

Etched from death-defying ledges 12 stories high, vast rock panels of camels and horses preserve the talents of Ice-Age artists in the Arabian desert.

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• Joseph Cox

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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• Emanuel Maiberg

Can You Win a Congressional Seat Without Social Media?

Can You Win a Congressional Seat Without Social Media?

Carleigh Beriont is running for Congress as an “anti-social Democrat” and she thinks the party needs to abandon social media nationally also.

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• Samantha Cole

Behind the Blog: Open-Source Drama and Saudi-Approved Humor

Behind the Blog: Open-Source Drama and Saudi-Approved Humor

This week, we discuss characters in open source, that Saudi comedy festival, and asking ourselves if we're haters.

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• Joseph Cox

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move,” the developer said.

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• Becky Ferreira

Earth Is Getting Darker, Literally, and Scientists Are Trying To Find Out Why

Earth Is Getting Darker, Literally, and Scientists Are Trying To Find Out Why

For decades, scientists assumed that symmetry between the reflectivity of Earth’s hemispheres was a “fundamental property” of our planet. Now, that’s changed.

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• Matthew Gault

Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress

Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress

A hacking group called the Crimson Collective says it pulled data from private GitHub repositories connected to Red Hat's consulting business. Red Hat has confirmed it is investigating the compromise.

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• Samantha Cole

Government Shutdown Causes Even More Confusion for U.S. Visa Applicants

Government Shutdown Causes Even More Confusion for U.S. Visa Applicants

Some services needed for immigration applications, like H-1B and E3 visas, no longer have funding, while others are still operational — for now.

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• Emanuel Maiberg

AI-Generated Biography on Amazon Tries to Capitalize on the Death of a Beloved Writer Kaleb Horton

AI-Generated Biography on Amazon Tries to Capitalize on the Death of a Beloved Writer Kaleb Horton

‘I cannot overstate how disgusting I find this kind of AIdog shit in the first place, never mind under these circumstances.’

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• Jason Koebler

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus

The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.

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• Jason Koebler

People Are Farming and Selling Sora 2 Invite Codes on eBay

People Are Farming and Selling Sora 2 Invite Codes on eBay

Sora 2 code infinite money glitch.

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• Jason Koebler

Kodak Is Selling Its Own Film Again for the First Time in a Decade

Kodak Is Selling Its Own Film Again for the First Time in a Decade

Kodak announced two new types of film that it will sell directly to photography stores, sidestepping a bizarre distribution agreement that has been in place since its bankruptcy.

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• Joseph Cox

404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation Sue DHS

404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation Sue DHS

Both organizations are seeking a copy of a data sharing agreement that is giving the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients to ICE.

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• Matthew Gault

A Bullet Crashed the Internet in Texas

A Bullet Crashed the Internet in Texas

A ‘stray bullet’ 25,000 people offline near Dallas.

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• Joseph Cox

Podcast: Landlords Demand Your Workplace Logins to Scrape Paystubs

Podcast: Landlords Demand Your Workplace Logins to Scrape Paystubs

How companies working for landlords are scraping data inside corporate environments; lawyers explain why they used AI (after getting caught); and all the Ruby drama.

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• Joseph Cox

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

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• Matthew Gault

In Unhinged Speech, Pete Hegseth Says He's Tired of ‘Fat Troops,’ Says Military Needs to Go Full AI

In Unhinged Speech, Pete Hegseth Says He's Tired of ‘Fat Troops,’ Says Military Needs to Go Full AI

The Secretary of War lectured America’s generals on fitness standards, bears, and warriors for an hour.

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• Samantha Cole

Google Just Removed Seven Years of Political Advertising History from 27 Countries

Google Just Removed Seven Years of Political Advertising History from 27 Countries

Ahead of the European Union's Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising, Google's Ad Transparency Center no longer shows political ads from any countries in the EU.

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• Jason Koebler

18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It

18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It

Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.

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• Matthew Gault

Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them

Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them

Klein has attempted to subpoena Discord and Reddit for information that would reveal the identity of moderators of a subreddit critical of him. The moderators' lawyers fear their clients will be physically attacked if the subpoenas go through.

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• Joseph Cox

Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs

Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs

Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”

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• Emanuel Maiberg

How Ruby Went Off the Rails

How Ruby Went Off the Rails

What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.

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• Becky Ferreira

Humanity’s Toxic Wreckage Is Teeming With Life, Scientists Discover

Humanity’s Toxic Wreckage Is Teeming With Life, Scientists Discover

Though they leach toxic chemicals, submerged explosives from World War II attract algae, mussels, and fish in high numbers.

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• Samantha Cole

Behind the Blog: Behind 404 Media's ICE Lawsuit

This week, we discuss being journalism dorks, our new lawsuit against ICE, and working on bullshit.