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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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• Becky Ferreira
Veronika, a brown cow in Austria, uses sticks and brushes as multipurpose tools to scratch hard-to-reach spots
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• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss stances on AI, a conference about money laundering, and signs about slavery coming down.
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• Becky Ferreira
Why is the human penis so big? Scientists probed the evolution of penis size through sexual selection and mate competition in a first-of-its-kind study
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• Samantha Cole
“Ethical dilemmas about AI aside, the posts are completely disconnected with ManyVids as a site,” one ManyVids content creator told 404 Media.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
We talk ELITE, the tool Palantir is working on; how AI influencers are defaming celebrities; and Comic-Con's ban of AI art.
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• Jason Koebler
"My local community is being systematically liquidated in what I can only describe as a targeted intellectual genocide."
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• Matthew Gault
The famed convention's organizers have banned AI from the art show.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
The Wikimedia Foundation’s chief technology and product officer explains how she helps manage one of the most visited sites in the world in the age of generative AI.
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• Samantha Cole
On the same day he allegedly robbed a mail carrier, Jordan McCorvey posted photos of himself flipping through stacks of letters still in the USPS tray.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
The FAA has altered a no fly zone designation that was originally created for US military bases to apply to DHS units.
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• Joseph Cox
In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said the app's results are a “definitive” determination of someone's immigration status.
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• Becky Ferreira
Scientists sequenced the genome of an extinct woolly rhinoceros that was found in a wolf belly that lived 14,400 years ago.
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• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss the staying power of surveillance coverage, the jigsaw of reporting, and eyestrain.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
Frowned upon in video games, loot boxes are back in real life–and one’s in the Pentagon.
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• Joseph Cox
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.
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• Joseph Cox
The proposed law would force DHS only use the app, called Mobile Fortify, at ports of entry; delete all photos of U.S. citizens taken by the app; and effectively kill the local law enforcement of the app.
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• Becky Ferreira
Scientists have debated the origin of the dots for years. Now, researchers say they’re “cocoons” for the youngest black holes we’ve ever seen.
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• Matthew Gault
‘We have to make sure people are watching. We have to make sure we’re keeping track of our community members.’
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• Jason Koebler
"Nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it," the cop told her.
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• Joseph Cox
We talk all about Webloc, ICE's tool for monitoring phone locations; the continuing Grok abuse wave; and how police unwittingly revealed millions of Flock surveillance targets.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Fake images of LeBron James, iShowSpeed, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and even Nicolás Maduro show them in bed with AI-generated influencers.
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• Jason Koebler
Flock is going after a website called HaveIBeenFlocked.com that has collated public records files released by police.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
Jason interviews YouTuber Benn Jordan about his security research on Flock.
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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
