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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
This week, we discuss archiving to get around paywalls, hating on smart glasses, and more.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
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• Becky Ferreira
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
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
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, the company that owns Wordpress.com, is asking Automatic.CSS to rebrand.
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• Jason Koebler
"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
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
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• Matthew Gault
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
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• Joseph Cox
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
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
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 appears to be taking back control over the distribution of its film.
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• Joseph Cox
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
Cornell University’s academic paper repository will no longer accept Computer Science papers still under review.
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• Jason Koebler
"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
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
The mummified remains of two duck-billed dinosaurs exposing skin, spikes, flesh, the first reptilian hooves ever discovered.
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• Joseph Cox
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
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
Uhh, is ChatGPT the dad or?
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• Becky Ferreira
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
Everyone loses and nobody wins if America decides to resume nuclear testing after a 30 year moratorium.
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• Joseph Cox
The leaked slide focuses on Google Pixel phones and mentions those running the security-focused GrapheneOS operating system.
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• Claire Woodcock
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
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• Joseph Cox
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
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• Joseph Cox
Why Grokipedia won't beat Wikipedia; the Windows 10 update; and a16z's plan for a wholly AI-generated internet.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
“The shameless use of covert recording technology at massage parlours to gain likes, attention, and online notoriety is both disgusting and dangerous.”
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• Matthew Gault
"The White House just marked the end of the console wars; DHS is posting deep fried Halo memes. We are somewhere else entirely."
