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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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• Matthew Gault

Does Silksong Seem Unreasonably Hard? You Probably Took a Wrong Turn

Does Silksong Seem Unreasonably Hard? You Probably Took a Wrong Turn

Harsh lessons from 'Dark Souls' told me to turn my ass around when I got to the red flower jumping puzzle.

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• Jason Koebler

Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way

Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way

The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.

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• Emanuel Maiberg

The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes

The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes

Linkedin has been joking about “vibe coding cleanup specialists,” but it’s actually a growing profession.

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• Becky Ferreira

Scientists Just Got an Unprecedented Glimpse into the Nature of Reality

Scientists Just Got an Unprecedented Glimpse into the Nature of Reality

“We had promised that gravitational waves would open a new window into the universe, and that has materialized,” one researcher said.”

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• Nicole Carpenter

How Lofi Girl Became a Chill Beats Empire

How Lofi Girl Became a Chill Beats Empire

How the iconic looping video of a studying anime girl and stream of chill music became a big business.

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• Jason Koebler

HHS Asks All Employees to Start Using ChatGPT

HHS Asks All Employees to Start Using ChatGPT

The agency tells workers "we should all be vigilant against barriers that could slow our progress toward making America healthy again."

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• Matthew Gault

AI Darwin Awards Show AI’s Biggest Problem Is Human

AI Darwin Awards Show AI’s Biggest Problem Is Human

The AI Darwin Awards is a list of some of the worst tech failures of the year and it’s only going to get bigger.

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• Jason Koebler

‘It's Just a Mess:' 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby

‘It's Just a Mess:' 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby

"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside."

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• Samantha Cole

Michael Pratt, GirlsDoPorn Ringleader, Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison

Michael Pratt, GirlsDoPorn Ringleader, Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison

Michael James Pratt was sentenced to federal prison on charges of sex trafficking connected to the GirlsDoPorn crime ring. “He turned my pain into profit, my life into currency,” said one victim.

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• Emanuel Maiberg

Instagram Account Promotes Holocaust Denial T-Shirts to 400,000 Followers

Instagram Account Promotes Holocaust Denial T-Shirts to 400,000 Followers

Meta decided to not ban the account and the vast majority of its racist posts even after 404 Media flagged them to the company.

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• Joseph Cox

ICE Spends Millions on Clearview AI Facial Recognition to Find People ‘Assaulting’ Officers

ICE Spends Millions on Clearview AI Facial Recognition to Find People ‘Assaulting’ Officers

A new contract with Clearview AI explicitly says ICE is buying the tech to investigate "assaults against law enforcement officers."

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• Becky Ferreira

The Biological Rulebook Was Just Rewritten—by Ants

The Biological Rulebook Was Just Rewritten—by Ants

Iberian harvester ant queens clone males of a different species in a never-before-seen case of reproduction and domestication.

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• Samantha Cole

Behind the Blog: Sleeping With Slop

This week, we discuss slop in history, five-alarm fires, and AI art (not) at Dragon Con.

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• Samantha Cole

Ahead of Sentencing, GirlsDoPorn Ringleader Michael Pratt Attempts to Seem Reformed

Ahead of Sentencing, GirlsDoPorn Ringleader Michael Pratt Attempts to Seem Reformed

In sentencing memos and exhibits, Pratt's attorney paints of picture that points at Pratt's abusive father, his ADHD, his co-conspirators, the entire pornography industry, and the victims themselves.

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• Joseph Cox

This Company Turns Dashcams into ‘Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In

This Company Turns Dashcams into ‘Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In

A hacker has compromised Nexar, which turns peoples' cars into "virtual CCTV cameras" that organizations can then buy images from. The images include sensitive U.S. military and intelligence facilities.

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• Joseph Cox

Congress Pushes DHS for Details on ICE’s New Facial Recognition App

Congress Pushes DHS for Details on ICE’s New Facial Recognition App

404 Media first revealed ICE’s new app, called Mobile Fortify, in June. Now members of a congressional committee are pressing DHS for more information, including ICE's legal basis for using the app inside the U.S.

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• Matthew Gault

Google AI Falsely Says YouTuber Visited Israel, Forcing Him to Deal With Backlash

Google AI Falsely Says YouTuber Visited Israel, Forcing Him to Deal With Backlash

YouTuber Benn Jordan has never been to Israel, but Google's AI summary said he'd visited and made a video about it. Then the backlash started.

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• Jason Koebler

AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History

AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History

"These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."

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• Samantha Cole

Pornhub Will Pay $5 Million Over Allegations of Hosting Child Sexual Abuse Material

Pornhub Will Pay $5 Million Over Allegations of Hosting Child Sexual Abuse Material

Pornhub's parent company Aylo and its affiliates settled a lawsuit with the FTC and Utah that alleged the company "deceived users" about abuse material on the site.

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• Samantha Cole

Shein Used Luigi Mangione’s AI-Generated Face to Sell a Shirt

Shein Used Luigi Mangione’s AI-Generated Face to Sell a Shirt

United Healthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione is not, in fact, modeling floral button-downs for Shein.

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• Becky Ferreira

They Were Some of Earth’s Last Stable Glaciers. Now, They’re Melting.

They Were Some of Earth’s Last Stable Glaciers. Now, They’re Melting.

Glaciers in Central Asia have remained intact even as other parts of the world have seen rapid glacial loss. A new study shows that may be changing.

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• Joseph Cox

Podcast: Trump Take Egg

Podcast: Trump Take Egg

How Trump's tariffs are impacting all sorts of hobbies; how OnlyFans piracy is ruining the internet for everyone; and ChatGPT's reckoning.

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• Matthew Gault

Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists' Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up

Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists' Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up

Artists&Clients, a website for connecting artists with gigs, is down after a group called LunaLock threatened to feed their data to AI datasets.

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• Samantha Cole

Almost Every State Has Its Own Deepfakes Law Now

Almost Every State Has Its Own Deepfakes Law Now

Michigan just became the 48th state to enact a law addressing deepfakes, imposing jail time and penalties up to the felony level for people who make AI-generated nonconsensual abuse imagery of a real person.

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• Emanuel Maiberg

How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone

How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone

Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy.

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• Becky Ferreira

This Stunning Image of the Sun Could Unlock Mysterious Physics

This Stunning Image of the Sun Could Unlock Mysterious Physics

The world’s best solar telescope snapped unprecedented shots of a solar flare, revealing new details of these mysterious explosions.

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• Samantha Cole

Behind the Blog: Dogfooding and Datasets

Behind the Blog: Dogfooding and Datasets

This week, we discuss our top games, “dense street imagery," and first-person experiences with apps.

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• Matthew Gault

Trump Take LEGO

Trump Take LEGO

The popular Pick a Brick service let LEGO fanatics get the exact piece they wanted. It’s no longer available to US customers.

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• Joseph Cox

Podcast: 404 Media Live—NYC!

Podcast: 404 Media Live—NYC!

Here's the podcast recorded at our recent second anniversary party in New York!

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• Jason Koebler

Trump Tariffs Cause Chaos on Ebay. Having a Hobby Is Now a Logistical Nightmare

Trump Tariffs Cause Chaos on Ebay. Having a Hobby Is Now a Logistical Nightmare

Buying cameras, retro games, board games, skincare, flashlights, sex toys, watches, and anything else from overseas just became far more complicated, slow, and expensive.