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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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Text • Samantha Cole

GirlsDoPorn Victims Sue Major Payment Processors, Claiming They Enabled Sex Trafficking

GirlsDoPorn Victims Sue Major Payment Processors, Claiming They Enabled Sex Trafficking

The plaintiffs claim that without the payment processors, which include CCBill, Epoch, and several others that process "high-risk" merchant payments, GirlsDoPorn would not have been a commercial enterprise to begin with.

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Text • Joseph Cox

Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles

Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles

Videos demoing one of the sites have repeatedly gone viral on TikTok and other platforms recently. 404 Media verified they can locate specific peoples' Tinder profiles using their photo, and found that the viral videos are produced by paid creators.

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Text • Joseph Cox

ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras

ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras

Flock has built a nationwide surveillance network of AI-powered cameras and given many more federal agencies access. Senator Ron Wyden told Flock “abuses of your product are not only likely but inevitable” and Flock “is unable and uninterested in preventing them.”

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Text • Jason Koebler

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.

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Text • Joseph Cox

Podcast: Meta Tells Workers to ‘Go 5x Faster’ with AI

Podcast: Meta Tells Workers to ‘Go 5x Faster’ with AI

Meta tells its metaverse workers to push harder with AI; the massive Discord breach; and what happened when AI came for craft beer.

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Text • Emanuel Maiberg

Senators Warn Saudi Arabia’s Acquisition of EA Will Be Used for ‘Foreign Influence’

Senators Warn Saudi Arabia’s Acquisition of EA Will Be Used for ‘Foreign Influence’

‘The proposed transaction poses a number of significant foreign influence and national security risks.’

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Text • Samantha Cole

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck the bot. 

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Text • Matthew Gault

The Surreal Practicality of Protesting As an Inflatable Frog

The Surreal Practicality of Protesting As an Inflatable Frog

Say goodbye to the Guy Fawkes masks and hello to inflatable frogs and dinosaurs.

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Text • Samantha Cole

Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion for sanctions. 

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Text • Samantha Cole

‘Save Our Signs’ Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs

‘Save Our Signs’ Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs

More than 10,000 images of signs, placards, quotes, photos and more are part of the crowdsourced effort from over 300 national park and monument sites around the U.S.

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Text • Matthew Gault

Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of an appeals process in an attempt to get back his security clearance, the man told

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Text • Joseph Cox

What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer

What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer

A prominent beer competition introduced an AI-judging tool without warning. The judges and some members of the wider brewing industry were pissed.

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Text • Becky Ferreira

Earth’s Climate Has Passed Its First Irreversible Tipping Point and Entered a ‘New Reality’

Earth’s Climate Has Passed Its First Irreversible Tipping Point and Entered a ‘New Reality’

The second Global Tipping Points Report warns that the world has crossed a key threshold as ocean heat devastates warm-water reefs.

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Text • Becky Ferreira

Mole-Rats Could Hold the Key to Living Longer

Mole-Rats Could Hold the Key to Living Longer

Plus, when did claret get so good and why did Shackleton's ship Endurance sink? Historical updates aplenty.

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Text • Samantha Cole

Behind the Blog: Sinkholes and Site Seizures

This week, we discuss a ransomware gang, book bans, and infrastructure.

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Text • Jason Koebler

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

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Text • Joseph Cox

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive information online.

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Text • Jason Koebler

Data Hoarder Uses AI to Create Searchable Database of Epstein Files

Data Hoarder Uses AI to Create Searchable Database of Epstein Files

The open source project has been mirrored as a torrent file and represents one of the easiest ways to navigate a messy data dump.

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Text • Becky Ferreira

A New 'Nanoparticle Vaccine' Prevented Cancer In Mice, Study Says

A New 'Nanoparticle Vaccine' Prevented Cancer In Mice, Study Says

The vast majority of mice that received the vaccine warded off repeated exposure to cancer cells, but the applications for humans are still not known.

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Text • Jason Koebler

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

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Text • Matthew Gault

National Guardsman Planned American Caliphate on Discord, Sent 3D Printed Guns to Al Qaeda, Feds Say

National Guardsman Planned American Caliphate on Discord, Sent 3D Printed Guns to Al Qaeda, Feds Say

‘We don’t want democracy lol. We want caliphate.’ According to court records, an Oklahoma guardsman with a security clearance gave 3D printed firearms to an FBI agent posing as an Al Qaeda contact.

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Text • Joseph Cox

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Text • 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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Text • 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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Text • 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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Text • 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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Text • 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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Text • 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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Text • 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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Text • 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.