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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
Missouri’s age verification law, enacted on November 30, is the halfway mark for the sweep of age verification laws across the country.
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• Joseph Cox
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• Matthew Gault
It looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets.
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• Joseph Cox
Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.
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• Joseph Cox
Joseph talks to a former FBI official about how the FBI secretly ran an encrypted phone for organized criminals, sweeping up tens of millions of messages.
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• Becky Ferreira
Scientists found that major celebrities died four years earlier than their less famous peers, hinting that fame itself can be a mortality risk.
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• Joseph Cox
For months Apple Podcasts has been randomly opening spirituality and religion podcasts by itself, and one case directing listeners to a potentially malicious website.
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• Becky Ferreira
“It was like playing the lottery,” said astronomer Tomonori Totani, adding that he hopes other scientists will verify the possible detection of a new dark matter signature.
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• Janus Rose
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
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• Joseph Cox
A breach shows people are making AI porn of ordinary people at scale; X exposes the location of its biggest MAGA grifters; and how we contributed to the shut down of a warrantless surveillance program.
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• Matthew Gault
‘I’ll find you again, the only thing that doesn’t cross paths are mountains.’ In a game about loot, robots, and betrayal, all a raider has is their personal reputation. This site catalogues it.
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• Jason Koebler
Here is the archived video of our FOIA Forum about how to do reporting on Flock.
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• Joseph Cox
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• Jason Koebler
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
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• Jules Roscoe
A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.
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• Becky Ferreira
The remains of Theia are scattered deep inside the Earth and its satellite. By analyzing these remnants, scientists have proposed an origin.
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• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss how data is accessed, AI in games, and more.
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• Joseph Cox
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
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• Jason Koebler
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
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• Jason Koebler
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
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• Samantha Cole
OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair announced on LinkedIn that the platform partnered with Checkr to "prevent people who have a criminal conviction which may impact on our community's safety from signing up as a Creator on OnlyFans."
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• Matthew Gault
A few years ago, Putin hyped the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. Now electronic warfare is knocking it out of the sky with music and some bad directions.
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• Matthew Gault
Rogan's conspiracy-minded audience blame mods of covering up for Rogan's guests, including Trump, who are named in the Epstein files.
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• Samantha Cole
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social media, at their workplaces, graduating from universities, taking selfies on vacation, and more.
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• Joseph Cox
We talk the terrible format of the latest Epstein dump; how a contractor is hiring randos on LinkedIn to physically track immigrants for $300; and a new code of conduct in the adult industry.
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• Becky Ferreira
Kissing is ubiquitous among many animals, especially primates, suggesting deep evolutionary roots of the behavior.
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• Jason Koebler
“Most drivers are unaware that San Jose’s Police Department is tracking their locations and do not know all that their saved location data can reveal about their private lives and activities."
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• Jason Koebler
"The lack of due process on its own is extremely disturbing," the conference said.
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• Joseph Cox
The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.
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• Joseph Cox
A bipartisan letter reveals the IRS searched a database of hundreds of millions of travel records without first conducting a legal review. Airlines like Delta, United, American, and Southwest are selling these records to the government through a co-owned data broker.
