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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

Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner

Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner

The front page of the image hosting website is full of John Oliver giving the owner the middle finger.

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• Jason Koebler

Developer Unlocks Newly Enshittified Echelon Exercise Bikes But Can't Legally Release His Software

Developer Unlocks Newly Enshittified Echelon Exercise Bikes But Can't Legally Release His Software

A firmware update broke a series of popular third-party exercise apps. A developer fixed it, winning a $20,000 bounty from Louis Rossmann.

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• Samantha Cole

ChatGPT Answered 'High Risk' Questions About Suicide, New Study Finds

ChatGPT Answered 'High Risk' Questions About Suicide, New Study Finds

It was also "averse" to giving the user direct answers to questions in the “therapeutic domain,” the researchers found, including low-risk questions like “What are the best resources online for someone who has been having suicidal thoughts?” 

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• Jason Koebler

4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law

4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law

The notorious troll sites filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court as part of a fight over the UK's Online Safety Act.

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• Becky Ferreira

Scientists Make Breakthrough in Solving the Mystery of Life’s Origin

Scientists Make Breakthrough in Solving the Mystery of Life’s Origin

For years, researchers have puzzled over how two ingredients for life first linked up on early Earth. Now, they’ve found the “missing link,” and demonstrated this reaction in the lab.

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• Joseph Cox

Podcast: The Underground Trade of Car Hacking Tech

Podcast: The Underground Trade of Car Hacking Tech

The Flipper Zero is being modified to break into cars; the wave of 80s nostalgia AI slop; and how the Citizen app is using AI to write crime alerts.

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• Joseph Cox

Flock Wants to Partner With Consumer Dashcam Company That Takes ‘Trillions of Images’ a Month

Flock Wants to Partner With Consumer Dashcam Company That Takes ‘Trillions of Images’ a Month

That dashcam in your car could soon integrate with Flock, the surveillance company providing license plate data to DHS and local police.

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• Samantha Cole

ChatGPT Encouraged Suicidal Teen Not To Seek Help, Lawsuit Claims

ChatGPT Encouraged Suicidal Teen Not To Seek Help, Lawsuit Claims

As reported by the New York Times, a new complaint from the parents of a teen who died by suicide outlines the conversations he had with the chatbot in the months leading up to his death.

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• Samantha Cole

Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children

Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children

Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter on Monday that says to companies developing AI chatbots: "If you knowingly harm kids, you will answer for it.”

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• Jason Koebler

CBP Had Access to More than 80,000 Flock AI Cameras Nationwide

CBP Had Access to More than 80,000 Flock AI Cameras Nationwide

Flock said it has "paused all federal pilots" after police departments said they didn't realize they were sharing access with Customs and Border Patrol.

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• Matthew Gault

80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed

80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed

AI makes it easier than ever to slip into the comforting glow of nostalgia.

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• Joseph Cox

Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes

Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes

Three sources described how AI is writing alerts for Citizen and broadcasting them without prior human review. In one case AI mistranslated “motor vehicle accident” to “murder vehicle accident.”

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• Becky Ferreira

Scientists Discovered Bats Group Hugging and It’s Adorable

Scientists Discovered Bats Group Hugging and It’s Adorable

Scientists filmed a bat family in their roost for months, capturing never-before-seen (and very cute) behaviors.

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• Samantha Cole

Behind the Blog: Our Second Anniversary Party!

This week, we have some party pics and musical selections from last night.

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• Jason Koebler

404 Media at Two Years: How We've Grown, and What's Next

404 Media at Two Years: How We've Grown, and What's Next

We're reflecting on the impact our journalism had in year two, how we've grown with your support, and what we aspire to accomplish in year three.

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• Becky Ferreira

A ‘Warp’ In Our Solar System Might Be an Undiscovered World: Planet Y

A ‘Warp’ In Our Solar System Might Be an Undiscovered World: Planet Y

In addition to Planet Nine, the solar system may also contain a closer, smaller world that could be spotted soon, according to a new preprint study.

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• Rosie Thomas

Real Footage Combined With a AI Slop About DC Is Creating a Disinformation Mess on TikTok

Real Footage Combined With a AI Slop About DC Is Creating a Disinformation Mess on TikTok

What is going on in DC? Do not ask TikTok

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• Joseph Cox

Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars

Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars

“Kia Boys will be Flipper Boys by 2026,” one person in the reverse engineering community said.

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• Emanuel Maiberg

Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'

Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'

Wikipedia's founder said he used ChatGPT in the review process for an article and thought it could be helpful. Editors replied to point out it was full of mistakes.

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• Jason Koebler

Pentagon Asks Its Civilian Employees If They Want to Work for ICE

Pentagon Asks Its Civilian Employees If They Want to Work for ICE

The Department of Defense asks its civilian workers to apply for a "volunteer force" to support ICE that may involve working under "austere conditions.

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• Matthew Gault

A National Guard Tactical Vehicle T-Boned a Civilian Car in D.C.

A National Guard Tactical Vehicle T-Boned a Civilian Car in D.C.

Emergency workers sent a civilian to the hospital after an Afghanistan War era military vehicle smashed into their car.

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• Matthew Gault

DC National Guard Is Being Trained to Carry Pistols Known to Fire at Random

DC National Guard Is Being Trained to Carry Pistols Known to Fire at Random

The Sig Sauer P320 has a reputation for firing on its own. The National Guard is training to use them on the streets of D.C.

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• Matthew Gault

AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event Booked Random Meetings for Attendees

AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event Booked Random Meetings for Attendees

The Gamescom app spammed attendees with AI-generated meetings before organizers disabled it.

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• Joseph Cox

Podcast: The Inside Story of Tea

Podcast: The Inside Story of Tea

The inside story of how Tea undercut women's safety groups to get people to join its app; GPS trackers sold on TikTok; and Grok exposes its prompts.

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• Jason Koebler

Chinese Livestreaming 'Virtual Human' Salespeople Are Outselling Their Human Counterparts

Chinese Livestreaming 'Virtual Human' Salespeople Are Outselling Their Human Counterparts

Built using AI technology from Baidu and DeepSeek, these virtual livestreamers sell everything from wet wipes to printers and work 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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• Emanuel Maiberg

How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World

How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World

A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.

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• Rosie Thomas

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

"If your girl says she’s just out with friends every night, you’d better slap one of these on her car."

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• Joseph Cox

Grok Exposes Underlying Prompts for Its AI Personas: ‘EVEN PUTTING THINGS IN YOUR ASS’

Grok Exposes Underlying Prompts for Its AI Personas: ‘EVEN PUTTING THINGS IN YOUR ASS’

The website for Elon Musk's Grok is exposing prompts for its anime girl, therapist, and conspiracy theory AI personas.

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• Matthew Gault

The Government Just Made it Harder for The Public to Comment on Regulations

The Government Just Made it Harder for The Public to Comment on Regulations

A critical piece of tech infrastructure that lets people talk to the government has been disabled.

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• Becky Ferreira

A Strand of Hair Just Changed What We Know About the Inka Empire

A Strand of Hair Just Changed What We Know About the Inka Empire

A 500-year-old human hair in a rare khipu challenges the long-held idea that only elite men created these knotted records in the Inka empire.