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404 Media is an independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
"Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025 and October 31, 2025 has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all."
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• Joseph Cox
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Video games are more popular than ever, but many of the biggest companies in the business seem like they are struggling to adapt and convert that popularity into stability and sustainability.
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• Joseph Cox
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
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• Becky Ferreira
The newly sequenced RNA is 25,000 years older than the previous record-holder, opening a new window into genetic evolution and revealing a surprise about a famous mammoth mummy.
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• Matthew Gault
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
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• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss getting back on our AI slop bullshit, deepfakes in schools, and epistemic virtues.
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• Joseph Cox
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”
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• Jason Koebler
An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.
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• Joseph Cox
Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
OpenAI’s guardrails against copyright infringement are falling for the oldest trick in the book.
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• Samantha Cole
The newly-formed, first of its kind Adult Studio Alliance is founded by major porn companies including Aylo, Dorcel, ERIKALUST, Gamma Entertainment, Mile High Media and Ricky’s Room, and establishes a code of conduct for studios.
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• Joseph Cox
A fight against a massive AI data center; how people are 3D-printing whistles to fight ICE; and AI's war on knowledge.
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• Jason Koebler
A Washington judge said images taken by Flock cameras are "not exempt from disclosure" in public record requests.
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• Becky Ferreira
Waves within Earth’s mantle can carry traces of past continents across hundreds of miles, explaining why their chemical fingerprints appear in unlikely places.
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• Samantha Cole
Software engineer Hector Dearman built a zoomable map of every issue of BYTE magazine.
404 Media
• David Covucci
Public records show DHS is deploying the "Homeland Security Information Network" at college protests and football games.
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• Joseph Cox
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
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• Samantha Cole
A man running a Danish copycat of the r/WatchItForThePlot subreddit was assured of posting no less than 347 nude scenes from films, and downloading over 25 terabytes of data from copyrighted works.
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• Joseph Cox
Come learn how researchers and others learned what cops were using Flock's nationwide network of cameras for, including searches for ICE.
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• Samantha Cole
This week we have a conversation between Sam and two of the leaders of the independent volunteer archiving project Save Our Signs, an effort to archive national park signs and monument placards.
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• Becky Ferreira
New research “suggests that dark energy may no longer be a cosmological constant” and that the universe’s expansion is slowing down.
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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."
