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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
Florida's attorney general claims Nutaku, Spicevids, and Segpay are in violation of the state's age verification law.
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• Matthew Gault
Scammers stole the crypto from a Latvian streamer battling cancer and the wider security community rallied to make him whole.
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• Joseph Cox
The drone flight log data, which stretches from March 2024 to March 2025, shows CBP flying its drones to support ICE and other agencies. CBP maintains multiple Predator drones and flew them over the recent anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
YouTube removed a channel that posted nothing but graphic Veo-generated videos of women being shot after 404 Media reached out for comment.
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• Joseph Cox
404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.
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• Becky Ferreira
More than 100 artifacts on Turkey’s Aegean coast hints that humans and Neanderthals may have crossed a vanished bridge now submerged beneath the sea.
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• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss San Diego and Costa Rica reporting trips.
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• Joseph Cox
Dale Britt Bendler “earned approximately $360,000 in private client fees while also working as a full-time CIA contractor with daily access to highly classified material that he searched like it was his own personal Google,” according to a court record.
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• Matthew Gault
Academic workers are re-thinking how they live and work online after some have been fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk following his death.
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• Claire Woodcock
It’s a trippy time to have a library card.
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• Matthew Gault
An AI-generated show on Russian TV includes Trump singing obnoxious songs and talking about golden toilets.
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• Joseph Cox
A massive hack of a popular dashcam company; the sentencing of someone Sam has covered for years; and the mass firings around Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
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• Samantha Cole
The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" proposes a total ban on porn in the state, and also targets the existence of trans people online, content like erotic ASMR, and selling VPNs in the state.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
OpenAI introduces new age prediction and verification methods after wave of teen suicide stories involving chatbots.
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• Jason Koebler
Some sellers on eBay and Etsy have jacked up their shipping costs so American buyers won't buy their products.
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• Joseph Cox
New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.
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• Matthew Gault
An LLM breathed new life into 'Animal Crossing' and made the villagers rise up against their landlord.
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• Jason Koebler
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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• Becky Ferreira
Strange “leopard spots” on Mars are the most promising signs of alien life on the planet yet, but they could also have a geological origin.
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• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss "free speech," keeping stupid thoughts in one's own head, and cancel culture.
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• Samantha Cole
An email sent to NBCUniversal employees, including journalists at NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and more, eulogizes Charlie Kirk as an "advocate for open debate" and reminds staff that even milquetoast statements about Kirk's death can result in their firing.
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• Matthew Gault
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
The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Linkedin has been joking about “vibe coding cleanup specialists,” but it’s actually a growing profession.
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• Becky Ferreira
“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 the iconic looping video of a studying anime girl and stream of chill music became a big business.
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• Jason Koebler
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
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
"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."
