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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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• Emanuel Maiberg
‘The proposed transaction poses a number of significant foreign influence and national security risks.’
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• Samantha Cole
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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• Matthew Gault
Say goodbye to the Guy Fawkes masks and hello to inflatable frogs and dinosaurs.
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• Samantha Cole
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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• Samantha Cole
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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• Matthew Gault
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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• Joseph Cox
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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• Becky Ferreira
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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• Becky Ferreira
Plus, when did claret get so good and why did Shackleton's ship Endurance sink? Historical updates aplenty.
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• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss a ransomware gang, book bans, and infrastructure.
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• Jason Koebler
Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."
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• Joseph Cox
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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• Jason Koebler
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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• Becky Ferreira
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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• Jason Koebler
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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• Matthew Gault
‘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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• Joseph Cox
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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• Samantha Cole
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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• Joseph Cox
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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• Joseph Cox
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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• Matthew Gault
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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• Jason Koebler
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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• Emanuel Maiberg
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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• Becky Ferreira
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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• Joseph Cox
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.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Carleigh Beriont is running for Congress as an “anti-social Democrat” and she thinks the party needs to abandon social media nationally also.
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• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss characters in open source, that Saudi comedy festival, and asking ourselves if we're haters.
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• Joseph Cox
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move,” the developer said.
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• Becky Ferreira
For decades, scientists assumed that symmetry between the reflectivity of Earth’s hemispheres was a “fundamental property” of our planet. Now, that’s changed.
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• Matthew Gault
A hacking group called the Crimson Collective says it pulled data from private GitHub repositories connected to Red Hat's consulting business. Red Hat has confirmed it is investigating the compromise.
