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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
• Rosie Thomas
Protesters outside LA's Tesla Diner fear for the future of democracy in the USA
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss meeting a bunch of you in LA, the ongoing Tea saga, and age verification sweeping the UK.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
The decision highlights hurdles faced by developers as they navigate a world where credit card companies dictate what is and isn't appropriate.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
“I believe Apple is charging this because they know if the price is high enough no one will buy it."
404 Media
• Rosie Thomas
People failing to identify a video of adorable bunnies as AI slop has sparked worries that many more people could fall for online scams.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
Scientists have discovered chemosynthetic animals, which don’t rely on the Sun to live, nearly six miles under the ocean surface—deeper than any found to date.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
Negative articles about a tech CEO vanished from Google after someone made fraudulent requests using the Refresh Outdated Content Tool.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.
404 Media
• Rosie Thomas
We talked to people living in the building whose views are being blocked by Tesla's massive four-story screen.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
The massive Tea breach; how the UK's age verification law is impacting access to information; and LeBron James' AI-related cease-and-desist.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
The Plaintiff claims Tea harmed her and ‘thousands of other similarity situated persons in the massive and preventable cyberattack.’
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
The Sig Sauer P320 has a reputation for firing without pulling the trigger. The manufacturer says that's impossible, but the firearms community is showing the truth is more complicated.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
“If visibility of r/IsraelCrimes is being restricted under the Online Safety Act, it’s only because the state fears accountability,” moderators say.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
404 Media first contacted Tea about the security issue on Saturday. The company disabled direct messages on Monday after our report.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
"This is more representative of the developer environment that our future employees will work in."
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
The more than one million messages obtained by 404 Media are as recent as last week, discuss incredibly sensitive topics, and make it trivial to unmask some anonymous Tea users.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
“Without these safeguards, Mr. Barber eventually developed full-blown PTSD, which he is currently still being treated for,” the former mod's lawyer said.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
Germ says it is the “first secure messaging service on the ATProtocol!”
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
Researchers witnessing warming in Svalbard worry that “we have been too cautious” with climate warnings.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
This week, we discuss smart glasses for frat bros, Amazon comms messiness, and more.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
“DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
By going after Itch.io, “we’re really hamstringing the future of arts and communication.”
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
An error message appears saying "The following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists" when users try to add the phrase to their bios, but any number of other phrases about political and religious preferences are allowed.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
The games were mentioned in a 2024 report and are now part of a new lawsuit in which a 11 year old girl was allegedly groomed and sexually assaulted after meeting a stranger on Roblox.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
Viral Instagram accounts making LeBron 'brainrot' videos have also been banned.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
Over the past few centuries, dams have pulled the poles a few feet off of Earth’s rotational axis.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, which Amazon then pushed out to users.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
Welcome to the era of ‘gaslight driven development.’ Soundslice added a feature the chatbot thought it existed after engineers kept finding screenshots from the LLM in its error logs.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
Spotify is publishing AI-generated tracks of dead artists; a company is selling hacked data to debt collectors; and the Astronomer CEO episode shows the surveillance dystopia we live in.
