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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
• Joseph Cox
How human sexuality will outsmart prudish algorithms and hateful politicians; the open source software behind the Ukraine drone attack; and how even pro-AI subreddits are dealing with AI delusions.
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• Matthew Gault
Ukraine used ArduPilot to help it wipe out Russian targets. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
Anti-porn laws can't stop porn, but they can stop free speech. In the meantime, people will continue to get off to anything and everything.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
For nine days in September 2023, the world was rocked by an “Unidentified Seismic Object.”
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• Emanuel Maiberg
“AI is rizzing them up in a very unhealthy way at the moment.”
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• Jason Koebler
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
A dead star 15,000 light years from Earth is pulsing every 44 minutes in both X-rays and radio waves.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
The move comes after internal pressure and 404 Media’s reporting.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
This week, we discuss an exciting revamp of The Abstract, tech betrayals, and the "it's for cops" defense.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state where abortion is illegal can search cameras in others where it's a human right.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
A new report from Stanford finds that schools, parents, police, and our legal system are not prepared to deal with the growing problem of minors using AI to generate CSAM of other minors.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
The developer claims the tool is for cops, but anyone can sign up and use it for targeted harassment.
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• Jason Koebler
Judd Stone resigned after admitting to the statements, a letter circulated at the Texas Attorney General's office states.
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• Joseph Cox
How ICE is accessing data from Flock cameras; a new invasive surveillance product; and the radical changes made at AI platform Civitai.
404 Media
• Jordan Pearson
HairDAO is a “decentralized autonomous organization” trying to cure hair loss.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Citing pressure from payment processors and new legislation, a critical resource for producing nonconsensual content bans AI models depicting the likeness of real people.
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• Joseph Cox
The site, starwarsweb.net, was a covert CIA communications tool. It has pictures of Yoda and C-3PO on it.
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• Jason Koebler
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Penguin guano helps clouds form in coastal Antarctica, making these birds an important factor in the region’s climate.
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• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss the benefits of spending 14 hours a day on the internet, getting cozy for AI slop, and a what a new law in Sweden means for the rest of us.
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• Matthew Gault
‘I’ve rewritten the passage to align more with the J. Bree style’ appeared in the middle of a tense scene with a scaled dragon prince.
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• Samantha Cole
Pocket, the app for saving articles to read later, announced it is shutting down on July 8.
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• Joseph Cox
One scheduled speaker has also pulled out of the New York-based event and specifically pointed to Trump’s mass deportation efforts.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
“I went to the zoo the other day, there was only one dog in it…”
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• Samantha Cole
The Nordic Model criminalizes buyers of sex in multiple European countries (and Maine). Sweden just voted to expand its reach to the internet.
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• Matthew Gault
Popular VR game Gorilla Tag partnered with the company k-ID to comply with age verification laws.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
How the Chicago Sun-Times printed an AI-generated summer guide; how schools were not prepared for ChatGPT; and those funny little guys from Star Wars.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
Shooting missiles out of the sky from space could require a constellation of 36,000 satellites.
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• Jason Koebler
The Chicago Sun-Times said "we understand this is unacceptable for us to distribute."
