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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
• Matthew Gault
RightCon's organizers said Beijing was upset over over the inclusion of speakers from Taiwain.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss a wild message, a new anthology, and a visit to a museum.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
The Compiler takes a serious amount of time, skill, and luck to get to. Someone on eBay is selling an easy fix.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
AirKamuy is shipping flatpacked drones made of paper that cost around $2,000.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
RightsCon was delayed by Zambia's Ministry of Information for "thematic issues" and problems with speakers.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
CBP is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on more high-powered surveillance drones, and other components of DHS may start their own fleet of MQ-9 drones as well.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
The move comes directly in response to 404 Media’s coverage about how the FBI was able to recover incoming Signal messages from an iPhone because the messages were saved in the device’s notification storage.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
A magic eye that isn't, an AI learning tool that sucks, and more in this week's podcast.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
Humans can’t hear low-frequency “infrasound,” but a new study demonstrates that it raises our stress levels and triggers an “unsettling” feeling that could be linked to people’s experiences in haunted locations.
404 Media
• Kit O'Connell
“You’re allowed to use a company’s name to talk about the company.”
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
More people having access to the courts is potentially good, but it’s not clear how the system can handle this increase in cases.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
Exploring the origins of an incredibly dumb, Magic Eye-themed WHCD conspiracy theory.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
Here's what happened when powerful hacking tools from one of the most trusted vendors ended up in the wrong hands.
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
Philosophers said the paper’s argument is sound, but that “all these arguments have been presented years and years ago.”
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
The discovery of a bizarre golden object two miles under Alaskan waters flummoxed scientists, but a new study pins down the true nature of the “orb.”
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss Tim Cook, Meta layoffs, and a very bad ad.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
Venture capitalists can't subsidize cheap AI forever, and the hunger for more compute is affecting the labor market, the gadget market, and electricity prices.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
America’s nuclear scientists plan to break ground on an AI data center next week, but the Township where it’s being constructed just put a 365 day hold on providing it with water.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
Grok and Gemini encouraged delusions and isolated users, while the newer ChatGPT model and Claude hit the emotional brakes.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
The new proposed budget slashes money for environmental cleanup and calls to double the production of cores for nuclear weapons.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
A new class of AI startups say they are taking money that would normally be used to hire people and are spending it on AI compute instead.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
Lost in the wedding algorithm sauce, "clean rooms" for AI, and founders obsessed with "tokenmaxxing" in this week's 404 Media Podcast.
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
Was Tim Cook GOOD or BAD?
404 Media
• Emanuel Maiberg
Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
Salmon exposed to cocaine and its byproduct swam farther than unexposed fish, raising alarms about drug pollution in aquatic ecosystems.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
Forbes launched ForbesPredict in January as part of an effort to reverse declining traffic from search engines and keep users on its website longer.
404 Media
• Samantha Cole
Maddy and Sam get into the launch of Mothership and the importance of owning one's own work.
