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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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• Jason Koebler
When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Amazon employees have a Slack channel for memes where the mock and commiserate about the company’s faulty AI coding product.
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• Joseph Cox
SignalTrace "links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate." It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.
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• Joseph Cox
Microsoft took the highly unusual step of shutting down more than 70 of its own GitHub repositories after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from AI coding agent users.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Emanuel talks to Devindra Hardawar about AI in Hollywood and the state of the movie industry.
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• Matthew Gault
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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• Becky Ferreira
The north-south albedo symmetry may be fading as both hemispheres get darker.
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• Joseph Cox
ICE plans to give potentially more than a thousand agencies access to a facial recognition app that verifies a person's immigration status.
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• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss controversial memes, good times at Meta, and more.
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• Becky Ferreira
A random sequence in an innocuous GPS message field is likely encrypted traffic from the U.S. military's system for remotely updating cryptographic keys around the world.
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• Janus Rose
With some fans making sexualized AI-generated images and videos of idols, the rest of the fandom is standing up against the behavior.
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• Jason Koebler
Microsoft's CEO seems unaware of what's going on at his own company.
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• Jason Koebler
The Bricks & Minifigs / Reckless Ben beef is breaking containment and can no longer be ignored.
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• Joseph Cox
Just Futures Law is seeking a wealth of documents related to the tech Palantir provides to ICE.
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• Samantha Cole
“It's striking, concerning, disappointing, and saddening to think that members of the bar would forward cases to a court that don't exist, and to think that the lawyers on the other side of that didn’t read it for whatever reason, didn’t check it.”
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code say the AI they’re using is overhyped.
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• Jason Koebler
"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."
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• Joseph Cox
The insane Meta AI hack; Amazon's internal AI leaderboard; and our lawsuit against ICE.
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• Jason Koebler
Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.
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• Jason Koebler
Google is trying to buy code from some Android developers as part of a "confidential" program.
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• Jason Koebler
Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.
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• Matthew Gault
The researchers compared AI to the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo, who can’t see he’s stumbling through dangerous situations.
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• Joseph Cox
The API would make IRS data available to any app the agency wishes. The Criminal Investigation arm of the IRS is also modernizing its own systems.
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• Emanuel Maiberg
Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.
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• Jason Koebler
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
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• Joseph Cox
Paragon's software is capable of remotely breaking into phones and accessing messages from encrypted messaging apps. Our lawsuit aims to pry records about it from ICE.
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• Matthew Gault
There are hundreds of anti-data center Facebook pages churning out AI-generated slopaganda.
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• Becky Ferreira
A new study suggests that bacteria dispersed through space on dust grains could potentially arrive intact and alive on Jupiter’s moon Europa.
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• Samantha Cole
This week, we discuss going deeper and Google's search changes.
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• Samantha Cole
A new study by the Center for Democracy & Technology shows how chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Replika and more can lead users down paths they didn't intend.
