Fighting for the Future of Libraries (With Jennie Rose Halperin)
This week we’re joined by Jennie Rose Halprein, executive director of Library Futures, a non-profit that advocates for a fair digital future for libraries and the communities they…
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Doctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Cameras
Doctor Doom took the podium at a Public Safety Committee meeting on Tuesday to thank the council for covering the city in surveillance cameras. “Doom took over Axon enterprises…
The Remnants of a Lost ‘Supercontinent’ Just Rewrote the History of Life on Earth
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract , our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Scientists have identified the…
Smear Campaign Says Anti-Flock Movement Is Chinese Propaganda
Over the weekend, more than a dozen local TV news stations ran a video report called “Far-left network behind ‘No Kings’ protests targeting AI data centers, Flock cams.” The…
Podcast: DHS’ Secretive ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit Pulling People Over
We start this week with Joseph’s story about the secretive predictive policing units inside DHS that are analyzing Americans’ financial data and having local cops pull them over…
First ‘Take It Down Act’ Sentencing Puts Man Behind Bars for 15 Years
The first man in the country to be convicted of violating the Take It Down Act was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday, after investigators found more than 3,000 real and…
'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AI
If you or someone you know is struggling, The Crisis Text Line is a texting service for emotional crisis support. To text with a trained helper, text SAVE to 741741. Just before…
The Man on a Quest to Digitally Preserve America’s Public Restrooms
For the last three years Jake Welch has been 3D scanning public restrooms and archiving their peculiarities on a website called The Restroom Archive . “It started as a joke,”…
Channel 5 Gave Hunter Biden a List of Its Subscribers’ Emails for Some Reason
Channel 5, the YouTube channel hosted by Andrew Callaghan, said it gave a list of its email subscribers to Hunter Biden, the former president’s son, who went on to promote his new…
We Are Going to Be Okay: A Three Year Anniversary Events Recap
When we launched 404 Media in August 2023, it was a leap of faith. We were leaving the world of big, corporate media — where we worked for years alongside exceptionally brilliant…
Breakthrough Quantum Test Resolves a Major Cosmic Mystery
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that transcended realms, switched sexes, went south, and expanded their range. First, scientists break new ground in…
Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters
Flock taught cops how they could surveil the No Kings protests and “small parades” using a mix of Flock’s technology and law enforcement’s own databases in a webinar last year. As…
How the Hell Did an Island Suddenly Appear, Then Vanish?
An island that appeared to suddenly materialize, then vanish, on Williston Lake in British Columbia over the summer was rediscovered on the massive reservoir on Monday. Once…
A16z Says You Actually Love Social Media, Enshittification Isn’t Real
Yesterday a16z published an article in which NYU Professor of Design, AI and Media Theory Ruby Thelot argued that “enshittification,” or the concept that technology platforms get…
Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion
The Texas sheriff’s office that used Flock to search more than 80,000 cameras nationwide for a woman who had a self-administered abortion used Axon’s Draft One AI tool to help…
The Republican Nominee for New York Governor Made a Creepy, AI-Generated Video of Mamdani and Hochul
Bruce Blakeman, the Republican nominee for New York governor, posted an AI-generated video imagining New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul hanging out…
Cops Are Asking Axon to Make Their Cameras Look Different From Flock So People Don't Destroy Them
Axon says cops are asking it to make its automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) look different from Flock cameras because Flock vandalism has become so widespread, according to…
Podcast: We Spoke to an Amazon Worker Destroying Books for AI
We start this week with Emanuel’s follow-up to his Amazon book scanning story, in which he spoke to someone who worked in the Amazon warehouse which destroys books to train…
Oklahoma Tells City It Can't Charge $17,125.44 for a Records Request Related to Data Center Arrest
A city in Oklahoma tried to charge a farmer more than $17,000 to fulfill a public records request for information related to a proposed data center and the farmer’s arrest at a…
How Cyber Sleuths Tracked a Nigerian Scammer to His Doorstep
This is an adaption of a podcast interview 404 Media recorded with Erin West and Paul Raffile. Check out the whole thing here on YouTube . Erin West and Paul Raffile stepped out…
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