The 404 Media Podcast

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Timothy72
 Jan 28, 2025
I like this podcast, but not the f-bombs and other profanities


 Oct 28, 2024

Rebecca
 Jun 1, 2024
Excellent reporting in an informal and uncensored chat amongst the journalists format. It's very informative and entertaining! 😊

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 Oct 21, 2023
Unique journalism. i'm grateful we have access to these voices.

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 Aug 24, 2023
Looking forward to more great journalism from 404 media

Description

Welcome to the podcast from 404 Media where Joseph, Sam, Emanuel, and Jason catch you up on the stories we published this week. 404 Media is a journalist-owned digital media company exploring the way technology is shaping–and is shaped by–our world. We bring you unparalleled access to hidden worlds both online and IRL through investigative reporting, smart blogging, and breaking news. At 404 Media you’ll read, and hear, stories you can’t find anywhere else written by journalists who are leading experts on their beats. Subscribe to 404 Media at 404media.co to gain access to an ad-free version of this podcast, as well as a bonus podcast episodes. Subscribers are the bedrock of building a sustainable business for our journalism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Date
OpenAI's Studio Ghibli AI: 'An Insult to Life Itself'
Apr 02, 2025
The DNA of 15 Million People Is For Sale
Mar 26, 2025
The Websites An ICE Contractor is Monitoring
Mar 19, 2025
We're Not Ready for Chinese AI Video Generators
Mar 12, 2025
The Tesla Protests Come for Cybertruck Owners
Mar 05, 2025
The Rise of AI Book Ripoffs
Feb 26, 2025
DOGE's Website, Hacked
Feb 19, 2025
AI Is Breaking Our Brains
Feb 12, 2025
Inside Musk’s Government Takeover
Feb 05, 2025
The Truth Behind DeepSeek
Jan 29, 2025
Pornhub Exec Discusses Pulling Out of the South, Trad Wives, and Feet Pics
Jan 27, 2025
TikTok and the Tech Oligarchy
Jan 22, 2025
Total Chaos at Meta
Jan 15, 2025
Meta Goes Mask Off
Jan 08, 2025
The 404 Media Year in Review
Dec 31, 2024
Why We Cover AI the Way We Do
Dec 25, 2024
The New Jersey Drone Panic
Dec 18, 2024
3D Printed Guns and UnitedHealthcare
Dec 11, 2024
Your Bluesky Posts Are Probably Training AI
Dec 04, 2024
Pokémon Go to The Military Industrial Complex
Nov 27, 2024
Buzzfeed's AI Ads Are a Disaster
Nov 20, 2024
How AI Is Being Used by Hackers and Criminals (Sponsored)
Nov 15, 2024
How Apple is Locking Out Cops
Nov 13, 2024
The Plan to Use AI to Purge Voter Rolls
Nov 06, 2024
An Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Running a Democrat Impersonation Campaign
Oct 30, 2024
How Politician Turned Advocate Susanna Gibson Battles Non-Consensual Imagery
Oct 25, 2024
How the U.S. Government Tracks Your Phone
Oct 23, 2024
Why the WordPress Chaos Matters
Oct 16, 2024
The Smart Glasses That Dox Strangers
Oct 09, 2024
One Year Anniversary Subscriber Bonanza
Oct 04, 2024
AI Companies Are Opting You In By Default
Oct 02, 2024
Telegram is Working With the Cops
Sep 25, 2024
Hezbollah's Exploding Pagers
Sep 18, 2024
Fraudsters: 'We Know Where You Live'
Sep 11, 2024
Is Criticizing AI Ableist?
Sep 04, 2024
The Arrest of Telegram Founder Pavel Durov
Aug 28, 2024
A Whirlwind Tour of DEF CON
Aug 25, 2024
How Taylor Swift Could Sue Trump for AI Images
Aug 21, 2024
The OSINT Hunt for a Sex Trafficking Ringleader
Aug 14, 2024
The Massive Nvidia Leak
Aug 07, 2024
Signal's Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AI
Aug 02, 2024
Google, Reddit, and the Robots.txt Rebellion
Jul 31, 2024
The CrowdStrike Outage
Jul 24, 2024
The Worst Telecom Breach Ever
Jul 17, 2024
The Ticketmaster Hack
Jul 10, 2024
Your Identity Hacked, Yet Verified
Jul 03, 2024
Replacing 404 Media with AI
Jun 26, 2024
AI Celebs Take Over Google Image Search
Jun 19, 2024
Hacking the Adderall Shortage
Jun 12, 2024
DARK WIRE on Whale Hunting
Jun 06, 2024
A Massive Google Leak
Jun 05, 2024
Google Somehow Got Even More Shit
May 29, 2024
Your Phone's Location is Exposed
May 22, 2024
Why the Solar Storm Broke Tractors and GPS
May 15, 2024
Facebook is the 'Zombie Internet'
May 08, 2024
A Lost Media Mystery
May 01, 2024
The Humane Ai Pin Is a Disaster
Apr 24, 2024
The 'Com World War'
Apr 17, 2024
The Wild World of Fake AI Influencers
Apr 10, 2024
The Xz Backdoor and the AI Peer-Review Crisis
Apr 03, 2024
The Shaky Science of License Plate Readers
Mar 27, 2024
Shrimp Jesus
Mar 20, 2024
How Hackers Steal Mountains of Oxy and Adderall
Mar 13, 2024
The AI-Powered TikTok Hustlers
Mar 06, 2024
Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
Feb 28, 2024
Byron Tau on the New U.S. Surveillance State
Feb 27, 2024
A Deepfake Nightmare + Vibrator Malware
Feb 21, 2024
An Open Source Search Engine to Replace Google
Feb 14, 2024
Inside a Fraud Factory
Feb 07, 2024
This Is It. The Deepfake Reckoning
Feb 01, 2024
Why Google Is Shit Now
Jan 25, 2024
Google Finally Endorses Right to Repair
Jan 17, 2024
Deepfaked Celeb Scam Ads Are All Over YouTube
Jan 10, 2024
Inside a $7 Million Airbnb Scam
Jan 04, 2024
These Companies Say They're Using Microphone Audio to Target Ads
Dec 21, 2023
How Did a 'Russian Economist' Fly into LAX With No Ticket, No Passport, No Memory of How He Got There?
Dec 13, 2023
a16z Funded AI Platform Generated Images That “Could Be Categorized as Child Pornography,” Leaked Documents Show
Dec 06, 2023
Male Tech Conference Founder Runs Popular Woman-in-Tech Account (???)
Nov 29, 2023
OpenAI, Harry Potter Fanfic, and Hackers Who Gamble
Nov 23, 2023
Venture Capitalists a16z Fund Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn
Nov 15, 2023
How AI-Powered Cameras Took Over One Small American Town
Nov 08, 2023
YouTube Profiting from a Drug Market, and SIM Swappers Working with Ransomware Gangs
Nov 01, 2023
OSINT, Twitter, and a $30 Million Bitcoin Ring
Oct 25, 2023
AI is Muddying the Horrors of War, and a Film Community Implodes
Oct 18, 2023
SpongeBob, AI, and a Crisis Among Ticket Sellers
Oct 11, 2023
A Glitch Is Hiding Porn on YouTube, and Food Delivery Robots Feed Footage to the LAPD
Oct 04, 2023
Ticket Scalpers, The New Frontier of AI Chat Bots, and Mass Doxing on TikTok
Sep 27, 2023
The Tool That ICE Can Use to Track Pregnancy Websites and Fortnite
Sep 20, 2023
We Reveal One of the FBI's Most Closely Guarded Secrets
Sep 14, 2023
Amazon Is Selling AI-Generated Books That Are a Matter of 'Life or Death'
Sep 06, 2023
Instagram's Rampant Ads-for-Crime Problem
Aug 29, 2023
Welcome to 404 Media
Aug 22, 2023