The 404 Media Podcast

404 Media

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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...

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Episodes (167)

The Disappearing DOGE Depositions

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Google Street View's Unmappable City

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How to Talk to Your Friend Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'

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Mar 11, 202644:25completed

Understanding Roblox’s Grooming Problem

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Mar 9, 202648:03failed

The Depravity Economy

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Mar 4, 202657:20pending

How to Detect Phone Spying Tech (with Cooper Quintin)

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Mar 2, 202654:48pending

Ring Is Just Getting Started

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Feb 25, 202653:15pending

Privacy Under Pressure (With Harlo Holmes)

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Inside an AI-Powered School

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Feb 18, 20261:00:10pending

What It’s Like to Be a Data Labeler Training AI

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Feb 16, 202649:41pending

Ring Is Back and Scarier Than Ever

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Feb 11, 202650:02pending

The Screen Time Panic Sets Parents Up to Fail

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Feb 9, 20261:25:54pending

The Latest Epstein Dump is a Disaster

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Feb 4, 202655:00pending

How Identity Literally Changes What You See (with Samuel Bagg)

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Feb 2, 202650:24pending

Creators Worry Porn Platform Is Falling Into ‘AI Psychosis’

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Jan 28, 202649:42pending

Exposing the People Behind Deepfake Porn Sites with Bellingcat Investigator Koli...

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Jan 26, 202652:25pending

Here’s What Palantir Is Really Building

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Jan 21, 202644:46pending

How Wikipedia Will Survive in the Age of AI (With Wikipedia’s CTO Selena Deckelm...

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Jan 19, 202654:37pending

The ICE Tool That Tracks Entire Neighborhoods

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Jan 14, 202642:47pending

How Benn Jordan Discovered Flock's Cameras Were Left Streaming to the Internet

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Jan 12, 202638:36pending

The People Tracking America's AI Data Centers

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Jan 7, 202651:07pending

REPLAY: Pornhub Exec Alexzandra Kekesi Discusses Pulling Out of the South, Trad...

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Jan 5, 202656:54pending

REPLAY: Signal's Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AI

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Dec 31, 202549:25pending

The Shifting World of OSINT (with Craig Silverman)

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Dec 29, 202546:29pending

We Tracked Ourselves with Exposed Flock Cameras

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Dec 24, 202553:43pending

Landing Big Scoops as an Indie Journalist (with Marisa Kabas)

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Dec 22, 202543:53pending

Is Wiping a Phone a Crime?

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Dec 17, 202547:51pending

Why Are We Obsessed With Aliens? (With Becky Ferreira)

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Zines Are Back

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Dec 10, 202541:51pending

How AI Porn Isolates Us with Noelle Perdue

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Dec 8, 202556:18pending

This Podcast Will Hack You

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Dec 3, 202541:02pending

Inside the Biggest Sting Operation Ever (with Michael Bobbitt)

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Dec 1, 202551:10pending

A Massive Breach Reveals the Truth Behind 'Secret Desires AI'

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Nov 26, 202555:23pending

Luxury Surveillance (With Chris Gilliard)

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Nov 24, 20251:02:44pending

The Epstein Email Dump Is a Mess

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Nov 19, 202557:06pending

The Video Game Industry’s Existential Crisis (with Jason Schreier)

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Nov 17, 20251:04:39pending

Inside a Small Town's Fight Against a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter

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Nov 12, 202549:54pending

A Massive Archiving Effort at National Parks (with Jenny McBurney and Lynda Kell...

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Nov 10, 202546:08pending

People Are Modding Meta Ray-Bans to Spy On You

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Nov 5, 202553:04pending

The Crackdown on ICE Spotting Apps (with Joshua Aaron)

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Nov 3, 202544:45pending

Grokipedia Is Cringe

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Oct 29, 202540:25pending

Hackers Dox ICE

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Oct 22, 202549:44pending

Meta Tells Workers to ‘Go 5x Faster’ with AI

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Oct 15, 202547:25pending

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an Environmental Disaster (With Nathan Proctor)

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Oct 13, 20251:05:54pending

The Final Boss of AI Slop

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Oct 8, 202553:29pending

Landlords Demand Your Workplace Logins to Scrape Paystubs

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Oct 1, 202548:40pending

We're Suing ICE. Here's Why

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Sep 24, 202552:57pending

The (Hacked) Spy In Your Car

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Sep 17, 202551:30pending

AI Slop Is Drowning Out Human YouTubers

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Sep 10, 202558:34pending

404 Media Live: LA! [TEASER]

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