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404mediaco, 21 hours ago to random

New: Amazon killed three shareholder proposals that would have required transparency about AI-powered robots in the warehouse, efforts to kill union drives, and on workplace safety. Amazon Board claimed it doesn't need any of those things:

https://www.404media.co/amazon-kills-shareholder-proposals-on-worker-treatment-transparency/

404mediaco, 22 hours ago to random

come see us at the Indie Media Circus @xoxo in Portland this August (!!)

https://2024.xoxofest.com/

404mediaco, 10 days ago to random

Amazon worker "voluntary time off" is so competitive that people sit on the app waiting for it release like it's a Playstation 5 or Taylor Swift tickets. Others use bots and "auto acceptor" scripts to grab it immediately

https://www.404media.co/amazon-workers-use-bots-to-snatch-fiercely-competitive-time-off/

404mediaco, 11 days ago to random

Scoop: Solar storm is causing farmers' tractor GPS systems to go haywire. Many have shut down planting altogether during a critical period. A Deere dealer said accuracy is "extremely compromised"

https://www.404media.co/solar-storm-knocks-out-tractor-gps-systems-during-peak-planting-season/

chiraag, 21 days ago to random

Oh man, I was unreasonably excited today when my comment was shouted out by @samleecole on the bonus episode (comment response) of the @404mediaco podcast! Also super appreciative that Sam said my name correctly 😊

404mediaco, 27 days ago to random

New: Discord has shut down a tool that was surveilling thousands of Discord channels and selling the data, and is considering legal action

https://www.404media.co/discord-shuts-down-spy-pet-bots-that-scraped-sold-user-messages/

joecardillo, 1 month ago to random

I've been reading @404mediaco for a few months and just became an annual subscriber, for a few reasons:

• Big Tech is good at PR (+tech startups emulate this) so we need independent journalists who understand that technical/social landscape

• 404 Media is owned by the reporters, and we need more cooperative & collective news publications

• They are covering things no one else does esp. about the impacts of AI on both our culture and basic safety

404mediaco, 1 month ago to random

One of the most influential (often in a bad way) AI research institutes is shutting down, blames Oxford: https://www.404media.co/institute-that-pioneered-ai-existential-risk-research-shuts-down/

404mediaco, 1 month ago to random

A spy site is scraping users' Discord messages and activity across servers and selling them to anyone with $5:

https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/

foone, 1 month ago to random

using a floppy disk image creating tool to create a virtual floppy disk image using a file that I had to load off a floppy disk, so I can put it in a VM and turn it into a PCX, then put that on a real pentium-60 windows 95 PC

sometimes I think I'm going backwards

404mediaco, 1 month ago to random

All bad Amazon bosses are now named "Wayne"

https://www.404media.co/bad-amazon-bosses-wayne/

404mediaco, 1 month ago to random

“In the DeepMind paper there are many examples of predicted materials that are clearly nonsensical. Not only to subject experts, but most high school students could say that compounds like H2O11 (which is a Deepmind prediction) do not look right."

https://www.404media.co/google-says-it-discovered-millions-of-new-materials-with-ai-human-researchers/

kieranmcguire, 1 month ago to random

@404mediaco hey, if you add the "https://" part to your website link in your bio it will:

1. work properly as a link, and
2. show the green 'verified' highlight.

It looks like that's what you're after as the link in your site footer has the rel="me" attribute, it's just not doing anything atm.

404mediaco, 1 month ago to random

A loose group of teenage hackers who largely grew out of Roblox and Minecraft communities have been kidnapping, robbing, and bricking each other's homes in an increasingly violent internal 'world war'

https://www.404media.co/inside-the-com-world-war-robberies-brickings-and-drama/

404mediaco, 1 month ago to random

Everyone say hi to @julesaroscoe

https://www.404media.co/introducing-the-first-404-media-fellow-jules-roscoe/

404mediaco, 1 month ago to random

The chicken shop that outsourced its cashier job to a woman on Zoom in the Philippines has the Zoom meeting ID and password taped to a computer on the front desk, facing everyone:

https://www.404media.co/sansan-chicken-zoom-cashier/

404mediaco, 1 month ago to random

people very upset that famous 3D hologram pop star actually just flat screen at live shows

https://www.404media.co/hatsune-miku-fans-furious-live-show-was-just-a-flatscreen-on-stage/

ernie, 1 month ago to random

Why is there not video of this??!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?

404mediaco, 1 month ago to random

It's time to pay for search?

https://www.404media.co/friendship-ended-with-google-now-kagi-is-my-best-friend/

404mediaco, 1 month ago to random

New: Google banned one of the most destructive deepfake/nudify apps, which was masquerading as a normal face swap app on the store but was advertising itself as a deepfake porn app on porn sites

This follows our reporting on damage these apps are doing

https://www.404media.co/google-bans-face-swap-app-for-advertising-deepfakes-on-porn-sites/

404mediaco, 1 month ago to random

Independent and DIY car repair is a cornerstone of American culture and has been largely protected from manufacturer monopoly until very recently. But new DRM and dealer-only diagnostic equipment is threatening that:

https://www.404media.co/the-car-repair-apocalypse-could-soon-be-upon-us/

404mediaco, 1 month ago to random

An extremely normal note that is on many many Getty photos and videos is, of course, being used to suggest the Kate Middleton video is fake

https://www.404media.co/getty-editors-note-kate-middleton-cancer-diagnosis-video/

chartgerink, 1 month ago to random

Thanks @404mediaco for reminding me how awesome the #Geocities times were.

video/mp4

404mediaco, 1 month ago to random

The Xz backdoor highlights all of the good things about open source projects and also all of the vulnerabilities and weirdness associated with relying on essentially random volunteers to build software that huge parts of the internet use

https://www.404media.co/the-xz-backdoor-highlights-the-vulnerability-of-open-source-software-and-its-strengths/

404mediaco, 1 month ago to random

We are very very excited to announce that 404 Media now has full text RSS feeds for our paying subscribers!!! Get your feed link here and learn more about why and how we did this:

https://www.404media.co/404-media-now-has-a-full-text-rss-feed/