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The 404 Media Podcast — 196 episodes
How Brands Use Reddit to Poison AI Search
If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II
Stopping Tech Company Censorship (with Jake Hanrahan)
The Government Wants to End Anonymity on Phones
Meet Me at the Opsec Rave (with Imani Thompson)
Google Employees Meme About How Bad Their AI Is
It’s So Not Over for Hollywood (with Devindra Hardawar)
Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked
A Repairable, No-Tech Tractor
How Deepfakes Destroyed a High School
Millions of People Are Installing Malware on Their Partners’ Phones
Boo-sters
The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris
The Chinese Deepfake Software Powering Scams
How the World Became a Casino (With Natasha Schüll)
Flock Used Cameras at a Children’s Gymnastics Center for a Sales Pitch
The New Luddites: Why People Are Destroying Surveillance and AI Infrastructure
How This Trippy Image Started A Massive Conspiracy Theory
Government Hacking Tools Are Now in Criminals' Hands (with Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)
How Algorithms Make Us Feel Bad and Weird
Why Journalists Are Leaving Big Media (with Maddy Myers)
How the FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages
How the Internet Became Hell (with Whitney Phillips)
Wildlife Cops Are Searching AI Cameras for ICE
The Lawyer Fighting Government Surveillance for 30 Years (With EFF's Cindy Cohn)
Inside the AI Slop Propaganda Wars
The Journalist Who Tracked Epstein Island Visitors’ Phones
The Company Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into Podcasts
The Marketing Tricks of "Artificial Intelligence"
The Disappearing DOGE Depositions
Google Street View's Unmappable City
How to Talk to Your Friend Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'
Understanding Roblox’s Grooming Problem
The Depravity Economy
How to Detect Phone Spying Tech (with Cooper Quintin)
Ring Is Just Getting Started
Privacy Under Pressure (With Harlo Holmes)
Inside an AI-Powered School
What It’s Like to Be a Data Labeler Training AI
Ring Is Back and Scarier Than Ever
The Screen Time Panic Sets Parents Up to Fail
The Latest Epstein Dump is a Disaster
How Identity Literally Changes What You See (with Samuel Bagg)
Creators Worry Porn Platform Is Falling Into ‘AI Psychosis’
Exposing the People Behind Deepfake Porn Sites with Bellingcat Investigator Kolina Koltai
Here’s What Palantir Is Really Building
How Wikipedia Will Survive in the Age of AI (With Wikipedia’s CTO Selena Deckelmann)
The ICE Tool That Tracks Entire Neighborhoods
How Benn Jordan Discovered Flock's Cameras Were Left Streaming to the Internet
The People Tracking America's AI Data Centers
REPLAY: Pornhub Exec Alexzandra Kekesi Discusses Pulling Out of the South, Trad Wives, and Feet Pics
REPLAY: Signal's Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AI
The Shifting World of OSINT (with Craig Silverman)
We Tracked Ourselves with Exposed Flock Cameras
Landing Big Scoops as an Indie Journalist (with Marisa Kabas)
Is Wiping a Phone a Crime?
Why Are We Obsessed With Aliens? (With Becky Ferreira)
Zines Are Back
How AI Porn Isolates Us with Noelle Perdue
This Podcast Will Hack You
Inside the Biggest Sting Operation Ever (with Michael Bobbitt)
A Massive Breach Reveals the Truth Behind 'Secret Desires AI'
Luxury Surveillance (With Chris Gilliard)
The Epstein Email Dump Is a Mess
The Video Game Industry’s Existential Crisis (with Jason Schreier)
Inside a Small Town's Fight Against a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter
A Massive Archiving Effort at National Parks (with Jenny McBurney and Lynda Kellam)
People Are Modding Meta Ray-Bans to Spy On You
The Crackdown on ICE Spotting Apps (with Joshua Aaron)
Grokipedia Is Cringe
Hackers Dox ICE
Meta Tells Workers to ‘Go 5x Faster’ with AI
The End of Windows 10 Support Is an Environmental Disaster (With Nathan Proctor)
The Final Boss of AI Slop
Landlords Demand Your Workplace Logins to Scrape Paystubs
We're Suing ICE. Here's Why
The (Hacked) Spy In Your Car
AI Slop Is Drowning Out Human YouTubers
404 Media Live: LA! [TEASER]
Trump Take LEGO
404 Media Live: NYC!
The Underground Trade of Car Hacking Tech
The Inside Story of Tea
Why Are DHS Agents Wearing Meta Ray-Bans?
Google Is Exposing Peoples’ ChatGPT Secrets
The Tea Breach Just Keeps Getting Worse
Spotify Is Publishing AI Tracks of Dead Artists
The AI Exodus Begins
How to Fight Back Against AI Bot Scrapers
The Life Changing Power of Lifting (feat. Casey Johnston)
This Site Unmasks Cops With Facial Recognition
Airlines Sold Your Flight Data to DHS—And Covered It Up
Feds Flew Predator Drones Over The LA Protests
Anti-Porn Laws' Real Target Is Free Speech
ICE's Backdoor Into a Nationwide AI Surveillance Network
AI Slop Summer
AI Avatar of Killed Man Testifies in Court
The Trump Admin's Signal Clone Was Hacked
Meta's AI Chatbots Are a Disaster
Cops Are Using AI Bots to Surveil People
AI Slop Is Breaking the Internet as We Know It (Live at SXSW)
Inside the ICE Deportation Tool
How a $2,000 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured
The FBI Secretly Ran a Massive Money Laundering Ring
OpenAI's Studio Ghibli AI: 'An Insult to Life Itself'
The DNA of 15 Million People Is For Sale
The Websites An ICE Contractor is Monitoring
We're Not Ready for Chinese AI Video Generators
The Tesla Protests Come for Cybertruck Owners
The Rise of AI Book Ripoffs
DOGE's Website, Hacked
AI Is Breaking Our Brains
Inside Musk’s Government Takeover
The Truth Behind DeepSeek
Pornhub Exec Discusses Pulling Out of the South, Trad Wives, and Feet Pics
TikTok and the Tech Oligarchy
Total Chaos at Meta
Meta Goes Mask Off
The 404 Media Year in Review
Why We Cover AI the Way We Do
The New Jersey Drone Panic
3D Printed Guns and UnitedHealthcare
Your Bluesky Posts Are Probably Training AI
Pokémon Go to The Military Industrial Complex
Buzzfeed's AI Ads Are a Disaster
How AI Is Being Used by Hackers and Criminals (Sponsored)
How Apple is Locking Out Cops
The Plan to Use AI to Purge Voter Rolls
An Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Running a Democrat Impersonation Campaign
How Politician Turned Advocate Susanna Gibson Battles Non-Consensual Imagery
How the U.S. Government Tracks Your Phone
Why the WordPress Chaos Matters
The Smart Glasses That Dox Strangers
One Year Anniversary Subscriber Bonanza
AI Companies Are Opting You In By Default
Telegram is Working With the Cops
Hezbollah's Exploding Pagers
Fraudsters: 'We Know Where You Live'
Is Criticizing AI Ableist?
The Arrest of Telegram Founder Pavel Durov
A Whirlwind Tour of DEF CON
How Taylor Swift Could Sue Trump for AI Images
The OSINT Hunt for a Sex Trafficking Ringleader
The Massive Nvidia Leak
Signal's Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AI
Google, Reddit, and the Robots.txt Rebellion
The CrowdStrike Outage
The Worst Telecom Breach Ever
The Ticketmaster Hack
Your Identity Hacked, Yet Verified
Replacing 404 Media with AI
AI Celebs Take Over Google Image Search
Hacking the Adderall Shortage
DARK WIRE on Whale Hunting
A Massive Google Leak
Google Somehow Got Even More Shit
Your Phone's Location is Exposed
Why the Solar Storm Broke Tractors and GPS
Facebook is the 'Zombie Internet'
A Lost Media Mystery
The Humane Ai Pin Is a Disaster
The 'Com World War'
The Wild World of Fake AI Influencers
The Xz Backdoor and the AI Peer-Review Crisis
The Shaky Science of License Plate Readers
Shrimp Jesus
How Hackers Steal Mountains of Oxy and Adderall
The AI-Powered TikTok Hustlers
Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
Byron Tau on the New U.S. Surveillance State
A Deepfake Nightmare + Vibrator Malware
An Open Source Search Engine to Replace Google
Inside a Fraud Factory
This Is It. The Deepfake Reckoning
Why Google Is Shit Now
Google Finally Endorses Right to Repair
Deepfaked Celeb Scam Ads Are All Over YouTube
Inside a $7 Million Airbnb Scam
These Companies Say They're Using Microphone Audio to Target Ads
How Did a 'Russian Economist' Fly into LAX With No Ticket, No Passport, No Memory of How He Got There?
a16z Funded AI Platform Generated Images That “Could Be Categorized as Child Pornography,” Leaked Documents Show
Male Tech Conference Founder Runs Popular Woman-in-Tech Account (???)
OpenAI, Harry Potter Fanfic, and Hackers Who Gamble
Venture Capitalists a16z Fund Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn
How AI-Powered Cameras Took Over One Small American Town
YouTube Profiting from a Drug Market, and SIM Swappers Working with Ransomware Gangs
OSINT, Twitter, and a $30 Million Bitcoin Ring
AI is Muddying the Horrors of War, and a Film Community Implodes
SpongeBob, AI, and a Crisis Among Ticket Sellers
A Glitch Is Hiding Porn on YouTube, and Food Delivery Robots Feed Footage to the LAPD
Ticket Scalpers, The New Frontier of AI Chat Bots, and Mass Doxing on TikTok
The Tool That ICE Can Use to Track Pregnancy Websites and Fortnite
We Reveal One of the FBI's Most Closely Guarded Secrets
Amazon Is Selling AI-Generated Books That Are a Matter of 'Life or Death'
Instagram's Rampant Ads-for-Crime Problem
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