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Latest episodes

  • Leaked Audio: Flock CEO Says the Backlash Isn’t Real

    October 28, 2026 · 44 min

    Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code 404MEDIA at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: incogni.com/404media We start this week with Jason and Joseph’s article about leaked audio from a private police conference. In…

  • Is the AI Boom a Bubble?

    October 26, 2026 · 56 min

    This week on the pod we’re joined by Mike Isaac a tech reporter who has been at the New York Times for more than a decade and who just recently announced he’s joining The Atlantic. Isaac  also is the author of Super Pumped, a book about…

  • ‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the Next Wave of AI Slop

    October 21, 2026 · 42 min

    We start this week with Jason’s article about how everyone is apparently reverse-engineering everything. After the break, Joseph tells us about a big AI shakeup at consulting giant Accenture. In the subscribers-only section, Sam and Jason…

  • Data Centers Are Worse Than You Thought

    October 19, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    Big tech is rushing to build hundreds of data centers across the planet to keep up with the computing demand of artificial intelligence. The tech companies are promising the massive buildings will bring jobs and prosperity when they’re…

  • Cops Can Use AI to Pinpoint Your Home with Just One Photo

    October 14, 2026 · 47 min

    We start this week with Joseph’s article about Raven, previously known as Geospy. This is an AI tool that can geolocate photos, and now says it can pinpoint a specific house based just on one photo taken inside. After the break, Jason…

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  • The Social Reckoning’s Real-Life Whistleblower

    October 9, 2026 · 56 min

    Sponsor: Take back control today: go to incogni.com/404media and use code 404MEDIA for 60% off an annual plan. That's incogni.com/404media, promo code 404MEDIA—risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Former Facebook employee Frances…

  • Leak Show Cops Can Break into Locked iPhones

    October 7, 2026 · 40 min

    We start this week with a story from our old friend Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, about how cops can bypass the inactivity reboot on iPhones. After the break, Jason tells us how people are losing their minds over an LLM ‘torture’ prison…

  • 404 Media Live! The Three Year Anniversary Show

    October 6, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

    Thank you to DeleteMe for helping make this night possible. They're offering ⁠20% off a privacy protection plan⁠ for friends of 404 Media. Use code 404M20 at checkout. 404 Media just turned three years old, and to celebrate, we hosted a…

  • AI Companies Scraped the Web and Are Destroying the Human Internet

    October 5, 2026 · 44 min

    Jason Kint, the CEO of Digital Content Next, has kept a close eye on some of the biggest tech antitrust and copyright court cases. Kint has a knack for finding particularly incriminating court records in complex ongoing lawsuits. We talk…

  • The FBI Was Hacked. We’ve Seen the Data

    September 30, 2026 · 42 min

    Don’t sleep on [@ultrapouches]. New customers get 15% Off with code 404MEDIA at takeultra.com! #UltraPouches #ad We start this week with Joseph’s stories on the massive FBI hack. 404 Media broke this news and continued to cover the breach…

  • The End of Privacy Is Here (with Kashmir Hill)

    September 28, 2026 · 42 min

    Facial recognition is everywhere now. It’s in surveillance cameras; it’s soon going to be in Meta’s RayBan pervert glasses, and some students already did that. You now have massively viral accounts that take clips of people, run them…

  • OpenAI Admits AI is Killing the Internet

    September 23, 2026 · 46 min

    Take control of your data footprint risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Go to https://incogni.com/404Mediaand use code 404MEDIA for 60% off an annual plan. That's code 404MEDIA at https://incogni.com/404Media We start this week…

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About the show

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.