Jason Koebler

journalist [@404mediaco](https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco )

Signal: 1-202-505-1702 // email: [email protected]

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2024-07-19 16:44:26

Affected by CrowdStrike outage? Simply try rebooting 15 consecutive times, Microsoft suggests
https://www.404media.co/to-fix-crowdstrike-blue-screen-of-death-simply-reboot-15-straight-times-microsoft-says/

2024-07-17 19:34:33

On the heels of the FBI unlocking Trump shooter phone, we have a doc showing which phones Cellebrite (and its police customers) can unlock
Turns out ..... almost any updated phone released in the last 4 yrs cannot be unlocked using its software
https://www.404media.co/leaked-docs-show-what-phones-cellebrite-can-and-cant-unlock/

2024-07-12 19:06:31

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This one of Goldman Sachs' top analysts: "This is not a matter of just some tweaks being required here and there; despite its expensive price tag, the technology is nowhere near where it needs to be in order to be useful for even such basic tasks."
Goldman Sachs ran an experiment where they had AI do a task and also did a task manually and found that it cost six times as much to have AI do the same task as humans. Cites "illegible and nonsensical results"

2024-07-12 19:06:30

A blistering Goldman Sachs research report wonders if the massive investment in Generative AI will ever pay off, says stock gains are already baked in "outside of the most bullish AI scenario," and posits that Gen AI is likely a bubble: https://www.404media.co/goldman-sachs-ai-is-overhyped-wildly-expensive-and-unreliable/

2024-07-01 16:12:50

A car rental service in Charlotte has replaced their agents with remote workers on video chat. If you need to speak to a manager you go into an office where you talk to another screen sitting at a big executive desk
https://www.404media.co/car-rental-service-replaces-desk-agents-with-people-on-video-chat/
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2024-06-26 15:43:06

scoop: Credentials for a staffer at an ID verification service that works with TikTok, Uber, and X was hacked. A researcher then showed that it was storing and exposing user drivers' licenses
https://www.404media.co/id-verification-service-for-tiktok-uber-x-exposed-driver-licenses-au10tix/

2024-06-25 15:26:36

We spent $365 to build an AI news site that publishes 50 times a day, plagiarizes directly from our original reporting, uses services like Fiverr and popular WordPress plugins, is SEO optimized for Google and Adsense & breaks the rules of none of them
https://www.404media.co/i-paid-365-63-to-replace-404-media-with-ai/

2024-06-24 20:06:17

Pretty amazing stuff from the Udio/Suno lawsuits. Record labels were able to basically recreate versions of very famous songs with highly specific prompts, then linked to them in the lawsuits. I made a short compilation here:
https://www.404media.co/listen-to-the-ai-generated-ripoff-songs-that-got-udio-and-suno-sued/
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2024-05-28 15:30:54

Google's own researchers now say AI is a top vector of disinfo, in a paper that severely and obviously undercounts the problem
https://www.404media.co/google-says-ai-now-leading-disinformation-vector-and-is-severely-undercounting-the-problem/

2024-05-23 15:23:11

Scoop: I obtained the contract Samsung requires independent shops to sign to buy phone repair parts from them.
It requires:
- "Daily" dumps of customer data
- The "immediate destruction" of any phones a shop comes across that has third-party parts
https://www.404media.co/samsung-requires-independent-repair-shops-to-share-customer-data-snitch-on-people-who-use-aftermarket-parts-leaked-contract-shows/

2024-05-17 15:51:11

Axon's AI is now writing police reports directly from bodycam footage. Says cops are actively using it. What could go wrong? This is what it looks like:
https://www.404media.co/here-is-what-axons-bodycam-report-writing-ai-looks-like-draft-one/
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2024-05-14 18:59:50

“Fictional and factual fembots reflect the same regressive male fantasies: sexual outlets and the promise of emotional validation and companionship. Underpinning this are masculine anxieties regarding women, and fear of technology escaping our control.”
https://www.404media.co/openais-gpt-4o-voice/

2024-05-12 15:42:25

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/

2024-05-08 17:32:43

Hero scientists invent method to make cold brew coffee in 3 minutes instead of 24 hours, and also invent something called "cold espresso" which I simply must have right now:
https://www.404media.co/scientists-use-ultrasound-to-make-cold-brew-coffee-in-3-minutes-instead-of-24-hours/

2024-05-07 18:41:07

Ticket brokers are selling Billie Eilish's supposedly "untransferrable" tickets, designed to prevent scalping. I explain how they're doing it, and how untransferrable tickets are transferred all the time:
https://www.404media.co/billie-eilishs-untransferable-tickets-immediately-resold-by-ticket-resellers/

2024-04-29 17:14:25

The Russian government copy pasted Wikipedia to a new site, censored the articles, then banned the original Wikipedia. Head of new Russian government Wikipedia is the old admin of real Russian Wikipedia
https://www.404media.co/russia-clones-wikipedia-censors-it-bans-original/

2024-04-19 18:06:41

An employee asked me if he can WORK from HOME permanently. Here is what I told him:
https://www.404media.co/linkedin-work-from-home-meme/

2024-04-18 20:45:46

Humane AI Pin is Juicero. It is Ouya. It is Coolest Cooler. It is Magic Leap. It is N-Gage. We must honor tradition and relentlessly clown on it freely and unimpeded by boring tech bores wanting to silence free speech
https://www.404media.co/we-must-never-forget-how-dumb-the-humane-ai-pin-is/

2024-04-17 17:16:35

New: Facebook's AI chatbot told a parent in a group asking for advice from other parents that it has a gifted, disabled child who attends school in New York City
https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-told-parents-group-it-has-a-disabled-child/
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2024-04-17 15:19:02

A spy tool is scraping the messages of thousands of Discord servers and selling the data. This is letting people track users across servers, shows when they joined voice chats, which servers they're in, etc: https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/
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2024-04-05 19:39:43

New: Best Buy quietly did mass layoffs of Geek Squad employees this week, is apparently shifting more tech support online. The Geek Squad subreddit is full of people posting their badges, talking about "going sleeper"
https://www.404media.co/mass-layoffs-at-best-buy-geek-squad-former-employees-post-going-sleeper/
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