Today after recording our normal weekly podcast, Sam, Emanuel, and Jason spontaneously began discussing the legacy of Tim Cook as Apple CEO, the #BreakingTechNewsofTheWeek. We got really riled up so decided to press record to discuss Tim Cook’s accountant energy, his legacy of creating different sizes and shapes of rectangle ...
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This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating CopyrightThis AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright
For a small price, Malus.sh will use AI to ingest any piece of software you give and spit out a new version of it that “liberates” it from any existing copyright licenses. The result is a new piece of software that serves the same function, but doesn’t have to honor, ...
Scientists Gave a Bunch of Salmon Cocaine. This Is What Happened Next.Scientists Gave a Bunch of Salmon Cocaine. This Is What Happened Next.
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Salmon exposed to cocaine swim farther and behave differently than unexposed fish, according to the first study to observe the effects of cocaine on fish in ...
Why Journalists Are Going Indie (with Maddy Myers)Why Journalists Are Going Indie (with Maddy Myers)
This week, Sam is joined by Maddy Myers, editor-in-chief of Mothership. She’s also a co-host of the video games podcast Triple Click. Maddy launched Mothership with co-founder Zoë Hannah in January. It’s a queer and women-owned independent publication that focuses on gender and games. They discuss Maddy’s early days of ...
Forbes Prediction Market Gamefies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 ChildrenForbes Prediction Market Gamefies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children
In another sign that the depravity economy has no bottom, Forbes published a story about a Louisiana man that killed 8 children over the weekend containing a box that asked readers to predict whether Congress would do anything about gun control. Citation Needed author Molly White first spotted the box ...
Babies Born from Dead Parents Will Increase with New Tech. Are We Ready?Babies Born from Dead Parents Will Increase with New Tech. Are We Ready?
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that peacefully passed the crown, predicted trouble on the horizon, gave life after death, and ...
Behind the Blog: Jazz and JournalismBehind the Blog: Jazz and Journalism
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss the Madonna-whore algorithm, reader tips, and jazz. SAM: Yesterday morning I published a story I started working on weeks ago and only ...
The Destroyed Remnants of a Lost World Are Falling to Earth, Scientists DiscoverThe Destroyed Remnants of a Lost World Are Falling to Earth, Scientists Discover
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. The remnants of a bizarre long-lost world that fell apart before our planet was fully formed are falling to Earth in the form of meteorites, according ...
FAA Scraps Civil and Criminal Penalties for Flying Drones Near ICE VehiclesFAA Scraps Civil and Criminal Penalties for Flying Drones Near ICE Vehicles
On Wednesday the Federal Aviation Administration rescinded a temporary flight restriction (TFR) that created a no-fly zone within 3,000 feet of “Department of Homeland Security facilities and mobile assets.” The new restriction softened the language of the original and abandoned the threat of civil or criminal penalties but added the ...
App Stores Push Users Toward Nudify Apps, New Research ShowsApp Stores Push Users Toward Nudify Apps, New Research Shows
A new report from the nonprofit research group Tech Transparency Project (TTP) claims that Google and Apple’s app stores go beyond simply hosting harmful “nudify” and “undress” apps that remove women’s clothing in images, and actually encourage users to download those apps. In January, TTP published research that showed how ...