Podcast: Unmasking Deepfakes Kingpins (with Kolina Koltai)

In this week’s interview episode, Sam talks to Kolina Koltai. Kolina is an investigator, senior researcher and trainer at Bellingcat. Her investigations focus on the people and systems behind AI companies and platforms that peddle non-consensual deepfake explicit imagery. Kolina walks us through how a OSINT investigation into non-consensual AI imagery site administrators work, why…

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Scientists Got Men to Rate Penises by How Intimidating They Are. This Is What They Found.

🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. When it comes to the evolution of the human penis, size matters.  Scientists have discovered that men with larger penises are not only more attractive to women, they are also deemed…

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HAM Radio Operators in Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty

The Belarusian government is threatening three HAM radio operators with the death penalty,  detained at least seven people, and has accused them of “intercepting state secrets,” according to Belarusian state media, independent media outside of Belarus, and the Belarusian human rights organization Viasna. The arrests are an extreme attack on what is most often a…

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How Wikipedia Will Survive in the Age of AI (With Wikipedia’s CTO Selena Deckelmann)

Wikipedia is turning 25 this month, and it’s never been more important.  The online, collectively created encyclopedia has been a cornerstone of the internet decades, but as generative AI started flooding every platform with AI-generated slop over the last couple of years, Wikipedia’s governance model, editing process, and dedication to citing reliable sources has emerged…

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Feds Create Drone No Fly Zone That Would Stop People Filming ICE

The Federal Aviation Administration put a drone no fly zone within 3,000 feet of “Department of Homeland Security facilities and mobile assets,” according to a notice to airmen posted by the government. The no fly zone is the same type that the U.S. uses to restrict consumer drones over military bases and Department of Energy…

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