Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
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Journalist
@404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email:
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Jason Koebler
Joseph Cox
about 5 hours ago
New: there is a major vulnerability with Appleâs Hide My Email feature that lets attackers discover peoplesâ real emails. Verified it works on my own email. Weâre not disclosing how it works because Apple has not fixed it. But Apple has known for more than a year
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Apple âHide My Emailâ Vulnerability Reveals Peoplesâ Real Email Addresses
âHide My Email users deserve to know that it may be possible for attackers to discover their hidden email addresses,â the person who reported the issue said.
https://www.404media.co/apple-hide-my-email-vulnerability-reveals-peoples-real-email-addresses/
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Hypervisible
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âA vulnerability in Appleâs âHide My Emailâ tool lets almost anyone discover a personâs real email address that is supposed to be hidden by the feature, and Apple has failed to fix it for more than a yearâŠâ
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Apple âHide My Emailâ Vulnerability Reveals Peoplesâ Real Email Addresses
âHide My Email users deserve to know that it may be possible for attackers to discover their hidden email addresses,â the person who reported the issue said.
https://www.404media.co/apple-hide-my-email-vulnerability-reveals-peoples-real-email-addresses/
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there are so many basic functionality and stability upgrades that riverside could make that would be genuinely useful but instead it launches a âAI turns your podcast into a newsletter with a CMSâ feature that is going to be beyond useless
techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/p...
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Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game | TechCrunch
Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/podcasting-platform-riverside-enters-the-newsletter-publishing-game/
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good priorities here:
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County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to âConserve Electricityâ
Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computer...
https://www.404media.co/henrico-virginia-datacenter-energy-cost-email/
about 23 hours ago
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Hustlebros are LARPing on TikTok by buying software that fakes sell notifications and revenue dashboards from Shopify, Stripe, and OnlyFans. So I emulated them:
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How I Bought a Private Jet By Selling $10 Subscriptions to 404 Media
My journey inside the world of LARPing, where hustlebros pretend to be rich for TikTok.
https://www.404media.co/how-i-bought-a-private-jet-by-selling-10-subscriptions-to-404-media/
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I went to Cannes, where everything is an ad for the concept of advertising. Some really great innovation happening here, such as:
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Inside Cannes, the Advertising Industryâs Biggest Party
Reporting from Microsoft Gardens, next to Salesforce Beach, Amazon Port, and the Canva Creative Cabana.
https://www.404media.co/inside-cannes-the-advertising-industrys-biggest-party/
2 days ago
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kk cool story bro
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/a...
7 days ago
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i put on the dork glasses and still have a neck
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Snap's AI Specs: LOL
Snap's AR Specs glasses are indeed very heavy, very dorky.
https://www.404media.co/snaps-ai-ar-specs-lol/
7 days ago
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Joseph Cox
7 days ago
New: the tokenpocalypse is here, companies scrambling to stop spending so much on AI. I got leaked audio from consulting giant Accenture showing AI token spend/'chewing' is not from supercharged engineers. It's non-technical workers converting PDFs to presentations!
www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...
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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token âchewingâ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides.
https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/
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very sad that the MAGA skateboard shop near me that used AI posters to market its stuff is going out of business. who could have predicted this
10 days ago
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sorry to all on the east coast who stayed up for that
12 days ago
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why am i catching strays left and right
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12 days ago
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is crazy how many good looking burger places I see wandering around that are like NO SEED OILS making me never want to eat there again
13 days ago
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big fan of the soccer
13 days ago
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this is really funny research from a microsoft ai guy who is basically like: the arguments being made to suggest LLMs are sentient can be made regarding literally anything
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If AI Is Sentient Then So Is âAge of Empires IIâ
âThe point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."
https://www.404media.co/if-ai-is-sentient-then-so-is-age-of-empires-ii/
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Jason Koebler
404 Media
13 days ago
Known cases of cops using Flock to stalk people are almost certainly vastly underreported because they largely include only cases in which the behavior was so egregious that it led to police officers being fired, arrested, or both.
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP53...
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Joseph Cox
13 days ago
New: Salesforce's internal AI leaderboard has teams competing for little trophies. The dashboards we've seen also track each team's use of specific AI tools. Employees worried use of AI, or lack thereof, will be used in their performance reviews because execs pushing
www.404media.co/salesforces-...
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Salesforceâs Internal AI Leaderboard Has Teams Competing for Little Trophies
The leaderboard, sorted by executive and the teams underneath them, has a feature that shows users which employees have not earned the badges. âclick to see who đ,â the leaderboard says.
https://www.404media.co/salesforces-internal-ai-leaderboard-has-teams-competing-for-little-trophies/
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how does one inside out pop up a hanging curve ball in the middle of the plateâŠhow and why are you late on that pitch
14 days ago
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orioles who should be aggressive list is like: leody taveras, Gunnar Henderson on batted balls, Jackson Holliday, Colton Cowser end of list
14 days ago
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Jason Koebler
404 Media
14 days ago
Also on today's pod,
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
talks about cops abusing Flock cameras to stalk their former and current partners and how it takes months to catch the abuse. Watch now:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP53...
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âThat pitch right there has been the differenceâ Kevin Brown says about a fastball down the middle. Is thrilling analytics that the key to beating the orioles is throwing fastballs
15 days ago
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packing cubes: are they anything? should i be looking into purchasing packing cubes
15 days ago
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knicks and madison square garden entertainment hacked:
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Hackers Publish Knicks and Madison Square Garden Data Online
The data contains a list of "talent," including former Knicks players and coaches, and whether other celebrities are considered "Low Risk" or "High Risk." The data also contains emails between custome...
https://www.404media.co/hackers-publish-knicks-and-madison-square-garden-data-online/
15 days ago
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If you steal bike lights off a bike: death penalty
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Jason Koebler
Matthew Gault
16 days ago
it was heartening to learn that
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
had the same reaction to this movie that I did. So we wrote about the limits of 'disclosure' and human empathy in the year of our lord 2026
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Disclosure Day's Delusion Is That People Would Think Alien Videos Are Not AI
The only plausible response to videos of aliens on television, at this point, would be cries of âthatâs AI,â âfake,â and propaganda flowing in all directions.
https://www.404media.co/disclosure-days-delusion-that-people-would-think-alien-videos-are-not-ai/
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how about baltimore orioles win world series
add a skeleton here at some point
16 days ago
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minority report is the best spielberg movie btw
16 days ago
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DougExeter
16 days ago
oh i get it now. its soccers answer to the world baseball classic
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Disclosure Day: A very fun movie that has apparently not been paying attention to the last 5 years of the internet
www.404media.co/disclosure-d...
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Disclosure Day's Delusion Is That People Would Think Alien Videos Are Not AI
The only plausible response to videos of aliens on television, at this point, would be cries of âthatâs AI,â âfake,â and propaganda flowing in all directions.
https://www.404media.co/disclosure-days-delusion-that-people-would-think-alien-videos-are-not-ai/
16 days ago
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New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is"
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It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
"We show that a tiny snippetâjust 13 wordsâof retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
https://www.404media.co/it-is-trivially-easy-to-use-reddit-to-manipulate-ai-search-research-suggests/
16 days ago
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the sponsors for this UFC fight are sooooooo wild
17 days ago
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I get so many emails like this. Actual stakes: a guy might spend âŹ20
18 days ago
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Jason Koebler
404 Media
19 days ago
NEW: A County Commissioner in North Carolina refused to let dozens of residents speak opposing Flock surveillance at a public meeting this week, instead forcing the group to designate one single spokesperson. Read
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
's story:
www.404media.co/you-will-not...
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New: A county commissioner in North Carolina refused to let citizens oppose Flock at a meeting this week, instead making dozens of people select one person to represent them: "You will not speak on Flock tonight...Iâve spoken. Iâm not debating this."
www.404media.co/you-will-not...
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âYou Will Not Speak on Flock Tonightâ: County Commissioner Refuses to Let Residents Opposing Flock Speak at Meeting
"Iâve spoken. Iâm not debating this."
https://www.404media.co/you-will-not-speak-on-flock-tonight-county-commissioner-refuses-to-let-residents-opposing-flock-speak-at-meeting/
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absolutely crazy: An Amazon / Rivian software update automatically turns off Amazon drivers' AC after 30 seconds under conditions that are very common during delivery shifts:
www.404media.co/software-upd...
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Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Driversâ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat
A new software update is turning off the AC in Amazon delivery vans after 10 minutes or 30 seconds under certain conditions.
https://www.404media.co/software-update-automatically-turns-off-amazon-delivery-drivers-ac-during-dangerous-summer-heat/
20 days ago
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Emanuel Maiberg
20 days ago
A new software update is turning of the AC in Amazon delivery trucks just as the weather is getting dangerously hot
www.404media.co/software-upd...
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Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Driversâ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat
A new software update is turning off the AC in Amazon delivery vans after 10 minutes or 30 seconds under certain conditions.
https://www.404media.co/software-update-automatically-turns-off-amazon-delivery-drivers-ac-during-dangerous-summer-heat/
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remember the three week period where the seven people who bought apple vision pros were wearing them on airplanes
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Jason Koebler
Sam Cole
20 days ago
something strange is haunting large language models... a character that's broken out of the LLMs and now authors books, sells albums, and shows up in fake news sites
www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
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Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
https://www.404media.co/elias-thorne-chatbots-llms-chatgpt-lighthouse-keeper-story/
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Three Amazon data centers in Mississippi haven't even opened yet but still, people living there are paying at least $10.60 more per month to subsidize them, according to a new report:
www.404media.co/amazon-data-...
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Amazon Data Centers In Mississippi Have Already Raised Electricity Rates for Local Customers, Report Suggests
Three Amazon data centers are still under construction, but local residents are already paying at least $10.60 extra per month for them, according to a new study.
https://www.404media.co/amazon-data-centers-in-mississippi-have-already-raised-electricity-rates-for-local-customers-report-suggests/
20 days ago
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flock finds new and interesting ways to leak data:
www.404media.co/flock-leaked...
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Flock Leaked Copsâ License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing
Flock, the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company, exposed some of the license plate cops were looking for and the reason for doing so.
https://www.404media.co/flock-leaked-cops-license-plate-searches-via-duckduckgo-bing/
20 days ago
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honestly, not a serious technology
www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
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Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
https://www.404media.co/elias-thorne-chatbots-llms-chatgpt-lighthouse-keeper-story/
20 days ago
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New: Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people. Seemingly every week there's a new case, the details usually similar. Cops use unfettered access to Flock to surveil an ex. They most often search their plates hundreds of times over course of months
www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...
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Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
https://www.404media.co/cops-keep-getting-arrested-for-using-flock-to-stalk-people/
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FCC is trying to kill burner phones:
www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...
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FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customersâ IDs
The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customersâ government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse s...
https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/
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In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial:
www.404media.co/judge-learns...
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Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case
When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.
https://www.404media.co/judge-learns-lawyers-on-both-sides-of-case-used-ai-cancels-trial-kicks-everyone-off-the-case/
22 days ago
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22 days ago
Amazon employees are posting memes on Slack about how their AI coding tool sucks
www.404media.co/sloppenheime...
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âSloppenheimer:â Amazon Employees Mock the Companyâs AI on Slack
Amazon employees have a Slack channel for memes where the mock and commiserate about the companyâs faulty AI coding product.
https://www.404media.co/sloppenheimer-amazon-employees-mock-the-companys-ai-on-slack/
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Amazon employees are mocking the company's AI with memes on Slack, suggesting they're making/enabling slop:
www.404media.co/sloppenheime...
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âSloppenheimer:â Amazon Employees Mock the Companyâs AI on Slack
Amazon employees have a Slack channel for memes where the mock and commiserate about the companyâs faulty AI coding product.
https://www.404media.co/sloppenheimer-amazon-employees-mock-the-companys-ai-on-slack/
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turns out these are NOT instruction manuals
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22 days ago
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Microsoft shut down a bunch of its own code repositories after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from Claude Code or Gemini. Really wild:
www.404media.co/microsoft-ha...
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Microsoft Hacked to Deliver Malware to Claude and Gemini Users
Microsoft took the highly unusual step of shutting down more than 70 of its own GitHub repositories after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from AI coding agent users.
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-hacked-to-deliver-malware-to-claude-and-gemini-users/
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A farmer in Texas donated his land to a town to be turned into a public park. After he died, the city took the land and sold it for $10 million to a company building a data center
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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
https://www.404media.co/a-farmer-donated-land-to-turn-into-a-park-the-city-is-building-a-massive-data-center-instead/
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23 days ago
This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center
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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
https://www.404media.co/a-farmer-donated-land-to-turn-into-a-park-the-city-is-building-a-massive-data-center-instead/
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