The 404 Media Podcast

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.

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Recent Episodes
  • How a $2,000 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured
    Apr 10, 2025 – 01:06:34
  • The FBI Secretly Ran a Massive Money Laundering Ring
    Apr 9, 2025 – 56:30
  • OpenAI's Studio Ghibli AI: 'An Insult to Life Itself'
    Apr 2, 2025 – 50:10
  • The DNA of 15 Million People Is For Sale
    Mar 26, 2025 – 48:51
  • The Websites An ICE Contractor is Monitoring
    Mar 19, 2025 – 42:16
  • We're Not Ready for Chinese AI Video Generators
    Mar 12, 2025 – 47:49
  • The Tesla Protests Come for Cybertruck Owners
    Mar 5, 2025 – 43:01
  • The Rise of AI Book Ripoffs
    Feb 26, 2025 – 42:44
  • DOGE's Website, Hacked
    Feb 19, 2025 – 38:58
  • AI Is Breaking Our Brains
    Feb 12, 2025 – 50:51
  • Inside Musk’s Government Takeover
    Feb 5, 2025 – 49:09
  • The Truth Behind DeepSeek
    Jan 29, 2025 – 55:45
  • Pornhub Exec Discusses Pulling Out of the South, Trad Wives, and Feet Pics
    Jan 27, 2025 – 54:25
  • TikTok and the Tech Oligarchy
    Jan 22, 2025 – 50:00
  • Total Chaos at Meta
    Jan 15, 2025 – 55:35
  • Meta Goes Mask Off
    Jan 8, 2025 – 51:01
  • The 404 Media Year in Review
    Dec 31, 2024 – 01:06:54
  • Why We Cover AI the Way We Do
    Dec 25, 2024 – 01:04:05
  • The New Jersey Drone Panic
    Dec 18, 2024 – 41:48
  • 3D Printed Guns and UnitedHealthcare
    Dec 11, 2024 – 59:13
  • Your Bluesky Posts Are Probably Training AI
    Dec 4, 2024 – 43:09
  • Pokémon Go to The Military Industrial Complex
    Nov 27, 2024 – 51:01
  • Buzzfeed's AI Ads Are a Disaster
    Nov 20, 2024 – 46:33
  • How AI Is Being Used by Hackers and Criminals (Sponsored)
    Nov 15, 2024 – 29:49
  • How Apple is Locking Out Cops
    Nov 13, 2024 – 47:49
  • The Plan to Use AI to Purge Voter Rolls
    Nov 6, 2024 – 46:31
  • An Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Running a Democrat Impersonation Campaign
    Oct 30, 2024 – 50:43
  • How Politician Turned Advocate Susanna Gibson Battles Non-Consensual Imagery
    Oct 25, 2024 – 01:03:29
  • How the U.S. Government Tracks Your Phone
    Oct 23, 2024 – 55:33
  • Why the WordPress Chaos Matters
    Oct 16, 2024 – 44:51
  • The Smart Glasses That Dox Strangers
    Oct 9, 2024 – 46:09
  • One Year Anniversary Subscriber Bonanza
    Oct 4, 2024 – 07:10
  • AI Companies Are Opting You In By Default
    Oct 2, 2024 – 41:17
  • Telegram is Working With the Cops
    Sep 25, 2024 – 47:05
  • Hezbollah's Exploding Pagers
    Sep 18, 2024 – 44:23
  • Fraudsters: 'We Know Where You Live'
    Sep 11, 2024 – 40:16
  • Is Criticizing AI Ableist?
    Sep 4, 2024 – 39:29
  • The Arrest of Telegram Founder Pavel Durov
    Aug 28, 2024 – 46:48
  • A Whirlwind Tour of DEF CON
    Aug 25, 2024 – 00:55
  • How Taylor Swift Could Sue Trump for AI Images
    Aug 21, 2024 – 36:45
  • The OSINT Hunt for a Sex Trafficking Ringleader
    Aug 14, 2024 – 43:37
  • The Massive Nvidia Leak
    Aug 7, 2024 – 49:11
  • Signal's Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AI
    Aug 2, 2024 – 50:30
  • Google, Reddit, and the Robots.txt Rebellion
    Jul 31, 2024 – 46:35
  • The CrowdStrike Outage
    Jul 24, 2024 – 40:44
  • The Worst Telecom Breach Ever
    Jul 17, 2024 – 42:54
  • The Ticketmaster Hack
    Jul 10, 2024 – 42:59
  • Your Identity Hacked, Yet Verified
    Jul 3, 2024 – 43:50
  • Replacing 404 Media with AI
    Jun 26, 2024 – 47:07
  • AI Celebs Take Over Google Image Search
    Jun 19, 2024 – 47:26
Recent Reviews
  • this A.O.
    Note on the April 2nd 2025 show referencing animation
    Inbetweeners have existed since the earliest days of animation. It was an entry level job that could be a stepping stone to director. You can check books on Disney or Warner Brothers as reference or ping animation historians with an online presence. Good podcast BTW
  • cosmographia
    My favorite podcast right now
    I’ve been binging all the episodes after discovering this podcast. The journalism is fantastic: it’s thorough and in-depth and there’s a lot the 404media team are reporting that I haven’t heard about anywhere else
  • LeftistTechBro
    Good writing
    Good show
  • JLoJax
    Poorly sourced reporting
    I really want to like this podcast but the reporting is so poorly sourced that the commentary is on the level of “vibes” and “people online are saying” and even those comments is not complete or accurate. Research better, people. It’s not a sin to know things.
  • Ashleyoftheriver
    Must listen!
    I love their discussions of the issues. Relevant and intelligent analysis of what is happening,
  • lu and ru fan
    hot boomer takes
    …from the kind of people who are proud they don’t get TikTok. A improvised centrist’s Tech Won’t Save Us
  • Azroute
    Like it’s pretty good, like
    Many good reports, but consider using AI for the good and edit out the constant use of “like”.
  • Gkstark
    Unbearable
    The one guy talks like a 13-year-old girl. If you took one pull of beer every time you heard “like” you’d be passed out within 5 minutes. Like, totally. But, like, really, he thinks he’s, like, so smart. Torturous.
  • Micah V
    Essential listening
    I learn something from every show and I’m a tech nerd who likes to stay on top of things.
  • tHe bE3s kNeeS1
    Finally find Jason &Joesph from CYBER!!!!!!!!
    Thank for not giving up on podcasting I never knew y’all made a new podcast haha that’s unfortunate for VICE!! Yeeeee haaaaa
  • PDXCrow
    Unequaled value
    404 Media must surely be the most efficient value in tech media that exists today. The output and consequential change that these four journalists are able to produce week after week is astounding. And the reporting and podcasts are just as efficient. You get the necessary context, the facts and implications plus any outcomes from their work with little to no fluff or filler, while they still maintain a sense of humor and personality that makes it feel very accessible and human. This is what quality journalism looks like.
  • whiteblazer
    Good niche topics. Plodding and boring as heck
    I could listen at 3x. Makes me want to jump off a cliff when i listen since its so humorless and meh. These folks talk so slow. Get an editor. Take out the pauses and stammers.
  • AndrewNeel
    Brilliant, honest, accessible tech journalism
    This podcast is restoring my hope in tech media. From the at-times absurd stories (about them scraping their own writing to create an AI-generated content site to show how that process works) to the breaking news (the Runway document link) this podcast and the team behind 404 Media is insightful, fun, and deeply trustworthy. The fact this company is journalist-owned is the cherry on top. Highly recommend.
  • We are dieing
    Out put DB is too low
    Hey guys, bass way to low and general output nearly half any other podcast. -12 db should your standard out level.
  • Cade2424
    General review
    Good in depth, well written, podcast enjoy listening to it. Very informative.
  • vwell
    Simple effective journalism
    This podcast is so refreshing. Strip away all the excessive production that many of the others seem to rely on, almost as a crutch, music and all, and you get this podcast. Talk to the person who wrote the story and get the information. It's succinct and covers stories that don't seem to be reported elsewhere, at least not as thoroughly. Really enjoy this podcast. Always gives me things to think about and share with others. Thank you. keep up the excellent work.
  • Sergio the BEAST
    Following
    I found the stories that these journalists write about very interesting & I became a personal fan of their writing & style so when they dropped their former bosses & started 404 media I had to follow! Keep up the great work!!
  • Royce1629
    We need more independent journalism like this!
    I love getting the daily newsletter article in my inbox, and I love the in-depth reporting this podcast provides just as much!
  • Rye500000
    Don’t miss this podcast
    404 is one of the podcasts that I’ll play immediately when there’s a new episode. Real journalists doing real journalism that will get you stories before they’re trending on twitter. My only issue is that when it comes to AI they sometimes sound like horse riders in the 1920’s high-fiving each other as they dunk on automobiles and how hilarious it is that people think they’ll ever replace horses. I also think AI right now is still mostly sizzle, no steak and super cringe. But I think it’ll sneak into our lives like the internet did. And I remember people dunking on the WWW. I say this as an gen xer who first got online via Prodigy. But really everyone should listen to this podcast because these journalists are seriously in top of it. Their logo’s cool, too.
  • Vtlynch
    Important Independent research
    404 is on the cutting edge
  • Oh my goodness 123
    Independent Journalism At Its Finest
    In the face of cuts and layoffs across the media landscape, 404 Media are the real deal. Really excellent reporting.
  • Middle Toe
    Incredible Reporting
    404 Media’s journalism has immediately had an outsized impact for their size. Fantastic stories about the tech world covered in a way no one else is, and are genuinely making a difference
  • It, son of Them
    highly recommended
    I am more or less constantly sending 404 media articles to my friends - the journalists who make up 404 media do really phenomenal work - this podcast also is excellent
  • Friendliestmilk
    Great Podcast
    I'm a new subscriber to 404 Media and really appreciate how this podcast allows me to catch up on what 404 Media has been doing. For me, the reporting also fills the gap left by The Content Mines, and then some. I enjoy the way the stories cover the intersection between technology, crime, and content moderation.
  • Chris Stern
    Insightful and Well Researched Journalism
    Outstanding and compassionate reporting.
  • NCedReviewNickname
    Skip it, so many better tech pods
    Lefty pearl clutching about tech “news”, which is actually just not very interesting inside-baseball twitter nonsense.
  • ooffun4
    goes crazy
    i've never seen joseph cox this happy and im very proud of him. long time listener of cyber from motherboard and i just assumed he was really, really serious, but now hes crackin jokes and havin a good time! i guess vice really messed with his psyche. great content as well. #1 joseph cox stan (jk im not weird)
  • Lorenzofb
    No one covers the internet like these folks
    The journalists at 404 Media report and write stories that no one else is doing. They were doing that already at Motherboard and they are still doing it at 404. I also love that they are giving listeners a behind the scenes look at the stories they write about. This is a fun and informative podcast, and it’s the only place you can hear about these stories, because no one else is doing the same work they do. Highly recommended.
  • Rabble Rousing RZA
    Some of the best in the game.
    I’m so relieved that these guys haven’t thrown in the towel. As a team especially, they consistently produce content of the highest quality. I’m really gonna miss a few of the other programs, but very happy that some of the best stuck around!!!
  • Sameermon
    Amazing podcast
    Check out the Instagram episode re: the ads for dr$g$. Really informative and from a trustworthy team of journalists!
  • Thomas J Myers
    The future from the former VICE Motherboard crew
    For years the team at VICE’s Motherboard was producing some of the best and most unique science and tech journalism available. The quality and depth of reporting was often buried in the noise of a largely dysfunctional and I’ll-managed parent organization, but the talent and dedication of Motherboards content was hard to deny. Now that team is free of the shackles of their corporate overlords and have quickly eclipsed their past efforts with a new podcast and media platform. Absolutely worth your time. Fantastic podcast.
  • ScottJones92
    Remap sent me here
    I will follow Emanuel Maiberg anywhere after that Last of Us Part II story.
  • Tetrapaq
    Some of the most talented journalists around
    Excited to see what scoops y’all deliver!
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