Emanuel Maiberg

Co-Founder and Journalist at 404 Media

Journalist @404mediaco. I read every email. [email protected]

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This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

1 week ago | technewstube.com | Emanuel Maiberg |Jason Koebler

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This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

1 week ago | wired.com | Emanuel Maiberg |Jason Koebler

American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers, according to internal documents, contracts, and communications that 404 Media obtained via public records requests.
This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Emanuel Maiberg |Jason Koebler

NowChina - April 17, 2025 Storyline: Smart tunnel boring machine in China redefines underground construction [Voice_over] One of China's smartest TBMs, or tunnel boring machines, has reached a 5,000-meter milestone recently. The Linghang is a slurry shield tunneling machine with a 15.4-meter diameter cutterhead, and digital twin technology.
Google DeepMind Is Hiring a 'Post-AGI' Research Scientist

1 week ago | 404media.co | Emanuel Maiberg

None of the frontier AI research labs have presented any evidence that they are on the brink of achieving artificial general intelligence, no matter how they define that goal, but Google is already planning for a “Post-AGI” world by hiring a scientist for its DeepMind AI lab to research the “profound impact” that technology will have on society.
New 'Rape and Incest' Game Tests the Limits of Steam’s Sex Policy

2 weeks ago | 404media.co | Emanuel Maiberg

For the last week, several news outlets have published shocking headlines about a game called No Mercy on Steam that features incest and “rape.”In the UK, Peter Kyle, a member of Parliament and the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology described the game as “deeply worrying” and demanded Valve, which operates the PC’s leading digital game store Steam, take it down.
Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”

2 weeks ago | 404media.co | Emanuel Maiberg

Bias in artificial intelligence systems, or the fact that large language models, facial recognition, and AI image generators can only remix and regurgitate the information in data those technologies are trained on, is a well established fact that researchers and academics have been warning about since their inception.
Wikipedia Editors Call It: It’s the “2025 Stock Market Crash”

2 weeks ago | 404media.co | Emanuel Maiberg

It’s the first Monday after Donald Trump started implementing his so-called “reciprocal tariffs” and the markets are seeing red. At the time of writing the S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq are all down around four percent with the latter taking the hardest hit. And that’s on top of the S&P 500’s 10 percent fall last week.
Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead

2 weeks ago | 404media.co | Emanuel Maiberg

In October of 2023, Marc Andreessen, founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), published the “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” arguing that human ingenuity has been stagnated and demoralized by regulation, and that the only viable path forward for society is the accelerated development and adoption of new technologies, and specifically artificial intelligence.
T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children

3 weeks ago | 404media.co | Emanuel Maiberg |Jason Koebler

On Tuesday, some parents lost the ability to track the locations of their children using a T-Mobile tracking device and app and instead were shown the exact locations of random other children around the country, 404 Media has learned. T-Mobile sells a small GPS tracker for parents called SyncUP, which they can use to track the locations of young children who don’t have cell phones yet.
Vibe Coded AI App Generates Recipes for Cyanide Ice Cream and Cum Soup

3 weeks ago | 404media.co | Emanuel Maiberg

A “vibe coded” AI app developed by entrepreneur and Y Combinator group partner Tom Blomfield has generated recipes that gave users instruction on how to make “Cyanide Ice Cream,” “Thick White Cum Soup,” and “Uranium Bomb,” using those actual substances as ingredients.