Jason Koebler
Co-Founder and Journalist at 404 Media
Journalist @404mediaco, former EIC @motherboard Signal: jason.404 // email: [email protected]
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3 weeks ago |
404media.co | Jason Koebler
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are researching an incredibly wild virtual reality technology that would allow TSA agents to use VR goggles and haptic feedback gloves to allow them to pat down and feel airline passengers at security checkpoints without actually touching them.
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3 weeks ago |
404media.co | Jason Koebler
The IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk of being killed by Intuit’s lobbyists and Donald Trump’s megabill. Meanwhile, several top developers who worked on the software have left the government and joined a project to explore the “future of tax filing” in the private sector.
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3 weeks ago |
404media.co | Jason Koebler
Last month, I wrote an article about how schools were not prepared for ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, based on thousands of pages of public records I obtained from when ChatGPT was first released. As part of that article, I asked teachers to tell me how AI has changed how they teach. The response from teachers and university professors was overwhelming.
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4 weeks ago |
rsn.org | Joseph Cox |Jason Koebler
The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state where abortion is illegal can search cameras in others where it's a human right.
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1 month ago |
404media.co | Jason Koebler
Content warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual harassment. Judd Stone, the former Solicitor General of Texas resigned from his position in 2023 following sexual harassment complaints from colleagues in which he allegedly discussed “a disturbing sexual fantasy [he] had about me being violently anally raped by a cylindrical asteroid in front of my wife and children,” according to documents filed this week as part of a lawsuit against Judd.
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I spoke to two former govt workers who helped create IRS's Direct File software, which is set to be killed by DOGE/Trump/Intuit but thankfully just got open sourced. Both of them seem optimistic about what people are going to be able to do with the code: https://t.co/UT3BhAIqfF
Extremely interesting story: the Ukraine drones that did this weekend’s massive attack were powered by free open source pilot assistance software https://t.co/XarHvY9fIW
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: https://t.co/9AxhQTWE9Q
