Emanuel Maiberg

@emanuelmaiberg
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Journalist @404mediaco.
This company is scraping your Zoom meetings and turning them into AI podcasts without permission. Extremely wild and weird https://www.404media.co/this-company-is-secretly-turning-your-zoom-calls-into-ai-podcasts/
This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

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this is a wild wild tale about a millionaire that seemingly got into smuggling cocaine for the thrill of it https://www.404media.co/an-adrenaline-junkie-billionaires-quest-to-become-a-cocaine-kingpin-marty-tibbitts-ylli-didani/
An Adrenaline Junkie Millionaire’s Quest to Become a Cocaine Kingpin

Marty Tibbitts made millions as a Detroit telecommunications executive. But he wanted more.

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Alpha School, an "AI-powered" private school that costs as much as $65k a year, is generating faulty lesson plans and stealing content from textbooks for training data https://www.404media.co/students-are-being-treated-like-guinea-pigs-inside-an-ai-powered-private-school/
'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School

Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes do "more harm than good."

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I hope it's clear in the article that this isn't a simple story with heroes and villains, but a look at the complicated community and governance of the open source tools that provide infrastructure for much of the internet
Spent a lot of time talking to people in the Ruby controversy about the ousting of contributors by Ruby Central and what the entire episode says about open source development https://www.404media.co/how-ruby-went-off-the-rails/
How Ruby Went Off the Rails

What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.

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This is the inside story of how Tea's male founder convinced millions of women to share their most intimate secrets on his app, then exposed those secrets in devastating security breaches https://www.404media.co/how-teas-founder-convinced-millions-of-women-to-spill-their-secrets-then-exposed-them-to-the-world/
How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World

A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.

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the research showing Google AI Overview is stopping people from clicking links is a huge huge huge problem not just for websites but for people's brains which are about to be absolutely mangled https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-internet-and-your-brain/
Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

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another reminder that much like the conservatives he is kissing up to now zuck does not care about free speech at all https://www.404media.co/facebook-is-censoring-404-media-stories-about-facebooks-censorship/
Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship

Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users.

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Texas AG Ken Paxton has subpoenaed 404 Media's reporting about an internal Google privacy incident database. Our lawyers formally objected to subpoena. You can read both the subpoena and the objection here: https://www.404media.co/404-media-objects-to-texas-attorney-general-ken-paxtons-subpoena-to-access-our-reporting/
404 Media Objects to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's Subpoena to Access Our Reporting

404 Media's reporting on an internal Google privacy violation database has been subpoenaed by the State of Texas. We are fighting it.

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a bunch of manly men celebs are in deepfaked YouTube ads to sell boner pills https://www.404media.co/deepfake-youtube-ads-of-celebrities-promise-to-get-you-rock-hard/
Deepfake YouTube Ads of Celebrities Promise to Get You ‘Rock Hard’

Deepfakes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Mike Tyson, and Terry Crews are selling erectile dysfunction supplements on YouTube.

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