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Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: [email protected]
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Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS đź”— www.404media.co/airlines-don...

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New from 404 Media: Customs and Border Protection confirms it is flying Predator drones above the LA protests. The agency explicitly says this is in support of ICE. Comes after we reviewed flight data/air traffic control audio which showed DHS Predator drones over LA www.404media.co/cbp-confirms...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

New from 404 Media: Wikipedia has paused its experimental AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community. "Just because Google has rolled out its AI summaries doesn't mean we need to" www.404media.co/wikipedia-pa...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Wikipedia wanted to use AI summaries at the top of article pages. Editors said please please don't www.404media.co/wikipedia-pa...

submitted 3 days ago • 104 comments

Heads-up: our next FOIA Forum, a livestream event where 404 Media teaches you how to pry records from the government, will be Weds 18th June, 1PM ET (that's one week from now!). We'll show you how we got docs about AI personas for cops that pose as college protesters www.404media.co/our-new-foia...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

The 404 Media Podcast is out! This week - the aircraft flying above the LA anti-ICE protests, including DHS predator drones - Waymos on fire - subscribers-only: a massive guilty plea a sex trafficking ring case www.404media.co/podcast-feds...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Predator drones over LA www.404media.co/dhs-flew-pre...

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

New from 404 Media: DHS flew Predator drones over the LA anti-ICE protests. As well as flight data this is further corroborated with air traffic control audio. The audio mentions "TROY" (callsign used by DHS) and "Q-9" (shorthand for MQ-9, the Predator B drones) www.404media.co/dhs-flew-pre...

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

New from 404 Media: Github is leaking Trump's plans to 'accelerate' AI across government. “ai.gov” is supposed to launch on July 4 and will include an analytics feature that shows how much a specific government team is using AI www.404media.co/github-is-le...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: A data broker owned by major airlines sold domestic US flight data to DHS, telling the dept. not to disclose that, according to records obtained by @404media.co—copublished in partnership with @wired.com. No paywall bc FOIA @josephcox.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/airlin...

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

Airlines sell passenger data to the feds through a separate data broker they spun up and put in the contract that DHS is not allowed to tell anyone that it comes from the airlines: www.404media.co/airlines-don...

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

New from 404 Media: Delta, United, American etc don't want you to know they sold your flight data to DHS. The country's airlines sell bulk names and flight itineraries to DHS to be searched without a warrant. Contract tells DHS to not reveal where this data came from www.404media.co/airlines-don...

submitted 4 days ago • 84 comments

These are the various military and police aircraft surveilling LA protests: www.404media.co/dhs-black-ha...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

After 404 Media's investigation into Meta's chatbots, which showed the chatbots pose as therapists and provide hallucinated license numbers and credentials, a group of senators have demanded Meta limit "blatant deception" on its platform www.404media.co/senators-let...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Waymo has stopped service in Downtown LA neighborhood where their cars are getting lit on fire. Company says it has temporarily disabled the cars’ ability to drive into downtown LA, where the protests are happening. www.404media.co/waymo-pauses...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

A hacker found a way to brute force the phone number linked to any Google account. Usually that information is private and a goldmine for SIM swappers. How do we know? The researcher did it on our own account www.404media.co/a-researcher...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

New from 404 Media: here's our report on the aircraft circling above the LA protests. Local, state, DHS, military all flew. Left: aircraft from air base. Right: a distinctive high altitude/hexagonal flight pattern, looks like a Predator drone (it flew to border after) www.404media.co/dhs-black-ha...

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

A DHS Customs and Border Protection Black Hawk flying over Downtown LA now during the anti-ICE protests

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Another flight of an aircraft with no call sign circling above anti-ICE protests. It took off from March Air Reserve Base, circled above Paramount, and is now circling above downtown LA (the National Guard is moving protesters away from the Metropolitan Detention Center downtown)

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

A plane with no call sign is currently circling the area where the LA anti-ICE protests are taking place. It took off from March Air Reserve Base

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Elon Musk claimed the art this man painstakingly created was generated by Grok. We spoke to Charles Brook, who takes photographs inside musical instruments. Someone took those, added people with Grok, and Musk blasted it to his followers without credit. www.404media.co/elon-musk-cl...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

In leaked audio we obtained, surveillance company Flock calls me an "activist reporter". I wrote about that here, and here is what the audio said: www.404media.co/behind-the-b...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

This is the most illuminating article yet on how DOGE tech bro clowns actually think, how they approach problems, their completely amateur use of AI, and the damage they can cause. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

New from 404 Media: TSA is working on haptic tech to 'feel' your body in virtual reality. System detects the contours of a person, then transmits it to a TSA official with a haptic feedback glove who can 'feel' their body without touching them www.404media.co/tsa-working-...

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

New from 404 Media: Apple gave governments data related to thousands of push notifications. Governments request this data in attempt to identify person behind devices. Sometimes include unencrypted push notification content www.404media.co/apple-gave-g...

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

New from 404 Media: the IRS tax filing software Turbotax tried to kill just got opened source. Available on Github, people are forking it www.404media.co/directfile-o...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

AI-generated Bible videos are going viral because Christian actually love them and make them. Here's why: www.404media.co/why-do-chris...

submitted 10 days ago • 84 comments

New from 404 Media: Ukraine's massive drone attack was powered by open source software. The developer of ArduPilot said “That's ArduPilot, launched from my basement 18 years ago. Crazy,” in response to footage of the attack www.404media.co/ukraines-mas...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

We spoke to 15 teachers about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives. "Honestly, if we ejected all the genAI tools into the sun, I would be quite pleased." www.404media.co/teachers-are...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

New from 404 Media: even mods of a pro-AI subreddit are having to ban mentally unwell users who believe ChatGPT is letting them talk to God, etc. www.404media.co/pro-ai-subre...

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Even the mods of a pro-AI subreddit tell me they are having to ban an uptick of unwell users who think ChatGPT is letting them talk to god, or turning them into a god, etc www.404media.co/pro-ai-subre...

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

Flock has decided not to use hacked data in its people search tool after our earlier reporting: www.404media.co/flock-decide...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

New from 404 Media: Flock says it will not use hacked data in its new people search tool for cops. This comes after internal pressure and our coverage based on leaked material revealing the plans www.404media.co/flock-decide...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

submitted 16 days ago • 932 comments

New from 404 Media: a cop in Texas performed a nationwide search of license plate reading cameras for a woman who got an abortion, according to multiple sets of data we've reviewed. Included cameras where abortion is legal, like Washington and Illinois www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

submitted 16 days ago • 55 comments

Here's a clip from the YouTube version of our podcast all about Flock, the AI-enabled cameras across the country that local cops are searching on behalf of ICE. It's the technical infrastructure for national surveillance. YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PTr...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment