Joseph Cox
@josephfcox
Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE. Co-founder of @404mediaco. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
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New: Proton CEO Andy Yen just cancelled the company's 're-interviews'. Comes after our investigation
The re-interviews would have been about how workers were using AI, with the clear implication you might be fired
"He has a rebellion on his hands."
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Here is Proton CTO's AI manifesto, that I obtained multiple copies of
New: The feds warned cops to expect "emotional confrontations" at Flock city council meetings which "may present public safety risks"
Came immediately before a series of people were illegally arrested while speaking against Flock at city council meetings
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A woman went to jail bc someone used her stolen SSN/ details to open a Cash App account. That scammer then committed fraud using that account, so she's been blamed for it.
The woman can't get details from Cash App bc they say the account isn't hers
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New: the DHS officials who tried to search the man who wiped his GrapheneOS phone lied. They pushed him about having child abuse images. Documents reveal that was a pretext; he wasn't suspected of this at all. He's a Stop Cop City activist
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'Reverse-engineer anything' is new Wild West of AI. People are using AI to remove bloatware from their TVs, ads from baby monitors, etc. But it's software wave that may contain malware. You're not going to be able to avoid this even if you don't like AI
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A group of Texans believe they’ve discovered evidence that the state’s environmental regulatory agency has continued to issue permits to data centers despite Governor Greg Abbott’s call for it to stop.
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New case against a Jaden John Read for allegedly threatening to shoot President Trump.
Court doc:
New: Chinese hackers broke into Staples. Staples has an internal customer support tool called Nexus, Chinese hackers got into that, issued millions of dollars of gift cards. Mules then went on a spending spree across the U.S. Gang made $100 million+
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Authorities say the wife of Alfozan, the OpenAI employee who allegedly bugged an OpenAI exec conference room, was to leave the U.S. on one flight, then a "member of the Saudi military booked and paid" for another one-way flight to Saudi Arabia for the wife and son.
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Cops used AI images to pose as a kid to lure out a suspected child predator. Was done by a unit called the Livonia Undercover Resistance to Exploitation Unit, or LURE.
Here's how exactly Telegram provides user data to U.S. authorities. A letter recently filed in court shows how Telegram transfers that data, such as IP address and phone number.
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A video game reverse engineering community is shutting down entirely because AI has completely hollowed out the community. What used to take talented decompilers many weeks or months of work is now done immediately by AI
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New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to the tool. A sign of the continuing crack down of AI
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Character[.]ai financials:
- $13.8m on compute a month, then $10m a month
- bringing in $2.8m in subscriptions, sometimes less than $1m
- revenue from all sources $5.3m a month
Its bankruptcy shows the economics of AI don't work:
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HSI tried to plant a tracker on a Tesla but were unable to due to the Tesla's "security protocols," according to a warrant we saw
New: an AI company now lets cops identify specific houses, using data from Zillow/Airbnb, based on a single photo. It's part of Raven, previously called Geospy. Company previously demoed its tools to catch people vandalizing Flock cameras or protesters
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New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of specific crime. We're revealing unit name: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team
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