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404 Media @404media.co · 12m

NEW: an internal Meta message we obtained tells employees on its metaverse team that they should be using AI to “go 5x faster”. That's 5 times faster, not 5 percent more www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 47m

New from 404 Media: an internal Meta message we obtained tells employees on its metaverse team that they should be using AI to “go 5x faster”. That's 5 times faster, not 5 percent more.

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Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14h

They're animating the law enforcement seizure notices now. This was just uploaded to the Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters site that was threatening to dump Salesforce customer data. The dark web version remains online.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 16h

Updated with Discord statement: “we will not reward those responsible for their illegal actions.”

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The Discord Hack is Every User’s Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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404 Media @404media.co · 21h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 19h

the discord hack is every user's worst nightmare www.404media.co/the-discord-...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21h

New from 404 Media: a data hoarder created a searchable data of Epstein files. "This is a public service project. All documents are from public releases. This archive makes them more accessible and searchable."

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Data Hoarder Uses AI to Create Searchable Database of Epstein Files

The open source project has been mirrored as a torrent file and represents one of the easiest ways to navigate a messy data dump.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21h

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 1d

This is an absolutely cracking book. Highly recommended.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

Today's the day: DARK WIRE, my book on how the FBI secretly ran a tech company for criminals and wiretapped the world, coming to paperback. Updated with many more details. An Economist and FT book of the year. 404 Media subs: you just got 20% to your email www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/josep...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 23h

A former National Guardsman planned an American Caliphate on Discord and shipped more than 100 3D printed machine gun conversion kits to what he believed was Al Qaeda (it was the FBI) www.404media.co/national-gua...

National Guardsman Planned American Caliphate on Discord, Sent 3D Printed Guns to Al Qaeda, Feds Say

‘We don’t want democracy lol. We want caliphate.’ According to court records, an Oklahoma guardsman with a security clearance gave 3D printed firearms to an FBI agent posing as an Al Qaeda contact.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos

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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

As I told @josephcox.bsky.social for this piece, if DHS is concerned that the actions of their own officers might inflame public opinion against the agency, they should work to increase oversight and accountability at the agency — rather than seek to have the evidence banned.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

Updated with comment from @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social www.404media.co/apple-banned...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

If you scroll through the videos, tons are just rips from TikTok, Instagram, etc. It's probably stuff you've already seen. Some are even local and national media reports, like NBC News.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

This is what the app looks like (it's still on Google's Play Store and its website is still up). The app was for cataloguing abuses by ICE so litigants can find them later. It wasn't for reporting the real-time location of ICE. As admin told me, they'd be long gone

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404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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404 Media @404media.co · 1d

New leaked documents show how the FBI convinced a judge to let its partners collect a mass of encrypted messages from thousands of phones around the world.

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Cocaine in Private Jets and Sex Toys: What the FBI Found on its Secretly Backdoored Chat App

New leaked documents show how the FBI convinced a judge to let its partners collect a mass of encrypted messages from thousands of phones around the world.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

email me from the email you use to sub to 404 media if you like

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

Subject line “Private jets and crypto backdoors”

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

All anyone wanted to do with OpenAI's new Sora 2 app was make clips of copyrighted characters. Now they can't, they're pissed. Literally what is the point of this app www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 1d

This was my favourite book I read this year, a true story full of vivid, weird characters and outrageous situations. Tense, scary, and surprisingly funny.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

Today's the day: DARK WIRE, my book on how the FBI secretly ran a tech company for criminals and wiretapped the world, coming to paperback. Updated with many more details. An Economist and FT book of the year. 404 Media subs: you just got 20% to your email www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/josep...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

Hakan Ayik is in there too, the head of the Aussie Cartel and one of the most infamous modern drug traffickers. He's also known as the "encryption king" due to him introducing encrypted phones to criminals around the world www.404media.co/cocaine-in-p...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week:
- all about OpenAI's Sora 2
- Apple and Google's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps
- subscribers: a massive update to our Flock reporting

Apple/Spotify/YouTube: www.404media.co/podcast-the-...

Podcast: The Final Boss of AI Slop

We talk all about Sora 2, Apple and Google removing ICE-spotting apps, and a massive update to our Flock reporting.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

These docs provide even more detail about some of the central characters of the book. One is Maximilian Rivkin, a trafficker who seemingly has endless ideas on how to smuggle drugs. In these docs it said his group *entered a sailing race to blend in*, then moved drugs www.404media.co/cocaine-in-p...

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