Joseph Cox
Co-Founder and Journalist at 404 Media
Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE. Co-founder of @404mediaco. Signal: joseph.404 Email: [email protected]
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1 day ago |
404media.co | Joseph Cox
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss the phrase "activist reporter," waiting in line for a Switch 2, and teledildonics. JOSEPH: Recently our work on Flock, the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company, produced some concrete impact.
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3 days ago |
404media.co | Joseph Cox
Apple provided governments around the world with data related to thousands of push notifications sent to its devices, which can identify a target’s specific device or in some cases include unencrypted content like the actual text displayed in the notification, according to data published by Apple. In one case, that Apple did not ultimately provide data for, Israel demanded data related to nearly 700 push notifications as part of a single request.
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3 days ago |
lawfaremedia.org | Quinta Jurecic |Joseph Cox |Orly Lobel |Aziz Huq
Political scientists who study democratic backsliding—the slow erosion of a country’s institutions—have raised alarms about the state of democracy in the United States under the second Trump administration. At the same time, the administration has embraced technology—particularly AI—as a tool for implementing many of its policies, from immigration enforcement to slashing government functions and staffing.
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3 days ago |
404media.co | Joseph Cox
We start this week with Sam's dive into a looming piece of anti-porn legislation, prudish algorithms, and eggs. After the break, Matthew tells us about the open source software that powered Ukraine's drone attack against Russia. In the subscribers-only section, Emanuel explains how even pro-AI subreddits are dealing with people having AI delusions. Listen to the weekly podcast on Apple Podcasts,Spotify, or YouTube.
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1 week 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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New from 404 Media: anyone can push updates to the https://t.co/kMH4ihnpGw site. Two sources independently found the issue, one made their own decision to deface the site. "THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN." https://t.co/u0iPU0GEmW https://t.co/Tk81I1qk9E
New from 404 Media: Employees working at DOGE have been ordered to stop using Slack while lawyers attempt to transition the agency to one that is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Means DOGE will be even more secretive and unaccountable https://t.co/7HqVRTYBEZ
New from 404 Media: the CDC website is being actively purged to comply with Trump's DEI order. CDC employee tells us they were ordered to have their preferred pronouns deleted from their email signatures https://t.co/i08o9ScOt9