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@josephfcox
Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE. Co-founder of @404mediaco. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Technology
A post cites authorities saying the employee’s wife had been due to leave the U.S. on a different flight.
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Employees exceeding the allowance must charge extra consumption to a project or team, 404 Media reports.
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404 Media reports that advertisers can also target ChatGPT users by a unique phone identifier.
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404 Media says a warrant it reviewed describes HSI’s unsuccessful attempt to install a tracking device on a Tesla.
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A reporter says the tool uses Zillow and Airbnb data; Raven was previously called Geospy.
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Neowin reports the license is non-exclusive and the platform will shut down if no buyer steps forward to maintain operations.
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Joseph Cox cited a 404 Media report saying Meta scrambled to fix serious Muse vulnerabilities before launch, including a VM escape that could have exposed internal databases. A separate summary post said Muse runs agents in per-user VMs.
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The court suppressed evidence after a deputy searched a driver’s monthlong location history without probable cause.
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404 Media describes the GitHub-hosted setup as a “Saw-like torture chamber” for LLMs. It says GitHub took it down shortly before publication and had not said why.
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The limited pilot was slated to start Sept. 21 and is expected to last several months, with USPS citing privacy safeguards.
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A 404 Media writer says the email now includes a chunk of the day’s story, other work from the outlet and unusual things spotted across the web.
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404 Media reports that the company is pitching facial recognition for Flock cameras, though Flock itself doesn’t offer the feature.
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404 Media says a team used frontier large language models with no prior training data to navigate a simple parking lot course.
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Dutch police say a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested in a ShinyHunters investigation and is due in Rotterdam court Tuesday. Police have not publicly detailed the alleged conduct or tied him to any specific attack.
AI
404 Media reports, citing internal documents it obtained, that contractors review Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images. It says the reviewers are bombarded with requests for sexual AI images.
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404 Media reports that contractors reviewing Copilot material are bombarded with requests for sexual AI images.
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404 Media reports that the mayor of Springfield, Missouri, shut down residents seeking to discuss the city’s Flock contract and that two people were arrested.
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404 Media says it received a sample appearing to contain personal data on 5,000 FBI employees, including addresses, phone numbers and, in some cases, spouse details.
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404 Media says internal messages show Meta testing restaurant-booking calls handled by people, rather than AI, for its newly announced agent.
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404 Media says OpenAI has thousands of contractors helping improve its models, but multiple workers have been fired for using AI in that work.
