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:
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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.
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
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Dark Wire
Written “in the manner of a good crime thriller” (The Wall Street Journal), the inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation eve...
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New from 404 Media: cocaine in private jets. Drug traffickers entering sailing races to move drugs. And mountains of meth hidden in sex toys. These are some of the things the FBI saw on its secretly backdoored encrypted chat app according to newly leaked documents
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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 th...
Good job Sora 2 has watermarks on its videos (people have already made tools that instantly remove the watermark)
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Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web
Bypassing Sora 2's rudimentary safety features is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation.
New from 404 Media: police used a nationwide network of Flock cameras to search for a woman who self-administered an abortion, said it was for her 'safety'. But new docs show they considered charging her with a crime as part of a 'death investigation' into the fetus
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Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime
Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting...
New from 404 Media: Trump's tariffs mean the libraries can't get their loaned books back. "They can't ship them back to us because their carrier either is flat out refusing to ship anything to the U.S., or they're citing not being able to handle the tariff situation."
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Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs
Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academ...
New from 404 Media: Google removed an ICE-spotting app too. Called Red Dot, an immigration support group on the ground in Chicago told me it was using it. Google now removed, just like Apple did with ICEBlock after DOJ pressure. Google calls ICE vulnerable group
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Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’
The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spo...
New from 404 Media: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells me "we are determined to fight this." "Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move."
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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions to...
Red Hat is investigating a breach impacting as many as 28,000 customers. We got some files related to it, shows impacted customers might include the Navy and Congress. Also Federal Aviation Administration, Bank of America, AT&T.
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Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress
A hacking group called the Crimson Collective says it pulled data from GitLab repositories connected to Red Hat's consulting business. Red Hat has ...
New from 404 Media: the government shutdown is causing even more confusion for U.S. visa applicants. The website employers use for labor certification and immigration applicants use to access documentation for their applications is down
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Government Shutdown Causes Even More Confusion for U.S. Visa Applicants
Some services needed for immigration applications, like H-1B and E3 visas, no longer have funding, while others are still operational — for now.