New from 404 Media: police freaking out at iPhones stored for forensic examination mysteriously rebooting themselves. This makes brute forcing much harder. Cops hypothesize Apple pushed an update that tells nearby iPhones to reboot if not on phone network
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Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out
Law enforcement believe the activity, which makes it harder to then unlock the phones, may be due to a potential update in iOS 18 which tells nearb...
Did you vote in America yesterday? If so, you just got doxed This site takes voter records that can be hard to source and puts them all into one place. Name, address, voter history, for free. It turns voting into a privacy and security risk
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Voted in America? This Site Doxed You
Voting rolls are technically public records but can be laborious to get hold of. A right-wing site weaponizes that information by allowing anyone, ...
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Before the US election Sen. Wyden cites 404 Media, NOTUS, & Krebs on Security reporting showing a tool called Locate X can warrantless track phones at abortion clinics. "These tracking tools present a pressing danger for women across the country."
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How women's phones became a tool for abortion surveillance
Americans shouldn’t accept a reality where their phones are sleeper agents for stalkers and fundamentalist politicians.
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Read this from @npub1nn0l...qf5k, whose father worked at The Washington Post for 30 years printing the physical paper. Relying on the interest of billionaires to keep journalism alive is not sustainable. The Billionaire Is the Threat, Not the Solution
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The Billionaire Is the Threat, Not the Solution
Jeff Bezos is not the answer at The Washington Post. And billionaire funding is not the answer for journalism.
Here is my recent DEF CON talk on Anom, the encrypted phone secretly ran by the FBI. All about the phone, the network, how Anom was structured, who used it, what this means for Signal, Telegram, more
New from 404 Media: we've found exactly how a Musk-funded PAC is microtargeting Muslims & Jews with opposing messages. Happening with adverts on Snapchat; digging through data we found the exact ZIP codes the PAC is targeting. Includes areas with mosques
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This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages
The Future Coalition PAC is targeting according to ZIP code in highly specific ways.
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New from 404 Media: leaked Slacks and interviews show paranoia and fear inside Automattic over the WordPress chaos. CEO posting ultimatums to Slack and is intercepting signup emails from Blind, the anonymous platform for workers. Could unmask users
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Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg made another buyout offer this week, and threatened employees who speak to the press with termination.
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New from 404 Media: leaked videos show how an app called "Impact" aims to manipulate social media. It sends a push notification to human supporters, who flood social media with AI-written talking points designed to game social media algorithms
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AI-Powered Social Media Manipulation App Promises to 'Shape Reality'
A prototype app called Impact describes β€œA Volunteer Fire Department For The Digital World,” which would summon real people to copy and paste A...
New from 404 Media: people are using AI to auto apply for jobs. Bot scrolls LinkedIn, opens job applications, writes cover letter. Users say they've got interviews We tested it. "By the time I finished breakfast, I had applied to 12 different jobs"
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β€˜I Applied to 2,843 Roles’: The Rise of AI-Powered Job Application Bots
Using AI Hawk's Auto Jobs Applier bot, I applied for 17 jobs in an hour on LinkedIn.