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Jason Koebler

@jason_koebler
322 posts
2025-11-07
New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind https://archive.is/, which has been running anon for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure https://www.404media.co/...
2025-11-07 View on X
404 Media

The FBI subpoenaed archive.today's domain registrar, Tucows, on October 30, demanding info about the archiving site's owner as part of a criminal investigation

By the service of this subpoena upon you by William Greenwell, Jr. … Malte Kirchner / heise online News : Archive.today: FBI Demands Data from Provider Tucows X: @archiveis : canar...

2025-05-05
SCOOP: The Signal clone used by Trump admin that Mike Waltz was seen using in a cabinet meeting in has been hacked https://www.404media.co/...
2025-05-05 View on X
micahflee

A hacker breaches TeleMessage, which makes modified versions of apps like Signal used by US officials including JD Vance, leaking some chats, contacts, and more

TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.  —  💡

2025-03-25
23andMe as a functioning company was a privacy disaster. 23andMe as a bankrupt, for sale company is a fucking nightmare https://www.404media.co/...
2025-03-25 View on X
Bloomberg

23andMe files for bankruptcy to “maximize the value of its business”, and co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki steps down; 23andMe was valued at $3.5B in June 2021

Most corporations are not going to look out for your privacy.  And we now have a federal government intent on using your data for bad purposes. Frank Figliuzzi / @frankfigliuzzi : ...

2025-02-27
New: An “error” suddenly turned people's Reels feeds into neverending scrolls of murder, death, animal abuse, and violence. Truly horrifying stuff, one of the worst things I've seen happen to random people on the internet. https://www.404media.co/...
2025-02-27 View on X
CNBC

Meta apologizes and says it had fixed an “error” that resulted in some Instagram users seeing violent and graphic content in their Reels recommendations

Meta apologized on Thursday and said it had fixed an “error” that resulted in some Instagram users reporting a flood …

2025-02-06
NEW: DOGE employees have been ordered to stop using Slack while the agency transitions itself to a legal regime that is not subject to FOIA and other government transparency laws https://www.404media.co/...
2025-02-06 View on X
404 Media

Sources: DOGE staff were ordered to stop using Slack while the group moves from the OMB to the Executive Office of the President, which is not subject to FOIA

https://www.404media.co/email/ dc4f2fa1-e993-4f30-aea1-b985998bd90a/ Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk : so, Truth Social or X? or are they smart enough to use Signal? [embedded post] M...

2025-01-07
NEW: On the same day Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta's new commitment to “Free Expression,” internal employee dissent and criticism is being censored https://www.404media.co/...
2025-01-07 View on X
404 Media

Screenshots: several employees' posts critical of Meta's new board member Dana White were deleted by Meta's ICC, which aims to “minimize disruption” internally

“Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE.” Bluesky: @kevinbriody , @romitmehta.com , @emanuelmaiberg , and @hypervisible...

2025-01-05
The currently viral Meta AI profiles are old and are already inactive because they were such a colossal failure and were indistinguishable from AI spam. This ‘inevitable’ future Zuckerberg is trying to shove down our throats is being completely rejected https://www.404media.co/...
2025-01-05 View on X
404 Media

After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them

and what you can do with it Mia Sato / The Verge : Meta's AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well Josh Kerwick / Star Observer : Meta Wipes Scrutinised AI Accounts, I...

NEW!! The AI accounts have been cyberbullied, Meta is actively deleting the accounts [image]
2025-01-05 View on X
404 Media

After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them

and what you can do with it Mia Sato / The Verge : Meta's AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well Josh Kerwick / Star Observer : Meta Wipes Scrutinised AI Accounts, I...

2025-01-04
The currently viral Meta AI profiles are old and are already inactive because they were such a colossal failure and were indistinguishable from AI spam. This ‘inevitable’ future Zuckerberg is trying to shove down our throats is being completely rejected https://www.404media.co/...
2025-01-04 View on X
404 Media

After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting the profiles

Earlier this week, Meta executive Connor Hayes told the Financial Times that the company is going to roll out AI character profiles …

NEW!! The AI accounts have been cyberbullied, Meta is actively deleting the accounts [image]
2025-01-04 View on X
404 Media

After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting the profiles

Earlier this week, Meta executive Connor Hayes told the Financial Times that the company is going to roll out AI character profiles …

2024-11-20
New: One of the first leaks ever about Graykey, the iPhone hacking tool used by cops to break into people's phones. Granular detail about what info it can get and from what phones and which operating systems. A reminder to always update iOS immediately: https://www.404media.co/...
2024-11-20 View on X
404 Media

Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, can access “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1

The Graykey, a phone unlocking and forensics tool that is used by law enforcement around the world …

2024-11-12
This started with just one guy driving around Huntsville and mapping them by himself. In just a couple of weeks, thousands have now been mapped all over the world. “It still just scratches the surface,” Will Freeman, who started the project, said. [image]
2024-11-12 View on X
404 Media

A look at DeFlock, an open-source project that has crowdsourced the locations of 5,600+ automated license plate reader cameras globally from Flock and others

Jason Koebler / 404 Media : Mastodon: @timmy@goblin.camp . X: @jason_koebler , @jason_koebler , @jason_koebler , and @garrytan . Forums: r/ABoringDystopia Mastodon: @timmy@goblin....

This project shows the way Flock lays these out in a city makes it impossible to drive into certain areas without being tracked. Here is downtown Huntsville, Alabama for example. There is a perimeter of cameras facing out, meaning everyone who drives in is tracked [image]
2024-11-12 View on X
404 Media

A look at DeFlock, an open-source project that has crowdsourced the locations of 5,600+ automated license plate reader cameras globally from Flock and others

Jason Koebler / 404 Media : Mastodon: @timmy@goblin.camp . X: @jason_koebler , @jason_koebler , @jason_koebler , and @garrytan . Forums: r/ABoringDystopia Mastodon: @timmy@goblin....

New: An open-source project called DeFlock has mapped thousands of license plate reader surveillance cameras all over the world. See if they're in your city. They also need help mapping more https://www.404media.co/...
2024-11-12 View on X
404 Media

A look at DeFlock, an open-source project that has crowdsourced the locations of 5,600+ automated license plate reader cameras globally from Flock and others

Jason Koebler / 404 Media : Mastodon: @timmy@goblin.camp . X: @jason_koebler , @jason_koebler , @jason_koebler , and @garrytan . Forums: r/ABoringDystopia Mastodon: @timmy@goblin....

2024-10-22
One of the plaintiffs in this case says that he “effectively cannot leave his neighborhood without the Norfolk Police Department knowing about it.” [image]
2024-10-22 View on X
404 Media

Lawsuit: a civil rights organization says a Virginia town installing Flock cameras violated the Fourth Amendment, making citizens moving untracked “impossible”

Jason Koebler / 404 Media :

Virginia court decided that warrantless evidence pulled in a robbery case from Flock had to be thrown out because the suspect's Fourth Amendment rights were violated. Police chief said “It would be difficult to drive anywhere of any distance without running into a camera.” [image]
2024-10-22 View on X
404 Media

Lawsuit: a civil rights organization says a Virginia town installing Flock cameras violated the Fourth Amendment, making citizens moving untracked “impossible”

Jason Koebler / 404 Media :

2024-10-01
This is a really wild story in part because Udemy is being more transparent than other companies, and is saying: It is too expensive for us to delete your data once it's already been scraped. So what are the other companies doing? [image]
2024-10-01 View on X
404 Media

Udemy forces creators to use opt-out windows, the first of which was three weeks and ended on September 12, to prevent their videos from being used to train AI

https://www.404media.co/... X: Jason Koebler / @jason_koebler : This is a really wild story in part because Udemy is being more transparent than other companies, and is saying: It ...

2024-09-28
New: Steam has eliminated its forced arbitration clause, meaning gamers can now sue Valve over disputes. Seemingly this has happened bc a class action of gamers won a binding arbitration hearing arguing that forced arbitration is not enforceable (lol) https://www.404media.co/...
2024-09-28 View on X
The Verge

Steam changes its subscriber agreement, removing its forced arbitration policy and allowing gamers to take legal action against its parent company Valve

Steam just removed its forced arbitration policy, opening the door for lawsuits against its parent company, Valve.

2024-08-06
@MKBHD “Should we download the whole Netflix too? How would we operationalize it?” [image]
2024-08-06 View on X
404 Media

Sources: Nvidia scraped sources like Netflix and YouTube to train an unreleased foundational model; concerned staff were told they had full clearance to do so

Nvidia scraped videos from Youtube and several other sources to compile training data for its AI products, internal Slack chats …

Here, Nvidia employees discuss specific YouTube channels they want to scrape, including @MKBHD's ("super high quality") [image]
2024-08-06 View on X
404 Media

Sources: Nvidia scraped sources like Netflix and YouTube to train an unreleased foundational model; concerned staff were told they had full clearance to do so

Nvidia scraped videos from Youtube and several other sources to compile training data for its AI products, internal Slack chats …