Joseph Cox
@josephcox.bsky.social
Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
DHS has built a facial recognition app for local cops to scan peoples' faces in an attempt to find immigrants. Says whether to detain the person or not www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
DHS has built a facial recognition app for local cops to scan peoples' faces in an attempt to find immigrants. Says whether to detain the person or not www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
ICE and CPB agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE says the result of this app can override a birth certificate too www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
ICE and CPB agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE says the result of this app can override a birth certificate too www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban AI glasses mean you can never really be sure if someone wearing them is filming you or not www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
October 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban AI glasses mean you can never really be sure if someone wearing them is filming you or not www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
Here is the mod in action. We paid for a pair and of glasses and for the hobbyist to mod the glasses. Shows that the light is disabled, and yet taking photos/recording still works www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
October 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Here is the mod in action. We paid for a pair and of glasses and for the hobbyist to mod the glasses. Shows that the light is disabled, and yet taking photos/recording still works www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
OpenAI is finally admitting what we've been saying but they didn't want to do: AI growth is in AI sex bots. They're finally doing it.
More: www.404media.co/podcast-hack...
More: www.404media.co/podcast-hack...
October 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
OpenAI is finally admitting what we've been saying but they didn't want to do: AI growth is in AI sex bots. They're finally doing it.
More: www.404media.co/podcast-hack...
More: www.404media.co/podcast-hack...
ICE had access to a nationwide network of AI-enabled surveillance cameras that constantly track vehicles', and by extension peoples, movements without a warrant www.404media.co/ice-secret-s...
October 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
ICE had access to a nationwide network of AI-enabled surveillance cameras that constantly track vehicles', and by extension peoples, movements without a warrant www.404media.co/ice-secret-s...