The Financial Times calls DARK WIRE, my book on how the FBI secretly ran its own tech company to wiretap the world, one of the best books of 2024: ft.com/content/67a336…

You can buy your copy, audiobook, etc, here: hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-…

When participating in democracy gets you an AI slop 'I voted' sticker 404media.co/voting-in-2026…

New: Proton CEO Andy Yen just cancelled the company's 're-interviews'. Comes after our investigation

The re-interviews would have been about how workers were using AI, with the clear implication you might be fired

"He has a rebellion on his hands." 404media.co/protons-ceo-ca…

New: you think you know Proton, but you really don't.

I spoke to 8 current employees, got Slack chats, meeting audio, and an AI manifesto written by its CTO.

“That’s bullshit and loser thinking,” Yen wrote. “Stop thinking always of how to be slower, and focus more on how to be faster.”

CEO Andy Yen critiques AI in public. But inside, he is pushing everyone to use AI, even those with security concerns 404media.co/manifestos-fea…

Yen on communicating about the encryption implementation of Proton Mail:

“Perception is more important than truth, the truth doesn’t matter if you don’t win on perception.”

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Here is Proton CTO's AI manifesto, that I obtained multiple copies of 404media.co/manifestos-fea…

We got leaked audio of Flock's CEO talking at a private police conference, including the "never apologize" line.

Watch more of it here, and subscribe: youtube.com/watch?v=zDwXsM…

In light of Meta's new terms that will allow it to scrape users' data for AI, people in the EU and UK have the option to "object" to certain uses of their information, for now. 404media.co/meta-ai-traini…

Riverside, the podcasting platform used by essentially every media company both big and small, constantly updates with AI shit. Often changes the UI with no warning. Today log in to record the podcast, met with this. Where the fuck do I just record a podcast, the thing the ff!!!! We pay for this

New: Proton, the company behind ProtonMail, emailed staff to say it will be 're-interviewing' workers about how they use AI. The implication is, if you're not using AI, or won't learn, you may lose your job. “These re-interviews are consequential,” a leaked email seen by 404 Media reads.

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Listen to the leaked Flock CEO audio we got from a private police conference: 404media.co/in-leaked-audi…

New: we got leaked audio of Flock's CEO speaking at a police conference. He said backlash to Flock isn't real (said it's bots and paid protesters; no evidence); his wife told him to never apologize; and he may never do media interviews again. Listen: 404media.co/in-leaked-audi…

Apple’s $2,000 folding phone, the iPhone Duo, came out just two days ago and people are already seeing big fat creases down the middle of the folding screen, and some devices are cracked in the same specific spot too 404media.co/iphone-duo-cra…

ChatGPT keeps telling people all over the world that 404 Media can help with their tech support problems, and our inboxes are full of clearly AI-generated complaints about getting locked out of Instagram accounts. Make it stop 404media.co/chatgpt-keeps-…

New: Texas suspended permits of 17 data center projects after 404 Media reported a group of Texans discovered the state had continued to issue construction permits related to data centers despite Governor Greg Abbott calling for a pause in September 404media.co/texas-commissi…

The people who write the Laws of Armed Conflict want to put guardrails on AI weapons systems. Will the world listen? 404media.co/ai-is-already-…

New: AI is making it so much easier to discover serious vulnerabilities. This applies both to people with little skill, and researchers with a lot of expertise. If you can't accept AI is exceptional at finding critical bugs, you're not living in reality

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The AI boom is too expensive. We previously got leaked audio saying workers burning through AI budgets by using it to convert PDFs to presentations. Now Accenture is limiting some employees' Claude spend to just $29 a month

Watch more, subscribe here: youtube.com/watch?v=I-agGi…

New: The feds warned cops to expect "emotional confrontations" at Flock city council meetings which "may present public safety risks"

Came immediately before a series of people were illegally arrested while speaking against Flock at city council meetings

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