Joseph Cox

This week we cover a 'world war' inside nebulous crime culture the Com; Google's miss on AI science; and a sex box.

While sports betting has opened up for fans around the country, it has also introduced a greater attack surface for money laundering.

In a crude but potentially effective attack, a hacker sends a malicious link which quickly sets up call forwarding for a target’s phone number. The result is the interception of 2FA calls, including for Gmail.

We introduce our new 404 Media fellow Jules Roscoe; go long on fake AI Instagram influencers; talk about the couple making porn for the Apple Vision Pro; and the bizarre sight at a particular New York City chicken shop.

Jules will be covering labor and automation and helping our stories show up on all platforms as our first 404 Media fellow.

The fascinating Xz backdoor; a looming AI crisis in peer-review; and news around the infamous Lena image. That's all on this week's episode.

404 Media has obtained newly released video and audio material related to the 2022 killing of Savannah Graziano.

Criminals are deliberating uploading child abuse material to rival hacking and fraud related Discord servers to have them shut down.

On this week's episode we talk about a shaky study into Flock; what people are doing now that Pornhub has pulled out of some states; and how we dug into the new owners of Deadspin.

The chatbot, which has entered a test phase, is designed for intelligence analysts to ask questions about aerial and surveillance imagery.