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Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE. Co-founder of @404mediaco. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co

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How Private Contractors Are Profiting from Government Surveillance

How Private Contractors Are Profiting from Government Surveillance

Authorities can't do all that snooping by themselves.

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Behind the Blog: Salesforce Beach

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By Samantha Cole Verified, Jason Koebler Verified, Joseph Cox Verified
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This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss talking aloud to computers, Cannes, and “Engineering Creativity: Guac Is Extra." JASON: This week I was in Cannes, France for the Cannes Lions advertising conference, which is a sentence you probably did not expect to be reading and is definitely not a sentence I expected to be writing.
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Podcast: If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II

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By Joseph Cox Verified
| 404 Media Verified
We start this week with Matthew’s story about a fascinating paper that argues if LLMs are sentient, then by those metrics so is the classic game Age of Empires II. After the break, Matthew tells us about a wild story out of Texas with a data center being built on land that was donated to be a park. In the subscribers-only section, we talk hacking and basketball. Listen to the weekly podcast on , or YouTube.
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How Hackers Broke into Madison Square Garden

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By Joseph Cox Verified
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The hackers that stole a large cache of data from Madison Square Garden called a low level employee and tricked them into letting the hackers into MSG’s systems, according to the hackers and 404 Media’s review of the stolen data. The breach highlights the risk of social engineering over voice calls, sometimes called ‘vishing’.
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