The YouTube clone "JeffTube," from the project that produced Jmail, lets you watch all the DOJ's Epstien videos as if you were on YouTube san.com/cc/jmail-and...

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented. Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

The FBI secretly controlled a staffer at a dark web drug market that did $100 million in sales. The informant allegedly approved the sale of drugs even after warnings they were tainted with fentanyl—including from a vendor whose pills led to a confirmed fatal overdose. www.wired.com/story/an-fbi...

Ring's founder is running defense in the media after his disastrous Super Bowl ad. Yet he's still framing the "Search Party" feature as a way to find lost dogs, despite @404media.co obtaining an internal email where he says the feature will expand beyond dogs. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...

DHS now has a $1 billion tab with Palantir Another incredible scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/depart...

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime: www.404media.co/leaked-email...

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back. Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

New from 404 Media: we've confirmed cops are buying access to GeoSpy, an AI that can geolocate photos in seconds. Doesn't use metadata, but clues in the photo like soil, architecture, to pinpoint where social media photos taken. Being used in investigations www.404media.co/cops-are-buy...

New, by @lorenzofb.bsky.social: Google sent personal and financial data about a student and journalist, who attended a pro-Palestine protest in 2024, to ICE agents in response to an "administrative subpoena," which had not been approved by a judge.

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

The showed us cute missing dogs & we consented to turning our doorbell cameras into a mass human tracking system. Mark my words, Ring's Search Party will become the next Flock. Only instead of just being sketchy cameras installed in parking lots, it will be everywhere. That's their play.

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

NEW: "Is there a lot of press around the house given recent news? Trying to decide whether to wear a baseball hat." Those are the words of world-renowned hacker Vincenzo Iozzo. Here's what he discussed with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in emails spanning from 2014 to 2018. san.com/cc/did-a-ren...

NEW: @telliotter.bsky.social got an inside look at an online forum where ICE and CBP agents often post about how the agencies have changed for the worse. “[T]his agency has managed to turn a righteous mission into a complete clown show,” one longtime user wrote. Scoop: www.wired.com/story/inside...

The FBI can’t get into a Washington Post reporter’s phone, in part because it was set to Lockdown Mode. www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

Police used the city’s license plate readers to track a local writer’s movements, then issued a BOLO on him. No charge, and he was the wrong suspect. www.kcur.org/politics-ele...

New from 404 Media: hackers and trolls have targeted a wave of ICE spotting apps, those that let you report sightings of ICE officials. In one case, hackers even managed to send a push notification to app users. Claimed personal data sent to the gov, but no evidence www.404media.co/hackers-and-...

NEW: Epstein was told in a 2014 email to hire Hector "Sabu" Monsegur, the LulzSec hacker turned FBI informant. Here's what Monsegur said when I asked him whether he'd ever been contacted by Epstein or his associates. san.com/cc/jeffrey-e...

The Department of Homeland Security thinks this 29-year-old named Chandler is "the leader of Antifa" (seriously) www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-ident...

there's always a cyber angle

NEW: Epstein was told in a 2014 email to hire Hector "Sabu" Monsegur, the LulzSec hacker turned FBI informant. Here's what Monsegur said when I asked him whether he'd ever been contacted by Epstein or his associates. san.com/cc/jeffrey-e...

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

I wrote about how to use Signal nicknames so that you don't have to be confused about who everyone is in all of your Signal groups micahflee.com/are-your-sig...

NEW: Elon Musk has insisted that Jeffrey Epstein invited him to the notorious island and he declined. But new emails show the opposite -- Musk was practically begging to party with Epstein in the Caribbean, years after Epstein's sex convictions were public knowledge futurism.com/future-socie...

Lemon’s attorney called the arrest an attack on the First Amendment. He was reportedly taken into custody while covering the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Full story at the link: https://ow.ly/AVxC50Y61MM

SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. The full user guide here:

Signal will never message you like this. If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL. DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com "In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this." Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

Another horrific ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Man wrestled to the ground by federal agents, then shot multiple times. www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli... @startribune.com is there: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered immigration officers to gather identifying information about anyone filming them and to “send that information to Intel who will do a ‘work-up’ on them,” a federal law enforcement official involved tells me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-making...

NEW: An activist in Minneapolis told me Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino approached her & greeted her by her first & last name. She'd never told him her name. She felt Bovino’s remarks had one purpose: intimidation. Just one of many stories I heard while on the ground. san.com/cc/minneapol...

Minneapolis is serious about ICE. My hotel, presumably used by ICE, had its fire alarm pulled at 4:45AM. My rental w/ out of state plates was constantly followed. Two locals approached to determine if I was ICE after my plates were flagged. Constant countersurveillance by locals who want ICE out.

No shortage of Flock license plate reader cameras here in Minneapolis.

On the ground in Minneapolis and the paranoia due to ICE is palpable. Been driving around in my rental with out of state plates and am definetly being seen as suspect.

An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice. ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

This photo by Mostafa Bassim shows an ICE agent scanning someone's face with a mobile app, quite possibly Mobile Fortify as first reported by @404media.co. This is the first image I've seen of the app's UI in action. If you look closely, you can also see an interesting wristband on the agent.

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car" "His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

After ICE agents shot people in Minneapolis tonight, a crowd faced them down and eventually chased them away, despite federal mercenaries and police shooting a tremendous amount of tear gas. ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.

Hundreds of millions of earbuds, headphones and speakers need a security update (yes, you need to update your earbuds) to prevent a wireless hacking technique that can hijack audio, eavesdrop via mics, and in some cases remotely track the accessory’s location. www.wired.com/story/google...

NEW: A police officer in Colorado used evidence from Flock cameras to wrongfully accuse an innocent woman for package theft, then yelled at her on the phone when she told him she had evidence that exonerated her, according to body camera footage obtained by 404 Media.

This post suggesting Proud Boy leader Tarrio is an ICE agent is getting traction but please don't share it. If he is an ICE agent then he's not been showing up to work lately —just look at his X account This so-called leaked ICE list has not been verified, so please don't share until it is.

New from 404 Media: police have unwittingly unmasked millions of their surveillance targets because of a Flock redaction error. Police didn't redact specific license plates in public record releases. A site is now making that information searchable, 2.3 million plates www.404media.co/police-unmas...