Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit
“This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”
Hacker Compromises a16z-Backed Phone Farm, Tries to Post Memes Calling a16z the ‘Antichrist’
Doublespeed uses a phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated influencers. A hacker managed to get into a backend system of the company.
WebinarTV Secretly Scraped Zoom Meetings of Anonymous Recovery Programs
WebinarTV scraped and shared 12 steps-based anonymous meetings for people recovering from addiction and other private support groups.
The Great AI Grift
Tech leaders want you to believe that AI is the key to a new golden age. The reality looks more like a bold, government-backed heist.
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Farmer Arrested for Speaking Too Long at Datacenter Town Hall Vows to Fight
Darren Blanchard went a few seconds over his three minute time limit and found himself in handcuffs.
Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates
Updates to VeraCrypt, a popular and long-running piece of encryption, are now thrown into doubt because of a seemingly unexplained Microsoft decision.
Multiple Hackers Warned Anti-Porn App Quittr About Security Issue for Months
At least three different people notified the popular app that wants to help men stop watching porn that it was jeopardizing user data.
Journalist Sues FAA Over Drone No Fly Zone Designed to Prevent Filming ICE
A Minnesota journalist is challenging a 3,000 foot restriction on flying near DHS assets on First Amendment grounds.
A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’
TeleGuard is an app downloaded more a million times that markets itself as a secure way to chat. The app uploads users’ private keys to the company’s server, and makes decryption of messages trivial.
Paul McCartney Banned From Reddit After Promoting Himself in Paul McCartney Subreddit
Reddit blamed a technical glitch for the removal of the living legend’s concert footage.