Why the actual fuck would any successful creative writer want to do this job for Mercor?
Hey, come do this job so you can really screw over the industry of which you dreamed of becoming a part.
More abuse of #ALPR mass #surveillance
".. accused of using #FLOCK license plate readers to track his mistress and her romantic interests.
Despite being placed on leave in December 2023, Josett allegedly used the cameras to find his mistress' new boyfriend's address in June 2024"
#deflock
Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.
On creating a wiper for computers in Iran, they said it was mostly for testing their malware, but also "for the lulz."
Some things never change.
🚨NEW🚨 I spoke to TeamPCP, the hackers behind a cybercrime spree that hit major security and AI tools this last week.
While they claim to have used AI (yes, Claude) to code some of their malware, they largely relied on an age-old problem that persists: bad security.
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Ad tech is surveillance software. Period.
🚨NEW🚨 Cops identified a suspect behind an anonymous bomb hoax at an Ohio courthouse by using Google cookies.
An example of how cops can piggyback on the tracking technologies used by tech giants.
Haven't seen this before, but surely used in other cases.
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🚨NEW🚨 Cops identified a suspect behind an anonymous bomb hoax at an Ohio courthouse by using Google cookies.
An example of how cops can piggyback on the tracking technologies used by tech giants.
Haven't seen this before, but surely used in other cases.
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
🚨NEW🚨 Cape, the anti-surveillance mobile network cofounded by ex-Palantir employees, has hit a $900 million valuation.
Explosive revenue growth too, from $4.5m in 2024 to $37m in 2025.
Still, there are doubters and CEO John Doyle tells me how he responds to them.
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EXCLUSIVE: Millions of 'anonymous' crime tips sent to law enforcement, the military and Crime Stoppers have been exposed by hackers.
The data—provided to me & @ddosecrets.org by the hackers—contains 8.3 million highly sensitive records spanning from 1987 to 2025.
san.com/cc/millions-...
NEW - Missiles have killed at least two individuals key to Iran's cyber capability, per reports, but the hacks have continued.
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🚨 NEW 🚨 Israeli startup Tenzai let its AI agent (tailored versions of OpenAI and Anthropic models) rip on elite hacking competitions.
It was better than 99% of 125,000 participants.
Hackers have already had their "singularity moment."
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Huge thank you to all *checks notes* 200,000 of you who subscribed in the last year! Extremely proud of my colleagues and to be part of Team @wired.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...
Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives?
A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit.
Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit?
A: No, we didn’t.
A judge in England tossed out testimony after a witness was being coached on what to say through a pair of smartglasses. When the voice of the coach started coming through the accompanying cellphone, the witness blamed the whole thing on ChatGPT. www.404media.co/witness-caug...
We're about a minute away from capable robot soldiers.
At least AI robots are currently shite at tennis, tho.
zzk273.github.io/LATENT/
Just Sharon Osbourne saying she loves an AI-generated song by an AI far-right rapper...
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Scoop: Here’s the bonkers story of how a foreign hacker inadvertently (?) broke into an evidence server holding FBI Epstein material in 2023 and then threatened to call in law enforcement when they found it was full of CSAM.
www.reuters.com/world/us/for...
All this talk of advanced AI targeting and the U.S. still fired a Tomahawk at an elementary school where an outdoor playground has been visible on Google Maps since 2017 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money
'Tis done.
Agreed it helps in some limited circumstances but any tips on where it can be useful and be useful often would be welcome!
2. I asked Gemini to go through a spreadsheet of individuals that contained everything a human would need to write up bios for each. It failed to do it no matter how many prompts I tried.
AI does not read and write like a person when it comes to basic jobs.
Good at making shit up. Poor with facts.
Two reasons I remained unconvinced by AI in journalism:
1. I asked Gemini to review a court filing for me that I wasn't able to ctrl+f for mentions of AI. I asked it to find mentions of AI. The AI couldn't do it and lied about where it was.
ctd...
🚨NEW🚨 Cops used an AI-generated teenager to catch pedophiles on Kik Messenger, an app notorious as a hive of predator activity.
A rare insight into how police can spin up AI teens for sting operations on social media.
But where else are cops using AI personas?
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
