Ronan has worked intensely on this investigation for the past year and a half, dealing with hostility behind the scenes. There’s shrinking space for this kind of reporting that affects our lives-individuals that can acquire the press they want to control.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech Meta funneled $2B through nonprofit shells to push age verification laws targeting Apple and Google while exempting its own platforms from surveillance requirements.

OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project

Pass it on

Remember those secret bases the US had that got revealed cause people were uploading their running paths to a fitness app and it was hey check out this perfect polygon in the middle of the desert I ran

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War’s ‘Playbook’ New research shows hundreds of attempts by apparent Iranian state hackers to hijack consumer-grade cameras, timed to missile and drone strikes. Israel, Russia, and Ukraine have also adopted this trick...

Hacking internet-connected civilian security cameras for recon has become a standard operating procedure of modern warfare. First for Russia and Ukraine, now for Israel and Iran.

Your insecure internet-of-things surveillance system is now their targeting system.

www.wired.com/story/from-u...

During Covid our security department was asked to give input on employee screen monitoring software.

We said absolutely the hell not, hackers are just going to compromise it and dump it.

That was the end of that conversation.

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...

The data from your Meta Ray Bans is used to train Meta's AI, which most people don't understand means that humans are looking at the most intimate details of their lives. www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

Here's the Company That Sold DHS ICE's Notorious Face Recognition App Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.

NEW: The firm behind the Mobile Fortify app, which ICE and CBP use for running facial recognition scans on the public, was revealed today to be NEC, according to DHS docs reviewed by @wired.com. NEC makes its of face rec platform called Reveal. @regret.bsky.social & @dell.bsky.social with the scoop:

He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.

Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials.

Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.

🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

Baby Smash! • Delightful keyboard fun for curious kiddos Baby Smash! is the playful, baby-proof keyboard experience that turns every key press into colorful giggles.

Hey friends, the baby that I made Baby Smash for is going to turn 21 this year. So I updated with it an all new website, installer, new .net 10 code base, and code signed executable. Please test it. Code on Github babysmash.com

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

It was inevitable.

From the confession community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the confession community

I reached out to the author of this viral Reddit post thinking there might be a story in it. He sent me an employee badge that Gemini flagged as being AI-generated and supporting documents that I suspect were also generated by AI. Be careful out there folks!

www.reddit.com/r/confession...

A while ago I worried that fools and novices would fall into a thrall of AI, unable to adjudicate its outputs. I just didn't think that included tech billionaires

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

when i was 12, my favorite program was microsoft powerpoint. i went through every menu item and accidentally found a panel with record/play buttons. press record, do something, and it spits out the code automating what you just did. i tweaked the code and it did something different. i bought a book

same for me, but with MS Excel

I'm remotely "attending" React Advanced Canada 2026 gitnation.com/badges/react...

for whatever it's worth their article on the jugalbandi was wholesale ripped from Wikipedia's, citations and all

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...

More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.

Struck by this Orange site comment about gen AI. It seems so obvious in hindsight.

Gen AI cheapens everything. If you expect to be able to sell something produced by gen AI at the same price as something produced by a human, you're delusional.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550...

Awesome, great can’t imagine this having any negative epistemological effects. Like you would always get what you searched for but now they’ve fully automated the confirmation bias machine.

but is bro happy

As I matured I realized responding to feed of most egregious headline and visual captivation was not brave and informed. It was dopamine hits, chemical incentives.

You seek out and witness suffering for emotional activation and involvement. So, what are you doing?

You are just... watching porn.

THE BEEP BOOP BEEPS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!