Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

'New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested.' 1/2

The final round of #DEATHCon2025 online tickets will drop on 9/9 at 0900 UTC deathcon.io/tickets.html
In-person tickets still available at some sites (1/4)

APTs that don’t often get cool animal names because we aren’t supposed to know about them.

The badges have just arrived and the look good!

10 minutes till the next ticket drop if you want to guarantee you get one.

ti.to/steelcon/2025

I get at least three heartbreaking, incoherent emails a day now from random strangers who believe they’ve awakened an LLM god or LLM consciousness of a new dimension. The most salient quote from the screenshots below: “(An LLM) will never just say, ‘Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about??’”

The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.

Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.

For those who've been following the story of John Williams, the mole inside the militia movement, he's now released a significant portion of his files through @ddosecrets.com: ddosecrets.com/article/para...

Meet the Chinese 'Typhoon' hackers preparing for war | TechCrunch Dubbed Volt, Flax and Salt Typhoon, U.S. intelligence says these China-backed hackers are laying the groundwork for future conflict.

If you're getting the Volt, Salt and Flax Typhoon hacking groups mixed up, @carlypage.bsky.social has you covered.

These are the China-backed hacking groups gearing up for conflict.

techcrunch.com/2025/01/06/m...

We have verified our domain and updated our handle on BlueSky:

Find us at @DDoSecrets.com

Because it was plagiarising the chicken

BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

The AI madness is so far out of control that "Our product wrote a completely false news alert and credited a real news source" doesn't even rate a corporate comment, let alone an ashamed apology and pulling the product www.bbc.com/news/article...

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

Objective by the Sea v7.0 - Day 2 YouTube video by Objective-See Foundation

The #OBTS day 2 livestream is on!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm0z...

All the recordings from #r2con2024. 🤩 🙌

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Objectives By The Sea v7.0 live stream www.youtube.com/live/LKzJuEZ...
#obts

No, that just means they could deploy spyware to individual phones to read messages saved by the app.

If they’re able to run code on your phone then no app could possibly be safe.

Nothing there suggests a risk to encrypted messages in transit.

Yet another plea to people who are using or following people off follow-farming hashtags like #NoDemUnder1K, #NoDemUnder5K, #BlueCrew, #FBR, etc etc: please do not do that, it's how disinformation operations work. I'm already seeing accounts in those hashtags that are likely disinformation ops. 1/

Verify – Molly White Verify Molly White's online identity.

This is a fake account

www.mollywhite.net/verify/

Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in.

The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers.

This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.

Just Asking Questions: Can an Implication Generate an Illusory Truth Effect? Ira E. Hyman, Jr., Jasmine Balmelli-Morales, Macallan Enns-Ford, Annika Fiala, Zoe Gadbow, Macy Kneipp, Isabel Nguyen, Gwen Pane Western Washington University Madeline Jalbert University of Washington

A Just Asking Questions Effect for spreading false information.
This thread is an overview of my lab’s research that I presented at Psychonomics this morning. #psynow24

TLDR: Getting people to generate their own false answers leads them to believe that info. 1/

Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street.

Russian spies—likely Russia's GRU intelligence agency—used a new trick to hack a victim in Washington, DC: They remotely infected another network in a building across the street, hijacked a laptop there, then breached the target organization via its Wifi. www.wired.com/story/russia...

Screenshot of a blocked user account @allabtgalaxy.bsky.social

First thing I saw after signing up was a space pics account posting AI fakes of Hubble photos.

Maybe @bsky.app should make some kind of blue badge for disinfo accounts like Twitter has