How Sugar and Sedentary Lifestyle Affects Men
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Behind the Blog: The Attention Wars
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Spencer Pratt, bricking phones, and the FTC. JASON: I have watched mostly in horror as Spencer Pratt has taken over the internet and, it feels, the physical…
How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart
On a school night in early December, a freshman at Radnor High School in Pennsylvania wrote in Snapchat messages to his friends that his parents took his phone away. “why,” one replied. “the app,” he answered. “o shi. did you admit to what it was or just the money,” another asked. Just the money, the…
GitHub internal repositories breached
A malicious VS Code extension led to cloned private repositories, reportedly offered for sale on a criminal forum Categories: Threat Research Tags: GitHub, Supply chain
Sophos Firewall and Synchronized Security
Synchronized Security is a unique capability you won’t get anywhere else. Categories: Products & Services Tags: network, Firewall, Synchronized Security
Township Leader Resigns in Tears Over OpenAI Data Center Death Threats
The treasurer of Saline Township, Michigan, publicly resigned last week citing death threats she’d received related to the construction of an Oracle and OpenAI datacenter. “I’m submitting my resignation effective May 29th. I can’t take it anymore. The threats. The ‘I’m gonna tar and feather you.’ I hope you get bit by ah […] it’s…
Podcast: Elites Just Don’t Get AI
We start this week with Sam telling us all about the commencement speeches where speakers have been praising AI, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. That did not go down well! After the break, Jason tells us how he was offered the chance to buy a bunch of images of poop to train AI (really)….
Streamer Realtime Deepfakes Himself into Mr. Beast, Says He Loves ‘Touching Little Boys’
An app that allows users to deepfake their appearance in realtime has predictably resulted in a streamer making nonconsensual and potentially defamatory content. Specifically, the streamer made himself look like Mr. Beast and said “I love touching little boys’ pee pees.” Sam Pepper, a British internet personality known for videos and streams in which he…
Lawyer for Guy Who Sued Women Who Called Him ‘Psycho’ Caught Using AI
The guy who sued 27 women, one man, and several platforms after users in a Facebook group called him “clingy” and “psycho” had his case against Meta dismissed after a judge suggested that his attorney filed AI-generated errors and non-existent citations. In Nikko D’Ambrosio’s complaint, he claimed Facebook profited off of disparaging posts about him…
WantToCry ransomware remotely encrypts files
Brute-force attempts against SMB services can be early signs of an attack Categories: Threat Research Tags: Ransomware, WantToCry, SMB
Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI
University of Washington researchers planned to have preschool teachers wear cameras that would record everything they saw from a first-person perspective, including the children they were teaching, then use that footage to develop AI models. Crucially, the program was presented as opt-out, rather than opt-in, meaning that parents had to take steps to prevent recordings…