Podcast: The Inside Story of Tea

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We start this week with Emanuel’s big investigation into the Tea app, and especially how it aggressively grew by raiding…

Chinese Livestreaming ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outselling Their Human Counterparts

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This article was produced with support from WIRED. The salesperson hawking Brother printers on Taobao works hard, like, really hard. At any…

How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World

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On March 16, 2023, Paola Sanchez, the founder and administrator of Are We Dating the Same Guy?, a collection of…

The State of Ransomware in Retail 2025

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361 IT and cybersecurity leaders reveal the ransomware realities for retail businesses today.

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

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TikTok Shop is selling GPS trackers marketed with viral videos that have voiceovers explicitly encouraging secretly tracking a romantic partner.…

Grok Exposes Underlying Prompts for Its AI Personas: ‘EVEN PUTTING THINGS IN YOUR ASS’

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The website for Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is exposing the underlying prompts for a wealth of its AI personas,…

The Government Just Made it Harder for The Public to Comment on Regulations

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It became harder to tell the government how you feel about pending rules and regulations starting on Friday, thanks to…

A Strand of Hair Just Changed What We Know About the Inka Empire

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Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies that stood out to me this week, covering everything from silver…

Behind the Blog: Exercises in OSINT and Storage Pains

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This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of…

A New Discovery Might Have Just Rewritten Human History

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