Viral Audio of JD Vance Badmouthing Elon Musk Is Fake, Just the Tip of the AI Iceberg
Over the weekend, AI-generated audio of vice president JD Vance saying Elon Musk is “cosplaying as a great American leader” who is making the administration “look bad” circulated widely on social media. On Sunday, Vance’s communications director William Martin said on X that “This audio is 100% fake and most certainly not the Vice President.”…
Nvidia Stock Plunges 15%—Biggest Loss In History—As DeepSeek Alarm Shakes AI Darling
Monday’s more than $500 billion loss for Nvidia followed panic surrounding DeepSeek’s AI model running on far less of Nvidia’s coveted GPUs than its American counterparts.
4chan Is Down Following What Looks to Be a Major Hack Spurred By Meme War
The notorious imageboard 4chan is down following what appears to be a major hack of its backend. The hackers claim to have exposed code for the site, the emails of moderators, and a list of mod communications. This happened, it seems, as part of a five year long, inter-image board beef between users of 4chan…
Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On
The legal saga over surveillance footage from within an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in suburban Chicago has reached new levels of Kafkaesque absurdity, with the federal government losing three hard drives it was supposed to put footage on, refusing to provide footage from five critical surveillance cameras, and delivering soundless video of a…
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We’re having a Cyber Monday sale! You can get 25% off an annual subscription. With that, you get access to all of our articles (including today’s piece about how surveillance company Flock is using overseas gig workers to review and classify footage); bonus podcast content every week where we talk about an extra story; bonus…
Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional
This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. Subscribe to them here. A judge in Nevada has ruled that “tower dumps”—the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers—is unconstitutional. The judge also ruled that the cops could, this one time, still…
Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’
This article was produced with support from WIRED. A Meta executive in charge of building the company’s metaverse products told employees that they should be using AI to “go 5x faster” according to an internal message obtained by 404 Media . “Metaverse AI4P: Think 5X, not 5%,” the message, posted by Vishal Shah, Meta’s VP of Metaverse,…
Chinese hackers targeted sanctions office in Treasury attack
Chinese state-backed hackers have reportedly breached the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a Treasury Department office that administers and enforces trade and economic sanctions programs. […]
Nineteen Sophos Women Recognized by CRN’s Women of the Channel
CRN honors Sophos women whose channel expertise and vision are deserving of recognition.