From inbox clutter to costly compromise: Why email threats still matter
Email-based attacks aren’t relics of the past. They’re active, sophisticated, and increasingly lucrative for attackers.
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CBP Quietly Launches Face Scanning App for Local Cops To Do Immigration Enforcement
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has publicly released an app that Sheriff Offices, police departments, and other local or regional law enforcement can use to scan someone’s face as part of immigration enforcement, 404 Media has learned. The news follows Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) use of another internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) app…
How Artists Are Keeping ‘The Lost Art’ of Neon Signs Alive
Next to technicolor neon signs featuring Road Runner, an inspirational phrase that says “everything will be fucking amazing,” and a weed leaf, Geovany Alvarado points to a neon sign he’s particularly proud of: “The Lost and Found Art,” it says. “I had a customer who called me, it was an old guy. He wanted to…
A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America’s Nuclear Weapon Scientists
Ypsilanti, Michigan resident KJ Pedri doesn’t want her town to be the site of a new $1.2 billion data center, a massive collaborative project between the University of Michigan and America’s nuclear weapons scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) in New Mexico. “My grandfather was a rocket scientist who worked on Trinity,” Pedri said…
Massive Creator Platform Fansly Bans Furries
Fansly, a popular platform where independent creators—many of whom are making adult content—sell access to images and videos to subscribers and fans, announced sweeping changes to its terms of service on Monday, including effectively banning furries. The changes blame payment processors for classifying “some anthropomorphic content as simulated bestiality.” Most people in the furry fandom…
PayPal Hit With $2 Million Fine For Cybersecurity Failures
The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has imposed a $2 million fine on PayPal, Inc. for violations of its stringent cybersecurity regulations.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s Iconic Look Used to Promote Knockoff Leather Jackets
It’s probably not a coincidence that some of the most famous tech company CEOs have instantly recognizable looks. Steve Jobs’s black turtleneck and blue jeans. Palmer Lucky’s Hawaiian shirts and flip flops. Mark Zuckerberg’s wedgieable jeans and t-shirt era followed by his current hypebeast transformation. Much like infamous dictators throughout history, the leaders’ style at…
Saving the Lost Silent Zuckerberg Interview With the Amazing Power of AI
Yesterday, Silicon Valley trade publication The Information launched TITV, a live-streaming news program. For its first episode, the company’s founder Jessica Lessin interviewed Mark Zuckerberg about his recent attempts to hire AI executives away from other companies for huge sums of money. It is impossible to say what actually happened in the interview, however, because…
Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don’t Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer
In a newly-released podcast, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says society just hasn’t found the “value” in AI girlfriends and therapists yet, apparently clueless that his own company hosts deceptive and harmful AI companions on its own platform. For a little over an hour, podcaster Dwarkesh Patel sets Zuckerberg up to say whatever he wants sans-pushback,…
Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public
A worker at the General Services Administration told colleagues in a Slack message Tuesday that they have resigned in protest after Elon Musk ally Thomas Shedd requested “admin/root access to all components of the Notify.gov system,” which is a government system used to send mass text messages to the public that contains information the worker…