Game developer Big Cheese Studio targeted in cyber attack, PAP reports
Polish game developer Big Cheese Studio was hit by a hacker attack early on Friday, its management confirmed to the Polish Press Agency (PAP).
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Behind the Blog: Nothing to Hide Here
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 parenting blogs, Pinterest sawing its own legs off, and legal guardrails. EMANUEL: I felt a great relief this week getting out this story about Alpha School, an…
Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized Instagram competitor. On Facebook, the company is labeling links to Pixelfed.social as “spam” and deleting them immediately. Pixelfed is an open-source, community funded and decentralized image sharing platform that runs on Activity Pub, which is the same technology that supports Mastodon and other federated services. Pixelfed.social is…
Podcast: Google Is Exposing Peoples’ ChatGPT Secrets
We start this week with Joseph’s story about nearly 100,000 ChatGPT conversations being indexed by Google. There’s some sensitive stuff in there. After the break, Emanuel tells us about Wikipedia’s new way of dealing with AI slop. In the subscribers-only section, Sam explains how we got to where we are with Steam and Itch.io; that history…
DHS Says Critical ICE Surveillance Footage From Abuse Case Was Actually Never Recorded, Doesn’t Matter
The Department of Homeland Security now says that two weeks of critical surveillance footage from within Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s Broadview detention center wasn’t actually lost in a “system crash,” but rather, was never recorded in the first place. It is also arguing that, had the footage been recorded, it would be irrelevant because prisoner…
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.”…
ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time
Members of a law enforcement group chat including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies inadvertently added a random person to the group called “Mass Text” where they exposed highly sensitive information about an active search for a convicted attempted murderer seemingly marked for deportation, 404 Media has learned. The texts included an unredacted…
SANS Institute launches SECWA to empower underrepresented communities with cybersecurity careers
SANS Institute announces launch of SECWA to empower underrepresented communities with cybersecurity careers
Trump Fires National Archives Director Colleen Shogan
Donald Trump fired National Archives director Colleen Shogan Friday night, she said in a LinkedIn post and confirmed to 404 Media. “It was an honor and privilege to serve as the 11th Archivist of the United States,” Shogan told 404 Media. “I did so with integrity every day.” Earlier on LinkedIn, Shogan wrote: “This evening,…