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Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages
Mike Waltz, who was until Thursday U.S. National Security Advisor, has inadvertently revealed he is using an obscure and unofficial version of Signal that is designed to archive messages, raising questions about what classification of information officials are discussing on the app and how that data is being secured, 404 Media has found. On Thursday…
Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People
Hugging Face, a company with a multi-billion dollar valuation and one of the most commonly used platforms for sharing AI tools and resources, is hosting over 5,000 AI image generation models that are designed to recreate the likeness of real people. These models were all previously hosted on Civitai, an AI model sharing platform 404…
Hackers Claim Massive Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data
Hackers claim to have compromised Gravy Analytics, the parent company of Venntel which has sold masses of smartphone location data to the U.S. government. The hackers said they have stolen a massive amount of data, including customer lists, information on the broader industry, and even location data harvested from smartphones which show peoples’ precise movements,…
Why This OnlyFans Model Posts Machine Learning Explainers to Pornhub
Zara Dar’s six-minute explainer video “So what are Integrals?” has a little over half a million views with 450 likes and an 87 percent positive “thumbs up” review rate. Commenters have said the video, which is a short introduction to one of the fundamental operations of calculus, is “educational,” “great,” and “just incredible.” “I have…
Shimamura’s AI Model Luna Appointed Cybersecurity Ambassador
Shimamura, the popular Japanese fast-fashion retailer, has taken another step toward innovative marketing by introducing its official AI model named Luna. Recently,…
Immigration Raid Tracking App ‘ICE Block’ Keeps Your Data Private, Researcher Finds
ICE Block, an app that lets users warn others about the location of ICE officers, and which for a short while was the top of the social media App Store chart, does protect users’ privacy and doesn’t share your location with third parties, according to a recent analysis from a security researcher. ICE Block already…
Behind the Blog: Big Questions of Consciousness
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 a wild message, big questions about consciousness, and a visit to a museum. JASON: I got an extremely funny Signal message yesterday after I published my most…
Jen Easterly On The Future of Cybersecurity and Her Agency’s Survival
Outgoing Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Jen Easterly sits down with WIRED Senior Writer Lily Newman to discuss the challenges on the horizon for U.S. cyberdefense, the successes of her time at the helm of the crucial agency, and the business left unfinished as CISA’s entire fate hangs in the balance…
‘The Bigotry Is Astounding:’ Engineers Waste Time and Money Scanning .Gov Sites for ‘Transgender’ and Other Terms
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is wasting workers’ time and taxpayer dollars on “a witch hunt to find any content deemed ‘bad,’” according to a source familiar with the work and internal communications viewed by 404 Media. Specifically, people who work on HHS websites are spending days scanning those sites and…