Ashley Belanger
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Cursed to love reading legal docs. Senior policy reporter for Ars Technica ashleybelanger.com Signal: @ashleybelanger.77
I read all of X Money's FAQs, terms, and little footnotes, so you don't have to...
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · last wk.@mrose.ink confirmed my suspicions that the Google and Reddit fight with a web scraper over public search results is exactly as weird as I thought it was.
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · last wk.
For folks reaching out: Kroll will likely extend the deadline to sign up for free monitoring if you ask. Most likely, they will not tell you specifically how your data got breached, though, and the process to get the extension will likely require more than one call. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with
Columbia admits last year’s data breach exposed victims beyond its students, staff.
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Columbia’s hidden victims are a weird case, a data breach expert told me, bc normally it’s shady data brokers covering up data no one knows they got, not trusted institutions. And we’ll never know how they got it, bc they somehow deleted those files but not the SSNs. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with
Columbia admits last year’s data breach exposed victims beyond its students, staff.
arstechnica.com
Mystery (sort of) solved…
Ashley Belanger@ashleybelanger.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt took months of asking questions for Columbia to finally explain how my SSN got swept into its data breach, along with an untold number of other victims who never attended, applied to, or worked for the school and were never publicly acknowledged until now. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
It took months of asking questions for Columbia to finally explain how my SSN got swept into its data breach, along with an untold number of other victims who never attended, applied to, or worked for the school and were never publicly acknowledged until now. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with
Columbia admits last year’s data breach exposed victims beyond its students, staff.
arstechnica.com
I had not seen US cops recently charged a man for using Grok to make CSAM as recently as March, which seems relevant as the first state prepares to ban nudifying apps.
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 3mo agoPREACH: “I don’t want to expedite the process. That ruins the point for me." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘They’re supposed to be handmade’: zine creators fight to resist AI influence
Artists and writers argue scrappy nature of self-published booklets is incompatible with artificial intelligence
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I used to cover school shootings for Teen Vogue, so trust me when I say these cases are extremely hard to read. One mother whose daughter is still fighting for her life said she would do anything to go back, while Sam Altman says he's deeply sorry for OpenAI's actions arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
School-shooting lawsuits accuse OpenAI of hiding violent ChatGPT users
Lawsuits: OpenAI didn't report ChatGPT user to cops to protect Altman, IPO.
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I went through Musk and Altman's depositions, if you're curious what they're saying ahead of this wild trial where the judge has already called out both sides for BS arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Musk and Altman face off in trial that will determine OpenAI's future
Musk’s shifting stance on AI dangers may complicate trial over OpenAI’s mission.
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Here it is, over 4K words on what happened after the headline grabbing “$54 million in NFT sales” for Peter Molyneux’s game Legacy. Many players lost thousands chasing a “play to earn” hype train that evaporated almost immediately when the game launched. arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/...
Meet the players who lost big money on Peter Molyneux’s failed Legacy
After millions in NFT sales, the hyped “play to earn” game was effectively dead in weeks.
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an apparently necessary PSA against making fake AI sightings of lost animals...
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 3mo agoAhead of the next Mar-a-Lago gala, I talked to a researcher analyzing suspected insider trading on Trump's memecoin and an ethicist who (with a grain of salt) thinks a crackdown on Trump's crypto empires may be coming soon... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Investors lost billions on Trump’s memecoin. Another gala won’t fix that.
If Dems take Congress, Trump may face reckoning for “pay-to-play” memecoin galas.
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