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“A vulnerability in Apple’s ‘Hide My Email’ tool lets almost anyone discover a person’s real email address that is supposed to be hidden by the feature, and Apple has failed to fix it for more than a year…”

Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses

”Hide My Email users deserve to know that it may be possible for attackers to discover their hidden email addresses,” the person who reported the issue said.

404media.co

IMPORTANT PRIVACY PSA: YouTube has foolishly rolled out a new “feature” that will dox you or compromise your privacy without you knowing! When you tap the share button on a video and send a link now, anyone opening that link will see your channel name, handle, and avatar! Enabled by default. 🫪

In China, for $30, you can have Dwayne Johnson drive your Tesla. Sounds too cheap to be true? Well, what you’re actually buying is a tiny replica of The Rock's head sitting above the rearview mirror and tricking Tesla into thinking an attentive driver is behind the wheel while FSD is engaged.

Remember, Elon still says X is going to be a bank where you can put your money.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4mo ago

An X user pulled off a $200,000 crypto heist by tricking Grok with Morse code. The user pulled off a prompt injection, bypassing Grok's safeguards and exploiting Grok's integration with Bankrbot to execute a wallet transfer on the Base network. The user deleted their X account after the transfer.

Page Six is running ads for Meta Glasses via it’s Met Gala coverage, recording and posting social videos with the device it referred to as “pervert glasses” last month

In my experience, if person A shares an Instagram link and person B opens it, B’s account will likely be suggested to A. Meaning if B uses their real name and a recognised profile picture, Instagram doxxes them. I have unintentionally learned the real names of many online friends this way.

This is a big deal. Already seeing evidence of this by way of OpenClaw installations. opensourcemalware.co... www.stepsecurity.io/...

One of the most popular JavaScript packages on earth Axios has been compromised

The Axios NPM package has been compromised and the maintainer of the project has been locked out of their account. This will go down in history as one of the most successful software supply chain attacks ever

opensourcemalware.com

All fellow UniFi users should update their network application tonight. community.ui.com/releases/Sec...

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Less than five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg was so committed to the metaverse that he renamed his whole company after it. Anyways here’s @boone.bsky.social

Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest

Meta’s flailing virtual reality social experience is being discontinued in June. It's part of Meta’s broader moves to slim down the business that became its namesake.

wired.com

In case you’re wondering how his night is going, Musk is currently reposting Grok AI videos made by his fans including one of him kissing a random woman

"AG Paxton alleged that Samsung uses automated content recognition (ACR) technology, which can capture hundreds of images of what’s on your TV screen each minute, without first obtaining Texans’ expressed, informed consent."

Samsung TVs will stop hiding the click-through consent screen that let them spy on you

Samsung and the state of Texas have reached an agreement regarding the company's data collection practices on TVs.

androidauthority.com

Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads www.androidauthority.com/samsung-conf...

Oh no who could have foreseen this?

Boom in illegal porn sites following Online Safety Act age verifications | LBC

Data seen by LBC shows a big spike in internet traffic to porn sites operating without mandatory age verification checks.

lbc.co.uk

"AG Paxton alleged that Samsung uses automated content recognition (ACR) technology, which can capture hundreds of images of what’s on your TV screen each minute, without first obtaining Texans’ expressed, informed consent."

Samsung TVs will stop hiding the click-through consent screen that let them spy on you

Samsung and the state of Texas have reached an agreement regarding the company's data collection practices on TVs.

androidauthority.com

Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads www.androidauthority.com/samsung-conf...

In 2023, OpenAI’s usage policy explicitly banned the military from accessing its AI models. But some OpenAI employees discovered the Pentagon had already started experimenting with Azure OpenAI, a version of OpenAI’s models offered by Microsoft, sources say.

OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway

Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications.

wired.com

Hacking internet-connected civilian security cameras for recon has become a standard operating procedure of modern warfare. First for Russia and Ukraine, now for Israel and Iran. Your insecure internet-of-things surveillance system is now their targeting system. www.wired.com/story/from-u...

From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War’s ‘Playbook’

New research shows hundreds of attempts by apparent Iranian state hackers to hijack consumer-grade cameras, timed to missile and drone strikes. Israel, Russia, and Ukraine have also adopted this trick...

wired.com

Toe the party line

m@keptsimple.bsky.social · 6mo ago

online MAGA men are falling for the AI creation "Jessica Foster," who is a combination US Army adviser to Trump and foot fetish model. The character already has nearly a million Instagram followers.

Jack Dorsey really is trying to do everything like Elon Musk

“We put them in our agreement” means there are no restrictions in the underlying models, unlike Anthropic, and you’re relying on *checks notes* the Trump administration to hold to this. So. Yeah.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 6mo ago

My goodness.

This is just more proof the world should be pushing harder for data sovereignty.

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"President Donald Trump's administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate U.S. tech companies' handling of foreigners' data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters that such efforts could interfere with artificial intelligence-related services."

"President Donald Trump's administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate U.S. tech companies' handling of foreigners' data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters that such efforts could interfere with artificial intelligence-related services."

Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives

An internal diplomatic cable said such efforts could interfere with AI-related services.

reuters.com

An eye-opening story from @ering.bsky.social and Karen Weise on how Jeffrey Epstein worked his way into the inner sanctum of Microsoft's C-suite www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/t...

How Jeffrey Epstein Ingratiated Himself With Top Microsoft Executives

nytimes.com

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime: www.404media.co/leaked-email...

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs

Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.

404media.co

When I wrote Section 230 I did so knowing it would be critical for protecting free speech online. 30 years later and it’s one of the last things standing in the way of Republican censorship of the internet. Here’s to many more years of defending this vital safeguard of free speech.

When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...

CIA admits to spying on Senate staffers

John Brennan issues apology after acknowledging that agency spied on Senate intelligence committee’s staff members

theguardian.com

Christopher Wiggins@cwnewser.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

Age verification for all.

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they're trying to be coy about salivating over the prospect of raping women, they'll contest that but if pushed to explain, that's exactly what they would describe. forced pregnancy of any kind, by a man or by the state, is gender-based violence

techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/n...

Notepad++ says Chinese government hackers hijacked its software updates for months | TechCrunch

The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software update mechanism to deliver tainted software to users for months.

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