When you talk to an AI, you are talking to the company hosting the AI, EFF’s @falsemirror.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy told @WIRED.com. “These chat windows—that we’re used to being connections between us and another person—are really just us directly putting information into Meta servers about ourselves.”

Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me

The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.

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While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full investigation by @josephcox.bsky.social and @wired.com’s @dmehro.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/hackers-stol...

A Flock spokesperson said in a statement: “The unauthorized removal and tampering of a Flock camera is illegal.” When asked specifically about the encryption key stored on the camera, the company added, “Flock takes security seriously."

Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

404media.co

Does anyone have any familiarity with using OpenStreetMaps to update maps on an old Garmin Nuvi?

EU please force instagram to make tiktok links openable in DMs. and while you're at it make it illegal for networked printing to suck. thank you for your work in single-handedly saving technology

Looking forward to this phishkit landing on my shores soon 🫡 www.malwarebytes.com/blog/scams/2...

Fake Apple Pay charge brings the classic tech support scam to your phone

Built for mobile users, this tech support scam uses a fake Apple Pay alert and browser tricks to pressure victims into calling a scam number.

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After blocking Instagram on my phone, maybe I can dedicate a little brain power to looking at this app? Got tired of the Facebook-verse making its money on the back of pissing you off as much as possible for engagement.

NEW: An expert witness testifying in a lawsuit about liability for a Houston explosion that killed three people and destroyed roughly 200 homes used ChatGPT to write significant portions of his “expert report.” He literally prompted ChatGPT: "Show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion."

‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit

ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.

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*whispers* BLM was popular

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'll go another step further: the research shows that BLM protests causally shifted Americans' racial attitudes leftward and helped Democrats in the 2020 election link.springer.com/article/10.1...

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD!!!1!! In honor of cDcDay 2025, let it be known that we have deposited a Big Box o' cDc Booty (not that kind, y'filthy bastards!)... somewhere. Where could it be? Who can say! Mebbe there'll be hints later, if we don't smoke too much nutmeg and forget. BOW TO THE COW.

The Official Pulpit of CULT OF THE DEAD COW@cultdeadcow.com · last yr.

HAPPY CULT OF THE DEAD COW DAY, SKEETR0NZ! Be Sure to hit-up your local 7/11 to collect the free slurpeez they're handing out to celebrate the birthday of cDc! Or, y'know, don't. We don't care. You do you, homeslice.

Tour de France officials cut 30km from Sunday's ninth stage after temperatures are expected to soar above 100 Fahrenheit. bit.ly/3R3UKiA

🇧🇪 Merlier goes deep to win again but rules out 🇫🇷 Tour green jersey bid 🗣️ “I've always dreamt of wearing that jersey once in the Tour, but he's [Pedersen] so strong that tomorrow he'll pick up enough points again to stay well ahead of us." 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/i-th... 📸 Cor Vos

Might come back to this app to see how it feels now. Had some content issues before and I dislike some of the likely control issues I foresee.

I can post to Blue Sky from radial.racing whoa

The pro cycling app

Live race updates, hot-takes, results, where to watch, and what's coming up. The pro cycling fan app, in one place.

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A driverless Waymo hit a kid near an elementary school in Santa Monica. NHTSA is investigating... developing story @cnbc.com w/ @jennelias.bsky.social #AVs #robotaxi www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/w...

A Waymo hit a child near an elementary school. The NHTSA is investigating

U.S. regulators are investigating the behavior of Waymo driverless vehicles around schools and school buses

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me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Best gas masks

“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

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Hopped back on here for a scroll and my thoughts are that sports coverage is fine but anything else is suffering from wonks.

The names of two partial owners of contractor firms linked to China's Salt Typhoon hacker group also appeared in records for Cisco's "Networking Academy" global training program—years before those hackers targeted Cisco's devices in their sweeping spy campaign. www.wired.com/story/2-men-...

2 Men Linked to China’s Salt Typhoon Hacker Group Likely Trained in a Cisco ‘Academy’

The names of two partial owners of firms linked to the Salt Typhoon hacker group also appeared in records for a Cisco training program—years before the group targeted Cisco’s devices in a spy campaign...

wired.com

Watching "The Lobby" and seeing the way pro-Israeli lobbyists talk about grassroots movement looks to be deeply cynical, seeing the way they operate in every other circle. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Watch the film the Israel lobby didn't want you to see - YouTube

In 2016, Al Jazeera's investigative unit shot twin undercover documentaries exposing the machination of the pro-Israel lobby in the UK and the US from within...

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This is fucking horrifying. Swastikas and nooses are just “potentially divisive”? Are you kidding me?

Tonight’s D1 Menu (ET): 7PM—HARV @ COLU—ESPN2 7PM—DSU @ MORG—ESPNU 8PM—HOU @ UCF—FS1 9PM—NW @ #19 USC—FOX 9PM—TULN @ MEM—ESPN

We’re at war?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo ago

Hegseth: "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO."

Lumma Stealer Activity Drops After Doxxing www.securityweek.com/lumma-steale...

We live in such a deeply unserious time, where the only potential avenue to maintaining some form of a useful agency is by becoming the most unbearable sycophant. The idea of a common good is lost upon us.

Kim Zetter@kimzetter.bsky.social · 12mo ago

On CISA media call just now to discuss the F5 hack and source code breach, CISA staffer interrupted the discussion to blame the Democrats for the government shutdown and forcing workers to work without pay

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

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Happy These Are All Allegedly Real Schools Who Are Playing D1 Basketball Programs The Opening Week of Basketball Season szn to you and yours

49-consecutive days of football begin TONIGHT! Missouri State @ Middle Tennessee 7:30pm ET on ESPN2 Liberty @ UTEP 8:00pm ET on CBSSN