Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Winning Awards and Cranky Babies
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 winning awards, sim swapping dumpster fires, and push notifications for infants.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Winning Awards and Cranky Babies
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 winning awards, sim swapping dumpster fires, and push notifications for infants.
News
How the FBI Is Hunting North Korean Hackers Who Attacked U.S. Healthcare System
A recently unsealed court document shows the FBI has obtained multiple warrants to read the contents of email inboxes used by suspected North Korean hackers.
News
Navy Ad: Gig Work Is a Dystopian, Unregulated Hellscape, Build Submarines Instead
The same government that has failed to regulate gig work has simply opted to agree that it is bad and to use those working conditions to recruit for the military.
AI
AI Video Generator Runway Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission
A leaked document obtained by 404 Media shows company-wide effort collected thousands of YouTube videos and pirated content for training data.
AI
Anthropic AI Scraper Hits iFixit’s Website a Million Times in a Day
“We're just the largest database of repair information in the world, no big deal if they take it all without asking and swamp our servers in the process.”
News
Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal
DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.
Podcast
Podcast: The CrowdStrike Outage
The worldwide CrowdStrike outage; vaping the internet; and a bunch of leaked documents from Cellebrite.
Deepfakes
An Astronomy Technique Could Detect Deepfakes Through People’s Eyes
Looking at the light reflections of eyes could be a clue to detecting AI-generated impersonations.
News
Heritage Foundation Claims to Use Location Data to Track Trump Shooter's Movements
Organizations are now openly broadcasting the once dirty secret of the location data industry: it can be used to track specific people.
AI
The Backlash Against AI Scraping Is Real and Measurable
In the last year, the number of websites specifically restricting OpenAI and other AI scraper bots has gone through the roof.
News
Sydney Sweeney’s Verizon Phone Number Hijacked
A photo posted online shows an apparent SIM swap of Sydney Sweeney on July 2nd. That same day, hackers broke into her Twitter account and posted a cryptocurrency scam.
FOIA
DHS Has a DoS Robot to Disable Internet of Things ‘Booby Traps’ Inside Homes
"NEO carries an onboard computer and antenna array that will allow officers the ability to create a ‘denial-of-service’ event to disable ‘Internet of Things’ devices that could potentially cause harm while entry is made."