👁 A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’
Privacy
A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’
TeleGuard is an app downloaded more a million times that markets itself as a secure way to chat. The app uploads users’ private keys to the company’s server, and makes decryption of messages trivial.
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👁 Behind the Blog: Systems As Designed
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Systems As Designed
This week, we discuss crypto, journalists using AI, and a cool photo of Earth.
👁 Journalist Sues FAA Over Drone No Fly Zone Designed to Prevent Filming ICE
News
Journalist Sues FAA Over Drone No Fly Zone Designed to Prevent Filming ICE
A Minnesota journalist is challenging a 3,000 foot restriction on flying near DHS assets on First Amendment grounds.
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👁 Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work
nasa
Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work
In space, no one can hear you scream at Microsoft’s legacy software.
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👁 A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’
Privacy
A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’
TeleGuard is an app downloaded more a million times that markets itself as a secure way to chat. The app uploads users’ private keys to the company’s server, and makes decryption of messages trivial.
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👁 Scientists Create Plant That Produces Ayahuasca, Shrooms, and Toad Psychedelics All At Once
The Abstract
Scientists Create Plant That Produces Ayahuasca, Shrooms, and Toad Psychedelics All At Once
The proof-of-concept system produces psilocybin, DMT, and other compounds in leaves of the tobacco plant, potentially easing pressure on wild species and preserving Indigenous traditions.
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👁 I Tried to Find the ‘Arousal Intelligence’ In An Animated, Augmented Reality Porn Star
porn
I Tried to Find the ‘Arousal Intelligence’ In An Animated, Augmented Reality Porn Star
I spent some time with a new browser-based augmented reality porn app.
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👁 Podcast: Inside the AI Slop Propaganda Wars
Podcast
Podcast: Inside the AI Slop Propaganda Wars
Iran's AI and LEGO-focused propaganda; drama in the world of baseball; and perhaps one of the worst sex apps ever.
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👁 ‘BLOCKADE’: The Right Is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning
AI
‘BLOCKADE’: The Right Is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning
Groups that challenge books have begun using Gemini, ChatGPT, xAI, and other AI tools to try to get books banned.
👁 Paul McCartney Banned From Reddit After Promoting Himself in Paul McCartney Subreddit
News
Paul McCartney Banned From Reddit After Promoting Himself in Paul McCartney Subreddit
Reddit blamed a technical glitch for the removal of the living legend’s concert footage.
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👁 How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir
ICE
How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir
Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used by ICE.
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👁 'You Can't Defeat the Robots!': Baseball's AI Strike Zone Is Must-Watch Television
AI
'You Can't Defeat the Robots!': Baseball's AI Strike Zone Is Must-Watch Television
MLB's ABS system somehow feels extremely human. It's not human vs robot, it's human vs human as judged by a robot.
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👁 An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned
News
An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned
The incident is yet another example of volunteer Wikipedia editors fighting to keep the world’s largest repository of human knowledge free of AI-generated slop.
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