Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Dogs, Fireworks, and Gaming
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 turning our brains off with some gaming for the long weekend, dogs and fireworks, and the staying power of a meme.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Dogs, Fireworks, and Gaming
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 turning our brains off with some gaming for the long weekend, dogs and fireworks, and the staying power of a meme.
r/SecurityClearance Is the Best Subreddit
An unhinged subreddit of people sharing their secrets before they share them with the U.S. government.
News
Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug
“While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.”
Podcast
Podcast: Your Identity Hacked, Yet Verified
An ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, and X exposed drivers' licenses; the FBI think it knows who is behind a Zoom Bombing ring; and Fiverr freelancing are offering to dox people for $30.
News
Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App
“Ultimately it is my fault for not insisting on a better QA process for this work and pushing our team hard to hit a deadline,” Figma’s CEO said.
News
Fiverr Freelancers Offer to Dox Anyone With Powerful U.S. Data Tool
Dozens of Fiverr sellers are advertising access to TLOxp, a potent data surveillance tool sold by credit bureau TransUnion.
Zoom Bombing
'Local Residents' Terrorizing City Council Meetings Were Actually Overseas, Feds Allege
A racist 'Zoom Bombing' group was made up of American teenagers collaborating on a Roblox-owned chat with foreign nationals, according to a criminal complaint.
cars
Car Rental Service Replaces Desk Agents With People On Video Chat
A Nu Car Rentals office in Charlotte, North Carolina offers only "virtual assistance" to customers.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Too Many Tabs and Generative AI Hype
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 exciting new updates to the podcast, having too many tabs open, and the generative AI boom.
News
Stable Diffusion 3's Disastrous Launch Could Change the AI Landscape Forever
Stability AI botched the launch of its latest model, proving the Stable Diffusion community doesn’t need the company that brought it to the world.
News
Lawsuit Claims Microsoft Tracked Sex Toy Shoppers With 'Recording in Real Time' Software
The complaint claims that Babeland and Good Vibrations websites uses Microsoft's Clarity tracking software to see what visitors searched for and bought.
News
Perplexity’s Origin Story: Scraping Twitter With Fake Academic Accounts
CEO Aravind Srinivas explained how the company took off after it created a demo by scraping twitter with fake academic accounts using fake AI-generated research proposals.