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Internal ICE emails show the agency has been discussing the use of a Palantir-supported tool to track noncitizen voters
@pickardje.bsky.socialReposted by @mattburgess1.bsky.socialjust when you thought it couldn’t get worse
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@ronfilipkowski.bsky.socialReposted by @mattburgess1.bsky.socialZelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.
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wired.comICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter FraudDocuments obtained by Democracy Forward show that ICE looked into feeding voter roll data into the ELITE tool, normally used to identify targets for deportation.
@jonchristian.netReposted by @mattburgess1.bsky.socialNEW: Meta is refusing to remove horrible AI-generated videos of graphic child abuse, including a baby being roasted in an oven
futurism.comMeta Is Refusing to Remove AI-Generated Facebook Videos of Graphic Child Abuse, Including a Baby Roasting in an OvenWe sent Meta 19 Facebook accounts sharing AI-generated videos of graphic child abuse. 24 hours later, it hadn't taken them down.
@jgedeon.bsky.socialReposted by @mattburgess1.bsky.socialThe Trump admin pressured multiple countries to withdraw their sponsorship of a leading European disinformation conference, with Canada, Lithuania and the EU’s diplomatic service agreeing to do so, the Guardian has learned
@mattburgess1.bsky.socialSpent a large portion of today trying to get this—so, fair play—during which Lithuania's Foreign Ministry and others ignored all questions about possible US interference. Instead they went for statements saying parts of the conference "differ from the official" government position 🤔
@mattburgess1.bsky.social"The document says Washington was “grateful” Lithuania supposedly found a panel framing the US as a foreign information threat “reprehensible and surprising” and welcomed its decision to limit involvement in the conference."
@couts.bsky.socialReposted by @mattburgess1.bsky.socialNEW: We made a continuously updating tracker to help everyone make sense of Elon Musk’s America PAC spending on the midterms. Tool built by @dell.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social, & @regret.bsky.social; reporting by @hugolowell.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
wired.comElon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It DailyTo follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.
@telliotter.bsky.socialReposted by @mattburgess1.bsky.socialSCOOP: Last week the National Design Studio announced a new AI website, America.gov. Turns out some NDS workers are on loan to the government and are actually employed by a newly formed nonprofit, founded by the general counsel of SpaceXAI who is himself a DOGE alum.
wired.comA Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government WorkersThe National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
@leahfeiger.bsky.socialReposted by @mattburgess1.bsky.socialElon Musk's America PAC is quietly donating to the most consequential races of November's midterms, and @wired.com is tracking all of it - in real time.
amazing work from @dell.bsky.social, who built this, and big lifts from @hugolowell.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social, and @regret.bsky.social:
wired.comElon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It DailyTo follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.
@mattburgess1.bsky.socialLe Chonk
wired.comMistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of ChinaWith the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.
@jessasatomp.bsky.socialReposted by @mattburgess1.bsky.socialYesterday, I testified before @council.nyc.gov on my legal action against SpaceXAI.
In my speech I said we were promised that artificial intelligence could hold the cure to cancer. Yet it is turning into a cancer which, left unchecked, has the potential to harm us all.
@mattburgess1.bsky.socialI guess the moderation is fair...
@mattburgess1.bsky.socialIt could also go down as possibly the most effective cybersecurity awareness month effort ever
@mattburgess1.bsky.socialA push notification, apparently sent by hackers, is certainly one way to get people's attention all at once
@mattburgess1.bsky.socialNew analysis from @benmshultz.net has found 50 MEPs—46 of them women—are included on deepfake sexual abuse websites.
"This translates to roughly one in six women MEPs," the findings say, expanding on the 150 national MPs found on the sites last month
Findings: agoradigital.de/wp-content/u...
wired.comSexually Explicit Deepfake Sites Target 100-Plus Politicians in EuropeAn analysis of 160 deepfake websites reveals politicians in 22 countries appear on them. Nearly all of them are women.
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@404media.coReposted by @mattburgess1.bsky.socialNEW: In the immediate weeks before Muse’s launch, Meta engineers found several security vulnerabilities, at least one of which could have allowed malicious users to break outside of Muse’s intended environment and access Meta’s own sensitive databases and services, 404 Media has learned.
404media.coMeta Rushed to Fix Muse ‘VM Escape' Vulnerability Immediately Before LaunchThe vulnerability could have let a Muse user access sensitive internal Meta databases.
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@mattburgess1.bsky.socialwe only started it three weeks ago, so if anything you're still in early adopter phase!
@mattburgess1.bsky.socialIn the latest version of Kernel Panic—WIRED's security and privacy newsletter—me and @lhn.bsky.social look at how Meta's Muse AI creates 'profiles' for everyone in your life.
And yep, that means compiling a huge amount of info about your relationships
Story here: www.wired.com/story/muse-c...
