New from 404 Media: AI avatars are doing job interviews now. I spoke to someone who was interviewed by one. "It's laughable at best and terrifying at worst." www.404media.co/ai-avatars-a...
āThis HR AI avatar is a perfect demonstration of late stage capitalism,ā Jack Ryan, someone who was interviewed by a tool called Fairgo.ai, told 404 Media.
New: Eric Adams changed his phone password while being investigated. He told the FBI he had forgotten the password he had just set, meaning he couldn't help unlock it for the FBI. This is in a section called "attempt to conceal their criminal conduct" www.404media.co/eric-adams-t...
- man walks again after buying $100,000 exoskeleton - a battery in the watch that controls it dies (presumably cheap to replace) - company refuses - right to repair is coming for exeskeletons www.404media.co/paralyzed-jo...
Michael Straight learned to walk again with the help of an exoskeleton. After an accessory to the device broke, the company refused to fix it.
New from 404 Media: the Secret Service paid tens of thousands of dollars to use OpenAI tooling, but is refusing to say why. Says "does not discuss the means or methods used for our operations." www.404media.co/the-secret-s...
The 404 Media Podcast is up! - Go long on Telegram's new policy of working with the groups, and how it relates to various criminals on Telegram - Subscribers-only: why Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld sucks, but Nintendo will probably win www.404media.co/podcast-tele...
Telegram says it will now provide user data to the police; the walls are closing in on the Snowflake hacker; and why Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld is bad (and Nintendo will probably win).
New from 404 Media: Orpheus, a popular and private music torrent tracker, faced a "massive peer scraping attack," meaning the malicious scraper is now in possession of peoples' IPs, torrents seeded, etc. Not clear if might have other uses for this data www.404media.co/major-privat...
Orpheus Network tells users: "With great displeasure we need to inform you that a malicious actor has successfully carried out a massive peer scraping attack on our tracker."
New: Ghost, an encrypted platform for criminals, was an "absolute mess." Separate to the law enforcement hack, a researcher was able to get: - users - resellers - support messages Shows as organized crime makes own platforms, they might make vulnerable systems www.404media.co/ghost-encryp...
A security researcher managed to pull a list of Ghost users, resellers, and even customer support messages from an exposed server. It shows how as organized criminals move to making their own encrypte...
New from 404 Media: Google is serving AI images of mushrooms when users search for some species. Very risky, potentially fatal error for foragers who are trying to find what mushrooms are safe to eat. Could have "devastating consequences" one expert said www.404media.co/google-serve...
AI-generated images of mushrooms that look nothing like the real species could spread misleading and dangerous information.
New from 404 Media: a data removal/privacy service called Optery planned to send its users' data to OpenAI, turned on the setting for customers by default. After a privacy-focused forum noticed, Optery reversed course, now opt-in only www.404media.co/privacy-serv...
Optery initially planned to send users' data to OpenAI by default, but walked back the decision over the weekend.