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Another Friday, another weekly roundup! How wonderful. On the 404 Media Podcast this week: how Apple quietly introduced code that reboots iPhones and locks out cops, and our thoughts on the big Bluesky migration. In the subscribers-only section, we talk about how we plan to cover, and what to cover, in the new U.S. administration.
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Listen to the weekly podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or watch it on YouTube. Ok, time to catch up on what happened this week. WARRANT OR NO WARRANTOfficials inside the Secret Service clashed over whether they needed a warrant to use location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on smartphones, according to hundreds of pages of internal Secret Service emails obtained by 404 Media. Some officials even argued that citizens have agreed to be tracked with such data by accepting app terms of service, despite those apps often not saying their data may end up with the authorities. "LOL AWESOME TECHNOLOGY!!!"Some of the most viral posts on Facebook leading up to and immediately after the election—where Elon Musk campaigned heavily for Donald Trump—are AI-generated disinformation that universally make Musk look like a philanthropist and genius inventor who is actively solving America’s problems out of the kindness of his heart. One post says “Breaking news: Elon Musk Unveils UFO Fighter Jet That Defies Physics” with an AI Musk standing in front of an AI “TESLLA”-branded flying saucer. Comments include “This kinda stuff happens only in America,” “Right out of Starwars!!! LOL Awesome Technology!!! and “Amazed with your God’s gift for spaceX ability … I pray you make the right choices for president Trump. And thank you for leading trump rallies <3”  Photo by David Fitzgerald/Web Summit via Sportsfile “NOT A SCAM”Fox News contributor Caitlyn Jenner is being sued for alleged securities fraud by people who invested in her $JENNER memecoin and lost tens of thousands of dollars, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday. Jenner launched $JENNER on the Solana blockchain in May, announcing on Twitter that “it’s not a scam 😂” and that she was “all in.” The plaintiffs also claim that they didn’t have the “technical and financial sophistication” to understand that they were being defrauded. KEEP READINGReplying to ‘Not a Scam 😂:’ Caitlyn Jenner Is Being Sued For Memecoin Securities Fraud Catherine Leonard wrote: “heartwarming: the worst people you know are viciously screwing each other over, and they're taking it to court”
And to AI Chatbot Added to Mushroom Foraging Facebook Group Immediately Gives Tips for Cooking Dangerous Mushroom Marcus Dean Adams replied: “I wish people would get off the AI hype train and get over their obsession with the science fiction fantasy that these chat bots are actually intelligent. They are spell check on steroids, period. The only reason they have any answers is because they steal them from other websites, or because they make up nonsense that, in some cases, can literally get people killed.”
BEHIND THE BLOGThis 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 talk about data storage, political perspectives and platforms. JOSEPH: At the start of the week I quickly wrote up Here’s the Indictment Against the Alleged Snowflake and AT&T Hacker. There is sometimes value in just getting a document out there. We did that back with the Epstein documents, and published them so people had an easy way to find and download them themselves without having to navigate the U.S. court system. That, and I’ve really done all I’m interested in saying about the Snowflake hacker for a minute (mostly after The Walls Are Closing in on the Snowflake Hacker). But I thought I’d go through the indictment a bit more and pull out some sections to add some context. One part says Moucka and Binns got access to “billions of sensitive customer records, including individuals’ non-content call and text history records.” Court records rarely name victim companies, but this is referring to the AT&T breach. “Drug Enforcement Agency (‘DEA’) registration numbers,” refers to the breach I covered at Bausch Health, where Judsiche (one of the handles allegedly used by Moucka) wanted to extort the DEA with that stolen information. The indictment also mentions financial information, payroll records, driver’s license numbers, passport numbers, and Social Security numbers. Read the rest of Joseph's Behind the Blog, as well as Sam, Jason and Emanuel's, by becoming a paid subscriber.
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