New from 404 Media: hackers are injecting mass shooting videos into random Starcraft 2 matches. The Starcraft community is awash with people saying random videos have appeared in game, including those designed to trigger seizures. Blizzard hasn't responded
The FBI says it can't find "missing" records about hacking tools it purchased
New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner"
New: following layoffs, employees at Wordpress parent company Automattic discovered leak-catching watermarks in images. The watermarks in Automattic's P2 instance are nearly invisible, rendered as a pattern overlaid on the site’s white page backgrounds.
New from 404 Media: ICE just paid Palantir tens of millions for "complete target analysis of known populations." Shows Palantir is actively working on, and updating, the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts
New from 404 Media: an AI startup offers to call your parents for you if you don't have time (or can't be bothered). I tested it out. My mum said: “I would feel terrible and that they are not bothered about phoning me themselves.”
Went on Wicked Words to talk all about DARK WIRE, my book on the incredible true story of the biggest sting operation ever in which the FBI secretly ran a tech company for organized crime. Years later still nothing has come close
New from 404 Media: the US Army says it had a lot of success using AI to “process targets” during a recent deployment. Used AI to identify 55 targets a day but could get that number up to 5,000 a day with “advanced artificial intelligence tools in the future.”
New from 404 Media: 'Elon Musk' was a prolific money launderer for drug traffickers & hackers. It was secretly the FBI. I've found the FBI ran one of the biggest online money laundering rings for a year. The full story of the takeover here:
Framework is going to stop selling some of its laptops in the U.S. due to tariffs. The company is one of the few that makes truly upgradeable and repairable laptops. Expect a lot, lot more of this