Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on “the woke left and the woke right”, patriotism, Russia's Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more
Palantir's CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights. But will Israel and Trump ever go too far for him? X: @stevenlevy , @shannonrwatts , and @spencerhakimian . Bluesky: @katie-drummond ...
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's Orion AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, Threads, X, downranking political content, mental health, AI regulation, and more
they are using so much of it no single creator or publisher matters, and they're striking deals to keep the loudest happy. Sort of good that @zuck just came right out and said it on Decoder so everyo...
Game preservationists are digging into a 1.2TB cache of TestFlight data, from roughly 2012 to 2015, found on the Internet Archive, containing a ton of old apps
This likely contains every unencrypted binary submitted between 2012 and 2015 to the service — ‘terabytes of data’. … X: @teraleak : FULL TESTFLIGHT CDN ARCHIVES: 1. https://web.archive.org/... 2. htt...
A look at the community of users who “jailbreak” GPT models to generate unfiltered content and see themselves as fighting back against OpenAI's closed policies
“The problem is when GPT-X is released and we are unable to discern its values since they are being decided behind the closed doors of AI companies.” Tweets: @alexalbert__ , @alexalbert__ , @thedebrie...
Documents and sources: Meta sees a path to recovery using AI tools that boost views of Reels, improve ad targeting even with less available user data, and more
which Meta processed without a valid legal basis in the EU. And now it appears its unlawful processing is being leveraged to develop newly invasive ad targeting AIs. When will the law catch up with th...
A deep dive: how Apple uses iOS WebKit monopoly to strip-mine and sabotage the web, hurting all browser engine projects and draining the web of future potential
the only platform that actually supports Safari *and* competing browsers. @satefan : An open letter to Tim Cook signed by all iOS browsers builders (big and small), an alliance, writing code to prove ...
Clubhouse says it has added security safeguards and banned a user after some Clubhouse audio and metadata was found on a third-party website
privacy breach on invite-only app raises concerns Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE : This Website Made Clubhouse Conversations Public Becky Bracken / Threatpost : Assume Clubhouse Conversations Ar...
Instagram, which has largely escaped scrutiny, is teeming with conspiracy theories, misinformation, and extremist memes, linked by its recommendation algorithm
When Alex, now a high-school senior, saw an Instagram account he followed post about something called QAnon back in 2017 … Tweets: @mims , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @elcush , @sl...
How a Russian hacking team reverse-engineers slot machine pseudorandom generators, then sends agents to casinos to beat machine's odds, blackmail manufacturers
LATE LAST AUTUMN, a Russian mathematician and programmer named Alex decided he'd had enough of running his eight-year-old business.