Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old who has gone by “Big Balls” online and was one of the first technologists hired as part of DOGE, has resigned
www.wired.com/story/big-ba... Anna Holmes / @annabookwriter : Lol happy trails, Big Balls, this is what happens when you throw your lot in with dudes who famously screw over their contractors [embedde...
Viral influencer Haliey Welch's Hawk Tuah memecoin sparks outrage across social media after pumping to a $490M market cap and then dumping 90%+ in three hours
A smart mark is still a mark. [embedded post] @kosso.co.uk : Memecoins on Solana are very much designed for young teenagers to spaff all their wallets. — I thought the Binance chain and Ethereum me...
Originality AI: 88%+ of the top US news outlets now block AI companies' web crawlers; leading right-wing outlets, like Breitbart and Newsmax, mostly permit them
Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like The New York Times now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social . Bluesky: @lolgo...
Why the FBI's alternative method to unlock iPhone may involve NAND mirroring by an external forensics firm to enable brute force guessing of shooter's PIN
Report Danny Yadron / Guardian : Government keeping its method to crack San Bernardino iPhone ‘classified’ Chris Strohm / Bloomberg Business : Thank You for Hacking IPhone, Now Tell Apple How You Did ...
FBI uses retweets as evidence against people it claims are aiding terrorism or trying to join ISIS
Kate Knibbs / Gizmodo :
DEA has been buying spyware produced by Italian surveillance tech firm Hacking Team since 2012
Mugs — Sasha Issenberg, the leading … Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget : The DEA's using powerful spyware for surveillance too Kate Knibbs / Gizmodo : The DEA Is Buying Off-the-Shelf Spyware From a Ske...